Working together.
Thanks to everyone who brought in Autumn treasures. We shared our final few this week. So many interesting things pumpkins, conkers and acorns. We have really enjoyed sharing their contents and finding out all about them.
Using them all we created a display to explore together. Magnifying glasses helped us to look closely,
“The pine cone looks big”
“I see lines on the leaf”
The artist, Andy Goldsworthy inspired our autumnal creative work this week. We worked together to create a spiral pattern of conkers, pine cones and leaves.
Our interest in autumn has helped us to develop our fine motor skills too. This is the development of the muscles in the fingers. This will help us to develop an effective pencil grip.
We balanced conkers and fir cones on up- turned cups. Used tongs to add conkers to our recipes in the mud kitchen. Then caught leaves with tongs in the water tray.
Why not try this at home ? Use old kitchen tongs or pegs to pick up the leaves in your garden or at the park. Let us know how you get on.
We always enjoy watching the children lead their own learning in nursery. This happens when they develop their own activities. Last week they used the hoops and decided to collect objects from around the outdoor provision that matched the colours of the hoops. Leaves, bricks, pens, flowers and cars were all placed into colour sets.
They then found orange flowers and pink bricks, but there weren’t any orange or pink hoops. What to do? They found some coloured paper and completed the sets. Lots of mathematical talk, co operation and team work. Super learning nursery.
Next week’s learning
Our story next week is Room on the Broom, it’s written by the very popular author, Julia Donaldson. You may be familiar with the story from the BBC version. You can watch it on BBC iplayer
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Incy Wincey Spider Can you sing this at home?
A few reminders
- Parent Teacher consultations – Please don’t forget to sign up for these 10 minute appointments. This is an opportunity to find out how your child has settled into nursery. It’s on zoom this time, the next meetings will be in person.
- We still need your family photos. The children are really enjoying talking about their special people and seeing their photos in our home area each day.
Autumn treasures
Thank you for returning your autumn treasure bags to nursery. This week, we began to look at their contents. The children enjoyed talking about what they had found and where they found their autumn treasure. Don’t worry if you haven’t had a chance to go for a walk yet, there’s still time. Please return your bag to Nursery over the next week.
We’ve been learning all about autumn this week; we talked about the changes that we could see around us in our Nursery garden. We saw that the leaves were changing colour and falling from the branches. We listened to a song about autumn leaves falling down and named lots of different coloured leaves that we could see outside.
In our story corner, children have enjoyed listening to the story of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. They’re getting really good at re-telling the story and joining in with the repeated refrains.
Next week, we’ll continue to learn about autumn and will look at some artwork by Andy Goldsworthy, so don’t forget to bring your autumn treasure bag back to nursery.
Help at home
Next week our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Humpty Dumpty Can you join in with this nursery rhyme?
We are continuing to explore “We’re going on a bear hunt” We will be joining in with the rhyme and adding our own sound effects.
Reminders
- Our individual photographs will take place on Tuesday 07 October. If your child does not attend nursery on a Tuesday but you would like them to have their photograph taken please contact school.
- Don’t forget to send in your family photos to add to our display. The children are really enjoying talking about them. Send them to our email address scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
Dinosaurs
As the children continue to explore the provision lots of different interests have been emerging, this week it has been dinosaurs. We’ve developed a small world dinosaur land to encourage creative play and communication.
“This dinosaurs says roar”
” my dinosaur has sharp teeth”
We enjoyed using the ramps last week. This week we used them to roll some of the apples and conkers that we found in the nursery garden. We counted them as they reached the bottom.
We experimented with other things that roll too. In the paint this week we tried our hand at painting with rollers. This up and down motion will help us later when it comes to developing our skills as a writer.
Next week, we’ll talk about the changes that we are noticing outside. Look out for a brown bag in your child’s folder – we’d like you to fill it with autumn treasure that you find and return it to Nursery.
