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Nursery
Welcome to Nursery
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Life Skills Activities
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Half Termly Life Skills challenges as part of our drive to develop good future citizens:
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Sharing Our Learning. . .Nursery Photo Gallery
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Following our transition day last week, our role play has been turned into a classroom. We have had fun pretending to be the teacher, organising the day using the visual timetable, reading our class a story and encouraging them to work hard with their Phonics and numbers. We have been enjoying our discussions about our new teachers and talking about what it will be like in Reception.
This week we have enjoyed creating in the Creative and Junk Modelling Areas. We practised our concertinas to make fans and used them as peacock feathers. We made mermaids out of cardboard tubes and used different shaped scissors to cut scales.
In Nursery we have been experimenting with making mathematical marks and forming numbers. We started with trying to write 1, 2, 3. We are giving meaning to our marks and trying to write recognisable numerals.
This week in Nursery we have introduced our new topic, We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday. We have enjoyed looking at photos of our holidays, exploring shells, starting our new Power of Reading book ‘Billy’s Bucket’ and, of course, our Engage – Beach Day.
This week in PE we practised our hula hoop relay race, running to each hoop and stepping through it. We explored lots of different ways to use and move with the hula hoops and enjoyed showing our friends outside.
In Nursery we have been learning how to describe different emotions, such as happy, sad, excited, worried and angry. We have enjoyed investigating the ‘emotions stones’ that depict a range of different feelings.
This week in Nursery, we have enjoyed using directional language to describe routes. We drew our own maps and created paths from the tracks in school. We used language like ‘straight ahead’, ‘turn right’, ‘go left’, ‘going past the zoo’ and ‘round the roundabout’.
We had a wonderful time at Atwell Farm! We enjoyed petting and feeding the animals and learning all about the exciting variety of insects. We hope you enjoy viewing the photos of our amazing day.
This week in Nursery we have started our new Power of Reading book, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’. Our role play has been set up as a police station so that we can learn more about being detectives and catching criminals like Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh. We have enjoyed drawing wanted posters, acting out part of the stories and taking each other’s fingerprints.
This week in Nursery, we looked closely at some instructions and followed them to make Easter Nests. We used our sequencing language to talk about what was going to happen, first, next and after and that finally we would put our egg on the top. We enjoyed the delicious smell of melting chocolate and listened to the sound of crunching as we mixed it in with the cornflakes.
We have enjoyed our learning in Nursery this week. We have been combining craft materials to make our own ‘Bog Babies’; based on our new Power of Reading book. We have been recalling language from the story to describe what the ‘Bog Baby’ looks like.
Whittle's Mother Day Song
Starley's Mother Day Song
This half term, we have been thinking about using all our senses to explore. This week we looked closely at herbs, feeling the leaves, looking at the shapes and smelling them. Some of us enjoyed the smells and recognised the plants from our gardens. For Science Week, we continued our theme of smelling, and experienced some scents that we might find around the house. Some we enjoyed, such as chocolate, and others not as much...
This week, Nursery have started our new Topic of British Countryside. For our Engage, we went for a walk round the school grounds and spotted lots of signs of spring. There were buds growing on trees, daffodils flowering and the bulbs we planted earlier in the year are starting to pop out of the soil. We are going to continue to look closely at our surroundings and notice further changes as we move through Spring and Summer.
This week in Nursery, we learnt all about Shrove Tuesday. We enjoyed making pancakes, mixing the flour, eggs and milk together and then watching the batter turn from a “sticky” “liquid” into a “crunchy” “solid” and we spotted the steam coming off the pancakes as they were cooking. We enjoyed eating them and made our own decision about whether to have lemon or sugar as a topping.
We have enjoyed our learning in Nursery this week. We have been exploring opposites in food and enjoyed trying some sweet foods such as honey, chocolate and banana and discussed what makes them sweet. We also tried some plain yoghurt, cranberry juice and lemons, these were sour foods, and they made us make some funny faces!
This week Nursery were very lucky to have a visitor in school to teach us a dance. Following our learning on Lunar New Year we were taught a traditional dragon dance, we had to collaborate to hold the head up as it was heavy and move at the same speed. We also learnt how to use a prop in our dancing, using the beautiful fans.
In Nursery we have been enjoying lots of learning this week! We have been continuing our Lunar New Year celebrations with an exciting mark-making activity. We used paintbrushes in trays of glitter to copy the symbol for good luck.
This week in Nursery we have enjoyed our new snack area. This means we do not have to leave our learning for a set snack time but are able to visit the snack table when we feel hungry. It is even open for Whittle class in the afternoon. We have quickly learnt how to use this area such as finding our name and putting in on the table to save our space, washing our hands before eating and tidying up after ourselves. We have loved being able to sit with our friends for a chat whilst we enjoy our healthy snack.
In Nursery we have been enjoying lots of learning this week! We have been making comparisons with length. We gathered some real-life objects and talked about which ones are longer and which ones are shorter. We made comments such as: “The pipe-cleaner is longer than the knife. The knife is shorter than the pipe-cleaner.” In our phonics sessions we have been learning to recognise initial sounds in spoken words; we did this by playing a game of I-Spy. We had to find objects from the collection that began with the given letter sound.
