Nursery blog

What a hot, hot week!

We’ve enjoyed our outdoor area in the sunshine, with fun in the water and sand play. We’ve been watering our plants, which are growing well, but unfortunately our sunflowers were eaten by the squirrels!

We have made invitations to Baby Teresa’s baptism on Thursday, where Fr Paul will invite Nursery into church. The parents and Godparents have a very important job to do – they’ve had a little practice!

We have learnt more about different types of transport – some awesome animals and tremendous trains.

Next week, some more counting and ordering, more traditional tales and of course the very special Baptism – make sure you’re in your best clothes!

What a wonderful first week back!

Listening to the children’s half term news has been joyous. It sounds like you all have had a really good break. We have started the topic of transport and journeys. There have been some lovely observational drawings – especially of monster trucks!

We have started our new term listening and thinking about traditional tales  – your children might be able to tell you why the same story might be a little different.

We have also started our new topic of Baptism. We would be very grateful if you could send in a picture of your child’s baptism.

Next week we will continue with traditional tales, baptism and also recognising and ordering numbers.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

Wow! What a busy term we have had!

This week we have focused on rectangles and their properties…thinking about how they are different from squares, even though they have four sides and four corners.

We finished our topic of planting and growing with planting sunflowers….hoping for some beautiful tall flowers soon.

We celebrated Pentecost by having a ‘red’ day, where we tried to move balloons and feathers with just the air. We also made some kites and flew them around in the playground. that was a lot of fun!

Next term, our topic is Transport and journeys, so if you are out and about over half term, please pick up a postcard or a bus ticket to show us where you have been!

This week in Nursery, we have been looking at the properties of squares – how many sides and corners? Also asking the children what was special about a square? Ask the children, they should be able to tell you about those special sides! We looked for squares all around Nursery.

In P.E. we have been practising our throwing skills. We had great fun throwing and matching the bean bags with the correct coloured hoops.

We planted out our beans that have been growing inside, into our troughs outside. We also sowed some carrot seeds. Next week we will be planting sunflower seeds to finish our topic of planting and growing.

We have been thinking about how the Holy Spirit helps us to be kind, helpful and good. We listened to the wind and calmed ourselves with the sound of the wind in the trees.

We finished another busy week by visiting the schools newest members….5 ducklings! We also had our first visit to the trim trail and were very brave trying all the obstacles. Well Done Nursery!

Next week we will be celebrating Pentecost on Thursday, so it will be ‘wear it red day’ – anything red would be wonderful.

This week in Nursery, we have fitted in 5 days learning in 4!

We started our week by reminding ourselves what we know about circles and triangles. We looked for these shapes in Nursery. We talked about what makes flowers live after they had been cut. Some of us painted some beautiful pictures of flowers by looking at some real flowers  – we looked carefully at the stems, leaves and petals. We heard about the story of Pentecost and how we can’t see the Holy Spirit, but how we can feel it.

We ended the week with a shape hunt around school, the playground and by the chickens! We found lots of circles and triangles all around our environment.

We’ll be moving onto our next 2D shape – a square and its properties. Well hopefully get out to our Nursery garden to plant out our beans and some carrots to carry on our topic of planting and growing. We’ll also be finding out more about Pentecost.

This week in Nursery we have been looking at circles and their properties. I’m sure the children will be able to tell you that they go round and round! Maybe you could do a shape find to see how different objects can be circles at home.

We have been planting beans in our topic of planting and growing. We talked about what plants need to live – soil, water and sunlight. Our cress was very successful – we hope you enjoyed it in your sandwiches!

We also heard the story of St Bernadette – our class saint. We found out how Mary appeared to her at the grotto and how Bernadette found the spring which healed people. We also learnt that St Bernadette’s symbol was a rose, as Mary made the roses bloom at the grotto in the depths of winter. We made some roses to take home.

We’ve also been looking at rhyming stories and words that sound the same. We enjoyed the story of ‘A squash and a squeeze’ by Julia Donaldson. The children could recall lots of her stories – a good way of listening to rhymes and rhyming words.

We’re looking forward to next week, with more learning of 2-D shapes, Pentecost and a special Coronation celebration!

It has been lovely to meet all the children in nursery this week. I have been so very impressed at how well they have come in and settled with a new adult.  It has been a very busy week, with lots of things to celebrate! Birthdays, St Georges Day and Eid, We have learnt our new nursery rhyme – Hot Cross Buns. We have heard the Easter story and how happy Jesus’ friends were when they found out He had risen – Alleluia! We have begun to learn all about how plants grow and have planted cress seeds – fingers crossed we will have some lovely cress! The children have been absolutely delightful and I’m sure Mrs Schofield would so very proud of them.