Author: Reception Team

Do you have a copy of one of our favourite stories, ‘We’re going on a bear hunt”? If so, we’d like you to share it together at bedtime.

If you don’t have a copy of the book, perhaps you could visit the library or enjoy watching Michael Rosen telling the story on-line. He’s a brilliant story teller!

We’ve a small world area linked to this story in our outdoor area and children are enjoying re-telling the story using the props.

Swishy swashy…Squelch, squerch… Hoooo wooo…

Remember to tell us about your favourite part in the story and you’ll get a star for your hand print.

Wow! We’ve had another really busy week in Nursery. We continue to be really pleased with how well children are settling into Nursery life.

In the Sunshine room, the construction area has been popular. Children have loved using the bricks and other props to build trains, buses and planes. We’ve been on some exciting journeys; we even remembered that we needed tickets and made our own in the creative area.

There has been a lot of interest and enjoyment in playing with shapes and exploring colours. We shall continue with these themes next week as we add some shapes and colour enhancements to our provision to help consolidate the children’s learning.

In our maths area, the conker themed enhancement is providing lots of counting opportunities. Children have especially enjoyed trying to balance the conkers onto the Numicon pieces and dropping the correct number into the matching egg box.

Despite the varied weather, the children have continued to enjoy investigating and playing outdoors. Thank you to all those who brought things in for the Autumn investigation table or emailed pictures of your Autumn observations.

Each time your child participates in the home link activity they will get a star for their hand print. Our home link activities provide a great opportunity for your child to share and extend the activities they have enjoyed doing at Nursery.

‘We can’t go over it…’

Over the next few days, we’ll bring one of our favourite stories to life in our outdoor area – ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. There’ll be lots of opportunities for small world re-telling of the story and making the props to go on our very own bear hunt!

We had another exciting week in Nursery as we all continued to get to know our new friends. We’re amazed by how well our new starters are settling into their new environment and remembering to do all of their little jobs!

The children have really enjoyed exploring and playing outdoors; the water area and dinosaur small world have been very popular. We have also noticed the changes to the leaves and found our first conkers under the horse chestnut tree in our garden. It was great fun harvesting the carrots and radishes that the children planted earlier in the year. This gave us lots of opportunities for counting and talking about different colours and textures. Best of all, we got to eat them at snack time along with some apples and pears from our trees… totally organic!

We’ve been playing lots of listening games to develop both our listening and sound discrimination skills. Covering objects and encouraging your child to listen carefully to the sound is a good game you can play at home. Alternatively, putting objects in socks to create ‘sound socks’ is a fun way to develop listening skills.                                              

It was lovely to see so many happy faces last week, as our oldest children returned to nursery after the summer holidays.  We’ve also welcomed our new children and their families to nursery and we’re looking forward to getting to know them all over the coming weeks.

Reminders

Remember to send your child with a coat and some wellington boots. We play outside in all weathers.

Please name all items of clothing, including coats and shoes. We have already spotted several children with matching shoes; as you can imagine, it’s very tricky to return shoes and cardigans/jumpers to their owners when they are the same size/brand. Thank you in advance for your help.