This week, Nursery have been answering The Big Question, 'What is it like to go on a journey?' We went on a journey through the school to the Main Office where we found Donna and lots of fish! When we got back to Nursery, we spoke...
This week at Nursery, we have been learning to use positional language to describe where something is. We learnt the meaning of the words 'in', 'on top', 'under', 'in front', 'behind' and 'next to'. We then continued to develop our understanding of position and direction on...
This week at Nursery, we have been getting very messy! We combined different ingredients together to make slime and watched how it changed the more we nixed it. The children learnt and used new words to describe the slime such as,"sticky", "gloopy" and "gooey". [gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage"...
This week at nursery, we have been learning about 2D shapes. We looked at a circle, square, rectangle and triangle and played games involving these. We learnt about the sides and corners of each shape and looked for them in our environment. We particularly enjoyed potato...
This week we have enjoyed exploring the frost and ice that formed in the garden due to the freezing cold weather! The children made lots of comments about the things they observed and were particularly interested to find out how the ice had 'disappeared' later...
Today, we have been celebrating Children in Need. The children all looked wonderful in their 'Spotacular' outfits! As part of this afternoon's House Challenge, children worked with children from different classes and year groups to think about the importance of helping others, as well as...
This week in Nursery, we have been ordering objects according to size. We have used the words 'biggest' and 'smallest' to describe the size objects. ...
On Monday, we came into Nursery to find that a magic star had fallen from the sky and landed in our classroom! This was an introduction to our new nursery rhyme of the week, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'. We had a go at using a...
This week at Nursery we have been exploring pumpkins. We have been talking about the colours, smells and textures of the inside and outside of the pumpkins, and using tools to scrape out the flesh from the inside. We used tweezers to help us collect...
This week in Nursery, the children found a spider in the garden. We were lucky enough to see the spider spinning its web and couldn't believe how quickly it worked! This linked in well with our 'Nursery Rhyme' theme for this half term, as we...