This week at Nursery, we have focused on two very important life skills – listening and kindness. We introduced our helping hands big question for this half-term, which is, ‘How can I show that I can listen?’. We also joined the rest of school in participating in Anti-Bullying Week by joining in with Odd Sock Monday and thinking about how we can be kind to one another.
Odd Sock Monday!
On Monday, we came to Nursery wearing our fantastically colourful odd socks! We had lots of fun spotting the different socks on our friends and spent time thinking about how the odd socks are a bit like ourselves; unique, individual and interesting! We also developed our sense of community by reflecting on how we had all joined in with this special day that represents kindness and friendship.
Remembrance Day
We worked together to create a beautiful poppy wreath as an act of kindness to mark Remembrance Day. We used Autumn fruits and vegetables to print our own poppies, before gluing them onto our wreath. We took our wreath up to the school hall and joined in with a beautiful moment of reflection as we looked at all of the poppies made by our classes in school. When it was our turn to share our reflections, we talked about choosing kindness and being kind to our friends. We were incredibly proud of the children, who showed great empathy and kindness as we marked this day together.
Introducing our 3 Year Old Nursery Lending Library!
This week at Nursery, we were introduced to our lending library. We were all given our own book bag and had the opportunity to look through the books and choose one that sparked our interest. We took our books home to our families to share together. Our Nursery children love listening to stories at school and we are looking forward to hearing about how the library books are shared at home too! We can return our library books and swap them for a new one on Mondays and Thursdays.
Listening Walk
As an introduction to our helping hands big question, we went on a listening walk in small groups around our school grounds. Listening carefully to tune into and identify environmental sounds supports our literacy development and is an important aspect of our phonics learning. “My shoes are making a scratching sound”, said Zayan. “I can hear the children in my sister’s class”, said Amelie. “The door banged”, said Molly. Some of our families also had a go at doing a listening walk at home, thank you to everyone who joined in!
Planting Kindness
This week, we also collaborated with our Reception friends to add some kindness bulbs into our outdoor area! We each added a ‘sprinkle of kindness’ to our bulbs and listened to one another as we spoke about what kindness means to us. Some of our responses included, “We are kind to our friends”, “Kindness is an hug” and “Kindness makes us happy”. We talked about how we will watch our kindness grow as the bulbs later bloom into beautiful flowers.
On Friday, we filled our planter with soil, used tools to dig and planted our kindness bulbs. We waited patiently and took turns as we worked together to plant them. We can’t wait to see our kindness bulbs bloom into beautiful flowers and we hope that they will remind us of when we sprinkled our kindness onto them.
Thank-you, Zaha, for bringing in your favourite book to share – what a kind thing to do! We all enjoyed listening to the ‘Invisible Story’ together, which linked well to our exploration of kindness this week. We love to learn about the stories that children enjoy reading at home and enjoy sharing them as a group at Nursery -please continue to do so!
