Nursery & Pre-School Class News
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PRE-SCHOOL - The Story of the Nativity
This week we have introduced the story of the Nativity to the children. We changed our role play area into a stable with materials for the children to dress up in and take on the role of different characters.
The children have created a place mat ready for their Christmas party. They have decorated 3 different sized baubles with different patterns using paint. Using irregular shapes, the children have made characters from the Nativity.
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NURSERY - Christmas Activities!
This week, we have started our Christmas activities! The children have made our home corner lovely and festive by decorating a tree and hanging other Christmasy items on the walls.
The children have created place mats in preparation for the upcoming Christmas party as well as practising the Nativity play on the stage in the hall.
They have also been exploring different materials whilst playing with a sensory Father Christmas during Messy Play and practising making marks to represent writing inside Christmas cards which they have then posted in our festive post box.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Stay & Play Nursery Rhyme Week
This week we have been celebrating 'Nursey Rhyme Week'. We have been singing:
Five Elephants went out to play
12345 Once I caught a fish alive
Five Little men in a flying saucer
Five Currant Buns
Five Brown Teddies
As you can see, we have been working on the number 5, what it looks like, how many this is and attempting to write the number 5.
It has been lovely to see so many parents able to attend our Stay & Play sessions. Don't worry if you haven't made this time, we will be having other sessions in the Spring.
The children have also been learning about road safety and finishing off some special Christmas activities.
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NURSERY - Stay & Play Week
This week, we have focused on counting while joining in with number rhymes. It has been a pleasure to see so many parents participating in our Stay and Play sessions.
The children began the week by singing 'Five in the Bed'. They used a cot and five dolls as imaginative props while joining in with the rhyme.
Next, the children enjoyed singing 'Five Little Ducks'. They had fun playing a 'Hook a Duck' game and practised taking turns with their friends.
The children had messy fun while singing 'Five Currant Buns'. They mixed shaving foam in bowls using spoons and then scooped the mixture into cake tins. The children decorated their currant buns using red pompoms to symbolise cherries!
Finally, the children took turns being 'Five Little Speckled Frogs' and had lots of fun jumping off small wooden logs. The children were encouraged to count how many frogs were left.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Three Little Pigs
This week, we read the story about the Three Little Pigs and then used the props in our tuff spot to act out the story. We have also been making special items for Christmas as well as building our own houses out of bricks and straw in the Forest School area. The children have also enjoyed writing their names and learning about first, second and third.
What a busy week!
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NURSERY - The Colours Blue & Yellow
This week the children in Nursery have been concentrating on the colours blue and yellow. During maths, they have been rolling the dice, counting the spots and putting the same amount of yellow ducks on to the lily pad. We have listened carefully to the story 'Out of the Blue' whilst talking about our emotions. In messy play the children have explored shaving foam together with blue and yellow paint and looked at what colour they make once mixed together. Furthermore, the children have thoroughly enjoyed using blue or yellow frames to look through and search the indoor and outdoor environment for the same coloured items.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Diwali the Hindu Festival of Light
This week Pre-School have been learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. The children have manipulated clay to make a diva lamp, adding paint, sequins and glitter to their lamps. They have also created their own henna patterns on pre-cut hand shapes using scissors cut along straight lines to make a Diwali lantern.
During outdoor learning, the children made fireworks using conkers and tissue paper. They had lots of fun throwing them into the sky and watching them fall. They also used some of the natural resources we found to build a bonfire and talked about how to keep safe and well during Bonfire Night.
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NURSERY - Colourful World!
They have also created their own henna patterns on pre-cut hand shapes using scissors cut along straight lines to make a Diwali lantern.
This week the nursery children have been introduced to the topic of colours. We have talked about bonfire night, how to keep safe and the colours we might see. They have enjoyed building their own bonfire, using planks of wood and logs from the outdoor area and created their own firework pictures. During maths, the children explored using different coloured pom poms and compare bears, sorting them into groups of colours and then counting them.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Being in touch with our Emotions
This week we have been looking at how it feels to be scared and angry. The children have helped to set up a Doctors surgery as it can be scary when you have an appointment at the Doctors. The children have been practising scissor control skills when making an emotion monster. We have also talked about how it is OK to feel angry and scared, and looking at ways to make us feel calm such as a mindfulness walk in nature.
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NURSERY - Our Emotions
This week we have continued to focus on our emotions and by supporting the children to take turns by playing a variety of games.
We encouraged the children to participate in a group parachute game which involved the children waiting for their name to be called for their turn to run underneath.
We played a 'Kerplunk' style game involving a variety of resources and the children in taking their turn.
We had messy fun using spaghetti paint and children's scissors to create a face.
