Dear Zoo

This week we have been reading Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell.

We have made our own lift the flap surprises and working hard on our own writing.

We thought about different animals and whether they would make a good pet or not and why.

We have had fun making our own animals like hedgehogs and rabbits.

We sorted animals using different reasons like 'scary' and 'not scary', '4 legs and not 4 legs' and 'lives in the water and lives on the land." We talked about the reasons for our choices.

 

 

 

In busy fingers we are concentrating on making our fingers strong. We made a cheerio bird feeder and put threaded pasta pieces onto our straws to match our number cards.

 

Next week we will be thinking about the Nativity story as we think about festivals celebrated by people around the world.

Owl Babies

This week we have been reading Owl Babies. We have used small world props to think about who was in the story, how they felt and what they said.

We made Owl masks to retell the story.

Some of us chose to make Owl Babies books.

 

 

Our role play is a vet's surgery. We have been enjoying taking phone calls, writing prescriptions and nursing sick pets.

 

 

We have been working on our fine motor skills - using tweezers to pick up pom poms and writing our names in tea leaves.

 

 

We have been having fun making play dough numbers. 

 

 

 

Thank you for your Wow! moments. The children always love sharing them with their friends.

Next week we will be reading Dear Zoo and we will be focusing on sorting animals according to different criteria, for instance how many legs, their colour or size. You could talk to your children at home while they are playing about how and why they would sort their toy cars, dolls, teddies etc.

Thank you also to all those of you who have filled a cup with sweets for the school fair this Saturday.

We would love to see you there!

Aliens love Underpants!

This week we have been continuing our space theme

and this having lots of fun reading Aliens love Underpants.

 

We have been singing Aliens songs

Zoom zoom zoom

We're going to the moon

Zoom zoom zoom

We'll get there very soon

Climb aboard our rocket ship

And we'll get there very quick

Zoom zoom zoom

We're going to the moon

We made models of rockets to take us to the  moon, learning how to attach tape so our boxes stick.

We have been using all kinds of marks like zigzags, stripes, circles and dots to decorate the alien's underpants, thinking about how to hold our pens comfortably.

We have been working on numbers and having lots of fun matching pegs to number cards, matching stickers to numbers and ordering numbers.

For Anti-bullying week we have read The Rainbow Fish. We have been thinking of kind things we can do for our friends.

We went on a shape treasure hunt looking for shapes all around us. Can your children tell you what shapes they can see here?

 

 

 

Thank you for coming into Nursery to read with your children. We hope you like the Book Trust gift book -  Kitchen Disco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next week we will be reading Owl Babies and thinking about daytime and night time and what happens when it is dark and when it is light.

Thank you once again for all the Alphabet Treasure Hunts we are having back - Well done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Zoom Zoom Zoom...We're going to the moon!

This week we have been continuing our space theme and our book has been Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy. We have also been thinking about shapes.

We have been on a journey to space and retold the story of Baby Bear who travelled to the moon, using story props to rehearse beginning, middle and end of stories and talk about characters and settings.

We used the small world space moon buggies and aliens to make up our own stories.

We made space bugs and wrote their names

"This is Mr Flappy"

We have been listening to space stories and singing space songs:

Three little men in a flying saucer

Flew round the earth one day

The looked left and right

But they didn't like the sight

So one man flew away!



 We have been playing with shapes and making patterns and pictures with them, talking about the shapes we have seen.

 

Cheeky Monkey had hidden lots of shapes around our classroom and we went on a shape hunt finding as many as we could. We talked about the shapes we had found and sorted them according to whether they were straight or curved.

 

We dipped the cars into paint and made straight sided shapes and curved sided shapes using the wheel tracks.

At home you could go on a shape hunt around your house and see what shapes you can find, talking about corners, how many sides your shape has and if they are straight or curved. If you wanted to, you could send in photos of the shapes you have found so we can display them.

Thank you to everyone who has already sent in Wow! moments. We are really pleased to see what learning your children have been getting up to at home. We have plenty of blank Wow! moment sheets at school if you need anymore.

Also a big thank you and well done to everyone who has returned the Alphabet Treasure Hunt  incredibly promptly. The official return date is November 30th but of course you can return it before. We really appreciate your involvement and any money raised will be spent on  Early Years provision.

Don't forget that book change day is Thursday and if your child brings their last class library book to school, we will change it for a book of their choice.

 

Next week our book will be Aliens love Underpants and our we will be focusing on mark making skills and correct pen grip.

 

 

 

 

Celebrations

This half term we will be thinking about celebrations. We have been learning about Diwali this week. We read the story of Prince Rama and Princess Sita and how they found their way home through the forest with diva lights.

The children have made some diva lights of their own to bring home and share with you as well as some that will be on display in the Reception area outside the office. We enjoyed lighting them and singing our light song to the parents.

We made pictures of the story and retold it using masks.

We have also been thinking about shapes - making shapes, describing shapes, finding shapes and talking about shapes.

At home you could go on a shape treasure hunt in your house or outdoors. You could even take some photos to show us in school and for us to put up on our shape display. You could use describing words like curved, straight, sides, corners and edges to describe your shapes.

Next week we will be reading a book called Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy and thinking about fireworks.