Class of 2012

The year has gone so quickly and it is now time to say goodbye.  We wish our class of 2012 a very enjoyable and safe summer and wish you lots of luck for starting Reception in September.

More rain!

The rain has brought the nature garden to life and today we found baby frogs hiding in some water collected in tyres.  There was lots of interest in observing them closely. 

The Big Toddle

Today was our 'Big Toddle'.  We dressed up as superheroes and did lots of running and jumping, as well as practising our football skills.  Well done everyone!

New playground being built

You might have seen the new building work that has been going on outside.  Lots of children have shown interest in watching the diggers at work and have been keen to do observational drawings.

Weather for ducks!

As we know it has been raining lots! But Nursery have enjoyed playing in the rain, especially watching what happens to the ducks in the puddles!

Meeting teachers from Tanzania

Today we met some teachers from Tanzania.  We found out which animals live in their country and learnt some words in Swahili.

Diamond Jubilee Picnic

Nursery celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by having a picnic.  We made our own sandwiches and decorated the outside area with flags and paper chains (which allowed us to practise 3 colour repeated colours!).  It was lots of fun!

What the Ladybird Heard!

We have really enjoyed this book!

We have become very good at using the story props to retell the story.



We were keen to catch Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len so we dressed up as Police officers!

We made our own police 'walkie talkies' and used them in the police station role play.  Where there were lots of opportunities for language development and mark making.

Garden Shop

Following on from enjoying Jack and the Beanstalk there was lots of interest in digging and planting. Through observing children's play we noticed that there was a shop starting to form so we made our own garden shop!

There has been lots of opportunities to practise using numbers in real contexts and develop our language skills.

Jack and the Beanstalk

For the next couple of weeks our learning will be based around the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

Look how much we enjoyed watching the story come to life!

We enjoyed helping Jack to chop down the beanstalk!

World Book Day

We enjoyed coming to nursery in our pyjamas!

Sharing our favourite story books!
Sharing books in our cosy bedroom.

Gingerbread Number Rhyme

The children have loved this number ryhme about gingerbread men - please sing at home too!

5 little gingerbread men lying in a tray.

One jumped up and ran away shouting 'Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!'

4 little gingerbread men lying in a tray.

One jumped up and ran away shouting 'Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!'

3 little gingerbread men lying in a tray.

One jumped up and ran away shouting 'Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!'

2 little gingerbread men lying in a tray.

One jumped up and ran away shouting 'Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!'

1 little gingerbread men lying in a tray.

One jumped up and ran away shouting 'Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!'

No little gingerbread men lying in the tray.

They all jumped up and ran away.

Oh how I wished they had stayed to play.

Next time I will eat them before they run away!!

Investigating the snow!

On Monday we were lucky enough to have some snow to explore in the Nursery learning garden.

The Gingerbread Man

We have enjoyed the story of the Gingerbread man and especially enjoyed making our own gingerbread men!

In the construction area the challenge was to find a way for the Gingerbread man to cross the river so that he would not get wet or eaten by the fox.

We built bridges and made boats!

Chinese New Year in Nursery

We decorated the Home Corner with lanterns, lucky money envelopes, bowls and chopsticks. There was lots of interest in the new items!

Red and gold are lucky colours in China. We used these colours for the playdough.

We made our own dragon puppets.

Chinese New Year in Nursery

We cooked some noodles.

Some of us tried to use chopsticks!

We practised writing Chinese numbers.