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The blog for Acorns and Conkers
Miss Kavanagh, Mrs Fleck and Mrs Waldrom

Mark Making in Nursery

By Nursery, in Nursery - Wednesday, 22 November 2023

This week in Nursery we have been exploring drawing and mark making in different ways. One of the ways we most enjoyed was lying on some soft cushions and drawing on paper taped to the underside of the table! This was not only brilliant fun but really good for our arm muscles. Having strong arm and hand muscles is really important as it will make it much easier for us to form letters when we are writing in Reception!

Diwali in Nursery

By Nursery, in Nursery - Friday, 17 November 2023

Celebrating Diwali in nursery has been so much fun!

We made rangoli patterns using rice and diya lamps using saltdough.

The children were really excited to have two of our parents visit us this week too. They told us all about how they celebrate Diwali and we shared what we know about diwali too! 

Happy Diwali!

Wet, Windy and Wild Weather!

By Nursery, in Nursery - Wednesday, 15 November 2023

This week we have enjoyed some different weather in our outdoor area. It has been very wet and windy, so we put on our wellies and waterproofs and went outside to explore! We loved jumping into muddy puddles and had to solve the problem of what to do when everyone wanted to jump at once. With a bit of help from our teachers we decided to make a line so that we could run and jump into the puddle safely, one at a time. We also discovered that the wind has blown down lots of leaves from the trees, which we greatly enjoyed throwing in the air and using to try and bury some of our teachers!

Also outside, Mrs Fleck was very impressed with our teamwork when using the hosepipe. We have been taking it in turns to turn the tap on when someone tells us they are ready. Then we have to listen carefully for when they say, 'stop!' and turn it off quickly! All in all, a very wet, windy and wild week in Nursery!

Halloween Fun

By Nursery, in Nursery - Friday, 3 November 2023

In Nursery this week we have enjoyed exploring some Halloween activities. We spent lots of time exploring pumpkins and talking about how they were similar or different in shape, colour, size and texture, using words such as 'bumpy', 'stripy', 'bigger' and 'smaller'. We noticed the pumkins all had stalks and were interested to hear that that is where they were joined to the plant. We have saved some seeds to try and grow our own pumpkins!

In the outdoor area we carved some pumpkins, the children quickly added them to the mud kitchen and loved creating pretend meals with them. One of the children from Acorns class wondered if you can eat pumpkins- lots of children thought you couldn't so we spent the afternoon making pumpkin soup. Some of us thought it was delicious and others weren't so sure!

Autumn in Nursery!

By Acorns and Conkers Class, in Nursery - Wednesday, 11 October 2023

In Nursery we have been learning all about the season Autumn! We collected leaves in our outdoor area and talked about their changing colours. We used them to do leaf rubbing pictures and leaf printing too, mixing 'autumn coloured' paints. The children enjoyed rolling conkers and listened to autumn stories too!

Finding a Frog!

By Nursery, in Nursery - Wednesday, 4 October 2023

This week Mr Sharp and Mr Skinner took away the broken bus from the Nursery garden. Underneath they found a frog! They carefully caught the frog in a tank so we could all have a look. We were so excited when we saw it jumping around! We tried to be really quiet so that we didn't scare the frog. Then we thought of some words to describe the frog, e.g. 'green' and 'slimy'. After a little while, some of us helped Miss Kavanagh to release the frog into the tyres in our outdoor area. We hope it will be happy in it's new home!

Exciting Explorations!

By Nursery Team, in Nursery - Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Welcome to our first Nursery blog of 2023-24! We are so proud of how well the children are settling into school, starting Nursery is a huge step in our children's lives and they are doing brilliantly at building strong relationships with the adults and getting to know the other children. This week the children have enjoyed exploring all the different resources we have in Nursery. On windy days we have particularly loved using our bubble board in the garden to blow huge bubbles!

Nature Day

By Nursery, in Nursery - Monday, 10 July 2023

Last week, we had a special visitor called Gini. She came in to show us different activities all about the great outdoors, this is our current topic.

The first activity was all about birds, Gini brought in her bird puppet, showed us real birds nests and talked about the different natural materials birds use to build their nests. Next, we decorated our own egg to put in the nests.
Finally, we made insect houses with sticks and special netting.

We thought our nature day was fantastic.

Butterflies

By Nursery, in Nursery - Tuesday, 23 May 2023

In Nursery, we have been learning about ‘The Great Outdoors’

We have enjoyed going on bug hunts and talking about the life cycles of different insects and creatures.

Mrs Johnson brought in five caterpillars, we watched them build their chrysalis and hatch into butterflies.

Today we released the butterflies in our outside area. It was wonderful to watch them fly around.

The Great Outdoors

By Nursery, in Nursery - Tuesday, 18 April 2023

This week, we have started our new topic. As we are enjoying the change in seasons and watching the weather beginning to improve, we have voted for the new topic of ‘The Great Outdoors’.

We are so excited to learn all about wildlife, nature, growing, minibeasts, the environment and much more.

We will also be visiting the school pond to see the frogspawn very soon. We can then learn all about life cycles.

What a lot to look forward to, don’t forget to keep checking the blog to see what we have been up to each week.