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.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and World Book Day 2022!
Welcome Back!
We were so excited to welcome Reception back this week, after a very wet and windy half term break. Our outdoor area definitely felt the effects of storm Eunice but was soon back in action!
Let’s Go! is the name of our theme this term. We’ll be looking at the season of Spring and growing. We’ll also be looking at different journeys and the vehicles we might use to make them. At the end of the term, we will be learning about Easter.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This week, our focus story was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We hope you enjoyed seeing the story come to life through the Reception Team’s World Book Day costumes!
This book has so many great learning aspects; we discussed days of the week, the life cycle of a butterfly, the ‘one more’ aspect of what the caterpillar eats at the start of the story and of course, we enjoyed re-telling the story.
Each morning the children wrote down their breakfast, to create a food diary.
We’ve also enjoyed creating symmetrical butterflies, sorting fruit and vegetables into where they grow, exploring our sensory tray, making dough characters from the story and more!
Maths
This week was all about meeting number eight and comparing numbers, especially identifying ‘more’ and using ‘one more’ to re-visit the ‘staircase pattern’
Can your child tell you how we make a staircase pattern?
World Book Day 2022
Wowee! What amazing costumes we saw on Thursday. Thank you for participating and for sharing your favourite books from home. Both the children and staff had a great day. World Book Day is one of our absolute favourite days in the school year, because reading and encouraging a love of books is so very important.
Home-link challenges
Next week, as part of our Let’s Go! theme, we will be reading a story about a journey into space. Please help your child find a fact about space that they can share in class. This could be specific to the vehicle used to travel to space or a general fact about astronauts/ space.
We’d really like to display some pictures of the first signs of Spring. If you go on a day out or a walk outside, please send in photos of anything you spy that is beginning to grow!
Reminders and messages
-Wellies: If your child does not currently have wellies in school, please bring them in. Due to the weather, our outdoor areas continue to be super soggy and muddy!
-PE: This half term, PE days will continue to be on a Wednesday and a Friday. Swimming for your class will be on the following dates:
Sunshine: 2 March, 16 March
Rainbow: 9 March, 23 March
-Shoe boxes: To support with our learning next week, please send in an empty shoe box.
-Potting and planting: At this time of year, we really appreciate any donations of spare compost, plastic pots and seeds. If you have any you would like to donate to our Early Years classes, please hand them to your class teacher. Thank you.
3,4 C Class News
On Thursday, we had great fun celebrating World Book Day.
We shared our favourite books and talked about our favourite characters. After watching a masterclass on creating interesting characters, we had a go at creating our own.
Our Topic for this half term is Computing. We can explain what a computer does using the words input, output and process. We are continuing to talk about the importance of online safety, referring to these rules to help us stay safe online.
World Book Day 2022
We had a fantastic day today, reading books, talking about books and dressing up as our favourite characters. The World Book Day song was a hit too.
We love reading and really believe books are a truly portable magic.
World Book Day!
What an interesting day! I don’t think I have ever taught Spider-Man or Gangsta Granny before. The children in 5/6 B didn’t disappoint with their fabulous costumes for World Book Day – they all looked great. During the reading lesson today, the children explored different texts and talked about their favourite authors. They created new book covers for their favourite books and rewrote blurbs, including some quotes. Some children created some excellent character profiles. We also enjoyed listening to an audio book.
Our new Spring topic – Computing.
Online Safety
Although we had a Safety Week last term, this is still high on our list of priorities, especially as we’ve started our new topic – Computing.
Computing topic
It’ll no doubt be a very enjoyable and engaging topic for our pupils and they’ll come home wanting to explore some more. There is a list of useful websites below for further coding, Scratch and online tools – you could explore together!
Golden Rules
Every week we shall be reinforcing the ‘Golden Rules’ with our children, which came from a helpful workshop GoWiseOnline last term, delivered by Sarah Lynch.
https://www.coderkids.com/blog/scratchjr-projects-for-kids
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!
Reading Journals
Children have been showing their love of reading by completing their weekly homework reading challenge. This is a great opportunity to share stories and recommend good books. At home, continue to share stories and discuss the themes.
Happy faces
This week, as part of our Expressive Arts and Design curriculum, we’ve re-visited learning to draw ourselves. We used mirrors to look at our faces and talked about what shape we needed to draw on the paper first. We then looked at our features and tried to add more details to our drawings such as hair, ears and eyes. Some children added tiny little lines for eye lashes and drew spirals for curly hair.
Have a go at home together. Can you draw each other? Start with a circle shape for your face and then add in some features.
You might have also spotted some funny faces on the table and window! We talked about some of the different faces that we make when we feel happy, sad, worried or angry and used iPads to take selfies of ourselves! In our loose parts area, we used the resources to create some of these faces with our friends. What could you use for the eyes? How would you make a sad face?
At the beginning of the week, children enjoyed some ‘red’ themed activities as there was a lot of excitement around Valentine’s Day. We cut out different sized heart shapes in the dough area and decorated them with crystals, we used mini hole punchers in the fiddly fingers area and there was a lot of activity in the mark making area as children created their own cards and signed their names.
We’ve also been busy building dens and obstacle courses with tunnels and slides in the Sunshine Room as the windy weather prevented us from being outside at the start of the week. In our small world area, we worked together to draw some roads and create a city to drive the cars around.
We hope that you all enjoy half term and we’ll see you on Tuesday 01 March when Nursery opens. Remember, we are closed on Monday for a Training Day.
If you’d like to send us a photograph of your favourite holiday activity or if your child wows you with something that they achieve during the week, please e-mail us. scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
Reminder – WORLD BOOK DAY
It’s World Book Day on Thursday 03 March and if your child chooses to, they can dress up as one of their favourite book characters and bring a copy of their favourite book to school. Please refer to the earlier school email for more details. Also, please be mindful of typical Nursery activities when choosing a costume – children need to be able to play both inside and outside comfortably and safely and they also need to be able to access the toilet easily in their costumes!
Please make sure you write their names on their books so that they make it home again for bed time.