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Celebrating our Excellent Work W/B 16th November

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We have been loving our Ten Town work! This week we met Freddie Four, Fiona Five, Seal Six and Sir Seven.

Celebrating our Excellent Work

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The Nursery children have made a super start to this half term...

Have a look at our Excellent Work Board from last week. We were learning about castles and Bonfire Night.

This week's learning has seen us meeting Ten Town characters Zero Pond, King One, Tommy Two and Thelma Three as well as learning about Diwali.

End of Half Term

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Today we celebrate "Excellent Work" 16th October. Our focus was colour and pattern:

We also celebrate "Excellent Work" 22nd October. Our focus was shape:

October has also seen a focus on Black History across the school. In nursery we shared some Trish Cooke books that celebrate diversity.

All the staff in Nursery would like to say what a pleasure it has been to get to know the children. They have been AMAZING in the way that they have settled into our Nursery. Just a couple of reminders:

Please please name everything.... snack pots, drinks bottles, lunch bags - sometimes names wear off over time so keep checking.

All clothing and footwear including coats and waterproof trousers.

Thank you. Enjoy half term holiday and see you back on Tuesday 3rd November!

Colours and Patterns with Elmer

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We had fun learning all about colours and patterns with Elmer last week.

We got messy making a 3D model of him using empty milk bottles, tissue paper and runny glue. We think they look great. We triend to remember all the names of the colours on our Elmer.

We enjoyed exploring, naming and then drawing patterns on our own elephant mask for an elephant parade.

We enjoyed lots of colur games too and a colour hunt around the classroom..

We enjoyed using lots of colours in our mark making activities. Our rainbow names have made a lovely display in the classroom.

Our Favourite Stories

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Hi All,

We had a wonderful week last week sharing our favourite stories from home and trying to read through them all. We did lots of talking about the characters and our favourite parts in the story. We also enjoyed Nursery's favourite story The Gruffalo! We made lots of Gruffalo crafts, counted forest treasures and helped Mrs Hampson cook Gruffalo crumble. We used peaches for orange eyes, apples for terrible tusks and blueberries for prickles all down his back. Mrs Cowdry took us on a Gruffalo hunt we found him hiding in our play ground.

Reminders ~label everything! Including forest school clothes.

NB ~Parent consultation letter being sent home shortly please return promptly for a phonecall slot. 

Forest visit

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Today Nursery went to our Forest School area today for the first time...

They sung our Forest School song and had a story about a lost teddy. Then Mrs Parkes asked the children to help her look for her lost teddy Ginger!

Next week we will start our proper visits to Forest School every week come rain or shine so don't forget to come dressed and ready in your waterproofs and wellies (shoes in a bag). 

We will also start visiting the hall for PE so please, please no tightsor shoes with laces or buckles.

First Blog 2020-21

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Welcome All to our Nursery Blog page.

We will post a new blog page about every two weeks. Please enjoy the photos with your child as it provides a great opportunity to talk about Nursery developing communication and language skills. We might not be able to put a photo of every child every post.

Our first post shows our first week in Nursery settling in and learning our new routines; putting our bags and bottles away, snack and lunch times, practising our fire drill and learning independent bathroom routines. They have been brillant, we are so proud of them.!

We have aslo had lots of fun enjoying the Nursery room and play grounds and getting to know our new friends and teachers.

Celebrations!

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Dear All,

Our fimal blog post for Nursery 2020! We have had a wonderful week clebrating the fun things we do in Nursery. We were superfit on sporty day we enjoyed, dancing, yoga, cross country running and we loved Sports day races. Mr Horne joined in with the hat and sunglasses race..he lost. We loved standing on the podium receiving our GOLD medals. Pirate day was a real hit. We got so excited on our treasure hunt looking for clues and digging for our treasures. We had a cool ice lollie to calm us down. Fancy dress day was lots of fun too. We did lots of role play as our characters and we enjoyed a cinema afternoon with popcorn and treats from our friend Phoebe.

Thank you from all the staff for your amazing support and kind messages. Your children are so lovely and they make us proud every day.,We really are going to miss them. XXX

Life Cycles

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We have started our life cycles week finding our about the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We all knew this story very well and were great at talking about the life cycle and loved using the proper science words chrysalis and metamorphosis. We compared it to our own life cycle too. We enjoyed all sorts of caterpillar and butterfly crafts. We were very good at countiong fruits and and we loved pretending to be the caterpillar punching holes in paper fruits. We enjoyed making and drawing shapes we know too We visited Abigail's garden to look for butterflies and we loved our fun parachute games.

Minibeasts

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Hi All, 

We have had a terrific start to our ne topic -Mini beasts. We have made a worm farm for our classroom and loved going looking and digging for the worms. We fopund seven altogether. We kept some of the scraps from our lunch boxes to feed them. We have loved readinf the books Superworm and The bad Tempered Lady bird making our own insect crafts, We have spent lots of time sorting our minibeast counters by number, colour and patterns we also found an old wasps nest in our shed. Mrs Edmunds took it down for us to look at. we found out it was made from chewed up paper! We used our fine motor skills to make paper curly snails. We loved making rainbow patterns on our doodle buddy app. We listened to instructions to make a bee bubbet and then we all danced to a bee song with our puppet. we also practised our fgross motor skill with new 'ball and cup' toys it was hard work catching the ball. We are having so much fun!

Welcome back

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Welcome back,

Here are a few snaps of the activities we have been enjoying on our first few days back. We have been very proud of how grown up and sensible the Nursery children have been coming back to a different kind of Nursery.