Nursery
Welcome to our Nursery page…
This page will tell you what we have been learning about and all the exciting things we have been doing at Nursery. Please check back as the year goes on to see all of the fun exploring, play and learning we get up to!
Summer 1
This half term we have been finding out all about minibeasts and growing. We had 5 very tiny caterpillars come to stay with us and we watched them slowly grow, become a chrysalis and finally hatch as beautiful butterflies that we released into our garden.
We had a fantastic visit from Our Animal World. We were all very brave and held some minibeasts. We learnt lots about the different bugs we met.
As part of our Power of Reading learning we found out about India. It was where our story was based. We learnt facts about the animals we met in our book, tigers, bears and wolves and at the end of term we got to taste a feast of exotic fruits just like Grandma did in our book. They were delicious!
Spring 2
Our Town and Our pets
This half term our learning has focused on the town that we live in, we shared photos of us all in front of buildings and shops around town and used the photos to make a small world town in our tuff tray. Most of us recognised many of the buildings, the toy shop and the sausage roll shop especially!
We then went on to learn about our pets and people who help look after them. We turned our role play area into a vets and were lucky enough to have a visit from some of our class members’ pets. We enjoyed looking at photos of us all with our pets and finding our how we all help to care for them.
Our Power of Reading text this half term was an information book about Diggers! We had a visit from a digger. We were able to sit in the digger and we watched it go up and down and move about on the playground. We learnt the names of the parts of the digger and how it works.
We have enjoyed spotting signs of spring around Nursery and painting spring flowers. We ended our term learning about the Easter Story and trying hot cross buns.
Spring 1
This half term we have been finding out about people that help us, we have been learning about the jobs these people do, the uniforms they where and the vehicles they drive. We have had some wonderful visits from the Police, the fire service and some Paramedics. We were able to try on the uniforms, use their special equipment and sit in the Police car, fire engine and Ambulance. We used the fire fighters hose and thermal camera and we used a heart monitor and oxygen mask of the Paramedics. We have learnt so much and been very inspired by people working in brave and helpful job roles.
Our Power of reading text this half term was ‘What the ladybird heard’ We have learnt lots of lady bird facts and enjoyed finding out about farms and farm animals. We had a visit from a wonderful petting farm one morning. We met a Pony, 2 Sheep, a dog, some rabbits and guinea pigs and 2 ferrets.
Our RE learning this half term has been the story of Noah. We have made our own floating arks and practiced balancing animals 2 by 2 on them until they sank. We found out that at the end of the Bible story God sent a rainbow to Noah as a promise. We have been busy making rainbows and learning about all of the colours in one.
What a busy and Fun half term we have had!
Autumn 2
In Autumn 2 we learnt all about Autumn and colours. Our power of reading book was ‘The Gigantic Turnip’.
We explored pumpkins and used tweezers to find seeds inside them, we looked closely with magnifying glasses. We made leaf prints, painting crunchy leaves orange, red and yellow and printed them on paper. We explored the leaves in the garden and found out why so many of them had changed colour and fallen from the trees… Its Autumn and they will grow back again in Spring .
We learnt the names of lots of colours, we matched them, painted with them, went on colour hunts and sorted them. We also became scientists and colour mixed. We had different colour water in jugs and using a pipette mixed two of them at a time together. When we stirred the new pot of water we had made a different colour.
Our power of reading book was all about a vegetable called a turnip. We held a reading cafe for our families where we had fun with all sorts of different vegetable related activities. We made our own Mr Potato head with real vegetables. We have a farm tuff tray where we could plant and harvest mini vegetables, we planted beans and printed using vegetables in paint. The best bit was the table full of vegetables to snack on!
Christmas was at the end of Autumn 2. We had a amazing time celebrating together. We learnt the Nativity story and why we celebrate Christmas. We had a party, a Christmas lunch, a visit from Father Christmas and we all sang and danced beautifully in Church at our first Christmas performance.
Autumn 1
Settling into Nursery and learning all about ourselves, our families and Autumn.
This half term we have been welcoming our new Nursery children. They are all settling into Nursery well and are having fun exploring all the things we have to do. We have joined Collective Worship with the main school, Had a walk into the big playground and seen the library bus. We have explored our garden area and had messy fun in the mud kitchen. We have learnt each others names and have started to make friends.
We have started to talk about ourselves, our bodies and how we have grown from a baby to a child. We have also talked about our families. Many of the children shared photos of themselves as a baby so we could talk about how they are different now. We also looked at the children family photos so they could tell us who was important to them and so that we could see how everyone’s family is different.
We measured ourselves to see who was taller and shorter, we measured our feet to see how they differ in size. We have made paper plate and pancake faces. We learnt the names of different parts of our bodies and we enjoyed PE where we have learnt to use and move different parts to music.
We have also noticed that the weather is changing outside as it is becoming Autumn. We have been finding out what this means and how it looks and feels. We have been exploring leaves, conkers and acorns and completing lots of Autumn craft.
