Welcome back
What a fantastic start to the new term we had today. The children returned to Nursery wonderfully and settled in happily. During ‘chat and snack time,’ they shared all their exciting news about Easter holiday trips and visits from the Easter Bunny.
We’re looking forward to a busy week ahead in Nursery with some creepy crawly visitors arriving soon, so be sure to check back later this week to see what we’ve been up to!
Story of the week
This week we will be sharing ” The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. at story time.
Sound of the week
Ff for Flamingo
Nursery Rhyme of the week
On Friday, we will be meeting some new friends who will be joining the Green group next week. The children are excited to welcome them and help show them around.
We can’t wait to get started our summer term started.
Reminders
Could everyone please check that their child’s shoes are clearly labeled with their name? We’ve noticed that sometimes names can wear off. This year, we have several children with identical footwear, and it’s causing some confusion. Having names in shoes will help us sort this out.
Thanks for your continued support.
Wheels, wings and other things
Growing and changing
Children enjoyed learning about how they’ve grown and changed from being a baby this week. We looked at our baby and toddler photos in group time; thanks for emailing them to us. We talked about some of the things that the children can do now , that they couldn’t do when they were a baby such as talking, riding a bike and eating food.
To continue our learning about ‘growing up’, we helped to take care of the babies in the water tray, carefully giving them a bath and washing their hair.
As we drank our milk at snack time, we continued to talk about how to keep our bodies healthy and how to look after our teeth. We used toothbrushes in the sensory area to clean the dirty teeth and we listened to some songs all about how to brush our teeth. We talked about how important it is to brush them twice a day.
This song helps us to remember how to brush our teeth.
In our group times this week, we learnt about the number 5. We looked at 5 candles on a cake and put 5 objects into a 5 frame. We could see that there were no spaces left now.
Help at home: As you play with your child have a go at including some of these things into your play and conversation.
- Can you count 5 objects? Remember to line them up and touch/point to each one carefully as you say one number for each item.
- Can you count to 5 and show 5 on your fingers?
- Can you spot the number five on house doors or car number plates?
- Count 5 objects from a pile and remember to STOP when you get to 5.
Next week’s learning
Next week, we’ll learn all about celebrating Easter.
Nursery Rhyme of the week
Can you join in with the rhyme at home
Sound of the week– Ll
Reminders
Green group’s parent teachers consultations are on Wednesday 01 April via zoom. You will receive an invite for your ten minute appointment via the school office.
If you have not yet booked an appointment please speak to a member of the Nursery Team.
Nursery closes for the Easter break on Thursday 02 April returning on Monday 20 April.
Oliver’s vegetables
This week we have explored vegetables and herbs. In the creative area, we did some observational drawing of different vegetables and looked at the shape and colours as we drew.
In the sensory area we used our sense of touch to investigate frozen peas at the beginning of the week. At the end of the week we had lots of herbs to explore, we smelt, looked closely and touched thyme, basil, mint, rosemary and coriander.
In the play dough area, we rolled tiny balls of dough to make peas and counted out the correct number to go into each pod.
In the maths area, children looked at lots of carrots and sorted them by length. There was lots of conversation using different vocabulary related to size. Look how long this one is! This carrot is tiny, it’s very short. Your carrot is longer than mine.
Lots of children have now taken home their beans or sunflowers to continue to grow and care for. Children have enjoyed learning how to take care of their plants and the importance of caring for the world around them.
Hasn’t it been wonderful to see the sunshine this week! Once the sun makes an appearance our outdoor water play becomes a very popular area. We enjoyed pouring, filling and exploring the resources. Hopefully this is the start of some lovely weather.
Help at home.
We have been thinking about positional language in our maths. Using words such as “above,” “below,” “next to,” “in front of,” and “behind.” We used toy characters and placed them in different positions.
Can you give your child an instructions including some positional language when playing? For example, “put the car in front of the house.” Then let them be the teacher and give you the instructions too.
Next week
Nursery rhyme of the week
Sound of the week
Bb is for bear.
Reminders
We still need your baby and toddler photographs for our learning. . If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please see our previous post and e-mail us one if you can.
Spring is here.
This week, children enjoyed drawing and painting daffodils to create a Mother’s Day card. Before children drew them, we talked about the shape and colour of the stem and the petals on the flower. They were all really proud of their pictures and couldn’t wait to take them home; we hope you liked them.
We have been completing our Spring checklists too, so far we have spotted daffodils, white blossom on the trees , green leaves, buds and snow drops.
Help at home
What signs of Spring can you spot when you are out and about?
In Maths this week we have been matching numerals to quantity by putting the flowers on the grass. Checking we had the correct amount by counting carefully.
Our beanstalks are growing! The children have been taking very good care of their beans watering them every day. This week we noticed roots and shoots appearing.
Outside we got busy in the Nursery garden too, tidying the planters ready for planting some of our own seeds in the coming weeks. . The children decided that we would like to grow some carrots and peas.
