This week...

Welcome back everyone, I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable half term.

A very busy week at nursery and also a different sort of week. We have started to walk in the footsteps of Jesus as part of our Lenten promises.

Each day we have been trying to be Disciples of Jesus in all we say and do. We have been mindful of all our actions and how they can impact on others. The children have embraced this difficult challenge at nursery, I hope they are at home too!

During Lent we are asking the children to continue their acts of kindness and to keep their promises so that we can collect lots of money for Cafod.

On Tuesday we had our last big treat until Easter Day by eating yummy pancakes, mmmmmmm they were delicious! Click here to listen to the story of Mr. Wolf’s Pancakes.

On Wednesday we were invited into Ash Wednesday Mass with KS1 and Father Peter.

On Friday we swapped all the lovely Lenten boxes the children had made with our paired class (Yr 3). A big thank you to everyone for getting involved. You too are becoming Disciples.

As donations have started to come in we have started our ‘totaliser’. We have a special counting machine that the children are fascinated with!

Colette’s blog

Welcome back everyone!

I hope you all managed to have a lovely half term with your families?

 It has been so wonderful seeing the children return after their rest and ready to learn.

On Monday we were able to enjoy using the apparatus in our Hall P.E. time. There were some wonderful displays of balancing, hopping and jumping. We continued to practise our skills out in the garden by making our own obstacle courses…. we are definitely getting better and better.

On Wednesday the children went in to the hall with Reception as Fr. Peter came to visit us. We talked about Lent and its meaning and we received our ashes on our foreheads. Back in Nursery we discussed why we are going to be collecting money for those less fortunate than ourselves. This year we will be collecting for CAFOD.

Thank you so much for all the wonderful Lenten boxes, the children are so excited to swap them with our Year 3 class.

Have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Michelle’s blog

Welcome back everyone, hope you all had a restful half-term. The learning continues this week as we have learnt about Lent. We tasted pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and had  mass with Father Peter on Ash Wednesday. We are hoping to be more like Jesus by being kind, helpful and generous as part of our Lenten promise. We have also made Lenten boxes that we will be gifting to our friends in Year 3.

We have had a bit of a recap of the letter sounds we have learnt so far before we learn another group of 5 next week. This week we have been practising our writing by using our ‘duck fingers’. This gives us a better grip to form the letter correctly. A little bit more about pencil grip here.

Here are some activities to develop pencil grip. Click here.

We have also been keeping a close eye on the plants and flowers in the garden, there are lots of green shoots and flowers appearing. We cant wait for Spring to arrive so we can get busy growing our plants.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone

What a lovely week we have had enjoying the sunshine in the garden. We have practised our throwing and catching skills and made a den to hide in. We were also able to practise our problem-solving skills when a toy ended up through the fence. We worked together to get it back, using a stick and eventually a broom to hook it back. What a great team!

We began the week making our ‘Lenten promise’. We all decided how we could behave during lent to help others and be more like Jesus. Lots of the children promised to help their grownups at home – if they do they can have a smiley face stamp on our sheet when they come into nursery! We have been very helpful and kind in Nursery.

We were so lucky to join the big children in the hall when Father Peter came to see us on Ash Wednesday. We sat so nicely while he told us about Lent and Easter, and showed each other the ashes on our head when we got back to class. We also enjoyed some yummy pancakes on Tuesday!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday.

Steph 

and our usual few extras for Justine…

Purple Mash

Don’t forget to keep checking Purple Mash. I have pinned more learning in the virtual classroom and set some activities to do at home. I hope you enjoy them.

Walking with Jesus around the field

Another part of our Lenten Almsgiving is going to be our sponsored walk around the field. Week commencing 13th March before our learning begins we will endeavour to walk three times around the school field! We may need a lie down afterwards.

This week we are sending home the children’s sponsor forms. We are hopeful that friends and family may want to contribute. All proceeds this year will be going to Cafod.

Join us during Lent help to ensure no one is beyond reach of the love and care they need.

Give today to help us reach people who are still in need of help.

Pray for our brothers and sisters living in poverty.

Book Week

Next week will be Book Week at nursery. The actual date for World Book Day is on Thursday so children are invited to come to nursery dressed a book character. I am aware that not all our children will not be in on Thursday so if you would like to choose another day for your child to dress up, please do.

Can I ask when you are choosing a outfit that you are mindful about being able to go to the toilet independently (no onesies if possible). Also, as we are dedicating a whole week to books and story telling, if your child would like to bring in their favourite book from home that would be great! Please make sure they are named.

Click on the button below for top tips for sharing stories together.

Beach School/Library

As the weather is now becoming ‘Springlike’ we will be starting our regular trips to the beach and storytime at the library.

If you click on the button below you will find our beach school information booklet.

Lastly, I hope everyone manages to get our in the sunshine this week and just enjoy being together with loved ones.

God Bless and I will see you all on Monday.

Barbara

This week....

This week we have continued our mindfulness and yoga activities (I hope you have tried them at home too!). Everyone is feeling very chilled.

We have also been finding out about how to stay safe online. We have had interesting discussions about how long to stay on an digital device and what games we could play on them. We then watched a short film about Smartie the Penguin. Click here to watch at home. See if your child can remember some of the rules.

If you click on the button below you will find some online safety tips. Also, click here to watch a short video.

Throughout the week story times have been dedicated to stories that help us understand the internet and more importantly stay safe. Here they are online!

Click here to listen to Once Upon and online

Click here to listen to Chicken Clicking

Michelle’s Blog

This week we have continued our theme of health and wellbeing and mindfulness. We love the bubble burst video, it really helps us to concentrate and to feel calm. Mindfulness activities have so many benefits for children’s wellbeing.

Yoga has been lots of fun this week as we continue to learn lots of new positions.

We were very surprised to find those sneaky snakes had returned and escaped all over nursery. It took us a while to find them all, some were even trying to escape out the window. Watch out, you never know where they might end up next!

Next week is half term, so we hope you all have a great week off and we will see you all after the holiday.

Don’t forget to look on purple mash for some fun activities.

See you soon,

Michelle

Apologies for the lack of photos. For some reason unknown to me they wouldn’t upload. I will ask Michelle to email them out to you…sorry. Fingers crossed for all the other photos! Barbara

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone!  I can’t believe that we have come to the end of our first half term…where does the time go?? It was lovely to see some of you at the parent drop in this week and to be able to share some of the children’s learning with you from their floor book. We sat as a group last week and looked at all the things we have been learning since September and we couldn’t believe how much we have done together.

I really do hope that you all manage to spend some time together over this half term.

Thank you for all your support over this half term.

See you all after the holidays.

Colette.

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone

It has been lovely this week watching the children be so kind to each other. They have worked together in the garden to find different ways of moving down the ramps. Some of the children pretended they were stuck and needed a superhero to help them! We ‘had a go’ like Tommy Turtle and ‘didn’t give up’ like Sadie Spider!

We have continued practising Number 7. We are so good at noticing the different ways we can make it – 4 and 3, 5 and 2, 6 and 1. Even 7 and 0! Ask your child to show you different ways on their fingers at home. We enjoyed playing a game on the big screen that let us practise counting 7 bees – we are so good at this! Have a go, click here, you can choose which number you would like to practise.

When we come back after half term we will continue looking at Number 7. We are going to make a rainbow each for our key group floor book, and fill the colours with 7 special things about us e.g. our favourite colour, our pets, what we like to play with. I can’t wait to hear what is special for your child.   

Have a lovely week off and I’ll see you soon.

Steph 

and just a few more from Justine!

Reading stories with our paired class, Mrs Hotchkiss and Year 3

This week we started our ‘getting together’ activities with our paired class. Year 3 came to visit us in nursery and to read us stories. It was so lovely! Some of the children even got to read along with their sibling!

Take a look at some of the photos. You may also want to check out the Year 3 blog for more pictures.

Lenten Boxes

As part of our Almsgiving, this year we will be decorating Lenten Boxes to give to children in our paired class (Year 3) and Year 3 will be decorating boxes for all the nursery children.

The boxes will be then sent home for each child to fill with the money they have earned by doing kind acts for others. When your box is full you can send it back to nursery. Last year was a bumper year for donations…let’s do even better this year!

A big thank you to everyone who managed to come along to out parent drop in session. It was so lovely to have time to catch up with you.

As you know nursery will be closed for half term from today (10th) until Monday 20th February so I have put a half term activity sheet in each bag if you wish to take up the challenges. Good luck and don’t forget to send us some pictures if you manage to complete any of the activities.

As always thank you all for your wonderful support and I will see you on the 20th.

Keep safe and God Bless

Barbara

This week....

A different kind of week. We have been trying to think of ways we can look after our minds and bodies. When everything is so busy around us we need to take time to rest. This week we have been doing just that.

The children and nursery ladies have have been taking part in mindfulness exercises. Firstly, we did a mindful breathing exercise called ‘Smell the Flower and Blow the Candle’. Click here to have a go at home.

We have also been practising mindful looking. Click here for this exercise.

Ask your child to show you Hummingbird breathing, hand breathing and some of the yoga poses!!!

This prepared us for our session with the Yogi on Tuesday….more of that (and pictures) later.

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone!  It has been such a calm and relaxing atmosphere at Nursery this week, we have all felt very peaceful. I wonder if your child can remember some of the ways we have found our calm?

The children have been enjoying looking at the numberblocks again this week. On Thursday we looked at numbers 1-5 and how they can be made up of different numbers. Why don’t you take a look at this episode of Numberblocks where they show us what they are made of, all the parts that make a whole! Click here to watch.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone,

We have had a very restful week as we have been practising mindfulness and yoga. We joined in with the rest of the school to take part in a yoga session in the hall, learning lots of poses such as the cobra, the plank and the downward dog. We continued with Caterpillar yoga, pretending to be an egg, a caterpillar, a cocoon and finally a butterfly. For more poses click here.

