After walking very sensibly, the children were welcomed by Pastor Johnny and Pastor Sarah, who spoke to the children about some of the things that they do at the church for the local community.

The children learnt about how the food bank provided food for those who needed it, and clothing for adults and children. Some of us helped to restock the food bank, with donations from a local supermarket.

We also had a look at the world map, and Pastor Sarah told us about how they have lots of visitors from all over the world to their church.

We've also perfected our cutting skills, cutting out some new clothes for the pigs.

The children have also been progressing with their number knowledge. This week, we've focused on numeral 5. Counting out loud, recognising numerals up to 5, counting out the correct numbers of items,  and we're getting really good at subsisting.

Nursery have been counting (and counting out) objects to four this week. Next week, we will be moving on to number five.

Please help us by chanting or singing our number songs with us and counting back using your fingers.

The Nursery children are also really good at ‘showing’ numbers to four. Say a number to 4 (or 5) and ask if your child can ‘show or throw’ that number. They will hopefully be starting to hold up the corresponding amount of fingers.

We have also been taking part in speaking and listening activities to help us with our early phonics skills. Please scan the QR code and see if your child can guess which environmental sounds they can hear.

Thank you,

Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore           

                 4 Little Teddy Bears

4 little teddy bears sitting on a chair,

Washing their face and fluffing up their hair,

They looked out the window and saw a sunny day

So one teddy bear went out to play!

3 little teddy bears sitting on a chair,

Washing their face and fluffing up their hair,

They looked out the window and saw a sunny day

So another teddy bear went out to play!

(Continue until all the teddies are outside playing).

                         5 Little Snowmen

Five little snowmen standing in a line

One, Two, Three, Four, Five So fine!

Melt in the sunshine with a sigh

We'll see you next year Bye Bye!

Four little snowmen standing in a line

 One, Two, Three, Four So fine

Melt in the sunshine with a sigh

We'll see you next year Bye Bye!

(Repeat until there is one snowman)

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.

And, of course, we enjoyed a morning of dancing, and a special visit from Father Christmas.

The children have found this extremely entertaining, and have been busy cleaning up the mess.

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.

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.

Wearing yellow symbolises warmth, optimism, and happiness, and we embraced that in nursery with lots of yellow activities.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Please keep checking our website to see exactly what the children have been up to! 

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore

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!

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.

We explored the wooded area looking for signs of the 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf!

We collected our own sticks to build a house for the 3 little pigs.

And of course we enjoyed some time in the playground on the swings and slides.

Miss Phillips, Mrs Beardmore, Mr Selmes and Miss Leddy were extremely proud of how well the children followed instructions, keeping themselves safe whilst in the park and safely wearing their seatbelts on the minibus.

It's clear to see that they have thoroughly enjoyed making them at home, and thank you to all the parents for your support.

Mrs Beardmore had been digging in the garden and had dirt all over her hands!

We focused on the importance of always washing our hands properly with soap after using the toilet and always before we have our morning snacks. We want to keep ourselves and our friends and teachers safe.

Our garden needed tending to, so we've been out getting our hands dirty, removing the weeds, and sowing some new seeds for some spring flowers, herbs and vegetables.

We've looked closely at the daffodils growing in our garden, identifying the petals, the trumpet and the stems. 

We explored the different ways of developing our fine motor skills, with dough disco, threading and construction, marking making in shaving foam, pasta and flour, and practised recognising and writing our names.

The children demonstrated to their parents how we do dough disco, so that they can practice at home as well.

Use the QR codes below to follow the 'crocodile snap' finger exercises, and dough disco routines.

We looked at all the different materials that the pigs tried to use to build a house with, straw, sticks and bricks. Which will be the strongest?

The big bad wolf huffs and puffs to blow the houses down, so we 'huffed and puffed' when bubble painting, and we've been junk modelling, making our own houses for the pigs, using cardboard boxes and lots of sticky glue!

Using shapes, we've been very creative. We printed with paint and used glue and coloured paper.

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.

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.

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.

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!