.......we're going to catch a big one! We're not scared?
We've thoroughly enjoyed our focus story this week. The children have made their own brown paint to create muddy footprints, built a cave out of bricks for the bear, made our own binoculars, experimented with light in the 'deep dark cave', and even been on our own sensory walk. Splashing in the 'cold river', walking through 'squelchy mud', and soft snow.
In the run-up to our seasonal break, the children enjoyed lots of seasonal and Christmas crafts. They have made their own Christmas tree decorations with lolly sticks and sequins, made snow angel pictures for our winter freeze, and created calendars for 2026, showing our understanding of the seasons throughout the coming year.
And, of course, we enjoyed a morning of dancing, and a special visit from Father Christmas.
We've had a cheeky visitor to nursery in the run-up to Christmas. The naughty elves have been up to all sorts of mischief when we weren't watching. Making lots of mess, and playing tricks on one another.
The children have found this extremely entertaining, and have been busy cleaning up the mess.
Nursery have focused on the traditional nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty this week. Building our own brick walls, brick wall crafts, learning how to use the iPad's to scan a QR code to listen to the rhyme independently.
We've also explored what would happen to Humpty once he fell from the wall.
We 'egg-sperimented', and predicted the outcome when Humpty fell from the wall onto a hard surface, and when he fell onto a soft surface.
Also, we enjoyed making scrambled eggs. Observing the changes to the beaten egg once we heated it in the microwave. And of course, we enjoyed it with a slice of toast.
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!