Nursey Blog 2021-2022
W/C 9th May
In Nursery this week we had fun playing parachute games with the balls - helping the children practice their counting and positional language. Also following one of the children telling us they had a poorly cat, we extended this by setting up a Vets roleplay area. Where the children dressed up as a vet and were able to look after the soft toy animals, and make them better. The children were also busy enjoying watching our potatoes grow - they loved watching the changes as the potatoes grew from seeds, and learned that they need water and sunlight to grow.
W/C 2nd May
We have enjoyed a lovely week in Nursery. In Welly Wood the children enjoyed playing a number matching activity, where they found the correct number of various items from the wood to place on the number squares. The children have also been learning about how to look after their teeth - using a toothbrush to clean the toy dinosaurs' teeth. The children enjoyed this activity so much, we lead the activity on by letting the children mark make with paintbrushes and their fingers - making patterns in the shaving foam.
W/C 25th April




W/C 4th April
This week in nursery, we had lots of fun celebrating British Science Week (Growth) - conducting lots of fun science experiments, such as making little volcanoes with different ingredients. The children were fascinated and enjoyed watching the lava bubble up and over. We also had fun looking at worms in Welly Wood, and measuring them - finding out which were the longest and shortest, using the tape measure. We also planted grass seeds, herbs and rubber beans and got the potatoes ready to plant - talking about what they will need to grow. Over the coming weeks the children will be watching, looking at their growth and measuring them - extending their knowledge and understanding of the world and how things grow.
W/C 14th March
This week in nursery, we had lots of fun celebrating British Science Week (Growth) - conducting lots of fun science experiments, such as making little volcanoes with different ingredients. The children were fascinated and enjoyed watching the lava bubble up and over. We also had fun looking at worms in Welly Wood, and measuring them - finding out which were the longest and shortest, using the tape measure. We also planted grass seeds, herbs and rubber beans and got the potatoes ready to plant - talking about what they will need to grow. Over the coming weeks the children will be watching, looking at their growth and measuring them - extending their knowledge and understanding of the world and how things grow.
W/C 7th March
This week nursery, the children had lots of fun on a very windy day in Welly Wood - watching the effects of the wind as they held up sheets of paper and the wind blowing the paper, making it fly like a kite. Leading on from this, the children used their creative skills to make their very own kites and decorate them with triangles and other shapes, pipe cleaners and other shiny resources and sequins - talking about the different shapes they used.
W/C 28th February
This week in nursery, the children wanted to build a car wash for the outdoor cars - the children used crates, hoses and other resources to build it, and we used a chalk board to make a sign for the car wash and the price. The children enjoyed washing the cars and driving their cars through the car wash. We also had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. We read lots of lovely books, and the children voted for their favourite book - placing a counter in front of their choice, and the winner with the most votes was "The Gruffalo", which we then read to the children. We also read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", and the children had fun acting out the story. We made some porridge together, and the children had lots of fun playing with the porridge - stirring and exploring and feeling the texture with their hands, and talking about how it felt to touch.
W/C 14th February
This week in nursery, the children had lots of outdoor fun - making mud pies in the mud kitchen, and the children built their very own Lamborghini car using crates, tyres, a pipe and the bendy tube as the steering wheel to drive the car. The children also used different colour chalks to mark make and draw a Lamborghini car on our nursery play ground. Finally, the children enjoyed marble painting - rolling marbles in the different colour paint to mix the colours and produce some colourful patterns on their marble pictures.
W/C 7th February 2022
This week in nursery, as part of Mental Health Awareness week, we talked about our emotions. Every morning the children were invited to express how they were feeling - by placing a counter next to their choice of emotion on our emotions table. The children also used their own critical thinking skills to create their very own Valentine's cards for Valentine's Day. In Welly Wood, the children also enjoyed building a bird's nest with sticks and twigs, and found some feathers which they placed in the middle to represent the birds.



W/C 31st January 2022
This week in nursery we celebrated Chinese New Year! We had our very own Chinese restaurant, where the children could buy noodles, rice and other Chinese food, and had a go using chopsticks to practice their fine motor skills.
The children made lucky Chinese envelopes, and because this is the year of the Tiger - the children made colourful tiger masks and painted stripes on them. The children even learnt some Chinese - answering the register with “NÄhÇŽo”and enjoyed doing some Chinese writing - with black paint, using their gross motor skills. The children also had fun doing a dragon dance to music
W/C 24th January 2022
This week in nursery we celebrated the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch week. The children enjoyed learning about the different birds and listening to, and searching for different birds on our visits to Welly Wood. The children used their fine motor skills to mark make as they ticked off the different birds they found on the bird checklist. The children also used their creative skills to make and decorate their own binoculars to help spot the birds with. We also made our very own Birdwatch house, which the children decorated using paint and sponges. The children took it in turns to sit inside and look through the different shape windows and had lots of fun birdwatching.
W/C 17th January 2022



W/C 10th January 2022
This week in nursery we had a great adventure in Welly Wood. We read "We're Going on a Bear Hunt", and the children had fun acting out the story - travelling in different ways and going "squelch, squerch" through the mud. And at the end, we even found the bear, in the pretend cave!


The children also worked together as a group to build their own brilliant house, with bricks and sticks from the wood, using their creative and critical thinking skills.
This week, one child brought in a Koala bear story book, which we enjoyed reading together. Through in the moment planning, we then went on to talk about Australia, to extend their knowledge and understanding. We also looked at the world map and different country's flags. Then in the afternoon, the children used their creative skills to create their own flags. Well done children!


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