The children had so much fun during Pyjama Day in Nursery! We started the week by reading the story, 'Pip and Posy. The Bedtime Frog' and we enjoyed role playing the story in our home corner. We talked about any toys or bedtime routines that are important to our children and we enjoyed a delicious hot chocolate treat to finish the week during circle time!

This week in Nursery, we have revisited one of our favourite stories, "Where's Lenny?" We retold the story using pictures and actions, and then we acted out parts of the story, including making our very own jam on toast! The children did a great job at carefully spreading the butter and scooping out the sweet smelling jam. Finally, they cut the toast into two equal parts and enjoyed sharing a yummy snack with a friend.

This week in Nursery we have been learning about repeating patterns. We have practised making our own patterns using a variety of resources around the classroom, including with unifix cubes, magnetic tiles, natural resources and even with dance moves! For a little extra challenge we have also been trying to spot mistakes in patterns that our teachers have made, they couldn't trick us!

Recently in Nursery our children have been showing us what confident mathematicians they are. We have been looking closely at small amounts of objects and talking about what we notice, for example the child in the top right picture told us, "It's three! I see a one, and a one... and another one!" While the child in the bottom right played around with arrangements of numicon pieces for a long time before telling us, "two and two and two and one is seven... and six and one is seven too!" What brilliant maths skills for children of just three and four years old! Developing a good understanding of how numbers are made up is a huge part of maths in the early years, and will help our children to solve maths problems with confidence as they get older. Look out for our maths workshop in the New Year to learn more about how we teach maths skills in Nursery and Reception!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!