Nursery 2021-2022

Today we had our first 'Welly Wednesday'. We had a fantastic afternoon exploring the school’s beautiful ground.  Here are the things we noticed in our environment:

• Different trees, some had leaves and some were bare
• The sound of leaves crunching underneath our feet
• The squelchy mud
• The…

Today we started a new topic called 'Can I have a dog?'.

We absolutely love dogs in nursery, as many of us own one so this is a perfect topic!

To start we thought about all of things we already know about dogs. Then we had a think about things we would like to find out.

We had a…

We made our very own penguin using different materials to paint, we looked at some pictures online and decided which colours we wanted our penguin to be. 

Meet Puffin the Penguin! 

Today Grace collected all of the wooden blocks and said she was going to make a tight rope. All of the others soon joined in. We walked carefully along the blocks, balancing really carefully. Afterwards, we decided to go outside and make an even bigger one around our garden. We worked…

This week we have been reading a new story all about a penguin. To start off the book, a present had been left for us to open. We thought about what time we were given presents, we all thought about Christmas and Birthdays. We played pass the parcel and the present was a baby penguin. 

We…

Today was Fusion Food Day at school. We enjoyed sitting with our friends and trying different foods. When we returned to nursery we talked about which foods we liked and disliked, We all loved the hot dog

We love our weekly P.E sessions, we play fun and engaging games to help develop our gross motor skill, hand eye coordination and self-regulation. This week we used the parachute, we loved waving it in the air and trying to hide underneath, this took lots of team work and listening very…

To continue with our Winter Wonderland topic, we explored ice paints. Yesterday we made a colourful mixture of water and paint and popped it into the freezer. When we checked today they had frozen. We covered our table in paper and explored the marks it made as the ice melted. We loved the feel of…

Our new topic this term is Winter Wonderland. 

To start off our topic, we talked about how we know it is Winter. We thought about the differences between when it is hot outside and when it is cold.

We went into our garden and noticed the different signs of winter. We noticed the ground was…

Today we had our Christmas party, we had so much fun. We played Christmas bingo, musical chairs, throw the snowball, pass the parcel and finished off the afternoon with a quiz.

We had a lovely visit from Santa Claus and he brought us all a present for being so good.

Merry…

Christmas has officially started at nursery, take a look at the fun activities we have gotten up to this week, we have had so much fun! 

First, we decorated our Christmas tree, we counted the baubles, and took it in turns to place a decoration onto a branch using out fine motor skills. We…

Today we spent the morning in the garden having fun in the snow. We listened to the snow crunching under our feet, we made snow angels and a mini snow man. A lot of our furniture had frozen over. We noticed the water had turned to ice and tried to break through it. To warm back up we…