Our focus story is the popular story “We’re Going on a bear Hunt” We will be exploring this story using our own puppets and props.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – watch the story hear told by Michael Rosen.
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week will be Baa Baa Black Sheep. Listen to the rhyme together here
Reminders:
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- Please don’t forget to send a family photograph for our home corner display Please send it to scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
- We play outside in all weather – please remember to send your child with a waterproof coat every day.
Family photographs
As we’re getting to know everyone, we like to talk about our families and home life.
To encourage children to tell us more about their family life, please e-mail or bring a photograph of your child with their family to Nursery. These will be displayed in our home corner for children to look at and talk about with staff and their friends. scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
Thanks
Let’s get busy.
This week, many children continued with their transition sessions and have stayed for a full day at Nursery. We’ve had lots of happy faces as children waved good-bye to parents and carers each morning.
Here are a few photos of our play and learning this week – you can see that children are very busy and happily, engaged in play. This is just what we like to see once children have settled into their new environment! We strive to make Nursery a happy and healthy place to learn.
We were really excited to pull up the carrots from our garden this week. Look how big they are. We washed them, cut them and enjoyed them at snack time. Yum, yum.
Now that children are familiar with our Nursery classrooms, over the next few weeks, you’ll start to see some changes in our areas of provision as we introduce new small world areas and themes for our learning.
Help at home – Can you sing the ” Wheels on the bus” nursery rhyme? Can you remember all of the actions? The Wheels on the Bus
Next week we will be reading our first focus story ” The Three Little Pigs”. We will be using story props to retell the story. The Three Little Pigs
Reminders
- Don’t forget to let us know your child’s current interests for our “What makes me tick” board.
- We need your child’s All about me sheet brining back to nursery, it’s not too late.
Getting to know you.
We’ve had such an exciting and busy week in nursery. Our returning children came back telling us all about their holidays, finding their friends and playing in their favourite places. We then welcomed our new friends at our stay and play sessions, grown-ups came too, to join in with all of the fun activities.
This week we’ve been busy helping the children to settle into their new environment. It can take quite some time to remember where everything is but the children are doing so well. They’ve been exploring all of the nursery provision, from building in the construction site to baking in the mud kitchen. We have had lots of fun!
Here are some pictures from our very busy first week in nursery,
Finding out what everyone enjoys playing is our next job. You can help us with this by adding a note to your child’s photo on our “What makes us tick” board. Whether its diggers or dancing to K-pop, we want to know. Ask your child’s key person for more details.
A few reminders
Please don’t forget your child needs a coat every day.
Please clearly name your child’s water bottle.
Don’t forget to register for your child’s milk with the dairy (details in your welcome pack)
Please return the” All about me” sheet – another way we can get to know lots about your child.
Best start in life
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written a letter to parents with a focus on ensuring children have the best start in life. It signposts parents to the best start in life website – there’s information on Best Start Family Hubs and support with your child’s early health and learning.
Welcome to Nursery
Hello everyone!
We’ve been busy this week meeting some of our new children at their home visits. It’s been lovely finding out about you all and what you like to do. We’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our returning children. We can’t wait see see how much you have grown and to find out about your summer holidays.
Nursery is now ready for the new school year. Have a look at the photos to see what you might like to play with next week. We’ve tried to make sure that there’s something for everyone to enjoy, including some of your favourite things that you told us about on home visits. We’ve got Paw Patrol, a farm, diggers, The Gruffalo and our mud kitchen bikes ready for you to come and play.
Where will you play?
A few reminders from home visits: what your child will need every day…
- A waterproof coat (named)
- A pair of wellies (named)
- A change of clothes (top, trousers/ leggings, underwear, socks)
- A filled water bottle (named)
Packed Lunches
Does your child have a packed lunch at school? If so, please download our Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches.
Did you know that popcorn is a choking hazard for children under 5? Lot’s of people don’t! The Food Standards Agency. has published the following advice on how to prepare food safely for your young child.
Getting to know you!
