We have had a busy week exploring under the sea and finishing craft relating to this. The children have been exploring the under the sea tuft tray and making jellyfish.
We have enjoyed some sunny weather this week and have been making the most of this by practicing sports day on the field and exploring the nursery garden.

At story time we have enjoyed under the sea stories and the big children who are going to school soon enjoyed going into reception class to join them for a story before lunch.

The children have enjoyed carrying out different phonics activities including looking for initial sounds in the sand tray, going on a listening walk and blending sounds together to form words.

It was sports day on Wednesday and we were incredibly proud of the children for their great running. They all did a fab job.

We hope you all have a good weekend.

Julie and Sarah.












































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We are exploring under the sea and answering our enquiry question "Who lives under the sea?" over the next few weeks.
The children have enjoyed exploring and learning about different creatures that live in the water and have made some paper plate fish and some sponge painted shark silhouettes.
The children have been busy developing their fine manipulative skills by rolling out clay and using the cutter to make fish. They then decorated them to make their very own rainbow fish like in the story.

At story time we have been reading the story of "Rainbow fish" and "Mr Seahorse" and we have enjoyed exploring non fiction books and naming different sea creatures.

In phonics,  we have been practicing our speech sounds, matching objects to initial sounds and using mirrors to explore the way our mouths and tongues move as we make different sounds with them.

 In maths we have been exploring repeats such as repetitive stories or songs e.g. Twinkl, Twinkl or "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me i'm the gingerbread man". We have been making patterns such as lines.

Just a reminder that it is sports day next Wednesday 25th June at 10am. Nursery will be running the first race at 10am, hope to see you all there!

Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah

We have finished exploring space this week with the children finishing differnt craft and creating new ones. This week they have enjoyed making sponge/handprint rockets and painting and decorating their own telescopes to look at the stars.
We have been practicing cutting skills and the children have had fun playing with cardboard boxes and pretending to go to space in their rockets.

These boxes came in especially useful during a phonics activity where the children plpayed a game of "voices in space" where they created different voice sounds to go with different alien characters.
Also during phonics this week, we have explored initial sounds of different space words and the children have joined in with a body percussion activitiy routine.

At story time we have read "Zoom!", "On the moon" and "Rocketmole".

In maths we have continued to compare and sort collections of different objects and materials and counted objects of interest.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Julie and Sarah

It has been a great first week back to nursery and the children have been busy exploring space. We have been reading the story of "Aliens love underpants" and answering our new enquiry question "Do aliens really wear underpants?"
The children have been busy painting and decorating paper bowls to create flying saucers and made handprint aliens to go in them.
We have been discussing planets and the sun and moon and the children have practiced cutting skills by cutting out planets to glue onto their own solar system.
In the tuft tray they have explored the space rocket and looked at the book "Roaring rockets".

In phonics this week we have been matching objects to their initial sounds, blending different sounds together to make words and exploring the sounds our bodies make in a game of noisy pirates.

On the maths table, the children have been comparing and sorting different collections of items and finding up to five special items.

Just a reminder that we have class photos next Tuesday (10th). If your child is not usually in on this day then please drop them to nursery for 8.50am and you can collect them again after we have finished.
 It is INSET day tomorrow (Friday) so have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all on Monday.

Julie and Sarah

We have reached half term here at nursery. The children have been super busy with their exploration of planting and growing and insects.
The children have finished this week off by making paper plate snails and apple print lady birds.

We have been reading “Norman the slug with the silly shell” and “Nothing scares spider” at story time. 

In phonics the children having been matching a range of objects with their initial sound,  singing and moving to music and listening and identifying initial sounds in a game of castle I spy.

In maths the children have been naming and ordering numbers and talking about dots on the maths table.

We hope you all have a lovely half term week and we will see you back on Monday 2nd June.

Julie and Sarah

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At nursery this week we have started to explore insects and are looking at our enquiry question "Are insects important?"
The children have been looking at lifecycles and what happens to caterpillars and they made some beautiful butterflies with the paint. They have been using language heard in the story of the "Hungry Caterpillar" such as cocoon.
They have made fingerprint ladybirds in the art area.

