The children have enjoyed going on a shape hunt this week. We've been exploring our school, trying to find squares and rectangles. We found lots in the playground, inside school and in our classroom. Our magic number has been 4, as we've learnt that squares and rectangles both have 4 sides and 4 corners.
Using shapes, we've been very creative. We printed with paint and used glue and coloured paper.
This week we've been inspired by all the wonderful colours of Elmer the Elephant. The children have enjoyed making their own colourful stained glass Elmers using tissue paper on laminates. They do look lovely as the sun shines through them.
Our focus in Maths this week has been numeral 4. Miss Phillips read us the story about Pete and his 4 groovy buttons, and we cut out Pete's button and stuck them onto his jacket.
This year is the year of the snake.
The children enjoyed listening to the story of the Jade Emperer and how he got the 12 animals of the zodiac to race to have a year named after them.
We made Chinese lanterns and had a go at painting some of the animals from the story.
This week we continued with our theme of animals, and enjoyed reading Dear Zoo. We've enjoyed using the stereo to listen and identify animal sounds, and developed our cutting skills creating collied snakes.
Jigsaw Jennie visited this week, and we discussed dreams and goals. Setting ourselves challenges, which we may find a bit tricky at times, but we must always try to persevere, and keep trying our best. The children were set the challenge of who can build the tallest tower.
After a lovely break to celebrate Christmas, we welcome Nursery back for the new term.
We have enjoyed reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear this week, focussing on all the different animals and their colours. The children created some wonderful artwork, using paint and collage. They have also worked hard at retrieving their prior knowledge of Maths. Before our break, we worked on recognising and representing numerals 1,2 and 3. Nursery have done well with subitising these numbers; aswell as recognising shapes and using them to make a representation of a bear. Great work Nursery!
We have been extremely busy in the run-up to Christmas. We have shared and role- played the Christmas story, enjoyed learning the songs for our nativity performance and created cards and calendars for our loved ones.
We have been thinking about the changing seasons in Nursery. We went for a Winter walk to look for 'Stick Man' and shared his story! We linked our learning to other areas of the curriculum by making our own stick men out of shapes and following patterns by using natural materials such as leaves and branches. What fun we had!
Nursery enjoyed sharing the story and nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty! We adapted our learning to link in with this famous nursery rhyme. We made bricks for Humpty's wall by printing rectangles and even made our own scrambled egg with Mrs Beardmore. It was yummy! Then we predicted what might happen if 'Humpty' fell on a variety of different surfaces. What a fun 'eggsperiment' !!!
We have recently shared the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Nursery linked most of their learning to this fairy tale. We made shopping lists, invitations and birthday cards for Goldilocks to support our mark-making skills and added different shapes to our party hats to help us to remember them! We thoroughly enjoyed making porridge and 'eating it all up'. Retelling the story using props was lots of fun, whilst filling and emptying different sized bowls with porridge oats was even better! We hope you can see how much fun we have had by looking at our photographs!
In our Nursery Class we have been thinking about numbers 1 and 2! The children enjoyed recalling which party hat from Goldilocks' birthday party had '1 counter' hiding below it! They have also been using five frames to count out 1 or 2 counters or pom-poms! We have also been practising recognising numbers and counting objects up to 2. We can even show you 'how many' by using our fingers! Well done Nursery!
Nursery thought about Remembrance Day by taking part in lots of activities eg. making collage poppies and using tweezers to add pom-poms to the spots on poppies to improve their fine manipulative skills! We improved our pencil control by tracing poppy patterns and chalking our own versions.
We had so much fun celebrating Bonfire Night! Nursery created fireworks in paint and linked our learning to making them in play-dough for Diwali too! Mr Selmes helped us to recognise different sounds from the environment such as crunchy Autumn leaves, a crackling fire and fireworks! He also encouraged us to move like fireworks in PE and finally we discussed how to keep safe at this time of year!