Twice a week in Nursery we all take part in Write Dance activities. These help our muscles to develop so that we will be able to write letters and words when we are ready.
We start by singing a song that has actions to go with it. We then make marks on big paper to go with each part of the song.
The children have been making things using junk modelling. Some children made cars, Rhight made a yellow Lamborghini!
The new book area has been very popular. The nursery children love listening to stories and looking at books by themselves.
Here the children are practising their mark making skills. All the give meaning to their marks, which is the first stage of learning to write. Well done Nursery 🙂
This week a new group of children came outside for their first Forest School session. We got to know the rules, explored the area and did a team building challenge.
The children all had to stand on the tarpaulin. Then they had to work as a team to try and flip the tarpaulin over without anyone’s feet touching the ground.
Jenneh collected litter and put it in the bin. What a superstar 🙂
On Monday we talked about the fireworks they had seen and heard over the weekend. My favourite sentence was from Isaiah who said “the firework blasted in to the night”.
We watched a video of a fireworks and described what we could see and hear. Then the children made their own firework pictures with chalk on black paper.
These beautiful creations were made during lunch time this week 🙂
Using the potato peelers to carve wood.
Making improvements to the Bug Hotel
Making and testing out a rope swing
During Maths week Nursery have used the song ‘Five Currant Buns’ as our focus. We have also been learning about the number one and recognising one of different objects.
When our parents came in for our workshop we sang them the song. Then we decorated the currant buns we had made. We counted spoonfuls of icing sugar and drops of water, mixed it together and then put one cherry on the top.
We also made a poster all about the number one.
Finally we cut out currant buns so that we could take them home and sing the song with our families.
This week we were lucky with the weather and took the opportunity to have a fire and toast marshmallows.
This week our story of the week has been Whatever Next by Jill Murphy.
We heard about baby bear’s adventure to the moon. We then used props to retell the story and went on our own moon adventures!
Lots of children have been practising their mark making and early writing. These children are writing their names to put on their duplo models.
This week the children have been continuing to explore the resources available at Nursery. We have been supporting them with routines and how to use the resources. We are starting to get better at tidying up!
Writing her name to stick on the model she had made.
Entertaining everyone with instruments and singing.
Exploring the paints. Learning just to use a small amount is tricky!
Fabulous cooperative play 🙂 There were lots of stories being made up here, train crashes, cats stuck in trees and broken bridges, the emergency services were busy!
This week in Nursery we have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man.
The children have been really good at joining in with the repeating phrases. They have enjoyed using the stick puppets to act out the story. We also changed the story by adding new characters, the children had lots of super ideas, at one point we even had a seahorse swimming after the gingerbread man!
