This week the children have enjoyed making paper plate under the sea pictures using different textures such as sand. They painted their hands and used these to make the fish.
They have discussed things you might find at the beach or in the water and created crabs.

At story time we have read "Sharing a Shell" and "Mr Seahorse" which the children enjoyed listening to and were able to ask and answer questions relating to the story.

In phonics we have been practicing sounds and looking at how our mouths move to form these sounds.
The children have identified sounds in a game of "I Spy" and explored different musical instruments.

The children going to school in September enjoyed a visit to reception class on Monday and then went for a snack and story on Wednesday morning.
A quick reminder that there is another transition visit on Monday 6th July 9.15- 10.30am.

Enjoy a lovely hot and sunny weekend.

Julie and Sarah
 

It has been a busy week here at nursery. On Monday the children enjoyed a visit in the afternoon from Peter Heywood. He is part of a project called "United By The Sea" and the children enjoyed making ceramic fish with him which will be displayed in Looe. They created patterns using a wide range of materials and then used fish shaped cutters to create the shapes. Fun was had by all!

The children took part in sports day today (Friday) and all did super running in their races.

We have finished our arts and crafts related to holidays this week and will soon be exploring a new enquiry question.

At story time this week we have read books including "What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside".

In phonics the children have been trying hard to blend sounds together to make short words and have been suggesting words that complete different rhymes, well done.

We hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend.

Julie and Sarah

This week we are talking about holidays and answering our enquiry question "Does everyone go on holiday?"
The children have been talking about places they have been on holiday and how they got there. We have looked at the globe of the world and have been identifying different countries.
In arts and craft they have made a paper plate camper van and a water melon fan to keep cool with.

At story time we have read books including "Stone Boy and the Girl" and "What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside".

In phonics this week we have been talking about magical creatures. The children have been matching objects to initial sounds in the game "Pixie Party", blending sounds into short words in a game of "I Spy" and have been creating different voices for different characters that they saw.

In maths we have explored shapes, have been naming them and making arrangements.

We hope you enjoy a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Julie and Sarah

Over the past two weeks we have been exploring insects and answering our enquiry question "Are insects helpful?".
The children have been busy exploring our bug themed tuft tray, using the magnifying glasses to explore with and finding the different insects in the book provided.
They have been creating different craft including dragonflies made from pegs, paper plate bumblebees and caterpillars.

At story time we have read a range of insect related books including "The Very Hungry Caterpillar ", "The Bad Tempered Ladybird" and "Bugs big trip".

In phonics this week we have been blending sounds together to create whole words, creating different alien voices in a game of "Voices in Space" and rhyming different words to complete a sentence.

In maths we have been exploring patterns and how many in a set. We have also been finding special objects up to 5 and beyond.

This week on Wednesday the children had a group photo taken, these should be available soon for you to order.

Have a good weekend

Julie and Sarah

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