We have worked very hard learning our new phonic sounds this week, e, l, h, sh and r. We have amazed all the nursery ladies with how many of the phonic sounds we can remember. We cant wait till next week to learn some more sounds.

Have a good weekend

Michelle

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a lovely, calm week! We have been practising mindfulness this week with lots of breathing exercises and calming music. Your child may have told you about ‘smelling the flower’ and ‘blowing out the candle’, which we used to practise long, deep breaths to help us to feel calm. On Tuesday we had a visit from the Yogi group. We went into the hall with Reception and we learnt different ways of breathing and moving our bodies to help us to feel calm – some of us nearly fell asleep! The lovely lady ended the session with us telling ourselves some positive affirmations – ‘I am happy’ and ‘I am amazing’.

This week we have been making shape dinosaurs. We have used different shapes in different colours to make our favourite dinosaurs – the children also chose to use the felt tips to draw markings and faces on their creations. I love how each dinosaur turned out differently! I have sent home a dinosaur shape sheet you can look at with your child at home.

We have continued to build and practise climbing in the garden – the children just love it and it is brilliant for developing their confidence and perseverance skills. They are so proud of themselves!

Here is a lovely calming video that you might like to watch over the weekend - click here

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week!

Steph

…and extras from Justine!

With the help of Smartie the Penguin, next week we will be discussing online safety. We have lots of exciting stories to read and lots to discuss. Watch this space or click on the button be low to look at our planning. So much to do…so little time!

This week we have started to introduce the book the whole school will be studying for World Book Day. It is a magical story without words and it evokes lots of interpretation and discussion. Each child sees different things in the pictures as they try to understand what may has just happened or what may happen next. Click here to join in the conversation at home. It is called The Journey by Aaron Becker.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Purple Mash and activities which have been sent home in your child’s bag.

Number 7

The children were very excited to meet a new number…lucky number 7! Click here to meet 7. Why not make collections of 7 at home…seven forks, seven spoon, seven teddies, you get the idea!!

Parent drop in session

This terms session is on Wednesday 8th February 3.45-4.45pm. Please pop in and say hello and have a quick chat with your child’s key person.

Lastly, as we approach the last week of the half term I would like to say a huge thank you to all of YOU for everything that you do for your child in support of nursery. We are all so very grateful and never take your hard work for granted.

This week.....

A ‘melange’ of a week this week. We are still enjoying finding about about dinosaurs but our gaze was hijacked when some of our friends told us they had celebrated Chinese New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choy- ‘wishing you great happiness and prosperity’

The children went in to the hall to celebrate by doing a dragon dance. We used large tins to make the drumming music! Fabulous! Take a look.

We also decided to make a Dino world in our dark dark den! Ooooooooh it’s so dark. We had to use torches to see which dinosaurs were in there! Arghhhhhh!

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone! It has been another week of hard work, no wonder we are all tired!

We have been lucky enough to spend some time out in the garden and Thursday afternoon even brought us some much needed sunshine! The children decided to make a ‘Dino Den’ in the garden out of the large wooden triangle. There was room for lots of dinosaurs, carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. The children wanted to camouflage the den so they covered it with some branches from the bush. Some children even had a go at camouflaging themselves (see photos for details!)

We love to experience lots of different music and sounds at Nursery and we found a story where two dinosaurs have a race!  We loved it! Click here to watch.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone,

This week has been full of music and dancing. We learnt about Chinese New Year by listening to a story about Nian the monster and how people chased him away with loud noises and fireworks. We couldn’t quite manage the fireworks but we wanted to make the loud music. (of course!)  We performed our very own dragon dance accompanied by our very own Chinese drummers.

Click here for a lovely short story about Chinese New Year. Click here to watch.

We also had lots of fun making our own dinosaur music, slow and loud for a Stegosaurus and fast and quiet for a velociraptor. Maybe you could practise making dinosaur music at home.

We have also continued  practising our Fundamental Movement Skills of throwing, jumping and hopping by building a huuuge obstacle course in the garden. We felt quite brave as we learnt how to step up and step down on to the planks.

Then in the garden we explored how tyres can move because they are round and that they can move faster if they are higher up on the planks. We had a contest to see who could roll the tyres quickest or furthest.

We continued our Maths mastery by estimating how many snakes were in the box. Then we had to guess how many could fit in the box. We were so surprised when we found out we could fit 21 in the box! We had to put the lid on quick as we know those sneaky snakes might just slither everywhere when we are not here. We will have to watch out for them!

Have a really good weekend and we will see you next week,

Michelle

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone

What another busy week! We have spent a lot of time in the garden, it has been lovely watching the children play together and continue to practise negotiation and turn taking skills. We made obstacle courses that were tricky – the children helped each other and tried again and again like Sadie Spider.

Playing with the skittles meant we could practise our counting – we were determined to keep practising to knock down all 10! The children helped each other to put the skittles back up each time.

We have been practising our sounds this week – we used sound cards and matched objects to them if they began with that sound. You could write the sounds on some paper and go on a sound hunt around your house to find objects that begin with that sound. So far we have learnt s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, u, f, b.

We have enjoyed moving like dinosaurs this week – here is a link to the video we used.

This meant we could practise our gross motor skills (big movements) and keep our bodies moving!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all next week.

Steph 

Throughout the week we have been making cold colour collage pictures, brrrrrrrrr! First we looked at lots of different pictures of cold environments to see if we could spot which colours we could see, we then mixed the paints to the same colours and cut up bits and bobs we could find which complemented the paint.

The children’s challenge was to use all of the paper and to find a space for each colour paint without mixing them all together! That was a bit tricky but we were like Sadies Spider and try, try, tried….and we did it!

The pictures looked great when we had finished them. We have made a display in nursery and the school hall. Have a look!

Worship

You’ve Got A Friend in Me!

This week we discussed friendships with our friends and the different qualities of a positive/negative relationships. We learned to look to Jesus as a role model for being a good friend.

We continue to work hard on our numbers, shape space and measure and of course our sounds. We may even start a new number and some more sounds next week! Watch this space!!

Keep an eye out for this weeks home learning challenge. Enjoy!

Have the most fabulous weekend and enjoy being together with loved ones.

See you on Monday

God Bless

Barbara

This week...

This week we have been palaeontologists! Great another wow word to add to our list!

We have been digging for dinosaur bones and fossils in the sand! When we found a bone we matched it to the bone chart! Take a look!

The children have been so engaged in finding out facts about dinosaurs, even though some of the dinosaur name are extremely tricky to pronounce! We got there in the end!

If you want to go on some dinosaur adventures check out Andy’s dinosaur adventures and games by clicking here.

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone,

We have had such a busy week this week. On Tuesday we were greeted by a winter wonderland when we arrived at nursery. Even though it was cold, this didn't stop us going in the garden and making the most of the snowy weather.  We had such fun making patterns in the snow with shovels and brushes.  This helps to develop our large muscles, and our smaller muscles too ready for starting school and holding a pencil for writing. Other activities to develop these muscles can be found here.

We have loved being palaeontologists this wee, and have explored and examined the dinosaur bones and fossils. We have also painted lots of pictures of dinosaurs.

We have really enjoyed PE as well, we are getting really good at hopping and jumping, and this week we have started to jump over the hurdles. Its so tricky to do this with both feet together, but we are practising. Maybe you could practise jumping over objects at home, with both feet together.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone

What a great week we have had! We began the week being palaeontologists - we had fun putting on our special jackets and digging for dinosaur bones and fossils. We used magnifying glasses to help us and matched the bones to the pictures to work out which dinosaurs they belonged to. 

We also finished our fossils - adding some shimmer really made the imprints stand out! Hopefully you’ve all found your child’s fossil in their bag this week. 

We’ve enjoyed making dinosaur footprints in the playdough and some of us even made dinosaur cakes - they looked great!

We’ve worked hard this week to put our numbers in order. We are up to number 6 now (check out Numberblock 6 here!) so we stuck numbers 1-6 on the spikes on our dinosaur. We are all so good at recognising numbers! Try asking your child to show you 6, 5, 4 etc on their fingers. I bet they can show you lots of different ways!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you all next week.

Steph 

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone! What a wonderful week we have had but my goodness we have worked hard!

We have continued to look at our numbers and the children have been enjoying looking at the Number 6 Numberblock. We enjoyed watching the number six try and get some cheeky sheep to sleep and discovered that two (or three) heads are better than one! Click here to watch. If that wasn’t enough we have even had a go at writing some numbers although it was a bit tricky it didn’t put us off!

Although it has been a freezing cold week we have wanted to go out in the garden and explore the beautiful white trails that Jack Frost had left for us. We definitely needed our hats and gloves on.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Sounds with Geraldine Giraffe!

Click here for ‘b’

Click here for ‘u’

Click here for ‘f’

Enjoy!

Maths Mastery

This week we have been trying to recognise the spot patterns on a dice without counting (this is known as subitising). We are getting very good. Why not have a try at home! You could even make your own dice out of a cuboid tissue box and use sticky dots to make the dice patterns…alternatively, you could just play a boards game with a dice…. good luck and remember to have fun!

Keep a look out for a game coming home too!

Worship- Created to Love Others

Religious Understanding firstly helps children to understand why the Bible is so special to Christians, and secondly helps children to act out the Gospel account of Jesus washing His disciples’ feet, showing that He loves us and is a role model for us to copy in loving one another.

We will also be exploring our relationship with others. Building on the understanding that we have been created out of love and for love We will explore how we take this calling into our family, friendships and relationships, and teaches strategies for developing healthy relationships and keeping safe.

I hope you all manage to have a restful weekend, I believe it is going to be sunny tomorrow! Enjoy it whilst you can.

God Bless

Barbara

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, can you hear their fearsome roars?

What a great start to our new learning thread! Finding our about dinosaurs is so very interesting, although we have found trying to say some of their names rather challenging. We are determined not to give in though. We have have been amazed at how many fact the children already know.

