The Nursery children came back after the holiday ready and eager to learn.
We have had a really busy week. The children have become very confident and are accessing all the areas of Nursery independently.
Here are some photos to show you how bust we have been!
We had great fun today at our Christmas party. We played lots of games, enjoyed some yummy food and watched a Christmas film.
We even had a visit from a special person – Father Christmas! He must have read the letter we sent him because he bought us the new dolls we were hoping for.
Merry Christmas everyone!
This week our story of the week has been a funny counting story about Father Christmas. He drank lots of cups of tea at all the different houses.
We gave our toy Father Christmas different numbers of cups of tea. We practised counting them slowly, pointing at each one as we counted. We showed how many cups of tea he had on our fingers. We also made marks on paper to represent numbers.
On Wednesday Nursery and Reception went on a trip to Ash End Farm. We had a brilliant day looking at the animals and finished with a visit to a special person. Can you guess who? Look at the photos below to see if you are right.
The weather was cold but the sun was shining.
On the coach we sang Old Macdonald had a Farm and The Wheels on the Bus.
When we arrived we went to the play area, it was really good fun, especially the huge jumping pillow.
We listened carefully to the lady. She told us about chickens then we were able to hold one of them.
We were able to feed some of the animals. The goats were very hungry!
The lady read us the nativity story. Some of the children dressed up to help tell the story.
Finally we got to see Father Christmas! We each received a present and a badge.
We had a really great time.
This week has been varied and busy, as always!
On Monday Mrs Ali told us that it was one of the teacher’s birthday. This led to the children making birthday cards. They folded the card, drew pictures and practised writing their names. We then took the cards upstairs to give them to Miss Harris. She was very happy to receive them.
Some children made cards for their family. Eliza copied the letters to write ‘mommy’
Outside we noticed that the weather has been colder this week. One morning we found ice had formed in one of the plastic trays. We enjoyed exploring the ice and talking about it. It was fun making it melt in our hands.
This week in Nursery we started to learn how to make cakes independently. We are using a method where we have to balance all the ingredients.
First we had to make a shopping list of the ingredients we needed.
Mrs Grant brought the ingredients in the next day and we were ready to balance them.
First we had to balance two eggs with the flour.
Then we balanced the two eggs with the sugar.
Next we balanced the two eggs with the butter.
Finally we mixed all the ingredients together.
We had to pour the ingredients in to the baking tin and then Mrs Grant put it in to the oven.
When it was ready we all tasted it, it was delicious!
This week in nursery we have been reading The Gingerbread Man.
We really enjoyed joining in with the repeating phrase run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!
Mrs Ali suggested that we could make our own gingerbread men (and ladies!). We found a recipe in our cookery book and we made a list of the things we would need. Mrs Ali very kindly went to the shop to buy the ingredients. We all helped make the biscuits. then we decorated them and took them home to eat.
We have also enjoyed using the puppets to retell the story.
This week for book week we have been reading a book about dinosaurs. 
We learned that information books are different to stories. We looked at more information books then we had a go at making our own.
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Autumn is here and the leaves have started to fall from the trees.
The children noticed lots of leaves in the playground so we used them to make a leaf collage.
Some children have been bringing in leaves they have found on their way to Nursery. Some of these were perfect for leaf rubbing with wax crayons. The children really enjoyed doing this.
This week we have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
The children have really enjoyed the book and have become very good at retelling the story themselves.
“he ate a nice leaf then he was a fat caterpillar”
We also found a real caterpillar outside which the children were very interested in.
We have still been busy in all other areas. Here the children had been talking about people living in caves. We searched for examples of cave paintings on the internet then the children reproduced their own.
