Worship
This week in Worship we have started our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic. Our key words this week were LENT, SORRY and ASHES.
Our first session began with a story about a tree and the changing seasons. We looked at the trees outside and whether they had any leaves on them yet. We also went on a spring walk and discovered all the things that are changing.
Just like trees change through the seasons to grow and get ready for new leaves, the season of Lent helps us change and get ready for new beginnings with Jesus at Easter.
Our child led worship on Thursday was about Ash Wednesday. In our worship bag we had a picture of some ashes and we thought about what they could be. Some of us thought they looked like smoke and some of us remembered going to church and having ashes on our head. Here is a video we watched: Click here.
The ashes were holy ashes and they are God’s blessings. The ashes marked the start of Lent. We spoke about Lent being a time to say sorry and think about how we can be kind to each other in Lent. We made our Lenten promise – we listed all the ways we are going to be good in Lent around our big heart – kindness, loving, sharing, forgiving. If we do these things we will get a smiley stamp in our heart. Lets see if we can fill it by Easter! We’ve already got a lot!
We have loved learning a new song this week – Sing Hosanna! Here it is so you can play it home. We loved it! Click here.
We have also been focusing on Jesus’ cross. We have recreated different versions out of resources we have in nursery…and even our bodies! Take a look at our pictures!
On Monday and Tuesday the children visited Forest school to look for signs of new life, we spotted the trees budding, Spring flowers (crocus, snowdrops, daffodils).
On Wednesday we swapped our Lenten boxes with year three. All we have to do now are multiple acts of kindness for donations! Last year the school raised £1000…no pressure!
Learning Landscape
Such wonderful week. Everyone has returned to nursery full of life and raring to go!
In our learning landscape this week we have been:
Painting Nigerian art in readiness for the World Day of Prayer next Friday.
Planned that we will be walking once around the field in the morning and the afternoon to collect miles for Cafod’s Big Lent Walk. Between the whole school we would like to walk 4,200 miles! Look our for the sponsor form which was sent home this week.
Played guess my number, a game show where you don't count, you see the amount! Join the Numberblocks and learn how to recognise numbers of things without counting them. Have a try at home, maybe using different objects click here
Played the ribbon box game where we had to predict if the ribbons thatw ere pulled from the box were ‘long’ or short’, that was great fun!!
Played Silly Soup (a rhyming game), matched the rhyming objects from a sack and even rhymed our names to make nonsense names. We are getting good at rhyming…have a play at home, its fun!
Practised our numbers to eight and the sounds we have learnt so far. Keep a look out for the QR codes coming home so that you can practise at home too!
Used the ten frame for the first time. We found out that 4 and 4 added together makes 8, as well as 6 add 2, 5 add 3 and 8 ones’!
As always a busy week. We have been so busy we haven’t managed to do everything that we planned. Have a rest this weekend next week will be even busier!
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara