Summer 1 – Week 4

Our key concepts

Key text: Community helpers

Rhyme of the week: Down at the station

Sign of the week: Dirty

Summer 1 - Week 3

Our key concepts

Key text: The Runaway Train

Rhyme of the week: Down at the station

Sign of the week: Clean

Police vehicle visit

At the end of the week, we had a special visit from our local Police team. They came to school with their Police van and we were able to get inside the front and the back. We looked at all the equipment and even turned the siren on and off.

Literacy

This week, our focus text is The Runaway Train by Benedict Blathwayt. We enjoyed listening to the story, made a train using our bodies and duplo and even made a train and tunnel outside with the wooden bricks. We enjoyed chugging through the tunnel!

Messy play

Our trains and vehicles got very messy this week as they travelled through the shaving foam and beans! We had lots of fun and got very messy. We were not sure about the beans at first but soon started to enjoy playing with them.

Crafts

We had fun experimenting with the train sponges and printing pictures with them this week.

Fine motor

To help with our fine motor development, we carefully placed lollipop sticks in the shape of a train track. We also rolled playdough to make a track and add other features to the train mats.

 

Summer 1 - Week 2

Our key concepts

Key text: Types of transport and road safety

Rhyme of the week: Row, row, row your boat

Sign of the week: Hot

Mystery reader

We found the clues for this mystery reader a little tricky, we knew she helped things get better but didn’t know what it was when we knew it wasn’t people, we didn’t think about animals until we had an extra clue.

The vet came to read a fantastic new story and showed us some of the things she uses in her job.

 

Making new friends

Over the last two weeks, we have had some new friends join us in nursery. It has been fun getting to know them and show them around. We have helped them to settle and shared our resources with them.

 

Maths

Our maths focus this week has been to look at more and fewer. We have been comparing amounts between groups and identifying which has more and which has fewer.

 

Summer 1 - Week 1

Our key concepts

Key text: Mr Grumpy’s Motor car

Rhyme of the week: Row, row, row your boat

Sign of the week: Cold

Mystery reader

We had another mystery reader this week it was Jackie from Kings Mill Hospital. She read us a lovely story and told us about her job where she organises operations dates and checks up on patients before they go home.

 

Creative

We have had lots of fun driving different vehicles through paint and then onto pieces of paper this week. The vehicles made some great tyre tracks across the paper.

 

Fine Motor

To help develop our fine motor skills, we spent some time threading beads on to pieces of lace. We also helped our fingers become nice and strong by taking part in dough disco.

 

Literacy

Our literacy topic this week has been focussed around the story Mr Grumpy’s Motor Car by John Burningham. We enjoyed getting to know the story and drawing some of the characters we met.

 

Transport

To link with our literacy and topic work, we have been exploring lots of different transport using small world toys and activities. We have had lots of fun building tracks and driving vehicles through zigzag, curved and straight roads.

 

Summer 2 - Week 1

Our key concepts

Key text: The Night Pirates

Rhyme of the week: I'm a Pirate

Sign of the week: Who

 

Literacy

In Literacy this week, we spoke about all the things we knew about pirates. We enjoyed listening to the story and drawing Tom the main character.

 

Imaginary Play

We have been able to dress up as pirates this week and this has helped us to take on a role in our play. We have learnt how to use phrases such as 'Ahoy me hearties!'

 

Community Action Week

This week we have enjoyed painting some brightly coloured pictures which we have sent to a local nursing home to cheer up the residents.

Summer 2 - Week 2

Our key concepts

Key text: Pirates

Rhyme of the week: I'm a Pirate

Sign of the week: What

 

Fine motor skills

We enjoyed manipulating play dough with our fingers to create some fantastic sculptures. We rolled, patted, pressed and squeezed the dough into the shapes we wanted.

 

Messy Play

We thought of lots of words to describe how the Jelly Baff felt when we discovered it in our messy tray this week. We thought it was cold, slimy and squishy. We enjoyed exploring it and loved it when we were able to add a secret ingredient, so it changed colour!

 

Summer 2 - Week 3

Our key concepts

Key text: Pirates Love Underpants

Rhyme of the week: I'm a Pirate

Sign of the week: Where

 

Literacy

We really enjoyed listening to the Pirates Love Underpants story, we even got to use different media to design our own fancy underpants. We also enjoyed exploring our desert island and pirate ship small world area.

Creative

By using paper plates and lots of different coloured paper, we created our own pirate faces which we used to decorate the nursery.

Summer 2 - Week 4

Our key concepts

Key text: Under the Sea

Rhyme of the week: A Sailor went to sea, sea, sea

Sign of the week: When

 

Mystery reader

We started the week with a visit from our last mystery reader. It was the fire service, and they even let us look around the fire engine when we had finished. We got to sit inside and try the helmets on if we wanted to.

Fun in the sun

It has been very hot, and we have loved having so much water play to cool us down. We were able to find nice shady spots to enjoy some quieter time with our friends too.

Pirate day

We finished the week by having a pirate day when we all came to school dressed up. We played some pirate games, learnt a pirate dance and even had a pirate snack! All of us received a personalised message in a bottle to take home and read too.