This week, we enjoyed the Engage activity for our new topic, Opposites. We explored what would happen if we mixed blue with white and black. We noticed that the white made it lighter and it went darker when we added the black. We are looking forward to exploring more opposites over the next half term.
We have enjoyed our learning in Nursery this week; the frosty weather gave us the perfect opportunity to go on a Winter Walk. First, we noticed our ‘dragon’s breath’ as warm air met the cold air outside. Then, we found frost in all sorts of places; it felt cold on our fingertips and it was interesting to watch it melt. We especially liked it when the sun shone on the frost and it glistened. Next, we found some frozen water and talked about the changes that occur when water turns to ice and then melts again. Finally, we loved walking onto the field, listening to the frost crunching underfoot. It was a magical morning in Nursery!
This week in Nursery, we have been getting into the Christmas spirit. We have started our 12 Days of Fitmas and had a visit from the Healthy Elfie, we put up our Christmas tree and are enjoying decorating it and talking about the different ornament shapes and we loved wearing a bit of glitter and shine for Sparkle Day!
We have been enjoying our learning in Nursery this week! We explored 2D and 3D shapes and learned that 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are solid. We are learning the shape names and language to describe them, such as ‘sides’, ‘corners’, ‘straight’, ‘flat’ and ‘round’. We combined some 2D shapes to make pictures that resembled houses, rockets and tractors and we enjoyed our shape cut-and-stick activity. We also investigated 3D shapes by sorting real-life objects into those that resembled spheres or cubes. We also selected the appropriate 3D shapes to build a house for our teddy; choosing those with flat faces for building the walls and triangular prisms for the roof.
In our Power of Reading lessons, we have enjoyed the story of AstroGirl. In the books Astrid wants to be an astronaut like her Mum and practises doing all the things an astronaut has to do. She enjoys been swung around by her Dad, eating food out of packets and doing science experiments (making biscuits)! We made biscuits, just like Astrid, we thought about the ingredients we would need, helped to write the instructions and weighed and mixed everything together.
Nursery have been reading AstroGirl in their Power of Reading sessions and so today we were with the Reception outside and were blasting our own rockets up in the air! We used vitamin tablets with a little bit of warm water, mixed inside the vitamin tablet tubes. Mrs Ashton placed the rockets on the tuff tray and we stood back at a safe distance and waited patiently for them to blast off! We had lots of comments and ideas about the rockets: “It could go all the way to the moon!” “Which one will blast off?” “They go higher.” “It’s going to go extra high.” “It smells of oranges now.”
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We have been enjoying our learning in Nursery this week! We explored the primary colours and experimented with colour mixing. We noticed the change and could say which new colour we had made. We have been learning about Remembrance Day and watched a BBC children’s animation called ‘Poppies’; which is an animation that sees the war as experienced by animals. We then made our own poppy badges to wear and enjoyed painting pictures of poppies.
We have had a lovely week back at school after the half term break. We have explored pumpkins, talking about how they feel, using lollipop stick on scratch art pumpkins to make marks and creating our own pumpkins in play dough.
We have thoroughly enjoyed our Power of Reading book, ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. This week we took part in a sensory walk, experiencing a representation of all the different parts of the story. In the book, they didn’t want to go on another bear hunt but we definitely would!
We have enjoyed our Power of Reading Book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and have been reading the book, looking at the pictures and re-telling the story in our Small World area. We used the blocks to build a cave and props to create the water, mud, snowstorm and forest. We each have our own mini-me, a little version of ourselves to use in the Small World, and we made these go a bear hunt of their own. We used lots of the language from the book in our play too: “Help me, I’m in the cave!” “Oh no, water!” “We’re going on a bear hunt!” “The bear’s coming!” “He’s a kind bear.” Maybe you could go on your own bear hunt at home...
This week we have been continuing our learning about pattern, by exploring patterns on real-life objects and animals. We have also developed a keen interest in the creative area. We are demonstrating the Valley Value of responsibility by remembering to put on an apron to protect our smart uniforms. We love helping each other to fasten our aprons. We are very proud of our great teamwork.
This week in Nursery, we have been exploring patterns. We enjoyed using language such as ‘spotty’, ‘stripy’, ‘zig-zag’ and ‘spirals’. We looked around the environment and looked for the patterns we had discussed. Mrs Coldrick mixed up all her socks and we helped her match up the pairs and noticed which were ‘spotty’ and ‘stripy’.
It has been an absolute pleasure to welcome our new Nursery children to Valley Primary School. They have settled down into our routines beautifully and have enjoyed exploring their new environment and making lots of new friends. Well done Nursery, we look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday.
We hope you enjoyed your teddy bear picnics with us last term. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all back in September.
Summer 1 Home Learning Activities
Spring 2 Home Learning Activities
Spring 1 Home Learning Activities
Autumn 2 Home Learning Activities
Autumn 1 Home Learning Activities