Finally we enjoyed singing Nursery rhymes by taking turns to select a singing spoon from a pass the parcel style game.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Our Emotions
This week we have been continuing to discuss our emotions particularly looking at being happy or sad. The children made puppets with a happy face and a sad face on opposite sides. We have been playing instruments to happy and sad music and making happy and sad emotion bottles. The children have also enjoyed playing with the parachute and shaking it along to different music.
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NURSERY - Our Nursery Week
This week, the children have been encouraged to express and discuss their emotions. They enjoyed listening to the story, "Sometimes I Feel Sunny." We talked about the various feelings mentioned in the book, and the children were encouraged to share how they were feeling.
We had great fun exploring natural materials inside a discovery box, where the children were encouraged to create different faces using the materials, such as a smiley face, a sad face, or a surprised face.
The children had a messy yet enjoyable time drawing different faces in shaving foam. They explored the foam using their fingers and a variety of mark-making tools.
Finally, the children joined in with the song, "If You're Happy and You Know It." They played a circle game using a feely bag and picture cards showing different emotions. The children had fun picking a card out of the bag and trying to make a face to match the picture card.
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PRE-SCHOOL - European Day of Languages
We started the week celebrating European Day of Languages. Along with the Nursery children, the Pre-School children were given a tee-shirt to decorate with facts about the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. They painted flags and built landmarks on the tee-shirt which was displayed at the school assembly.
We have continued to learn about emotions, happy and sad, with the children using musical instruments to shake along in time to happy and sad music. Deciding on which emotion bottle to make, yellow or blue, the Pre-School children then decorated them with yellow or blue materials.
The children finished their week off with a parachute game, where together they moved the parachute along to fast and slow music.
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NURSERY - Another Busy Week!
In Nursery this week, we participated in the school's 'European Languages day by joining in with Pre-school to decorate a tee -shirt that represents the United Kingdom.
We then continued our week by thinking about what we can do and achieve.
The children were encouraged to eat independently whilst learning to use a knife and fork.
They were also supported to climb the reception steps whilst singing 'Hickory Dickory Dock'.
The children enjoyed making large mark making moves using various tools such as brushes and rollers on large sheets of paper.
Finally, using our trikes outdoors, the practitioners encouraged the children to take turns sitting on them and moving them along with their feet or the pedals.
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PRE-SCHOOL - "The Way I Feel"
This week, the children have been learning all about their emotions. We have been listening to the story "The way I feel" and discussing each emotion and talking about what might make us feel the way we do. The children used loose parts to make different faces such as happy, sad or angry face. We walked around the school and asked staff how they felt, tallying the results on a simple feeling chart. We have also been sorting different coloured pom poms into emotion bottles and using simple tools to make cards for our friends to make them happy.
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NURSERY - Our Homes
This week in Nursery we have been talking about our homes. The children have enjoyed sharing the book 'Peace At Last' and have been thinking about the different rooms inside the house in the story and the rooms that we have in our own homes. The children have also been creating houses using junk modelling and then painting them. After the houses were dry we cut flaps to make a door and the children displayed their family pictures inside. These will be mounted on the wall for them to access whenever they choose. In addition to this, the children have been mixing sand and shaving foam to create cement and have built some structures using weetabix as bricks. Finally, we have been joining in with singing 'When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears' focussing on the different items she found in the bears' home.
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NURSERY - Our Families
This week we have continued focusing on 'Our Families'. The children enjoyed listening to the Owl Babies story and played with the owl props. We talked about how the owls were feeling sad and worried but that Mummy/Daddy always comes back.
Using some everyday objects from our home corner, the children engaged in simple discussion about what the items were and which members of our family might use them.
We had messy fun by exploring porridge oats dyed red and displayed in the shape of a heart. The children enjoyed hunting for family photographs hidden in the oats. The children were encouraged to talk about their families and the people they love.
Finally we have been singing lots of Nursery rhymes about families, such as 'The wheels on the bus' and 'Mummy finger, Daddy finger'.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Families
This week has been enjoyable as we have focused on discussing our families. The children have delighted in sharing stories about their siblings, parents, and pets with the practitioners. Together, we collaborated on drawing our families on a large sheet of paper. Additionally, we practised our cutting skills using scissors to trim paper. We have explored various ways to navigate the soft play area.
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PRE-SCHOOL - Settling In
This week the children have been continuing to settle into Preschool and get use to all our daily routines. The children have been tracing or writing their name, subitising or counting up to three and moving to music. The children have also enjoyed looking in a mirror and painting their portrait for our display.
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NURSERY - "It's Good to be Me"
We begin our new term by settling the children into Nursery and focusing on our new theme 'it's good to be me'.
The children have been creating pictures of their faces using a variety of materials.
During messy fun, we have enjoyed drawing our faces in shaving foam and becoming familiar with our names using our name cards.
Finally, we have been encouraging the children to join in with familiar action songs and rhymes.
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