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!

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!

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!

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.