Spring 2 – Week 3

Key text: Sam plants a Sunflower

Rhyme of the week: Wiggly Woo

Sign of the week: Happy

Spring 2 - Week 2

Our key concepts

Key text: Life Cycles

Rhyme of the week: Incy Wincy Spider

Sign of the week: I Feel

Mystery reader

We had another mystery reader come to see us this week, we were a little confused by the clues and were so surprised to see a dog in school to read with us!

World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day, we came to school dressed in our pyjamas! We had lots of stories with staff and new friends. It was lots of fun.

 

Maths

We have been working on number 6 in maths this week. We have counted to 6, put 6 objects on a ten frame and even had a go at writing the number 6.

Spring 2 – Week 1

Our key concepts

Key theme: The hungry caterpillar

Rhyme of the week: Incy Wincey Spider

Sign of the week: Stand up

Literacy

This week we have focussed on The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We are getting familiar with the story and can join in with the words. We have taken part in lots of different activities around caterpillars, butterflies and their life cycle.

Spring 1 - Week 6

Our key concepts

Key theme: Chinese New Year

Rhyme of the week: It’s raining, It’s pouring

Sign of the week: To sit

Chinese New Year

To help celebrate Chinese New Year, we have enjoyed creating some dragon pictures, exploring the noodles and rice in the messy play and listened to some Chinese music.

Physical

This week we have really enjoyed using our gross motor skills. We have climbed, balanced and jumped. We have even had some tummy time on the big carpet to strengthen our core muscles.

Spring 1 - Week 5

Our key concepts

Key text: A Dot in the Snow

Rhyme of the week: It’s raining, It’s pouring

Sign of the week: I want

Mystery Reader

This year is the National Year of Reading; to help celebrate our love for stories, we have had our first mystery reader in school. We were given clues as to who was coming and tried our best to guess, we narrowed it down to two possibilities. We really enjoyed having a story read by someone new.

Literacy

This week we have focused on the story A Dot in the Snow by Corrinne Averiss. We listened to the story, sorted animal who live in the snow and considered which clothes we would wear in the cold weather.

Creative

Painting our hands and making hand prints in a pair of mittens was so much fun! We also loved using new techniques to paint, we printed bricks onto an igloo shape by stamping the duplo bricks into white paint.

Spring 1 - Week 4

Our key concepts

Key theme: Winter

Rhyme of the week: Walking through the jungle

Sign of the week: To eat

PSED

We talked about what it means to relax and shared ideas of ways we could relax. We had a relax together by getting comfy and listening to some calming music.

Maths

For maths this week, we have been focusing on number 4. We have worked hard at counting to 4, recognising the number 4 and even had a try at writing the numeral.

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Spring 1 - Week 3

Our key concepts

Key theme: Jungle animals – Rumble in the jungle by Giles Andreae

Rhyme of the week: Walking through the jungle

Sign of the week: To drink

Literacy

Our literacy topic this week was based on the book Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae. We talked about different animals from the jungle, what they looked like, how they moved and the sounds they made. We also talked about whether then spent their time in water, on land, in trees or in more than one place. We also worked collaboratively to draw jungle animals.

Physical Friday

We had a crocodile infested lake appear in nursery on Friday and we had so much fun carefully balancing to cross the bridge. We certainly didn’t want those crocodiles snapping at our feet!

Role play

Dressing up as jungle animals and explorers was so much fun, we loved using the binoculars to see what we could discover.

Fine Motor

We were able to strengthen our fine motor skills this week by squeezing pegs to make a lion’s mane, helping animals escape from the jungle vines by unravelling them and writing our names. We also loved the jungle animal jigsaws.

Creative

There were so many creative experiences to explore this week. Using forks to help us create a lion’s mane, sticking colourful feathers to the parrot and using circular stampers to paint crocodiles and snakes.

 

Spring 1 - Week 2

Our key concepts

Key theme: Jackson Pollock

Rhyme of the week: 5 Little Monkey’s

Sign of the week: Help

Learning through play

We have continued to learn through our play in nursery and have been particularly interested in the construction area, sand and the home corner.

Jackson Pollock

This week we have looked at different pieces of art by Jackson Pollock. We tried to create our own art using colour and shape. We create art on paper with felt tip pens, paintbrushes and pipettes. We also created art using our hands in the tuff spot with paint and shaving foam. It’s been lots of fun.

Maths

For maths, we have focused on the number 3. We have looked at recognising 3 objects as well as the numeral, we have counted to 3 and shown 3 using our fingers or objects.

Spring 1 - Week 1

Our key concepts

Key text: Monkey puzzle

Rhyme of the week: Five little monkeys

Sign of the week: Wash hands

New half-term and new friends

Our first week back at nursery was spent getting back into the routine after the holiday and also welcoming lots of new friends to our class. We had fun exploring lots of areas of learning within our environment.

 

Literacy

The first Literacy topic this half term has been based around the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’ by Julia Donaldson. We enjoyed becoming familiar with the story and joining in with the repeated phrases. We made some butterflies and monkeys within the provision and worked as a team to draw characters from the story too.