Welcome back!
Welcome back! We can’t wait to begin the summer term and find out all about your holidays. Thank you for your emails to share some of your learning with us from the last few weeks. It’s been great to see that you’ve been taking care of your bean plants and remembering to water them! Don’t forget to send us a photo of your plant to show us how much it has grown.
We’d also love to find out to how you’ve been getting on with your home learning targets. Have you been singing number rhymes and showing ‘finger numbers’? Have you been practising forming some of the letters of your name correctly or did you write a message in an Easter card? Maybe you decorated an egg with some patterns. Please take a couple of minutes to send us a brief email to let us know how your child is getting on. If you need any other ideas or support, please speak to a member of the Nursery team.
We’d also like to welcome Miss Thomas to Nursery this week. She will be joining us everyday and will be the Key Person for Green group. She can’t wait to start and to get to know everyone.
We’ll begin this week talking about the holidays and Easter celebrations as children settle back into Nursery routines. Look out for a post about our new topic and interests soon.
Happy Easter!
We’ve had a very egg-citing week learning all about Easter and taking part in some traditional Easter activities. We’ve sampled Hot Cross Buns at snack time, made Easter nests, decorated eggs and joined in an egg hunt.
In our sensory area, we looked at different types of egg – raw, scrambled, fried and boiled and talked about the differences that we could see. We also talked about the changes that occur when you heat an egg. Can we turn the scrambled egg back into raw egg? As we made Easter nests, we observed what happened when we heated the chocolate. We also noticed it got harder as it cooled in our bowls. It looked like the solid chocolate again!
Remember to plant your beanstalks! Children have been learning about the life cycle of a bean and talking about what plants need to grow. Can they remember what happened to the seed? They might also be able to name some key parts of their plant such as the seed, roots, stem and leaves.
We hope that you have a fantastic holiday and enjoy the Easter break. We’ll look forward to hearing all about it when we return to Nursery on Tuesday 19 April.
Reminders
- Please check that your child’s uniform/ clothing is named over the holidays.
- It was great to speak to you at our parent teacher consultations. If you notice your child achieving any of the targets that we discussed, or if you work on them during the holidays, please send a quick email to share their progress with us.
Tuesday – Hard boiled eggs!
On Tuesday 29 March, we’re going to decorate eggs. Please send your child to Nursery with a HARD boiled egg, wrapped safely in some named tissue/ a bag / container. We’ll have a few spares for emergencies! Thank you.
Red Nose Day fun!
We had a break from ‘beans’ on Friday and joined in some Red Nose Day themed fun. In the creative area, we printed on red noses and made our own – it was quite tricky to get them to stay on! We also enjoyed chopping up and investigating what was inside some ‘red noses’ (tomatoes!) in the sensory area. Thank you for joining in with our fundraising and your kind donations.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
We’ve loved reading the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and children have been using the story props in our small world area to re-tell the story. Fee Fi Fo Fum!
We also used a non-fiction text to learn about the life cycle of a bean. You might have spotted the bean seeds that we’ve been planting through the waving window in the Rainbow room. Some of them have started to germinate already; children spotted cracks in their seeds and tiny roots beginning to emerge.
In maths we’ve been sorting and counting seeds. We looked at the numerals on the pots and counted out the correct number of seeds to match. We tried to make sure that we remembered to STOP when we got to that number. Afterwards, we checked that we had got the correct number by lining up the seeds and counting them, touching just one seed at a time.
We’ve explored the texture and smell of different types of beans in the sensory area, including baked beans, kidney beans and butter beans. The baked beans were very smelly!
Other activities this week included painting beanstalks using rollers and leaf stamps, threading beads onto straws in our fine motor area and planting seeds in our gardening area outside.
Some children also enjoyed learning about bees using some non-fiction books because they found a very large, dead bumble bee outside and were fascinated by it. Could it sting us? How many legs did it have? They enjoyed being able to look at it closely and see the tiny hairs and patterns on its wings.
Thank you to everyone who was able to send in a baby and toddler photograph. Children loved looking at these and talking about how they have changed. If you haven’t sent them yet and would like to, please email us and we’ll add them to our ‘growing up’ display. We’ll continue to learn about ‘growing’ next week and will discuss things that we do to help us to grow and be happy and healthy.
Reminders
- Please look out for an email with the Zoom details for our Parent Teacher Consultations next week. We will send them in the morning on the day of your appointment. Please get in touch if you do not receive one by lunch time.
- Lots of children’s names have come off their water bottles. Please could you make sure your child’s is clearly visible. Thank you
Nursery open – Monday 14 March
Nursery will be open at 9am on Monday 14 March. We will continue to use the main Nursery entrance for all children. Thank you for your patience as we register everyone.
Wanted – Baby photographs!
Next week, we’ll be learning all 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 are able to, please send us an email with a photograph of your child as a baby and a toddler. We’ll use these in group time and will also look at them in Nursery throughout the week. scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
World Book Day
It’s been an eventful first week back with both ‘Pancake Day’ and World Book Day!
We loved all of your super costumes and enjoyed reading some of your favourite stories. Here are a few snaps for you to enjoy spotting our favourite characters!
In maths, we’ve been learning about the number 3. There are lots of stories involving the number three, we read some of them as part of our World Book Day celebrations. Can you think of any?
In group time, we looked at 3 spots on a dice, 3 counters on a five frame and spotted that there were 3 corners and sides on a triangle. We all collected three things from around the room and counted them carefully to check that we’d all found 3. Have a look to see if you can find groups of three things around your home. Can you spot the number three on any house doors or number plates? We also liked watching this song all about the number 3.
Here are a few other activities that we’ve enjoyed this week.
Before the holiday, as part of their music sessions, children enjoyed making their own musical instruments. We hope that you had as much fun playing them as we did!
Reminders
- Please check your emails and remember to book an appointment for our Parent Teacher Consultations that will take place soon. Please refer to your email for more details.
Goodbye and good luck!
Sadly, Mrs Crompton will be leaving us on Friday to start a new job, closer to her home. We’d like to say thank you to Mrs Crompton for all of her hard work in Nursery over the last few years and we know that she will be missed. We wish her lots of luck in her new job.
Thank you and good luck, Mrs Crompton!
Shrove Tuesday
We had a great first day back at Nursery; it was Shrove Tuesday so we enjoyed making and eating pancakes at snack time. Children enjoyed mixing the ingredients together and watching Mrs Beesley cook them and flip them in the pan. We learnt a new rhyme as we cooked them. Can you say it together at home the next time you have pancakes?
Mix a pancake, stir a pancake, pop it in the pan. Fry a pancake, toss a pancake, catch it if you can!
