Family Picture Frames
Last week we drew pictures of our families, this week we have been decorating picture frames to put our drawings in.
The children have explored new tools and materials and learnt how to use them such as scissor skills, bingo dabblers, collaging tissue paper and glitter.
They have chosen what…
Our Favourite Books
We have chosen some of our favourite books to read in nursery. We talked about what we like about them, characters and key events in the story.
pit was lovely to hear the children recalling the stories and discussing their interests with friends.
Fine Motor Skills
This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members.
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…
Number Blocks
Today we worked in groups to make number blocks! We recapped the numbers 0 and 1, and incorporated our new number 2. The children did super and they can all recognise numbers 0,1 and are recognising 2 with little support.
We worked together to count out cubes and make up numbers within 2, we…
My Family
This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family.
We learnt everybody’s family is different.
What Can you Hear?
We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear.
We explored squishing and stamping on…
Story Time
We love to share books as a class and with our friends. This week we chose our own books and discussed the different illustrations we could see.
The children were showing respect towards the book as they handle with care and know the importance of books. We turned the pages one by one, talked…
All About Me
We have began our topic ‘All About Me’ and we started by looking at our body parts and facial features. We loved using construction to make up our body and describing the different parts. We practised using our body parts to move in different ways during our PE lesson and used loose parts to make…
Forest School Enrichment Morning
What a super morning we have had! We enjoyed a forest school experience for enrichment day and we have been doing lots of different activities.
We loved den building, using our imagination, problem solving skills and working together to make a den. We then enjoyed some hot chocolate in our…
Our First Time in Reception!
This week we spent 2 days in our new classrooms with our new teachers.
We were very excited and a little nervous but we had the best time exploring the room, activities and getting to our new teacher.
Miss Curtis and Miss Edward’s both had such lovely things to say about the children and they…
Sequencing
This week we have been using vocabulary to describe events. We sequence routines familiar to us and used language ‘fist, then, next, last’ to describe what we had sequenced.
super vocab!
Senses and Textures
The children have loved using their senses to explore the different materials. They have been using lots of vocabulary such as ‘soft, rough, smooth, fluffy’. Together we felt the materials and grouped them into the correct category.
Super vocabulary!