This week we have been fining out how we know dinosaurs roamed our planet. What clues did they leave behind? Fossils and bones. We decided to make our fossils using clay and making imprints of ammonites and bones (not real dinosaurs bones!). When they have dried our we will be sending them home.

We learnt some new and exciting ‘wow’ words such as extinct, carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. We categorised all our dinosaurs into meat eaters. plant eaters, flyers runners or swimmers. T-Rex was the definite favourite!

Click on the button below to print some dinosaurs pictures to find out about at home.

If you fancy making a dinosaurs pairs game at home click on the button. You will be able to practise your cutting too!

If you think you can move like a dinosaur click here! Enjoy!

This week we have been learning five new sounds c,k,b,u,f.

Click here for ‘c’ with Geraldine Giraffe

Click here for ‘k’ with Geraldine Giraffe

More from Geraldine next week!

Maths Mastery

We introduced numberblock 6 this week. Click here to meet 6.

We have also been measuring dinosaurs using small blocks. Click on the button to have a go at home. If you haven’t got any small block you could use pasta or buttons.

Purple Mash

If you have time take a look at I have pinned some work for you to explore in the mini mash classroom, also, if you click on the sounds cards in the virtual indoor classroom you will be able to find all the initial sounds quiz games and much more!!!!

Colette’s blog

Welcome back everyone! The Christmas holiday seems like it was such a long time ago now doesn’t it!!!

 What a wonderful beginning it has been to the spring term at Nursery. The children continue to amaze the Nursery staff with how well they can remembered all their learning. Our new thread on dinosaurs has been so exciting and the children have learned such facts as a Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut. We had a good look at a walnut and thought it was so tiny!! Thankfully we will never have walnut brains at Nursery because we are so good at listening!

We have continued to work on our sounds and have looked at ‘c’ ‘k’ ‘u’ ‘b’ and ‘f’ …we are getting good at these and the children are even helping each other to remember them.

We have had so much wet and windy weather lately but we have still been managing to get out in the garden for parts of the day. The children invented a game using the plastic spindles and the guttering! We had a competition to see who could make their spindle go the furthest…I have to say the wind did help us cheat a bit some of the time!!!

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Michelle’s Blog
 

What a deliciously dinosaur week we have had!

The children have learnt lots of new words, such as herbivore and omnivore  as well as teaching the nursery ladies all the names of the dinosaurs.

We have made our very own fossils and painted pictures of dinosaurs.

We were also palaeontologists as we explored and examined our very own dinosaur bones. They were all different sizes and we had to sort them according to size. This took lots of concentration but we get there in the end.

Here are some fun facts about dinosaurs and some activities to try.

https://school-learningzone.co.uk/early_years_foundation_stage/dinosaurs/dinosaurs_eyfs.html

We found out that dinosaurs laid eggs, so we have made our own frozen eggs. Look out for some homework to do at home, designing a dinosaur egg.

Next week we are going to find out about different sized dinosaurs.

Have a lovely weekend

Michelle

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome back! It has been lovely to see you all after the Christmas break. The children have been so excited to tell us what they got up to at home and they have come back eager to learn about dinosaurs!

We have had a wonderful week – we have been learning how to say the names of some of the dinosaurs (something I need to learn too!), what they looked like and what they ate. We have been looking at their teeth to work out if they may be a herbivore, carnivore or even an omnivore. Our wow word sheet is getting very full already! It has been great to see the children so animated telling us what they already know.

The children have been amazing remembering the learning we did before the holidays and we have moved onto learning about number 6 and adding 5 more sounds to our sound wall! (c, k, u, b, f ). Click here to access Alphablocks A-Z and see how many sounds your child recognises. You will be very impressed!

This week we have made dinosaur fossils – we used clay and moulded it in our hands before making it flat and imprinting a fossil into it. The children used lots of describing words to talk about how the clay felt in their hands and we are looking forward to taking them home once they are dry. We left some clay out and used the dinosaurs to make and compare their footprints – we love getting messy!

We also enjoyed working together in the garden to make sure the bikes had enough petrol to go. The children took it in turns to come to the ‘petrol man’ or ‘petrol lady’ and ask how much petrol they needed - some of us counted to 20!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week.

Steph

…and just a few extras from Justine! Just look at the fabulous Spikey Stegosaurus and T-Rex the children have make from reclaimed materials!

I think you will agree we have been very busy.

Library starts again this week. I think lots of dinosaur stories will be coming home!

Could I also tell everyone that we will be having another drop session on Wednesday 8th February 3.45 pm - 4.45 pm. All the team will be available to discuss your child’s learning and to answer and questions that you may have. Try and pop in to see us.

I’m not sure what the weather will do this weekend (probably more rain!) but either way have some lovely family time together and I will see you on Monday.

God bless

Barbara

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and you were on the good list!!!

All the children have been happy to be back at nursery and to tell us all about what Father Christmas had brought for them. You will be pleased to know that the nursery ladies were on the good list too…phew!

Over the past three days we have been reminding ourselves of the routines of the day and refreshing our numeracy and phonics before we continue on our learning journey next week…it will be all systems go! You may want to go on to Purple Mash to reinvigorate the children’s number and sound knowledge!

For our learning thread this half term will be finding out about…dinosaurs!!!! Before Christmas we had a whole group discussion about what we would like to learn more about and dinosaurs were a unanimous decision.

If you click on the button below to look at our planning. You will be able to join in with our learning at home. We are all sooooo excited!

Remember to have a restful weekend!

We will see you on Monday ready to ‘find out’ about dinosaurs!

God Bless

Barbara

We wish you a Merry Christmas....

On behalf of all the Nursery Team may I thank everyone for their wonderful support this term, it is so very much appreciated. Your kind words and generosity has touched all our hearts…thank you.

Working with your child and being part of their life’s journey is such an honour.

Wishing you a Happy and Holy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.

God Bless and we will see you in 2023!

Barbara, Michelle, Colette, Steph, Justine and Frances.

Christmas Party 2022!!!!!

We had a fabulous time at the Christmas Party!

Happy Birthday Baby Jesus!!!!

Party games and dancing!

Meeting Father Christmas.

Great fun was had by all!!!

‘Jesus is the gift that perfectly fits every heart’.

Christmas is inching closer and closer, and the children (and nursery ladies) are getting more and more excited!!!

Everyone has nearly completed their Christmas surprises- keep a look our for them coming home.

On Monday we went to watch the KS1 Nativity play. The children enjoyed being together with the whole school especially when they saw their brothers and sisters….one big happy family!

The frosty days have given us all great joy. The aew and wonder when we noticed that the grass was white!! Justine read us a story about Jack Frost and the children said he had been to their house too! We all melted the frost with our warm hands to make handprints!

It has been very cold though. The children have not wanted to spend as much time in the garden brrrrrrrr!

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone.

The children were able to begin this week by watching KS1 Nativity. It was such a wonderful experience for them being in the audience especially as they know this beautiful story so well now. Last Friday afternoon the children were beginning to miss performing so much that they decided to build their own stage in Nursery and recreate their Foundation Nativity.  For the Nursery staff this really was the most joyful performance to watch because it showed how the children had really understood the true meaning of Christmas. They never cease to amaze us with how much they can remember in their ‘thinking brains’.

The freezing cold weather has given us lots of exciting things to find in the garden, we have found evidence of ‘Jack Frost’ everywhere. Lots of water had turned to ice and so we have had some lovely conversations about freezing and melting too!

May I just take this opportunity to wish all of you a very Happy Christmas with your wonderful families and thank you so much for everything that you do to support us at Nursery.

Enjoy the holidays and I’ll see you in 2023!

Colette

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone

What another busy week! We enjoyed watching Year 1 and 2 in their Nativity performance at the start of the week – they were brilliant!

We loved performing in our Nativity so much that we’ve continued performing in the classroom and outside too! We made stages and took it in turns to perform and also be the grownups in the audience – it was so nice to see the children encouraging their friends and clapping for them. Lots of smiles all round!

We have made the most of the cold weather and ice and enjoyed putting small toys in bowls of water outside and explored what happened to them overnight – we learnt the words liquid and solid! It was fun trying to ‘free’ our toys in the warm classroom. The children also decided to make an ice cream shop outside – at least it was cold enough for the ice cream not to melt! This was a great activity to develop language skills and turn taking.

We have continued looking at our 10 sounds we have learnt so far – some of us even know more than 10! We enjoyed ‘crossing the river’ at carpet time. We had to listen carefully for our sound and could only cross the river if it matched. We are so good at recognising sounds on the carpet and also in our environment. Keep looking out for these over the Christmas holidays!

I hope you all have a lovely time with your families over the holidays – I’m looking forward to hearing all about it when we are back!

Steph 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone,

This week has been so chilly but that has led to some wonderful learning about ice and the cold. This week we were scientists and we did our own experiments. We left some items outside in some water and wondered what would happen to them. The children said we were doing an ‘experiment’. We found out that the water had turned into ice and froze the items inside the ice. We also discovered that water when frozen is called ice and that it turns back into water when it gets warm.

We also discovered more about number 5 this week. We drew our high 5 fingers and played a game where we had to put the sheep in the field, always adding up to 5. Maths mastery is knowing that 5 can be made up in different ways. This knowledge will help children with addition and subtraction in later life.

We have also enjoyed watching the school children in their nativity performances, we do enjoy going in to the school hall and sharing special moments with the rest of the school.

Don’t forget party day is Monday 19th, party dress is essential!

Finally, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support this term. It is truly appreciated. I am sure you will agree with me that we really do have the best children here at Our Lady Star of the Sea Nursery. They are all amazing!

Just as few extras from Justine!

Our freezing and melting experiment.

As Colette has already mentioned, we put lots of different objects in cups and bowls then covered them with water. We put them into the garden to see if they would freeze. We learnt that the water was a liquid and when it got very cold it turned into a solid…ice! When we brought the ice inside our lovely warm nursery it changed back into a liquid…water! We could then rerieve all the objects which had been trapped in the ice. Take a look…

Healthy Start scheme- what is it?

