Tuesday 20 December 2016

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

The children have had a fun packed last two days of term.

 
 
 

Thank you so much for all your Christmas greetings, cards, presents and vouchers.  We have had a wonderful first term with your children and are looking forward to lots more fun next year.

Have a fantastic Christmas break and best wishes

Love
Mrs Page, Mrs Ivory and Mrs Woolard


Wednesday 14 December 2016

More Christmas Fun!



This week our theme has been Christmas and we have had lots of fun!

We have made our own Christmas cards and posted them in our post box (just like the one we visited on our trip).

 

We made Christmas stockings, using our cutting skills to think about what we might like for Christmas. We wrote our ideas on our stockings too.  
 

We thought about what we would like for Christmas dinner and made it using play dough, which strengthens our fingers.
 
 
We made our own Christmas baubles to decorate our nursery Christmas branches.

We retold the Nativity story using small world characters.
 

We performed in our Christmas Nativity singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We were all super stars! Well done Nursery.





And we had a very special visitor who bought us gifts. He whispered to Mrs Page that he had received our letters that we sent him!


Remember we have a short week next week before the Christmas break, finishing on Tuesday. We will be collecting in all the class library books so please bring back any you have at home.

There will be a party next week to celebrate the children's good behaviour and we will send further information about this soon.

What a wonderful first term we have had with your lovely children.
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


Thursday 8 December 2016

Smartie Artie





The children loved the entertainer Smartie Artie who visited today and we heard some real belly laughs. Here's some happy faces to cheer up your Winter!
 
 
 
 
 



Wednesday 7 December 2016

Dear Santa...

Christmas is coming and Nursery have been getting ready!

We have been writing letters to Santa Claus and were very excited about a trip to the post-box to post them!

We read a book called Rosie's Walk and thought about Rosie's journey around the farm yard. We changed the story into Nursery's Walk, thinking about what we would pass on our way to the post box. 


We walked the story on our giant story map, using words like under, over, through, round and next to.

We really enjoyed posting our letters and spotting all the things we used in our Nursery Walk story, on the way.

Our role play is now  Santa's workshop and little elves have been busy writing Christmas cards, addressing envelopes and wrapping presents.

We have been thinking about the Nativity story and making nativity books and baubles for our class advent calendar.

We used small world props to retell the Nativity story

In Busy Fingers we have used tiny objects like shells and buttons to make number shapes.


We've enjoyed using the corn flour as a snowy landscape for penguins and polar bears.


We've had fun developing our fine motor skills by making Christmas stars.


We decorated the trees outside with Christmas decorations.





Phew! What a busy week. We've still got a child's entertainer coming to visit us.
We will be continuing our Christmas theme next week and our Nativity is on Tuesday. Please could you bring in white or yellow clothes in a named plastic bag by Monday at the latest but please don't buy anything especially.

You could help your child at home by using positional language such as in, under, through, beside etc. and by playing games with your child where they place toys in different positions and tell you where they've placed them.