In science week we have been focusing on the theme ‘Sustainability’.
We have been exploring how we could protect the environment.
On Monday we investigated Bee Cocoons and had a beekeeper come and discuss how they care for their bee’s. We learned how important bees are as they help us to grow our plants and food, such as our vegetables. We were also very lucky to see some of the bees hatch out of the cocoons. We also planted some sunflower seeds, we are hoping that when they grow the bees will use them for their nectar.
We have also learned the importance of recycling. We explored how difficult it is to clean up beaches of rubbish using sand trays and tools.
We have explored small world play using arctic animals and investigated how ice melts into water. We observed the ice melting over time, noticing how the warmth would melt the ice.
We were lucky to be able to watch the bee hatch from the cocoon.
Planting sunflowers.
Cleaning up the beach.
Arctic small world play.
Melting ice, revealing the animal inside over time.
Forest School Activities
Developing upper body strength.
Exploring role play in the mud kitchen.
Working together as a team to create an obstacle course.
Taking turns to complete the child made obstacle course.
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day this year by inviting a very exciting storytelling visitor to our school.
We listened to fairy tale stories and joined in using lots of different actions.
We also dressed up as lots of different characters from the genre's Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, and created our own story using the book You Choose Fairy Tales by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart.
The giant picked up the little mouse and the little mouse said "Please don't eat me."
Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Day
We had pancakes for snack time on Shrove Tuesday.
We were given the choice to squeeze some lemon and sprinkle some sugar onto our pancakes.
We also practiced flipping playdough 'pancakes' in the playdough area, using role playing frying pans.
The children rolled small pieces of playdough as their toppings.
Art week
In art week we have been exploring colour mixing in our child initiated learning. The children have explored what happens when we mix the primary colours; blue and red, red and yellow, and blue and yellow.
We have also been experimenting with other ways of mark making.
We explored pattern rollers to create different patterns when painting in hand control. We also drew around shapes to help guide us to draw tree houses. The shapes enabled us to represent different parts of the tree house, such as a square for the building and a triangle for the roof.
In the afternoons, we also explored the artist Jackson Pollock and used the pipettes to create our own drip paintings.
Mixing together red and blue to create a purple dot.
Creating dots - just like our Art Week focus story 'The Dot'.
Experimenting colour mixing. Adding blue and yellow together to create green.
Experimenting with mark making using different tools.
Nursery created their own Christmas decorations for DT week.
We planned which decoration we wanted to make by choosing between a gingerbread man, a bell, a star and a tree. The children created their plan by colouring in the shape of their choice and thinking about what colours they wanted to use.
Next we followed a salt dough recipe. We took turns as a group to measure and mix the ingredients. We then used a cookie cutter to cut out the Christmas decoration.
Once the decorations were cooked and set hard, we painted them. We glued some glitter and sequins of our choice to the decorations and threaded metallic wire through the holes so that we could hang them up at home.
The children chose which shape and colours they wanted to make their decorations.
The children took turns to measure and mix ingredients to make salt dough.
Then we used the cutters to cut the shape.
Once cooked and set, we followed our plans and painted our Christmas decoration.
The children are all very pleased with their finished product.
Parent reading mornings
Every Friday morning we invite parents to read to your children from 9.00 - 9.15.
History Week
In History Week we have been learning about our own history and our family's history.
We have brought in our own baby pictures and discussed how we have grown from babies to children, and discussed everything that we learned to do from a baby, such as walking and talking. We have created a photo album with our baby pictures and we are able to look through this in the role play area. We have also learned a new song about growing from a baby.
We have been caring for the baby dolls in the classroom and outside, we have been washing them and feeding them, and taking them for walks in the pram.
Quotes from the children this week.
"My Sister was a baby."
"I was a baby, then a toddler. I'm a child now, I will be four in December."
"I will be an adult like Mummy."
"I was small, I get big like Mummy."
Forest School
Every Wednesday morning the Nursery children get themselves ready with wellies and coats and attend Forest School. Below are some activities that the children have been engaging in during their Forest School mornings.
Using tools to shovel and dig in the digging bit.
Laying down and noticing the change in the leaves from the trees as they change in Autumn.
Following a colour hunt to find different colours in the outdoors.
Building confidence and gross motor skills using the tyre swings.
Working together and playing collaboratively to create a fairy garden.
Building confidence and skills to climb over the logs.
Brazilian Percussion Workshop
We were very lucky to participate in a Brazilian Percussion workshop. We danced and sang along to familiar nursery rhymes such as 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' and 'Sleeping bunnies'. We listened to the beat of the drum and danced along.
Child-Initiated Learning
Nursery have settled well into their new classroom routines.
The children have been learning which animal group they are in, and they have been following the daily routines.
In the morning they come into school, put their belongings on their pegs and join hand control.
The children have been learning our core nursery rhymes in group time and they are enjoying listening to stories before home time.
Every morning and afternoon we have our Child Initiated Learning time. The children have been very busy exploring the learning environment, using their investigative skills and learning new skills!
Below are some pictures that show how we have been learning and exploring in nursery!
Using the nursery rhyme prop Incy Wincy Spider to bring the nursery rhyme alive!
Role playing birthdays and sharing cake with our friends.
Investigating the magnets, and exploring what objects are 'sticking' to the magnets.
Developing our independence at snack time as we cut our own snack.
Exploring mark making materials to create drawings.
Exploring a range of media to create our pictures. "I'm using the blue tape as the sky."
Exploring collage in the creative area.
Role playing shops, "Five pounds please!"
Exploring messy play in the mud kitchen.
Mixing, stirring and creating mud pies.
Working together to explore what happens when the truck is full up with sand.
Fishing for magnetic fish.
Working together as a team to build a path of bricks.
Working together to build a big train track.
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