If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. Your benefit will be added onto your card every 4 weeks.

You can use your card to buy:

• plain liquid cow’s milk

• fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables

• fresh, dried, and tinned pulses

• infant formula milk based on cow’s milk

You can also use your card to collect:

• Healthy Start vitamins – these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding

• vitamin drops for babies and young children – these are suitable from birth to 4 years old.

If you need anymore information visit healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/ or click here.

Christmas Taskmaster

As in previous years i have sent home a Christmas Taskmaster activity sheet. If you are a loose end why not try a few of the activities. You may not have time and that’s ok! The important thing is to enjoy being together and having fun!

Purple Mash

Don’t forget to check Purple Mash for any Christmas activities!

Christmas Party

Don’t forget that the Christmas Party is on Monday morning 9.15 am (if it is not your usual day) until 11.45 am. We will be joining Reception and the rest of KS1 for lots of Christmas merriment. Party clothes a must!!!!

Packed lunches and hot lunches are as usual. We will be having birthday cake as a treat to celebrate Baby Jesus’ birthday at snack time. The children have been quite specific in their choice of cake. It must ne chocolate, with chocolate icing, Smarties and chocolate buttons!!! Sounds good!

We are also hoping for a visit from a very special person….I do hope I am on the good list!

Lastly, may I remind everyone that school and Nursery closes at 2pm on Tuesday.

Have a lovely weekend and I will see you for the last two days of the term next week.

God Bless

Barbara

Nativity Special

I’m sure you will agree when I say how splendidly the children performed in our Foundation Nativity this week. The nursery team are so very proud of them all.

If you cast your mind back to September… you can see how every single child has grown in confidence and self belief. It takes a great deal of courage to stand in front of an audience and perform and that confidence is down to nursery and parents working together. I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to you! You have trusted us with your precious children and we are grateful for that trust. We can’t wait to see where we can take their learning after Christmas!

After discussion with the whole team we though we would like to dedicate this blog to all things ‘Nativity’.

On Monday we visited the school worship area for the first time to look at the Nativity scene. The children all could talk about their part in the play and the true meaning of the birth of Christ. We then read the story ‘Little Owl and the Star, a Christmas Story’. Click here to listen.

After story we wrote a prayer on the prayer wall. The children wanted to write “ hello Baby Jesus” with lots of kisses.

Your child’s key person has written a short blog but all the Nativity photos will be at the end of the blogs.

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone.

I’m sure you will agree that your children have given the most amazing performance this week. It has been such a privilege for us Nursery Ladies to see them share this wonderful story with you all. Such a talented bunch! Thank you for all your wonderful  support from home too!

We have enjoyed watching a clip of the Nativity story being told by sand drawings. The children have enjoyed spotting all the characters in the story. Click here to watch it together.

We have continued to practice our sounds i,n,g,p,o and we are looking out for these sounds all around nursery too. We have also been doing our best to be ‘shape detectives.’ We are getting very good at spotting circles, squares, rectangles, triangles (especially upside down triangles) and even the odd pentagon and hexagon. Why don’t you ask your children if they can spot any shapes at home? Click here to watch another shape song.

Have a lovely weekend!

Colette

Michelle’s blog

Well, what a fantastic week that was! Well done to everyone for a fantastic nativity performance, we hope you enjoyed it! We have been practising singing our songs and we felt so amazing in our costumes.

As well as performing our nativity, we have continued to work on learning our letter sounds, some are a bit more tricky than others but we have worked really hard to think of words that start with our new sounds. Maybe your child can find some objects at home that begin with i, n, g ,p or o.

We have continued to learn how number 5 can be made lots of different ways and have enjoyed singing number rhymes. We love 5 sticky lollipops and 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed. Number rhymes are a fantastic way of reinforcing numbers and the concept of taking away.

If you are looking for inspiration for some ideas for learning at home, here are some of the best blogs and websites. https://www.theempowerededucatoronline.com/2015/05/my-guide-to-the-best-early-years-and-play-based-learning-blogs.html/

We have made the best of the weather, although it has been cold, we have had lots of fun making obstacle courses with crates and planks.

Physical play is so beneficial to children’s development in all areas, not just physical development but cognitive and personal and emotional development too. If you have some spare time over the Christmas holidays, go outside, ride a bike or climb at the park.  Any sort of physical activity not only grows children’s brains but also helps them to sleep better too– double win!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and we will see you next week

 Steph’s blog

Hello everyone

What a week! The children were all amazing in the Nativity performance. It was so lovely to see them all performing for you all and seeing everyone’s happy faces as they watched. All the Nursery ladies were so proud of them all. Well done everyone!

We have been busy this week making Christmas things to bring home – you may have noticed your child coming home with little bits of glitter on them! They can’t wait to show you what they have made.

We have been busy making obstacle courses in the garden this week – we had to be extra careful as the ice had made the garden all sparkly! We worked as a team to help our friends if they were struggling and we made some great creations.

We have continued spotting our sounds in the classroom – they are everywhere! We also played a game where we had to pop the sound bubbles – here it is if you would like to play at home (choose set 1 or 2 for the sounds we have been practising). Phonic pop click here

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week.

Steph 

Strep A information for Parents

As you will of heard on the news there have been cases of Strep A in communities all over the country. Lancashire County Council has sent out information for you to read. Click on the buttons below to find out more.

Phonics

Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find out about ‘p’

Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find out about ‘g’

Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find out about ‘o’

Nativity DVD

If you would like to order a DVD of Tuesday’s Nativity performance could you please send in £10 cash in a named envelope by Monday 12th December. You will receive a digital film code before we break for the Christmas holidays!

Lastly, I think all the children(and adults) have earned a long rest this weekend, Christmas is exhausting! We have lots more Christmas activities planned for next week…including making Baby Jesus a birthday cake!! The children have chosen a VERY chocolatey one covered in sweets!! No pressure…..

Thank you for being wonderful

God Bless

Barbara

This week...

Christmas is fast approaching and over the weekend the elves have been hard at work. Nursery has been transformed into a sparkling, magical, fun, learning space.

We have put up our Christmas tree, made a Christmas bell music area, been threading with tinsel and bauble fishing in the water, as well as making ‘snow’ and recreating the icy North Pole. On Monday a cheeky elf came to nursery and parked his sleigh next to his magic door! Everyday since we have found him hiding all over the nursery!!!! Cheeky old elf! Take a look at our photos.

Only a couple of weeks left…here’s December’s planning!

Worship

As it is Advent, we have been making Advent promises. Each time we hear or see a friends grow an extra bit of love we can draw a bauble on our Chrismas tree poster!.

We have also recreated Bethlehem. The children are excellent at telling the story of the First Christmas. Click here to watch ‘The First Christmas’.

Nativity

Don’t forget:

• Nativity dress rehearsal Tuesday 6th December - this performance is for the rest of the school. A DVD is being filmed for you to purchase. If you want your child to be on it (and it is not their usual day) please make sure they are in nursery for 9 am and collected at 10.30 please.

• Parent performances Wednesday 7th & 8th December- tickets only If you want your child to take part (and it is not their usual day) please make sure they are in nursery for 9 am and collected at 10.30 please.

Christmas Party

Monday 19th December. 9.15 -11.45 am (if it is not your child’s usual day in nursery) Keep a look our for the party invitation in your child’s blue bag. Party clothes and dancing shoes essential!!!

Maths

Number 5

Five arrives to get a band together-and gets the party started-with a big high five!

We have been learning:

• Five is one more than 4

• To count to 5

• To line up 1-5 in order

• To recognise number 5

  Phew we’ve been busy

  Click here to watch high five!

Also five and friends discover a hole that makes their heads fall off! We learnt that:

• a number of a group can be changed by adding to it or taking from it.

• Addition and subtraction of 1

• Number bonds to 5

Click here to watch.

You may want to watch Hide and Seek. Five is so good at hide and seek, she can find the others without looking up from her book-but how? Click here to find out!

Christmas games to play at home

Click on the link and enjoy lots of fun Christmas games to play! Enjoy!

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone.

Another extremely busy week here at Nursery! There has been lots to do! Rehearsals are well under way for our upcoming Nativity and we cannot wait for you all to see it.

We have been looking at number 5 this week and understanding how many different ways we can make 5 (e.g. 2+3, 1+4, 5+0) the children have been playing a game using 5 number cubes and two cups. We hide some cubes under one cup and some cubes under the other. Then we lift up one cup, see how many cubes there are and then we can guess how many cubes are under the other cup. It’s great for working out number bonds! Click here to watch number 5 playing a hide and seek game!

The children do enjoy music times and we like to listen to lots of different kinds of music. One of our favourites stories includes a piece of music called ‘Toccata and Fugue in D Minor’  by JS Bach which tells the story of two giants building tall towers. Click here to listen! It even inspired us to build our own tall towers.

Have a lovely weekend!

Colette

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone 

What a lovely week we have had for the start of Advent. Our nursery is looking very festive and the children are really enjoying singing our Nativity songs - we had a dance on Tuesday and the children chose tinsel to dance with. They all had a great time! We can’t wait to perform for you next week.

We have learnt about Number 5 this week. We are enjoying working out different ways to make up the numbers - as the numbers are getting bigger we are finding out more and more ways! We watched a Numberblocks video (click here) that showed us even if the blocks are arranged in a different way, the total number of blocks is still the same. We had a go at stamping these ourselves with paint and they look great on our Numberblocks display! 

 We have learnt more sounds this week! We are so excited when we see the sounds we know in books or around the classroom! Let us know if you find any at home! Our new 5 sounds are (i, n, p, g, o). 

 Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week for Nativity week!

 Steph 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone, what a busy week we have had this week. We have continued to work on our letter sounds and have learnt five new sounds, i,n,p,g and o.

We have had a tricky challenge to match the letter pebbles, but we worked very hard to complete the challenge.

This week we had a visit from some cheeky reindeer, numbers 1 to 5, who hid around the room and we had to spot them. They can’t hide from us!

