We have continued with exploring planting and growing this week at nursery.
The children have planted sunflower seeds and are very excited that their flower and broad bean seeds from last week are starting to grow!
They have enjoyed some still life painting of fruit this week. The children have identified different fruits in the bowl, naming them and discussing differences before having a go at painting them with some great results.

At story time this week we have read the book "Supertato" and "Tilly Plants a Tree". The children have been encouraged to identify different parts of plants from the book such as petal, stem and leaves.

In phonics this week we have been channeling our inner superhero's and have been making speech sounds to different superhero moves. The children used instruments to play along to the song "Superhero's in the sky" and have been matching initial sounds to the correct superhero.

In maths we have continued to create our own patterns and recognition of different numbers.

We have four more days until the half term now and just a little reminder that next Friday is an INSET day so we will be closed.

Have a good weekend

Julie and Sarah

This week we have begun to sow seeds as we explore planting and growing and answer our enquiry question "How do plants grow?"
The children have planted runner beans and flowers seeds and discussed what is needed to help them grow including sunlight and water.
We are excited to watch them grow over the next few weeks.
Outside the children have been digging in the soil and helping to plant seeds in the raised flower beds and helping to get the greenhouse ready.

At story time this week we have enjoyed reading and looking at "Ben Plants a Butterfly Garden" and "The Enormous Turnip".

The children have been trying super hard in phonics as we have explored the garden centre. They have been busy describing and talking about the sounds they hear, matching objects to their initial sounds and assigning instruments to different garden objects and comparing them.

In maths we have been making different patterns, copying patterns as well as creating their own. We have been naming numbers including some larger ones.

We hope you all have a good weekend and see you on Monday.

Julie and Sarah

We have had a great couple of weeks back to nursery. Our enquiry question has been "What can you see on the farm?"
The children have been busy getting creative and making lots of different farm animals including bubble wrap sheep and paper plate cows.
We have had the farm in the tuft tray and the children have been singing the song "Old McDonald had a farm".

At story time we have enjoyed "Baa Moo, what will we do?", "Farmer Duck" and "Moo Moo Mooing".

In phonics this week the children have been blending sounds together, breaking down words into syllables and have enjoyed a game of cafe bingo.

In maths, we have been naming, ordering and writing numbers. 

It's a bank holiday on Monday so we look forward to seeing everyone back on Tuesday.

Julie and Sarah

We have reached the last day before the Easter holidays start and what a busy term it has been.
We hope that whatever you get up to over the holidays that you enjoy it and have lots of fun (and eat lots of chocolate).

We return to nursery on Monday 20th April and look forward to seeing everyone then.

See you soon

Julie and Sarah

We have had a great week talking about Easter here at nursery.
The children have been busy getting creative and have made paper plate chicks and Easter bunnies.
They have explored the tuft tray with interest as this was themed around the story of "The Ugly Duckling" and have been recreating parts of the story in their play.

At story time we have read and enjoyed books including "We're going on an egg hunt" and "Spot's First Easter".
We have been singing lots of songs including "Five Little Bunnies".
 
In phonics this week we have been using the musical instruments to create different sounds that we might hear in the park. The children have used their voices to make sounds such as "Weeee" when going down a slide at the park and have used their bodies to make a range of movements with.

I maths this week we have been sorting and arranging collections of different objects and numbering the items that we see. The children have been practicing writing numbers and creating marks to represent numbers.

We look forward to creating some more Easter things next week in the last four days before the holiday. A quick reminder that we finish at 1.30pm next Thursday.

Enjoy your weekend

Julie and Sarah

This was our last week of exploring different stories and answering our enquiry question "What is your favourite book and why?"
This week we have been reading the story of  "The Gruffalo".
The children have enjoyed a themed tuft tray where they have used different natural resources to make Gruffalo crumble!
They have also created their own Gruffalo fork painting pictures.

At story time we have enjoyed reading "Wonky Donkey", "More Ketchup Please" and the rhyming book "Each Peach Pear Plum".