Next week
Nursery rhyme of the week
Sound of the week
Hh for helicopter.
Reminders
Thanks to everyone who has sent in a baby and toddler photograph for our learning next week. If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please see our previous post and e-mail us one if you can.
scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
Green group parents and carers don’t forget to book an appointment for your parent teachers consultation (Wednesday 01 April) .You will have received information about this from the school office. On this occasion the meeting is via zoom, next time it will be in person.
Books and beans
We LOVE reading in Nursery and we’re always excited to join in with celebrations for World Book Day. The children from Year 5/6 came to read our favourite stories to us . We all had a lovely time.
Here are a few photos – Can you name the characters and match them to the book?
We’ve been planting our own beans this week. We’ve spoken about what they will need to grow and how we will look after them.
We’ll be watching our beans closely to check for any changes. Have a look at drop off, or pick up they are in Sunshine Room.
Next week’s learning
We’ll continue with our growing theme and will listen to Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French.
Nursery Rhyme of the week
Sound of the week
Help from home
Over the next few weeks , we’re learning about growing up and looking at how we change as we get older.
It would be great if we could look at some photographs of children when they were babies and toddlers. If you’re able to, please send us an email with one photograph of your child as a baby and one photograph of them as a toddler. We’ll use these in group time and will also be creating a ‘Guess who?’ display in Nursery.
scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
Reminders
Lunchboxes – please ensure that these are clearly named on the outside of the bag/box. We have a number of identical lunchboxes in Nursery and need to ensure that the correct lunch is given to each child.
Jack and the Beanstalk
We have been making the most of the warmer weather this week by developing our physical skills outside. It was with great excitement that we could once again use our climbing wall, slide and wobbly bridge. Unfortunately it had been too wet and slippery to use since Christmas. The children had checked every day and decided it was ” not safe”. A cone was added which the children understand means ” it’s not safe to play here today” But this week it was safe, so the children were able to practise lots of skills.
Climbing, balancing, crawling, negotiating space and turn taking.
The story for the first part of this half term is Jack and the Beanstalk. The children enjoyed joining in with the repeated refrain ” Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, watch out everyone here I come “.
Here are some of the activities related to the story from this week in nursery.
As part of our ‘Understanding the World’ curriculum, we’re beginning to learn about different forces. The children loved exploring the magnets in the discovery area and taking them around Nursery to see what they were attracted to and which objects they would ‘stick’ to. We used some construction kits that used magnets to create some fantastic models too.
Next week’s learning
Nursery rhyme of the week
Can you join in with the rhyme at home?
Sound of the week
Reminders
Nursery Coffee morning – Wednesday 4th March
Come along from 9am – 9.30am to share your child’s learning journey.
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
If your child wants to, they can come dressed as a book character or anything else book-related (but please don’t feel the need to go out and spend money on a costume).
Next week in nursery
Nursery coffee morning – Wednesday 04 March
As you will have seen advertised in the school calendar, we have a Nursery coffee morning on Wednesday 4th March from 9am until 9:30am.
Come along and share your child’s learning journey and get to know other Nursery parents/carers. Some of the Scholes (Elmet) Primary School staff will also be there to chat to
We look forward to seeing you – come along to the Hub (the door just to the side of Nursery) after you have dropped your child off at Nursery.
World Book Day – Thursday 05 March
Thursday 5th March is World Book Day. We’ll be celebrating with lots of book-based activities in Nursery.
If your child wants to, they can come dressed as a book character or anything else book-related (but please don’t feel the need to go out and spend money on a costume).
Please remember that it will be a normal Nursery day, involving indoor and outdoor activities, so outfits need to be weather/ play appropriate.
Superhero me
Lunar New Year
We had a great final week of half term; children loved reading a book about the Lunar New Year and we watched to some short video clips find out how people prepare for the festival and celebrate with their families.
We enjoyed decorating a lunar lantern with some of the handwriting patterns that we’re learning (circles, zig-zags, waves and lines) . We used scissors to practice our “snipping skills” too. The children were very proud of their learning.
In the sensory area we explored noodles. They were “ sticky” “ stretchy” “ gooey” “ cold” and “ sticky” Lots of great vocabulary to describe how the noodles felt.
On Tuesday it was Safer Internet Day in school. In nursery we talked about how important it is to keep safe online. We spoke about always only using a tablet or iPad when a grown up is with you.
Here is a useful website for advice and tips for keeping your child safe on line.
Keeping your under 5 safe online
Learning after half term:
We’ll be reading Jack and the Beanstalk and beginning our ‘growing’ theme. If you have a copy of the book at home, please read it together to help familiarise your child with the story. We’ll be looking for signs of spring in the garden, too. When you’re out and about over half term, see what ‘signs of spring’ you notice – it could be flowers beginning to grow or birds singing.
Nursery rhyme of the week – Mary, Mary quite contrary.
Sound of the week – Ee
Have a happy and healthy half term and we look forward to finding out about your holidays when we return to Nursery on Monday 23 February.