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.

Autumn in Nursery

This week the children are learning about Autumn and our book has been We're going on a Bear Hunt.

We have had lots of fun learning about the changes that happen in autumn.

We have used natural autumnal objects like different coloured leaves, acorns and conkers in our Learning Through Play activities.

Counting with conkers

Retelling the story of We're going on a Bear Hunt with story props.

Making new sounds to add to our story like "crunchy leaves", "rolling conkers" and "snapping twigs".

 

 We have dipped conkers in paint and rolled them over the paper to make conker rolling pictures.

 

We went on an Autumn Walk, searching for different coloured leaves and acorns.

Then we used our finds to make wonderful collages.

 

We made an autumn storm in our class room when we used the parachute to toss the leaves in the air, singing our Autumn songs.

 

  

 

Don't forget that we change class library books every Thursday so don't forget to return them so your child can take home a new one.

Next term we will be thinking about celebrations including Diwali and Christmas.

Have a wonderful half term next week and we look forward to seeing you again on Monday 31st.



Fruit salad ...yummy yummy!

This week we have been thinking about healthy foods. We read the book Oliver's Fruit Salad and made our own fruit salads.

First we washed out hands. Then we choose 3 of our favourite fruits.

 After that we peeled the tangerines and bananas.

Next we chopped our fruit remembering to keep our fingers well out of the way.

 

 

 

 

 Now for the best bit... Finally we ate out fruit salads. They were so yummy!

 

 

 

 

 

We have also been sorting foods we can eat everyday and those we can eat sometimes as a treat, making a healthy packed lunch.

 We have made our own paper plate healthy meals

  

 

We used play dough to make our healthy meals and talk about what is healthy and what we can eat sometimes as a special treat.

Next week we will be exploring the topic of Autumn. You can help your child develop their learning through talking to them about the changes they can see in the trees now that it is Autumn and looking for conkers, acorns and different coloured leaves. Our book will be We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This week in Nursery we have been exploring the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

We have been learning to retell the story to Ms Roberts when she visits us on Friday.

We tasted the fruit from the story and described how it tasted

"juicy"

 

"sweet"

 

 We have been making books and talking about what  happened in the story.

 

We have been retelling the story of The Hungry Caterpillar using props and remembering the repeated refrains.

We have turned our role play into a supermarket selling fresh potatoes, carrots, onions and beans. We used the scales to weigh them and wrote how many were in the pack and how much they cost. To consolidate your child's learning, perhaps next time you are at the supermarket you could chat to your child about the different vegetables and fruits there are and look for price labels.

Next week we will be thinking about healthy eating. We will be reading a book called Oliver's Fruit Salad and making fruit salads of our own - yummy!