This week we have been hunting for shapes in the outdoor area. Look how many we found!

For the penultimate two weeks in Nursery, we have been getting creative taking inspiration from our new book – Old Mikamba had a Farm, which explained the noises African animals may make. We sung and rehearsed the song and painted pictures of our favourite African animals. We even created a group collage of a giraffe and an elephant. We have loved learning all about these exciting animals and can’t wait for our new topic – mini beasts next half term.

We have loved our farm theme this term and this week we have especially loved playing our farm and animal jigsaws. The children have been independently choosing which jigsaw they would like to complete and completing them alone or with their friends, they have been especially proud of their achievements. Take a look below…

Miss Wright has joined the Nursery Team this week and will be leading red group.

I have loved getting to know the children and I am really excited to continue being a part of their learning journey this term. Please come and say hello and introduce yourself if you see me!

This week, we have loved playing with the hook a duck in our water area. We have counted the number of ducks in the water tray and identified the numbers on the bottom of the ducks. Not only was this lots of fun, but we have continued to improve our counting skills.

Coronation picnic

We joined Reception and KS1 in the hall for our Coronation Picnic on Friday, we loved listening to the songs and waving our flags while we ate our picnic lunch. We loved using our fingers to make flags and shared them with the rest of the school. We also had our very own Coronation Picnic in Nursery for snack time. What a great day!

What an eggciting week we have had in Nursery. The children were so happy when our eggs arrived in the incubator and waited patiently for them to hatch. On Wednesday the wait was over and 6 chicks were hatched. The children have been eggcellent and very calm and gentle as they have watched the chicks and held them. They talked about the variety of colours and the noises they made. We have been looking at books about the lifecycle of a chicken and using key words such as ‘hatch’, ‘crack’ and ‘feathers’ to describe what we have observed over the week. Next week we will be naming our chicks and this weekend you and your children can have a think.

The children have also been doing some fantastic observational drawings of the chicks and one child even read them a story.

This week in Nursery we have been talking about farm animals. We watched a video about life on the farm and the children talked about the different type of farm animals, the baby names and the noises they make.

The children then created a poster about what animals they saw in the video and we discussed what they looked like. We had some fantastic drawings e.g. of sheep, cows, horses and pigs.

Each group had lots of fun getting messy and creating a hobby horse. They used glue and paper to make Paper Mache and stuck it to the balloon. We talked about the process and look forward to painting them. It was lots of fun getting very sticky.