We also had lots of fun playing in the snow we had made!

Our workshop has been a hive of industry, all full of glitter and sparkles for some very special gifts for some special people later in the month.

We can’t wait to welcome you all to our Nativity performances next week. We have been working very hard practising our songs.

See you all next week, have a good weekend.

Here’s a few extra from Justine!

Geraldine Giraffe

‘i’ click here to watch

‘n’ click here to watch

Watch this space for more next week!

Lastly….

Please remember to collect your Nativity tickets from nursery. Correct payment in a named envelope please. Thank you.

As you can see everything is getting a bit hectic!!! We are all trying to keep calm!

Have the most wonderful weekend in readiness for an even busier time next week.

God Bless

Barbara

This week...

Another lovely week at nursery, even though everyone appears to be a little‘under the weather’. Nonetheless, we have battled through and got to Friday with smiles on our faces.

We have started to talk about Advent and what that means in the Christian calendar. Everyone is very excited about getting ready for Baby Jesus’ birthday…we have already started to make preparations! More on that next week.

On Friday we went in to the school hall to sing our Christmas songs alongside Reception…we are getting very good!!

Ooodle of noodles!

We had great fun on Monday. We coloured some noodles pink and some noodles blue! We then practiced our snipping skills until they were all cut into tiny, tiny pieces. Take a look!

Nativity

If you have not completed your order form (the form is on last weeks blog) you will need to do it a.s.a.p., as the school office needs to calculate numbers. If you can send in money to nursery when tickets have been allocated that would be great!

Your key person should have emailed you this week about parts for the Nativity, and if you need to provide anything. If there are any problems just let me know.

Worship

This week through Mollie the Cat and Billy Bird talking about their respective journeys from kitten/egg to adult animals, we explored the natural human cycle of life, focusing on what we could remember about our development so far and what we know will happen as we get older. This was underpinned by the religious understanding that growing up is part of God’s plan for our lives and that we are loved by Him at every life stage. Click on the button below to see the slides.

Michelle’s blog

Hello, 

We have had such a busy week. Our rehearsals for our Nativity are really have coming along, we can't wait to perform for you all. Hopefully you seen the message on last week’s blog about how to get tickets. We are getting so good at singing and doing all the actions. 

Thank you to everyone for your generous donations to our Children in Need Pyjama Day, it was such fun coming to nursery in our pyjamas and with our teddies too.  

We are really working hard to learn our letter sounds, and this week we have begun to learn some new sounds. Here is a quick reminder of the sounds, remember it’s the pure sounds your child needs to learn e.g., ‘mm’ not ‘muh’  Click here

We have spent some time this week playing games with our friends. It's so important that we can learn to take turns but sometimes it's just so hard waiting when we want to win! We do have to remember that we can't win all the time. The shopping game is our favourite this week, but we have also played outside games and games on the computer too. Some ideas for games to play at home. Click here.   

This week in PE we have further explored our feelings with the Cherry Tots. Our favourite cherry is still Cheeky Cherry and we love it when the cherries dance together at the end. Doing PE gives us the opportunity to practise putting our shoes and socks on, at first this was so tricky but we keep practising and we are getting better every week.  

Although the weather wasn’t great this week, we have still managed to get out for lots of outdoor play. We can't believe that we still have so many Ladybirds in our nursery garden, and we have also seen some slugs and spiders too. Maybe you can go on a mini best hunt in your garden, I’m sure there are lots of creepy crawlies hiding out there. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we will see you all next week! 

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone.

We have been practising our songs this week for our wonderful nativity and Nursery Ladies are trying very hard to remember the actions that go with the songs….we definitely need more practise. I wonder if your child can sing you any of the songs.     The cast list has been finalised and now we truly cannot wait to tell you the wonderful Christmas story.

We have been looking closely at the number 4 and understanding how many different ways we can make 4 (e.g. 2+2, 1+3, 4+0) the children can do this by using their fingers. Click here to watch numberblocks. We have been singing lots of number songs about sausages sizzling in the pan, current buns in the bakers shop and our favourite 5 bananas on the banana tree. Numbers have been everywhere!! Even the number monkeys have been sneaking off from their usual spot and have hidden themselves all around nursery (the children just keep on finding them…they are almost too good!!!!)

Have a lovely weekend!

Colette

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone!

What a week we have had with the weather – we’ve been inside, then outside then inside again! We loved seeing a rainbow on Wednesday and spoke about all the colours we could see.

We have continued to make up funny stories this week – we wrote a story about a cat that went on the bus and then wrote a letter! The children have great imaginations! We also had a go at sorting objects based on their initial sounds, using the 5 sounds we have learnt so far (m, a, d, s and t). The children are working hard to listen for the sound at the beginning of a word.

We have continued looking at Number 4. The children are coming up with all the different ways to make 4, they have shown us on their fingers and also with gems under cups! They have been trying to trick the nursery ladies by moving the gems around under the cups – but somehow the total is always 4! We have also been doing some lovely work for our Numberblocks display in the classroom.

PE has been great fun this week. We have looked at different ways of moving – we danced with ribbons and we also had a go at walking on benches and jumping off the raised platforms. Some of us were a bit wary but very proud when we did it!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday

Steph

…and a few extras from Justine!

As you can see it’s been another fun week at nursery…we can’t wait for next week!

Have a restful weekend…it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

God Bless

Barbara

This week....

Another busy week.

Monday was ‘messy Monday’ and oh my goodness did we make a mess! We has fairy filling with tiny implements and bottles. The sand was red and glittery!!!! We also made fluffy slime! We read the instructions very carefully but it all went horribly wrong, arghhhhhhh! In the end it was all fine, we made up a different recipe, with different ingredients. We all loved playing with it nonetheless.

We wanted to try and make sudsy gloop, get the bubble mixture and make dough but we ran out of time…..but there is always next Monday?

We are doing really well learning our Nativity songs and actions. We have now got all our costumes out of storage and will be giving out parts next week. We have got all the costumes for each part but would like to ask if everyone could bring in one strand of silver tinsel each. Stars may also need a white t-shirt and leggings to go underneath their costume but we will let you know next week.

As you know, our Foundation Stage Nativity Play is being staged on Tuesday 6th December and Wednesday 7th December at 9:30.

Each Nursery and Reception family may have up to 4 tickets at £2 each across 2 performances (no more than 2 tickets per performance). We need the form—link attached—to be completed by you no later than Friday 25th November. Tickets will only be allocated to people who have completed the form and will be sent out in envelopes via classes, the week beginning 28th November . Payment for tickets will be made on ParentPay for Reception children (Parents you will need first to activate your account using the log in letters which we are sending today). Nursery parents can pay for tickets by sending cash in a named envelope please, to Nursery.

We must point out that we have a maximum capacity of 120 ticketholders in the hall and with the stage plus 60 children, staff and audience, the Hall will inevitably be hot and somewhat crowded. We know how much everyone loves seeing their little ones but advise you, particularly if there are any vulnerable family members, to be aware that this is a confined space. We shall of course be arranging a professional digital film to be made of the play, details will be sent later.

Sounds

Geraldine Giraffe

Click here for Geraldine and the ‘s’ sound.

Click here for the ‘t’ sound.

Click here for the ‘d’ sound.

Learning to Talk

he DfE have launched new online resources to promote the importance of the home learning environment to boost children’s language and socio-emotional development in the early years.

These expand the NHS Better Health Start for Life website with a full range of evidence- based, detailed and accessible advice for parents on activities you can do with your child at every stage between birth and 5 years old.

Click here to find out more.

Worship

This week we looked at examples of challenging situations that we could face. We read the story about Daisy’s birthday and that actions can sometimes have consequences; that when we make mistakes, we should say sorry and ask for forgiveness. This led us to explore how Jesus forgives us.

Click on the button to read the story at home.

Click on the next button to to look at the slides.

Visit from Stuart Robinson.

As you know we had a visit from Stuart Robinson, a rugby Paralympian. He devised a series of exercises for the children (and staff) to take part in. It was so exciting and the children loved every minute. We joined in with Reception and Year 1, cheering each other on to complete each task…..phew!

Take a look at the pictures

Colette’s Blog

We began the week by making a mess!!  For some reason we just can’t seem to help ourselves!! Our ‘mess’ involved the creation of our own fluffy slime (it did smell wonderful in Nursery!) We were very lucky with the weather in the afternoon so we were able to play outside! The children are really enjoying building their own obstacle courses and we have been noticing some great balancing skills (no one wants to fall in the hot lava or get eaten by sharks!!!) We were also able to practise our skills on the balance bikes and the scooters…. the children are getting better and better.

The children decided to make a car garage to help repair some faulty vehicles which also included a petrol station. Don’t worry……the fuel in Nursery garden is entirely free and it never runs out (there was a bit of a queue though!!)

We enjoyed dancing to the Cherry Tots in our Hall time and we were introduced to two new Cherries, ‘Shy’ and ‘Cheeky’. We think Cheeky Cherry is our favourite one yet.

I hope the weather manages to stay dry for the weekend!

See you next week.

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone

What a busy week we have had this week. We are well and truly underway with our preparations for our Nativity performance and we have been practising our songs and actions.

Our Worship this week has concentrated on our actions and the consequences of our actions. We have been practising how we can make our friend happy by passing a smile and saying sorry. As always, we try to make good choices but we also need to learn what to do if we do make a bad choice. We read a story about Daisy and her birthday and made lots of good suggestions about how Daisy could make better choices. We learnt it’s important how we speak to others as this helps us to build friendships.  We also passed a smile around our circle.

We continued our investigations on shape and went on a shape hunt. The shapes were hiding everywhere!  

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

We have had another busy week! We started the week getting messy – we continued learning about colour and explored coloured sand, glitter in the playdough and made fluffy slime. This was fun and also very sticky! We spoke about how it changed when we added each ingredient. It smelt great too!

