Nursery

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On this page you will find recommended weekly activities and suggestions to complete with your child. Please scroll down to find this weeks topic

Week Beginning 01.03.2021

This week we are beginning our topic on Fairy tales and will be moving onto the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Each day additional activities will be posted on Tapestry. Did you know you can download ‘Tapestry Journal’ as an app on your phone where you can access updates easily?

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school.

On Wednesday 4^th March we will also be joining in with World Book Day. I would love to see your costumes and images/videos of you reading uploaded onto Tapestry!

We will post fun things we have been up to on the school website.

Our song of the week is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaulRHrJGeU

This is a song version of the story to support the learning and recall of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Activities to try at home:

• Sort items in your home from largest to smallest
• Use junk modelling or construction materials (e.g. lego) to make a new chair or bed for baby bear
• Can you re call the order of the story in order thinking about what the characters say
• Consider how the different characters in the story would feel and why

Have a great week

Mrs Wilkie J

Week Beginning 22.02.2021

I hope you all had a lovely half term.

This week we are beginning our topic on Fairy tales and starting with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Each day additional activities will be posted on Tapestry. Did you know you can download ‘Tapestry Journal’ as an app on your phone where you can access updates easily?

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school.

We will post fun things we have been up to on the school website.

Our song of the week is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9cVnfyhjM

Activities to try at home:

• Draw out different size footprints, can your child use objects around the house to measure how long the footprints are? You could see how many toy cars, how many crayons, how many pieces of cereal?
• Build a giants castle or the beanstalk using logo/construction resources or even challenge yourself to make one using junk modelling!
• Encourage your child to practise writing their name and other basic letters/patterns

Have a great week

Mrs Wilkie J

Week Beginning 08.02.2021

This week is the last week before half term. We will be finishing the term with wellbeing week. We will be considering The 5 ways to Wellbeing.

 Here are some ideas of things we will be doing in school, maybe you could give them a go at home too!

1. Give – cards/letters made for local care home residents

2. Connect – talking to children around snack times about wellbeing, gratitude. What are they grateful for?

3. Be Active – cosmic yoga/orienteering sessions to take place outside to encourage fresh air

 https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

4. Learn - We will be learning how to say ‘hello’ in different languages each day, along with sign of the week.

5. Take notice  - discuss with your children about how they are feeling that day. Look at the different emotions and support children in recognising and regulating their own emotions.

Each day activities will be posted on Tapestry.

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school. You can download Tapestry as an app and you will receive this notifications more readily.

We will also be looking at Valentine’s day and Chinese New Year.

Activities to try at home:

• Make a love potion using different liquids and containers
• Writing and sharing all the things we love about people who are special to us
• Draw some hearts and cut them in half, one side to have the numeral (5) and the other side to have 5 spots. Children to match the amount to the numeral
• Reading the story Dragons in the city (video below)
• Write wishes down on card and attach it to an orange
• Create some flags and streamers, move around to the beat of a song

Have a great week

Mrs Wilkie

Week Beginning 01.02.2021

This week we are learning about SUPER HEROES

Each day activities will be posted on Tapestry.

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school. Thank you to all who have done this already, it’s great to see your child’s learning in action!

We will post fun things we have been up to on the school website. We are going to be reading many different super hero books in school. If you don’t have any at home you could always use video clips of programmes your child might watch at home such as; paw patrol and PJ masks!

Activities to try at home:

• Get creative and make your own super hero cape/mask/shield/power cuff/walkie talkie
• Use super hero characters at home to re-enact a scene
• Draw your own super hero and describe what they are wearing
• If you could be a super hero, what power would you have and why?

Within maths we are also focussing on ordering numbers in sequence. Cut up 10 pieces of squared paper. Write out number 1-10, can your child put them into the correct order?

We are also very busy practising recognising and writing our name.

Have a great week

Mrs Wilkie J

Week Beginning 25.01.2021

This week we are learning about the Police and Doctors.

Each day activities will be posted on Tapestry.

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school.

We will post the wake and shake of week and the sign of the week on the website.

Activities to try at home:

• Have a range of items and order them from smallest to largest
• Use chalk to draw around your hand on black paper. Then use cotton wool buds to stick and pretend they are like an x ray
• Create an crime scene and use a magnifying glass to find the route of the problem. Could they record their findings on an incident form
• Use lego/construction materials to build a new police car or handcuffs

Here are some links that you could watch at home:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09qwq4j/biggleton-series-1-21-new-rules

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b092q902/get-well-soon-hospital-series-2-10-outpatients

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07tzrt5/maddies-do-you-know-series-1-4-bin-lorry-and-newspaper

Week Beginning 18.01.21

This week we are learning all about Dentists!
Each day activities will be posted on Tapestry.

