Nursery

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.

Nursery Spring 1 Newsletter

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.

Our learning environment

A look around our nursery