This term we are going to try and make up our own simple stories. We had a discussion as a key group and we wanted to write and learn about dinosaurs, unicorns and princesses. We have had fun dressing up as different characters and making up our stories in our play. The children also found different props and linked them to stories they already knew .e.g a red apple for Snow White. We also had a go at drawing some of our ideas – we used our story dice to help us and we came up with some great ideas for our stories. We will do more of this over the next few weeks – I can’t wait to see what the children come up with!

We have continued to enjoy outdoor play, especially the bikes this week. We have worked hard to practise pedalling the bigger bikes and added the trailer to see if we could ride the bike with our friends on the back – this was hard work! We enjoyed sitting in the back and having a relaxing ride though!

We are working hard to practise our Christmas songs ready for our Christmas Nativity. I’m sure you have heard your child singing them at home. We can’t wait!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday

Steph

Here’s a few extras from Justine!

Curriculum Evening

A big thank to everyone who managed to come along to our Curriculum Evening. It was so lovely to see all our families back in school….a true community working together. Take a look at these few photos!

Children in Need Pyjama Day

What fun day! We made Pudsey Pink Playdough, coloured in Pudsey pictures, took photos of everyone with their teddy and another with our Pudsey blanket!

Have a look in the childrens books bag….there is an activity to do at home too! When you have completed it either send it back to nursery or send us a picture!

Here’s are just a few photos of our day!

Termly Drop in Session

Tuesday 29th November 3.45-4.45 pm we will be having our termly parent drop in session. If you would like a quick catch up with your child’s key person just pop along. No appointment necessary.

Advent Mass Cancelled

Sadly this year, Father is unable to come to school to conduct our Advent Masses.

Finally, here’s hoping that the weekend weather is slightly better than during the week…it’s been very wet! Christmas shopping is beckoning!!

See you on Monday!

God Bless

Barbara

This week...

Another fabulous week at nursery! We have completed our firework/colour display, complete with sounds that we heard on Bonfire Night. We splatted paint everywhere just like Jackson Pollock!!! Take a look at the photos.

Take a look at our field of poppies!! We all made a remembering poppy.

We have also updated our snack list. Please take a few minutes to read it. Click on the button below.

Worship

This week we used pictures and short stories of Freddy Teddy and his friends experiencing different feelings. The children discussed how they are feeling, what feelings can look like and why they might be feeling them. We also worked on empathy and understanding of others, and how to help. Click on the button below to read the story.

Read Write Inc

We have continued learning and playing with the sounds m,s,a,t,d. We have been looking for them in our environments, buried in the sand, we have played ‘pinny time’ and much much more.

Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find objects beginning with ‘m’.

Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find objects beginning with ‘a’.

More to follow!!!!

Maths Mastery

Four is the new block on the block and he can’t wait to share how much he loves to be square!

We have been:

• learning 4 is one more than 3

• counting to 4

• the structure of 4 as a square number

• recognising 4 items without counting (this is called subitising)

Click here to meet 4!

Stuart Robinson - Paralympic Athlete Visit

On Wednesday 16th November, school is being visited by Stuart Robinson. Stuart is a gold medal winning Paralympian, who represented GB in the recent Olympic games in wheel-chair rugby.

Stuart’s visit is part of an event for Sports for Schools. This is an opportunity for the children to take part in a sporting event organised by Stuart, and to then hear about his story as part of an assembly. He will be with us all afternoon.

Stuart is incredibly inspirational. I had the pleasure of meeting him last year and hearing about the life-changing events that led him to where he is now. I have no doubt that the children will take a huge amount away in terms of attitude, resilience and living life to the full.

This event is also an opportunity to raise money for our school - for PE, Sport and Active Learning.

The children have all brought a sponsor form home for them to collect as many sponsors as they can before the event next Friday.

Craig McCann visited our school three years ago as part of the same event. We managed to raise over £1000 for our school - it was fabulous! Let’s see if this year we can do even better!

Could all our Wednesday children please come to nursery in trainers and PE clothes as we will be joining in with school at this event!

Children in Need

Friday 18th November 2022 is Children in Need Day. The children are invited to pay £1 and wear pyjama’s for the day. Please no slippers, sensible shoes or trainers. It’s always a fun day and a good way of donating to charity. All proceeds will go to Brian House.

Brian House cares for local children with very complex needs and life-limiting conditions. They face huge challenges, but with our help they can continue to support children and their families at every step of their difficult and often unpredictable journey…

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone,

We have reached the end of another busy week…where do the children get all their energy from??

At the beginning of the week we discussed our experiences of Bonfire night and the children told us all about the wonderful colours and sounds they saw in the night sky.

Afterwards we turned our discussion to Remembrance Day and we wondered what poppies looked like and wanted to know why some people wear them in November. To help us understand we have been watching a beautiful children’s animated story where we were able to see how some small animals reacted to the fighting during WW1.   Click here to watch the story together.

We have also been looking at lots of numbers!! We have been introduced to number 4 and have been playing lots of number games. There have been some monkey numbers hiding all over Nursery too.

Finally, remember to keep your eye on the website for any important information that you might need.

Have a lovely weekend together.

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone

We have had another busy week. We have continued to make firework pictures, using lots of fluorescent paint and glitter. We have also learnt about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. We had a go at painting poppies and have made a display or our artwork. We also went to Chapel and sang our loudest songs, we hope that the neighbours like our singing too.

In PE we have danced with the Cherry Tots, exploring sad and glad and also yes and no. Just look at our sad faces! Its not easy pretending to be sad when we are having so much fun.

Our learning continued as we consolidated our knowledge of the letter sounds, ‘a’ ‘d’ ‘m’ ‘s’ and ‘t’ with lots of games and challenges. We also met number 4 this week and explored how we can make number 4 in lots of different ways.

We have also practised really hard being independent., putting our shoes and socks on after PE and putting our coats on by ourselves. Here is a really good method for children to do this by themselves, ask your chid to show you how thy do it. Click here to watch.

Here’s a few extra photos from Justine!

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a fun week we have had! I have watched some lovely role – play taking place this week. The children have enjoyed making food for each other and taking on different family roles in the house inside and outside. This is great for developing the children’s friendships and their language and conversational skills. It has also provided the opportunity to talk about our likes and dislikes and how we are all different.

We have also been helping each other and taking turns, especially in the garden. Barbara brought us in some big new logs – some of us were a bit wary so our friends helped us get up on them and walk across them. It was great fun!

We have carried on practising our five phonics sounds this week (m, a, s, d and t). The children are really excited when they find them around the classroom or in their books. Maybe you could find some around the house at home and send us a picture. We also played ‘Snowball Phonics’. Each child got one of the sounds on a piece of paper, then screwed it up into a snowball and threw it into the middle. We then found a new snowball, opened it up and had a look to see if it was the same sound as before or a new one. We also found a friend with the same sound.

We finished the week with a minutes silence to Remember those who were hurt in the war. We have been discussing this over the week and have made some lovely poppy pictures for the classroom and in our learning books. This allowed us to continue our discussions about feelings. Here is a link to the CBeebies video we watched: Click here.

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday

Steph

Curriculum Evening

Our long awaited CURRICULUM EVENING is being held on Thursday 17th November 6pm -8 pm. Come along with your child to find out more about our Jesuit Virtues and how they underpin everything that we do in nursery and school. You will also have the opportunity to find our more about what we mean by ‘Cultural Capital’, Read, Write Inc and much more!

It is always a fabulous evening and a wonderful opportunity to learn alongside your child and the staff.

Please come join us!

Nativity

This week we have started to learn our songs for the Christmas Nativity. In previous years ( pre Covid ) we always joined Reception for a whole Foundation Stage production. I am pleased to say that this year there will be live performances! We can’t wait!

The children (and staff) are so very excited!

The Nativity performance dates are:

Tuesday 6th December- this is a dress rehearsal performed for the rest of the school

Wednesday 7th December- Parent performance

Thursday 8th December- Parent performance

Parts have not yet been allocated but we are hopeful that we will have all the costumes that we need. Sewing volunteers if we need them are always useful….let me know if you can help.

Whilst we are talking all things ‘Christmas’ can I remind everyone that the Christmas Party is being held on Monday 19th December 9.30-11.30 am (if is not your child’s usual session), otherwise times are the same.

I think that could be enough information for this week! Oh, just before I go, don’t forget to keep checking Purple Mash for more home learning!

Enjoy your weekend

God bless

Barbara

This week.....

Welcome back everyone! I hope you managed to have a good rest over the holidays…I think you may have needed it. The next half term is going to be so very busy.

We have started the week with a huge splash of colour! we have been finding out about how we can mix two or even three clours to make new colours. Click here for the colours song and here for mix the colours song! We has such good fun and made some very unusual colours (and a whole lot of mess)! Check out the key person blog to see what we have been doing.

Read Write Inc

This week we have introduced the sounds m, a, s, t, d. If you want to practice and hear how to say the sounds click here .

Click here to access the parent guide to Read Write Inc. Please remember over the next couple of week we will only be focusing on m, a, s ,t, d.

Click on the button below for your speed sound set. It will show you the sequence we will be introducing each sound to your child. We need to walk before we can run!

If you want to have a go writing the sounds fab! Here are the rhymes to help you. Click on the button below.

As Bonfire Night looms we have had extensive discussions about firework safety….and Guy Fawkes! The children are all very excited but we have been instilling how to stay safe. Sorry no sparklers!

We have read stories and made firework sounds. We have even created firework splatter pictures and ICT pictures!!

Colette’s Blog

Welcome back everyone!  It has been so wonderful to see the children spring back in to Nursery after the half term holiday and be ready to learn.

We began the week looking at colours and we all talked about which one was our favourite. We decided to make a tally chart so we could see which colour we liked the best. The children had a go at mixing some coloured paint…we had to predict what colour our paints could make….it was messy but very fun! Please apologise to your washing machines!!