As well as "The Hungry Caterpillar",  the children have explored and have been learning different facts about insects in a range of books.

In phonics, we have been talking about the garden centre. The children have been naming and sorting different gardening items in a game of "What's in the basket?" and have assigned different instrumental sounds to different flowers.

In the maths area we have been sorting and comparing a range of objects and the children have been counitng how many in different sets.

On Thursday we celebrated the anniversary of VE Day. We enjoyed a morning snack with different foods including strawberries and cucumber sandwiches! and the children made a commemorative plate to take home.

We look forward to more fun next week.
Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

This week at nursery we have continued with our planting and growing of seeds. The children have been busy planting sunflower seeds and have been planting grass seed to go with their decorated houses in order to make their own gardens.
They have used different materials such as wool to make flowers and also made some from paper plates.
The children have had lots of opportunity this week to practice thier cutting skills. In the tuft tray, they have been snipping leaves and have been cutting by following a line on their paper plate flowers.

In story time this week we have enjoyed the books "Tilly plants a tree" and have been looking at non fiction books such as "Grow it, eat it".

In phonics the children have been at the cafe and have taken part in cafe bingo. They have been breaking words down into syllables when talking about what they eat for breakfast and have been joining in actions to different songs such as "I'm a little trapot".

In maths, we have been identify numbers from sight and writing/ making marks that represent numbers.

We now have a long weekend ahead of us as it is bank holiday on Monday, so we hope you all have a lovely one and look forward to seeing you all back from Tuesday.

Julie and Sarah

We have had a great first week back to nursery. We have enjoyed welcoming back all  of the children and have started our new enquiry question "What makes things grow?"
The children have started to plant some seeds and are looking forward to watching them grow. We have been discussing what plants need to make them grow and we look forward to seeing how big our seeds can get.

The children have been getting creative and have enjoyed doing some still life painting of a beautiful bunch of flowers. They all did such a great job!

At storytime we have been reading the story of "Jack and the beanstalk" and the children have been talking about the story and answering simple questions.
We have also read "A seed in need" and "Tilly plants a tree"

In maths we have been sorting and comparing groups of objects and ordering and writing numbers.

In phonics the children have been performing actions to songs in time with the music. They have been making different voice sounds and exploring sounds that they can make with different musical instruments.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

Our last week before the Easter holidays has been filled with lots of Easter fun. The children have enjoyed making Easter chick baskets filled with some Easter treats and we have been talking about what we do at Easter.
On Thursday the children enjoyed trying hot cross buns for snack and today (Friday) have made yummy chocolate nests.

A big well done to Teddy and Tiffany for winning the decorate an Easter Egg competition which we held. All of the entries were amazing and Mrs Hillman had a difficult desicion in choosing the winners!

We also say goodbye to Jade this week who has been volunteering with us on Monday and Friday mornings since September. We wish her all the best for the future.

We now have two weeks Easter holiday to enjoy and hopefully it will be a sunny one.
We hope you all have an amazing time and we look forward to welcoming the children back from Tuesday 22nd April.

Julie and Sarah

It has been a busy week at nursery. We have been finishing all of our learning on farming, food and where our food comes from in preparation for lots of Easter craft and fun next week.
The children have been busy scooping and mixing and cooking up a storm in the mud kitchen. We have had everything from salads to casseroles and soups!!
On the tuft tray the children have been harvesting vegetables and couting how many carrots and sprouts they had collected and used lots of great language such as crunchy carrots.

At story time we have enjoyed stories such as "The great chicken mystery" and we have been singing "Old Mcdonald had a farm" encouraging the children to create the different animal sounds.

In phonics the children have enjoyed making up silly rhyming sounds which they did whilst rowing to the tune of "Row, Row your boat". They have been looking for initial sounds in the sand tray outside and have played different instruments.

In maths we have been exploring shape and position. The children have explored the maths table with interest talking and using words such as on top, above, below, beside, next to. They have been sorting and matching shapes and colour blocks.

We have one more week to go before the Easter holidays, just a reminder that nursery finishes at 1.30pm on Friday 4th April.

Have a great weekend
The Nursery Team