In phonics this week we have been playing with alliteration and exploring tongue twisters. The children have listening and talking about sounds they might hear at the beach and we have been matching initial sounds e.g. sea and sun.

In maths we have been constructing with shapes and seeing what we could make with them.
We have continued to find objects that represent nubers including those that are larger.

Today (Friday) we have dressed up in red and had crazy hair in aid of Comic Relief. The children all looked amazing and they enjoyed decorating red nose biscuits to take home. Great job!

We hope the sun is here to stay and that you can all enjoy a warm/dry weekend.

Julie and Sarah

This week at nursery we have been exploring the story of "Superworm".
The children have enjoyed listening to the story and have made their own colourful worms by wrapping wool around card to create them.

They have been practicing their fine motor skills by threading cheerios onto pipecleaners to make worms and on the writing table have been practicing pencil control by following the different trails that the worm has made.

As well as the story of "Superworm", the children have enjoyed selecting other favourite books including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Hungry Caterpillar"

In phonics this week we have explored the different sounds that we can make with our voices and body.
The children have been identifying and creating different animal sounds and joined in with the song "Hoppy Poppy's Zoo" to the tune of "Old Mcdonald had a farm".

In maths the children have been naming and ordering numbers, sorting groups of objects and using these objects to represent numbers.

We have a Bags2school collection on Monday 16th March so if you hve any good quality used items such as clothes, shoes, bags or belts then please bag them up and bring them to nursery before 9am on the day.
It is Comic Relief next Friday so children in on this day are very welcome to come in wearing something red and with "crazy" hair!! A £1 donation would be appreciated.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah 

We have had a wonderful week full of exploring books. We have been exploring the story of "Rainbow Fish" and the children have enjoyed creating colourful collage fish and painted fish pictures alongside this.
This Thursday saw us celebrate World Book Day in addition to St Piran's Day. The children came into nursery all dressed up as their favourite book characters and looked great!
They made some St Piran's flag bookmarks, enjoyed a cream tea for their morning snack and we enjoyed reading the story books that the children brought in from home throughout the day.

In phonics this week we have been using our voices to create animal sounds, clapping to a beat and the children have played a game called "Fishing in the Arctic" where they have had to find and match objects with the same initial sound.

In maths we have been exploring numbers and finding objects to represent these numbers.

Have a wonderful weekend 

Julie and Sarah

We have enjoyed welcoming everyone back this week after the half term. It has been lovely to see all of the children and they have thrown themselves back into the nursery routine.

For the next few weeks we are looking at different books and answering our question "What is your favourite story and why?"

We have been busy making Stickman family pictures and the children have been discussing who is a part of their family group.

At story time and in adition to "Stickman" we have also been reading "Room on the Broom" and the children have been selecting books that they would like to read.

In phonics this week we have been listening to and exploring different sounds in our envirionment, trying to keep time when listening to a simple beat and the children have explored instruments and the sounds they make.

In maths we are finding objects that represent numbers and exploring different shapes.

Next week on Thursday it is World Book Day and the children are invited to come to nursery dressed as their favourite book character. We will also be celebrating St Pirans Day with a cream tea! 

We look forward to seeing you all next week.

Julie and Sarah

This week at  nursery we have continued exploring winter.
The children have been busy exploring ice both indoors and out and have used tools to break it to investigate what was frozen inside. They have been using words such as frozen, melting and cold.
We have been busy creating winter craft including cotton wool snowmen, penguins and lovely paper plate snowy clouds to hang.

At story time this week we have enjoyed books such as "Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you hear?", "Foxes in the snow" and "The Smiley Snowman".

In phonics the children have been working hard to identify the number of syllables in words and clapped them out. We have used mirrors to watch how our mouths move when creating different sounds such as "oohh and ahh" and have been trying to describe soiunds that we have heard.

In maths we have been exploring groups of objects and identifying how many and forming numbers to go with these groups.

Enjoy your weekend

Julie and Sarah