This week, we were lucky enough to take the children to visit our local fire station. The firefighters showed us around the station, let us sit in the fire engine, explore all the equipment they carry for emergencies and even let us spray water from the hoses. The children had a truly wonderful time.
We've enjoyed using lots of different techniques to create our bonfire night creations. We made fireworks with playdough and pipe cleaners, collaged kitchen rolls to make rockets, cut kitchen rolls, to print fireworks using florescent paint, and had lots of fun flicking paint.
The children really enjoyed reading Room on the Broom by Juila Donaldson. We've all loved exploring the witches' potions, mixing wiggly spaghetti and slimy jelly.
And, of course, we've had some autumn pumpkins. We've decorated them with paint, creating unusual patterns, and we've created our own images on the easle.
In Maths, the children have been exploring how they can sort objects in nursery. By following a simple rule, the children have been able to catergories items either by size, colour, shape, legnth or material. Are the items soft or hard, plactic or wooden, long or short, orange or green.
Across the whole of school, we supported Hello Yellow Day, for World Mental Health Day. Children and staff were invited to come to school dressed in yellow.
Wearing yellow symbolises warmth, optimism, and happiness, and we embraced that in nursery with lots of yellow activities.
The children had fun, collecting and playing with the leaves in the autumn sun.
As we've been reading Leaf Man this week, we created our own leaf man with all the leaves we collected. Using lots of glue, and googly eyes, the children made lots of lovely pictures.
Each week, we focus on a particular colour in nursery.
This week everything has been green, so the children loved mixing their own green paint, using yellow and blue paint. It was lots of fun getting messy doing green handprints.
Following on with our Autumn theme, we've enjoyed reading the story Owl Babies this week.
We've retold the story with props, explored autumn treasure, sorted by colour and size, as well as created our own Owl Babies picture using paint and a potato masher!
Welcome back to our new Nursery Class of 25 -26 and their parents/carers. The children have all settled into school amazingly! They are immersing themselves in active learning whilst exploring their new environment through lots of engaging play. We have already begun to speak about the different seasons following our Autumn Walk. The children collected Autumnal leaves to sort into colours and discussed the change in weather. Nursery also linked their learning to matching colours in PE! We thoroughly enjoyed our recent Listening Walk as the children were encouraged to develop their early speaking and listening skills as they listened out for outdoor/indoor sounds! During this half term we will focus on learning about ourselves and our families. Thank you again, for the beautiful family photographs we have already displayed in our classroom.
Please remember Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore are always happy to speak with you if you have any questions or worries as your children start school. We know this is a major event for parents too.
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Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore
The children really enjoyed exploring the school grounds, looking for all the signs that Autumn was on its way. We looked at how the leaves are changing colour, and collected acorns, pine cones and conkers as they fell from the trees.
The children were really excited about baking Elmer biscuits this week.
We mixed all the ingredients to make a sweet dough, that we rolled and cut it into elephants. Decorating them with yummy icing and rainbow sprinkles. Delicious!
As a school, we celebrated Culture Day. Each class throughout the school focused on a particular country. They then learnt and performed traditional songs.
Nursery focused on the United Kingdom. We dressed in the colours of the union flag, enjoyed themed arts and crafts, learnt about King Charles III as well as learning to sing and sign the national anthem.