Please read about our latest themes and learning opportunities in Nursery (posts are in date order – starting with the most recent first). Thanks for taking the time to look and please look at the images with your child to talk to them about their experiences.
Spring 1
A warm welcome back to everyone after the festive break, we hope you all feel refreshed and ready to settle back into Nursery life. We are so looking forward to seeing you all. Thanks to everyone for sending their ‘favourite toy’ photographs over. I can’t wait to see their little faces when they see themselves up on the big screen. I’m hoping for lots of excitement and lovely language when discussing their favourite toys.
This half term we have changed our planned topic to include more of a focus on stories and traditional tales as we have seen huge interest in the children using puppets and props in the book area. We would like to go with these interests and have re-planned with a new theme STORY LAND! There is a buzz and excitement about the characters in the books and we are looking forward to developing these interests further.
**topic web Spring 1**
The Gingerbread Man
This book was chosen due to the children’s high level of engagement shown during continuous provision when reading the story. We baked Gingerbread Men and left them to cool down. Imagine our dismay when we came in the next day to find the Gingerbread Men had disappeared and when we became ‘police officers’ to investigate the missing biscuits we discovered on CCTV the reason why…
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- Decorating our Gingerbread Men
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- Why can’t he cross the river?
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- Gingerbread playdough
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- Very impressed
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- Outdoor gloop
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- Mark making in flour and ginger
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- Can you build a bridge for the Gingerbread man to cross
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- Different sizes
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- What happens when the biscuit goes into the water?
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- Gingerbread Man
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- How many buttons?
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- Roll a Gingerbread Man
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- Threading to strengthen our finger muscles
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- I’m building a boat so he can cross the river!
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- Using the word mats
Little Red Riding Hood
We began this week by making ‘Get Well Soon’ cards for my Granny who’s at home poorly. We then made her some perfume by cutting petals and adding them to water. We also found some Gingerbread Man biscuits from last week and decided to go on a walk and take the treats to try and cheer up my Granny. I forgot my coat but luckily Mrs Hawkes had a red hooded top for me to wear. On the way we had to walk through the woods and talked about not stopping and talking to strangers, on our way through we spotted a …
Take a look at the photos to see what we saw when we arrived at Granny’s house
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- Writing cards to cheer Granny up
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- Mmm smells nice
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- Making perfume
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- Cutting petals
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- Taking gifts to Granny’s house to cheer her up
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- I forgot my coat, thanks for the red hooded jacket Mrs Hawkes
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- Don’t talk to strangers
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- Who’s that in the woods?
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- That’s the sign for Granny’s house
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- Grandma What big eyes you have!
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- Grandma what a big nose you have!
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- Grandma what big teeth you have!
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- We finished off with the story of RRH and a biscuit
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- Granny’s bed in the home corner, a nice place to share a story with a friend
Snow much fun!
Exploring and investigating the beautiful wintery weather
Simply Sports Coaching
Autumn 2
We will be focussing this term on Muddy puddles, In the woods and Christmas.
**topic web Autumn 2**
Stay & Play
We would like to take this opportunity to Thank each and everyone of you for making our Stay and Play session so successful. Lots of happy children and a lovely opportunity to chat to you all about the fabulous progress your children are making and sharing the exciting things we have been doing in Nursery.
Autumn 1
Welcome back to Nursery for 2017. We are so looking forward to seeing our returning children and also looking forward to meeting our new little characters. This half term is dedicated to feeling confident in our new surroundings and settling in. This is hugely beneficial and a time where we can transition gently into new routines and learn boundaries of Nursery life in a calm and careful way. Maintaining our fun and play based ethos throughout.
**topic web Autumn 1**
‘Settling in’ – please take a look
Forest Schools
Forest Schools sessions started this half term too. To see the activities we were involved with, please look at the forest schools section of this website (our classes, Nursery) we had a blast and this hugely helped with our confidence and settling in.