We have been continuing to look at numbers 1,2, and 3 and finding numbers everywhere! The children have been learning some new sounds…why don’t you see if they can tell you about them.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone, hope you all had a fantastic half term! The next few weeks will be very busy as we have so much planned. This week we begin by learning all about fireworks. Noisy, loud, sparkly, colourful, and that’s just been the children as they pretended to be fireworks. We also learned that we have to be safe around fireworks and bonfires, as always, we like to follow the rules. We then made our very own fireworks pictures just like Jackson Pollock.  We  We have also made our own firework pictures on the computer as we explored mixing colours.

Stephanie’s Blog

Hello everyone!

We’ve had a lovely first week back, the children have enjoyed telling us what they got up to over the half term break.

We have started to explore colour this week, which has led us to discussions about Bonfire Night, fireworks and Diwali. One of our friends in Nursery celebrated Diwali with her family over the half term holiday. She brought in her special outfit and showed her friends pictures of how she celebrated. We spoke about how celebrating festivals is similar across religions – she said prayers and lit candles just like we do in church. She also wore special clothes, had a special family meal and received a gift – we said it sounded a bit like celebrating Christmas! The children loved seeing pictures of their friend on the big screen in the classroom. Some people make Rangoli patterns for their house to welcome in their guests and bring good luck. We had a go at drawing some with chalk in the garden and also decorated some with different coloured glitter on paper to take home. Here is a song about Diwali you can watch at home: Click here.

We have spoken about our favourite colours and explored what happens when we mix colours together. We were amazed to find out some colours mixed together make a whole new colour! It was great fun working out which colours we needed, and also adding more and seeing what happened. Barbara tried to trick us by hiding the paint on the table with shaving foam but we managed to mix it all and find the colours underneath! The white made our colours a bit lighter and we all enjoyed making handprints in our floor books with the colours that we made.

We have discussed how excited we are to see lots of different coloured fireworks in the sky this weekend, and how to be safe around fireworks and sparklers. I hope you all have a lovely weekend – I am looking forward to hearing about the colours you have spotted. I have put a firework painting activity on Purple Mash for you to have a go at – I can’t wait to see your pictures!

See you on Monday

Steph

and here’s a few extra photos from Justine !!!

Worship

Emotional Well-Being.

We have been talking about likes, dislikes and self-acceptance. Click on the button below to read the story. and discuss at home.

As you can see we have started the half term with a BANG (no pun intended. Next week will be just as busy as we find out about poppies and Remembrance Day. There will be more on ‘sounds’ and we will be finding out about the number 4. I can’t wait!

Have a fabulous weekend and see you on Monday.

God bless

Barbara

Time for a rest!

It’s hard to believe that we have been at nursery for seven weeks! Half term starts today and we return on Monday 31st October, hopefully bright eyed and busy tailed. The second half of the Autumn Term is even busier as we have Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and of course Christmas. Nursery along with Reception are already thinking about our Nativity! Watch this space for more information.

As I say every week we have not stopped. Our number work is coming along leaps and bounds, we have even started to make number bonds to 3! We have been:

• comparing numbers 1, 2 and 3 - ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’

• Ordering numbers to 3

• Understanding that 3 is made of 2 and 1 or three 1s

• Recognising the numerals in the environment

After the half term break we will be starting ‘Read Write Inc’. We will focus on five sounds every couple of weeks. The children love learning sounds. I will be posting on the blog a sound mat and activities so you can join in the fun at home!

We have been discussing at length about oral health and food that out teeth don’t like. I have noticed that everyone is questioning everything that we eat! Sorry.

Harvest

On Monday the children joined Reception for a short Harvest Festival.

We gave thanks to Our Lord for all our food and our lovely world but we also remembered those children who may be hungry and need our help. We then danced around the hall, performing our Harvest samba. Here is the Harvest Festival song if you would like to have a dance at home. Click here .

After all the fun of our dancing we got down to some serious business and helped to pack all the generous donations for the food bank. Click here if you would like to know more about the food bank in St Annes.

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone! Just because it was a short week didn’t mean it was a quiet one….oh no! The children and Nursery Ladies have definitely not been resting! Sadly, we have had a few bouts of illness in Nursery but I hope that the half term holiday allows everyone to rest and recharge those tired batteries!

On Monday Nursery and Reception shared their own Harvest Festival celebration in the hall. We thanked God for all the wonderful things that grow on our planet earth and we even had time to dance our favourite ‘Harvest Samba!’ Thank you to all of you that donated the tins of soup!!

As always, there have been lots of building, puzzles singing and number fun. We have been continuing to look at number 3 and all the ways we can make a three… 2 plus 1 more or 3 and zero!

In our hall time we tried out some new songs, the floating song using some different coloured ribbons and the bean bag song where we had to follow the instructions and try not to drop the bean bag!!! Click here to have a go yourself!

We have finally arrived at our half term holiday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and I hope you all enjoy a lovely half term together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

A shorter week than normal but that doesn’t mean we have been any less busy than normal. I think we have packed more learning into our week!

We continue to learn about healthy food and how to make sure we make healthy choices with our food to care for our teeth and the importance of exercise by taking our PE lessons outside and having lots of running races on the school field, including a running backwards race. This was tricky but lots of fun!  We then could feel our hearts beating fast in our chests, this means we are getting lots of exercise to keep our hearts healthy. Hopefully you can all get outside during half term, here are some ideas for you to try. Click here.

We have all had a fantastic start to our nursery year, and I can’t believe it is half term all ready. I have been amazed at how well the children have settled in and taken to all the routines. The children are all working so hard on their independence skills, especially putting their coats on. Next half term I will be making sure we are getting lots of practise using scissors, I hope you all enjoyed the cutting and sticking homework I sent home. Click here for some more scissor skills activities, which are really good for developing hand muscles needed for holding a pencil and writing. Click here.

Finally, I hope you all have a wonderful half term and I will see you soon.

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a lovely last week of term we have had. We have enjoyed role play this week, making food and drink in the house and the sand area outside. We’ve also looked after the dolls making sure they were warm enough to go outside and we even went on an aeroplane! We all lined up on the bridge and our pilot flew us to a lovely hot destination! Of course we needed snacks and drinks too – we’ve had lovely discussions about family and favourite things. It’s been so nice listening to the children having conversations with each other and continuing to develop their friendships.

We have continued to practise numbers 1, 2 and 3 – we found things in the garden and tried to match them up to the correct number. The children have developed their mathematical language without even realising – ‘I need one more!’, ‘Now I have 3! You have 2 and I have 3!’. Barbara also tried to trick us by hiding numbers and slowly revealing them but she can’t trick us! We are great at recognising 1, 2 and 3 now!

On Monday we had our first assembly in the hall with Reception. The children loved it, especially doing the Harvest Samba around the hall. We gathered all our tins of soup for the people that have hungry tummies, thank you for all your generous donations.

The children have continued to love the ‘Where’s the Monkey?’ video and have been singing the song themselves and hiding our monkey – look out for the photos of it on our heads! One of our friends even brought in his guitar from home and we sang the song together on the stage outside. I went outside this morning and found the monkey in one of our tubes! Here is the video again if you would like to watch it over half term and hide things around your house! Click here

I hope you all have a lovely week off together – get lots of rest and have lots of fun!

See you soon

Steph

Just in case you are at a loose end next week click on the buttons below for a couple of ideas! Enjoy! It would be lovely if you could send us some pictures of your adventures to share during circle time!

When we return after the holiday I will be posting the events for the half term….keep a look out so that you don’t miss anything!

I hope you all manage to have some family time and a chance to make memories that will last forever. Keep safe and well. I will see you on the 31st!

God Bless

Barbara

This week....

What a soggy old week!!!

We started the week by thinking about all the parts of our body that help us to do things, without us realising, such as our brain, heart, lungs, stomach….you get where I’m going with this?! First we watched a short video about body parts. Click here to watch at home. We then went for a jog around the garden to exercise our heart! When we came back to nursery we felt our heart beating inside our body….that was really exciting!

We have continued to talk about our thinking machine (brain), breathing machines (lungs) and stomach and what happens to the bits of food and drink we eat that our bodies don’t’ use! That was a very interesting conversation! BUT the message was very clear if we eat unhealthy foods there is no goodness for our bodies to take and store! I must remember that this weekend!

Colette’s Key Group

Hello everyone! What another busy week!

We have continued to look at our wonderful bones and we know that our smallest bone is in our ear (called a stirrup) and the largest bone is in our leg (called the femur!) We have danced our skeleton dance and continued to move and shake our bones in our hall time!

Numbers have also been around Nursery this week! The number 3 Numberblock has made an appearance and we have been singing the song ‘1, 2, 3 everybody look at me’ click here to watch and join in at home!

The children have been noticing that even more leaves and sycamore seeds have been  falling down from the trees so we have enjoyed sweeping them in to piles and looking at all the different colours. Some of us have made our own paintings using the beautiful Autumn colours!

We have certainly noticed that it is getting a bit colder now....I had better start looking for my favourite bobble hat for after the half term holiday!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette

Stephanie’s Key Group

Hello everyone! It has been so lovely to be with the children again this week! We have enjoyed spending time in the garden and the big hall developing our physical skills – we also managed to practice our numbers doing this too! We made some ‘action cards’ together – you could try this at home. We used the numbers we have already met – 1 and 2 and our new number this week, 3! We had to do 1 hop, 2 claps, 3 jumps – my favourite was 3 wiggles! The children’s favourite was definitely 10 ‘unicorn jumps!’ – something new for me to learn! It was great fun.

We have also been counting around the classroom – I’ve heard lots of comments this week - ‘I have 2 bears’, ‘I have 2 ice creams’, ‘I have 3 plates’. Some of us even noticed if we join 2 and 1 together it makes 3. You can watch Numberblock 3 here .

This week we have spoken all about teeth and how to care for them. You should all have taken a toothbrush and toothpaste home with you – we’d love to see some photos of you using them! We have spoken about foods that are better for our teeth and some that we shouldn’t have all the time to help keep our teeth healthy.

