We loved our Nativity! Here we are getting ready to go to the Hall to perform!

Please click on the image to expand the photograph so that you can see the full class!

As part of our Early Talk Boost Program we celebrated Jake’s Birthday. Jake is the character in the stories we have been reading about. We had a big party to celebrate his 4th Birthday. We made our own sandwiches, ate party food, played party games, watched jake blow his candles out and sand Happy Birthday. It was lots of fun!

Nursery Fun!

We have been having lots of fun in nursery exploring on, in and under and speaking in full sentences. We have looked at Why its important to wash our hands and have looked at the changes in the season. We have been focusing on our shapes and developing our fine motor skills.

Look at our Firework pictures that we have created on the IPADs.

We learnt how to put on our waterproofs and wellington boots. Then we jumped in the puddles to make big splashes. Last of all we mixed some powder paint into the puddles to find out what would happen.

We have been looking at the changes in the seasons and what happens when it is Autumn. We have collected Autumn objects and had a walk in the school wooded area. We looked for animals and their habitats.

This morning we had a visit from the Chester Zoo Rangers who came to talk to us about birds. We looked at what animals need to be classed as a bird, we felt feathers and listened to the different sounds that birds make.

Watch our video about how smart we are!

This week we have been exploring the different areas! We have made a stage in the construction outside, painted pictures, coloured in our favourite characters to practice holding a pen, read stories, had picnics in the playdough, played ‘house’ and played football outside.

Look at what we have been doing in Nursery!

Look what Peter Rabbit has been doing during the holidays! We can’t wait to hear what you have been up to when you come to Nursery in September!

We had such an amazing day at Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park this week. Take a look at the photos below.

Thank you to all of the parents who came along to help supervise the children

The ladies let us pretend to be a pilot in the cockpit. We also dressed up and learned about all of the different jobs in the airport. Which one would you like to be? Why?

Then we went to see the biggest aeroplane called concord with it’s very long and pointy nose. It’s wings were a funny shape and the wheels were bigger than the nursery children!

Practice number recognition and counting skills using these online games.

Abigail found a blackbird’s nest in her garden. Her family have been watching the baby birds hatch and grow and have kindly shared photos and videos with us at nursery so that all the other children can enjoy it.

The images are below to share with your children. What do the baby birds look like? Are they changing? what is happening to them?

Happy bird watching!

Nursery have been learning about the animals that live under the sea. 

We enjoyed observing a real fish and learning about the different parts of a fish. Why does the fish have a tail? How does it use its fins? How does a fish breathe? 

The children created a giant fish by cutting out shiny scales.

We found out about clown fish and we know that they live in sea anemones because they don’t sting them. They weave between the anemones and clean them. The children made their own anemone and clown fish model.  

We know that the sea and ocean are large areas of water and that the edge of the sea is usually made of sand. We call it the beach. Look at our beach art. We created the waves using our fingers in the paint. Then we added sand to create the beach. We exercised our fingers by weaving a giant sea through a net for our role play area. 

In maths the children discovered which was nursery’s favourite sea creature by making a pictograph.

We wanted to know why sea turtles sometimes come onto the beach and we found out that they lay their eggs in a nest buried under the sand. Ask us about the sea turtle life cycle.

Here are some photographs of all our work so far. Next week we will be looking at shells.

Watch the video below to see what nursery did during the Shakespeare Festival.

Happy Mother’s Day. Here is a little story that we have been learning. It is called ‘A Bit Lost’ by Chris Haughton. 

We have been learning about the story, written by William Shakespeare, called ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. 

Click the button below to go watch the story performed by the Cbeebies cast. 

Morning nursery class were very lucky to be invited for a special Read and Rhyme Time at Moss Bank Library for World Book Day.

We were dressed up as our favourite book characters and had a wonderful time. Can you guess who we were?

Well done to these children who achieved 100% attendance last half term in nursery.

As we were dressed up and walking the whole class to the library this morning, home school diaries will not be sent home this week. 

Please click on the button below to play a phonics game. The children have been learning to hear, say and match the initial sound in words. 

We have been learning to retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff in nursery. You have been set some homework tasks based on the story. You can watch the video to jog your memory.

We enjoyed learning all about what happens at Chinese New Year. The children listened to the legend of Nian. We looked at some of the traditions such as lucky envelopes, Chinese lion dancing and when our parents stayed and played we made Nian puppets, lanterns and Chinese drums. 

On Friday we wore red for our Chinese New Year celebration day. We tried some delicious Chinese food and performed a lion dance for the whole of the school. I hope we weren’t too noisy!!

How can you help the Gingerbread man?

Last week, the children in nursery were problem solving. We thought about how the gingerbread men were hiding from the fox. They couldn’t cross Carr Mill Dam because they would get soggy! They knew they couldn’t trust Mr Fox because he would eat them up. The morning children decided to make a boat for the Gingerbread man and the afternoon children thought they would make a trap to capture Mr Fox, so he couldn’t eat them.

Here are some pictures of our work.