When you have completed any of the activities please record these and share them on your child's Tapestry account for us to see in school.

These are some activities that we will be doing in school

-Using a paintbrush (not one that they usually brush their own teeth with) to paint different objects
- Sorting food into those that are good and not so good for our teeth and discussing why that may be
- Showing your child how to brush their teeth - set a 2 minute timer to see how long it should be for
- Making your own dental equipment out of junk modelling
- Investigating and exploring- we will be using the bottom of upside down plastic bottles and pretending these are teeth to clean

Here are also some videos you can watch at home with your child about dentists and teeth:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04j24zj/topsy-and-tim-series-2-16-our-teeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apTihp3nqM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nyds/jojo-gran-gran-autumn-8-its-time-to-visit-the-dentist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJRR5RsalU

Bird week.16-20 November

This week we have been learning about birds. We read owl babies, made fat balls for them to eat from the sunflowers that grew in the allotments. We also made binoculars and on Friday we went over to the eco bus to look out for birds.

Celebrating Diwali November 2020

This week we have been learning about Diwali and having fun. We tried naan bread and poppadoms ,danced to Indian music, made rangoli patterns with coloured rice,made clay Diva pots and had our hands painted in a mehndi designs.

Afternoon children

We found a feather and a birds nest on our Autumn walk this afternoon

Potato growing and tasting 

This week we have been learning about vegetables.We went to our allotment and dug some up that had been growing under the ground and then we cleaned them,chopped them up and ate them as potato wedges.

Pancake day 25th February

Today is pancake day and we all helped to make the pancakes and then got to try them with lemon and sugar,Yummy!

Insy Winsy spider

This week we have been learning Insy Winsy spider .We have made spiders for our web and we even handled real spiders!

Frosty winter walk 6th Feb

Today the morning children went out to explore all the frost it was very pretty

31st January

Chinese new year

To celebrate Chinese new year this week we have been trying Chinese noodles in class.

13th November Learning journal sharing

Today we invited Parents and carers in to look at their child's learning journey.

Apple crumble 8th November

Morning Nursery

Today we used our apples to make some apple crumble.We all had a go at making the crumble, which we all tried for snack.

Autumn walk on 7th November

Today we went on an Autumn walk,we looked at signs of Autumn in our playground and collected leaves that have fallen.We also picked apples from our apple trees which we will use to make apple crumble tomorrow.

Morning Nursery

Afternoon Nursery visit the fire pit (3rd October 2019)

We found the teddy bears having a picnic!

Morning Nursery fire pit picnic (3rd October 2019)

Today we went on an adventure,we went to kingfisher island and sat round a fire pit to eat our teddy bears picnic.

PM Nursery global explorer bears

PM Nursery teddy bear hunt

The afternoon children used their binoculars they made to find the teddies in the woods today.

Global Explorer bears AM Nursery

As part of global explorer week we could bring in teddy bears and dress them up as explorers today.

Am Nursery teddy bear hunt.

Today we used our binoculars we had made to look for teddies in our woods.

Stay and play Wednesday group 10th July

Today we played games and had to wait our turn we also had fresh peas out of the pods for snack and read a book about trying new foods.

Stay and play Wednesday the 3rd July

Today in group we took part in messy play, made our own reward jars to take home and had frozen yogurt for our snack, yummy.

Stay and Play Wednesday 26th June

The big bus adventure

Today we all went out to explore the Eco Bus.We held our grown ups hand as we walked over, got our tickets and got on board.We then listened to a story about vehicles and talked about wearing seat belts and helmets to stay safe.

Then we went up stairs to have our snack and sang songs before we left.

Stay and Play Wednesday the 19th June

Today in group we made things out of K Nex and we read the hungry caterpillar and ate lots of different fruits at snack time like the caterpillar.

Stay and play Wednesday 12th June 2019

Today in group we made Father's day cards and we read a book about Dad's.

Stay and Play Wednesday group 5/6/2019

This week we celebrated Bookstart library book day (pyjamarama) by wearing our pyjamas to group.We designed our own pyjamas and got under the paracute for our story.For snack we made our own special sandwiches using cutters.