We practised our positional language – some of us have found this a bit tricky and this video helped us practise the language: click here. The children loved trying to spot where the monkey was hiding next! Try it at home and see if your child can remember how to describe where the monkey is. We also explored this by making a train in the garden, asking our friends who they were sitting in front of or who was behind them. Positional language can help your child to be more independent – many instructions in school will involve them understanding where they need to be, or where something is that they might need e.g. ‘your snack is in your tray’, ‘the cups are on the shelf’.

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!

Steph

Michelle’s Key Group

This week we have continued our learning about our bodies. We worked as a team to build the skeleton, making sure we put the bones in the right place. Great team work everyone!

We have also been very busy practising our sticky kids songs. This is a new song that we have loved this week. Click here to have a go at home!!! I hope you have lots of energy!!!

When we run, we can feel that our hearts are beating very fast. We know this mans we are getting lots of exercise and looking after our bodies.

We have also learnt about foods that are good for us and foods that are not so good for us and some of these foods are not very good for our teeth. Hopefully, you will all have found the new toothbrush and toothpaste in your book bags, we hope you use them to keep your teeth shiny and white.

We used some healthy foods and did some art work, making prints with apples and oranges. This was a bit messy but we concentrated to make a pattern of three.

We continued our healthy exercises by riding the bikes and computers in the garden. We are trying really hard to use the pedals on the bikes, its tricky but ewe are getting really skilled at this. We have also been practising putting our coats on by ourselves, this is something we can all practise at home too!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

We would like to thank everyone for coming to parents meetings. All the team have been overwhelmed by your lovely comments. You must believe us when we say it is an absolute privilege to be able to work alongside yourselves and your children. There truly is no better job. Thank you.

Next week will be a shorter week as we close for half term on Thursday. I think we are all in need of a rest and recharge. If you click on the button below you will be able to see what we will be learning…we will also be continuing with our mighty quest to make healthy choices and look after our bodies. On Monday the children will be joining with Reception for a short Harvest Festival assembly. I must thank everyone for all their kind donations, you have been so generous.

 Have a fabulous weekend everyone and I will see you next week.

God Bless

Barbara

This week...

What a week! We have been finding out all about our skeleton and where it is hiding! We have looked at the skeletons of animals too!!!

Making fruit Kebabs

This week we made healthy fruit kebabs…mmmmmm, they were yummy! We chopped up the fruit and then carefully put the pieces onto a kebab stick!

Worship

Me, My Body, My Health

Over the next few weeks we will be meeting the story book characters of Freddy Teddy, Mollie the Cat and Billy Bird.

We will be learning about our uniqueness, including celebrating differences and individual gifts, talents and abilities. We will be have been learning about looking after and using their God-given bodies. Click on the button to look at this weeks slides.

Stephanie’s Blog

Sadly Steph is poorly so hasn’t been in nursery since Monday. We are missing her lots! So guess what…. I have been a stand in for your children this week! It’s been great fun.

On Monday we met Henry our skeleton. We talked about all the bones in our body and how they work! We found our there are 206 bones in our skeleton and they help up to stand up, run, wave, hop and dance, in fact they help us to do EVERYTHING! We have chalked a picture of our skeleton, have a look at the picure of our busy bones display!

Click here to find out more about body parts.

We have also been talking about how to stay health and the foods we should be eating. We played a game where we had to make our meal only using healthy choices! Click here to watch what humans need to stay healthy. There is even a quiz at the end! Next week we will be finding out about how to take care of our teeth!

In PE we danced to the bones song. Click here to do it at home!

Number 2 is still being explored click here to watch and sing along to the Number Rap 2!

Hopefully Steph will fit and well and be able to come back to nursery next week.

Enjoy your weekend

Barbara

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone! The weather has been so mixed this week. One minute raining, then sunny, windy and one day it was so windy we had to wrap up really warm. The wild wind has delivered us a huge amount of sycamore seeds all over the garden. As you can imagine, we have just had to throw them up in the air and pretend they were helicopters!!! We seem to have an amazing number of ladybirds too (lots of spots to count!)

We began the week looking at our lovely bones and talking about the fact that we all have a skeleton inside our bodies, if we had no skeleton we would all be like a wibbly wobbly jelly. We have made some chalk drawings of our skeletons….they looked so amazing that we even made a skeleton display! We had fun dancing to a skeleton dance . Why don’t you try it at home? Click here.

We have enjoyed our hall time this week with lots of walking, head, shoulders, knees and toes (watch out it goes really fast at the end), the stand-up sit down song and some lovely cool down time too.

What another busy week!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

This week we have continued to learn about our bodies and have produced some fantastic pictures of our skeletons using chalk. We have learnt the names of our bones and how to keep our bodies fit and healthy. Did you now we have 206 bones in our body?

As well as looking after our skeletons we have also had fun learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy by eating healthy food. We made delicious fruit kebabs. They were lovely.

We have continued to learn all about number one and number two. We had a tricky challenge to work out how many of our body parts we have one of and how many we have two of and make a number chart. This made us use our brains to think really hard. But we got it in the end.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

We have had lots of soup donation for our Harvest Festival…thank you soooo much for your generosity! Have you tried the Harvest Samba yet?

It’s been a bit of a wet and windy week and the children have been reluctant to go into the garden…especially on Friday. Wow we had never seen rain like it! We wondered if we should start to build and Ark! One of the children suggested that we bet a boat.

Let’s hope this weekend isn’t too rainy.

Have a restful weekend and see you on Monday.

God Bless

Barbara

Harvest

Wow, what a week! We have found out all about how to make bread and wheat. We all watched a powerpoint about my friend Pip. Click on the button to see the slides.

We then made some bread…it was so yummy! We have been talking about all the foods that are made from wheat/flour. On Friday morning we read the story about a Runaway Chapati. Click here on the button below to read the story. On Friday afternoon….we ate chapati’s…..mmmmmmm

Harvest Festival

On Monday 17th October school will be off to Church to celebrate Harvest Festival. We have decided to have our own mini Harvest Festival in nursery (it will probably go on all week!!). As in previous years school and nursery will be collecting food for the Food Bank. Nursery has been asked to collect tins of soup. Any donations would be very welcome, just send them into nursery next week (by Friday please) and we will make sure they are delivered.

To help us celebrate Gods Creation of our wonderful planet we have all been doing the Harvest Samba! Watch out Strictly, we are very good! It’s a 10 from me! Click here to have a dance at home. Get your sparkles on!

If you still have any energy left click here.

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone! It’s been another very busy week here at Nursery.

We started the week with Barbara’s friend Pip who shared his journey to his friend’s farm where he saw the farmer gathering the wheat. Pip taught us how to make bread so we decided to have a go at making our own. I won’t say any more but I’ll let you have a look at the photos so you can see for yourselves!!  Needless to say it was yummy!

The children had also been noticing how many leaves had been falling in Nursery garden. The colours were so varied and beautiful and we decided to make a colourful autumn display by collecting some of the leaves and making leaf prints!

As always there has been lots of time spent in the garden making obstacle courses and practising our skills on the tricycles and the scooters.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s blog

 Our week has been so busy, we have had so much fun and learnt so much. Our main focus has been Autumn and learning about the changes in the weather and the environment. We have used our new Autumn collecting baskets to forage and collect our Autumn treasures. We then used our foraged items to practise our cutting skills. This is such an important skill for the children to master, so we are giving them as much practice as possible. See here for some fun activities to develop cutting skills. Click here for some cutting activities to try. We also used our foraging treasures to make a very big Autumn collage. The children were fascinated by the shapes and colours of the leaves and made some wonderful leaf prints for the autumn display.

We have also had a very physical week, with lots of Wacky races, such as backwards races and  hopping races. During PE we have practised listening and following instructions to Sticky Kids. Here is one of our favourite songs. Click here to have a go at home.

Our learning continued as we met Numberblocks number 2. We had a tricky challenge as the number 1 and number 2 baskets got mixed up. We had to work hard to put everything back in the right baskets, working out which items belonged in the number 1 basket and which belonged in the number 2 one. But, we worked it out, like Tommy Turtle, we kept trying. Click here to meet number 2.

Thank you to everyone who came to our parents meetings, and hopefully I will catch up with everyone soon. Don’t forget to check Purple Mash this weekend.

Have a good weekend, see you next week!

Michelle

Stephanie’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What another fun, busy week we have had. We have really enjoyed talking about Autumn and all the changes that have been happening to the trees and the weather. We collected different leaves from the garden and made leaf printing pictures using the paint. This was a great activity to look at different colours and talk about the textures of the leaves.

We spoke about our upcoming harvest festival and how we can help others by collecting food to donate. Your child may have told you about our Harvest Samba around the nursery – we loved singing about all the foods we can grow and eat. We’d love to see some photos if you have grown anything in your garden, or if you tried the potatoes we harvested from the nursery garden last week.

Making bread was so much fun! We took turns to add the flour and warm water to the bowl and made our own bread rolls to eat at snack time. We really enjoyed spreading butter on them ourselves!

We have continued to look at ourselves this week and all the things that make us the same and different. We have enjoyed books that show us different cultures and spoken about how we can be friends with everyone. We have practised different ways to say ‘hello’ and ‘happy’ in other languages and also using our hands to sign. Here is a video you could watch at home to practise ‘hello’ in different languages: Click here to find out more.

We have looked at Number 2 this week – Click here to watch We paired up with our friends to practise going from 1 to 2 and enjoyed doing 2 hops, jumps, claps etc outside in the garden. We also tried to see if we could fit 2 friends in the red twirly seat which then progressed to 3, 4 and even 5! It was a bit of a squeeze! We also led on the floor to see if we were taller or smaller than the shark we had drawn – have a look at our scared faces!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!

Steph

 I think you will agree it has been a fun week!

I’m sure about this weekends weather but enjoy it anyway. Get on the wellies and waterproofs and have a splashing time.

See you all on Monday

God Bless

Barbara