Robots!

The nursery children made these fantastic robots over two days. First we painted our boxes then we cut out features to stick on.

Christmas Play!

The nursery children were fantastic in their Christmas play today! Thanks you to the parents of the afternoon children for bringing their children in early and I'm sure you'll agree they did amazingly well!

Nursery loves music!

This week we have been experimenting with different instruments. We have been exploring the sounds of instruments and non-instruments.

 

Write Dance

The nursery children really enjoyed their first Write Dance session on Friday.

Write dance is designed to improve gross and fine motor skills by building muscle which helps with writing. 

We listened to rain sounds and drew vertical lines

We then listened to traffic sounds and drew circles just like the wheels on a car.

Welcome to Nursery!

Hello new parents and carers!

This half term we will be learning all about ourselves and getting to know our new friends with topic "Me, Myself and I".

We will be:

-       talking about what we can do now that we couldn’t do when we were babies

-       learning how to draw self-portraits and represent facial features using relevant colours and shapes

-       making junk model houses and talking about our houses and who lives there

-       comparing our heights and measuring each other

-       making our class rules and discussing how we can be good friends

-       learning about Autumn and weather

-       learning to find our name and to form some of the letters

-       using the laptop to draw portraits, learning how to click and drag with the mouse

Our focus books will be Owl Babies, Not Now Bernard, Guess How Much I Love You, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Funnybones, I don’t want to go to hospital, Avacado baby and So Much

Bye!

The school year has come to an end and the majority of our nursery children have moved on to reception. We wish them all the best and are sure that they will do superbly.

We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of the parents/carers who helped bring food in for Black History Week, accompanied us on trips and donated old clothes. You are all fantastic.

The Nursery Team

Tanka Tanka Skunk

We have been reading a fabulous book called Tanka Tanka Skunk that is all about rhythm. Here is a video of some of the nursery children creating their own rhythms with animal names.

Traditional Tales

This half term we have been learning about traditional tales. We have been...

making porridge and discussing its texture before and after we add milk. 

 We decorated our own gingerbread men.

We have been singing songs about the Gingerbread man and learning about dynamics. 

Totally Exotics!

Nursery recently had a visit from some interesting creatures like...

Millipedes...

 Leopard Geckos...

Chameleons...

 and Bearded Dragons.

 The children painted some fantastic pictures and wrote about the animals.

This morning the nursery children were lucky enough to share stories with Aqua class. Both classes were amazing. Aqua class were such great role models for nursery and shared their stories enthusiastically. Thanks to Mr. Clarke for taking these lovely photos.

Spring 2 Topic - 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'

This half term we will be looking at different types of transport. We will look at transport in London, transport used in other countries and design our own modes of transport. Here is an overview of what we will be doing.

Communication, Language and Literacy

 Car registration plates: our names

·    Vehicle poems.

·    Maps / instructions for moving beebot…

·    Describing vehicles to friends.

·    List of what to take on a journey.

·    Passports / Oyster Cards.

·    Transport / Travel songs and rhymes

·    Letters and sounds: m, d, g, o, c, k

·  Roleplay Area: Train Station / Café

·  Writing CVC words.

·  Weekly phonics sessions

Physical Development

·         Washing tricycles & toys

·         Large scale vehicles: boxes.

·         Draw your own road – signs etc & obstacles.

·         Vehicle manoeuvring- cones / obstacles / stop / go

·         Tyre printing in dough

·         Dance / Moving like vehicles

·         Parachute games

·         Hand gym / write dance.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

·    Bus Game – Socialising & recognising friends.

·    Tell me about a journey.

·    Junk modelling with friends.

·    Road safety – songs and trips.

·    Circle time – discussing emotions.

Mathematical Development

·         Positional language activities.

·         Counting transport/comparing quantity.

·         Sorting vehicles into different types.

·         Graphs of our favourite transport.

·         Tallys for transport surveys.

·         Measuring how far vehicles travel.

·         Matching numerals to amounts.

·         Daily Maths carpet session.

Knowledge and Understanding Of The World

·         Make a car ferry.

·         ICT – programmable cars

·         ICT - design own vehicles

·         Investigate float and sink.

·         Local area maps / journeys.

·         How to improve local area.

·         Bike/scooter to school day.

·         Types of traffic survey.

·         Old and new transport – why the changes?

·         Transport café food/picnic.

·         Waterways and guttering.

·         Train/dockland museum trip

Creative Development

·        Different track patterns.

·        3D transport models.

·        Favourite vehicle pictures.

·        Transport of the future.

·        Clay modelling – design own transport.

·        Mother’s Day cards / Easter eggs

·        Weekly music (Wednesday)

·        Junk Modelling

We will be looking at a selection of these books:

Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burnigham

The Train Ride by June Crebbin and Stephen Lambert

Whatever Next by Jill Murphy

The Snail And The Whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Mr Gumpy’s Motorcar by John Burnigham

Lost And Found by Oliver Jeffers

Curious George and the Dump Truck by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis

Dig, Dig, Digging by Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems

Felicity & Cordelia by Lisa Jahn-Clough

Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton

Maisy Drives the Bus by Lucy Cousins

Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob by Simon Bartram

Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The Little Red Train: The Runaway Train by Benedict Blathwayt

The Noisy Airplane Ride by Mike Downs

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Jack and the Beanstalk

This week we have been reading Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been doing lot's of learning, including...

experimenting with planting beans (will they have grown into gigantic beanstalks after the half term holiday?)...

 Sorting magic beans using tweezers...

and working with friends to build tall beanstalks.

Food, Glorious Food!

This half term we have been learning all about food. We have read lots of books about fruit and vegetables and healthy eating and we have done lots of exciting learning.

We have been...

ordering fruit by size...

learning to use a knife to cut food...

melting chocolate to make Rice Crispy cakes...

matching pictures of fruit to their names and much more!