Senses
Over the past two weeks, children in Nursery have been learning all about their five senses and what we use these for. They have completed a blindfolded obstacle course, a blind folded taste test, made their own musical instruments, and discussed the textures found outside, made binoculars and been on a listening walk. As well as learning lots of fun, new facts.
Herb Garden
A huge thank you to the AAP who provided funding for Nursery to create a herb garden. As you can see the children have had lots of fun this week, exploring the herbs using their senses and making potions and pies outside. They then used the herbs to make herb playdough, and used pestle and mortars to make perfume. As our herbs continue to grow, we plan on using them in everyday play, with the children having open access to explore.
Easter Egg Hunt
This morning the Easter Bunny had been into our foundation stage garden and hidden lots of cryptic clues. We had to follow the clues, which led us all around the school grounds. Half way through we found Easter chocolate coins to stop and eat. At the end of the hunt, hidden, were Easter eggs for all of the boys and girls, which were kindly donated by Morrisons, Bishop Auckland. What a fantastic morning we all had.
Herb Garden
This week in Nursery we have been planting herbs into our newly developed herb garden. We have planted thyme, mint and rosemary so far, and will continue to add to this. The children will then be able to use their herbs in their play in the mud kitchen. We also noticed that some fairies have started to visit our garden, and have taken residence by our toadstools.
Our new pets
This week we welcomed two new pets to Nursery. The children all suggested names for our goldfish and then we picked two names out of a hat. They are called Fizzy and Bubbles and are already very popular with the children.
Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day
To celebrate Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, and to raise awareness in Nursery, we celebrated by going green. We came to Nursery in green clothes, played in green water and green sand, and decorated green biscuits for snack time.
Red Nose Day 2022
To celebrate Red Nose Day 2022 in Nursery we came dressed as Superheroes. We completed lots of superhero challenges including, thinking about our own superpowers, rescuing the frozen prince or princesses, building with superhero foam, matching superheroes and making superhero masks.
World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day, Nursery children came into Nursery dressed up as their favourite book characters. They brought in their favourite story books from home to share. During the day, we read all of the children’s stories in groups and enjoyed talking about what had been read.
We had lots of fun celebrating Pancake Day in Nursery. We wrote a shopping list for the ingredients that we needed to buy, made pancakes, flipped pancakes and read the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes.
Veterinary Nurse
In Nursery this week, we have been learning all about animals and how we can look after them. We have been playing vets in the role play area, and talking about our pets at home, as well as drawing them. On Friday, we had a visit from a Veterinary Nurse, Charlotte. She told us all about how to care for animals, including medicines, vaccinations, and bandages. The children had great fun using the equipment.
Christmas Party
This morning Nursery children had their Christmas party. They had lots of fun dancing with their friends, playing pass the parcel, musical statues and musical bumps. They stopped for a break to have a snack and a drink before returning to Nursery. When they returned to Nursery they were surprised to see that Santa had been and left some presents along with snowy footprints.
Letters to Santa
This week we wrote our Christmas lists in Nursery. We then talked about how we could get them to Father Christmas. We wrote his address on an envelope, bought a stamp and posted them to the North Pole. The children thought the postman would send them using magic dust!
Christmas Fair
Nursery children had lots of fun at the Christmas fair. They guessed the name of the elf, had a go on the teddy tombola, picked candy canes, bought reindeer biscuits, and guessed the name of the reindeer.
Ice
When we went outside this week, we noticed that our water tuff trays had frozen. We had lots of fun exploring the ice, working as a team to decide how we could get it to melt and break. Children suggested running it under a hot tap, putting it in the microwave or smashing it. They had lots of fun smashing the ice off the walls and the floor.
Salt Dough Decorations
This week we have been busy in Nursery making salt dough. We followed a recipe and measured the ingredients carefully. Then we rolled the dough out to make Christmas tree salt dough decorations, using our fingerprints to make the baubles on the tree. We won’t show the finished product as it is going to be a surprise for parents.
Bird Feeders
As the weather is turning colder, in Nursery we have been talking about animals and how we can care for them in the colder months. Today, we decided to make some bird feeders to hang outside for the birds. We hung them by our allotment beds so we can watch the birds enjoying the feeders through our Nursery window.
Children in Need
To celebrate Children in Need we came to Nursery dressed in bright colours. During the session, we helped to rescue Pudsey from the frozen ice, counted spots onto Pudsey’s body, decorated Pudsey with cotton bud spots, made Pudsey puppets and decorated spotty Pudsey biscuits. We watched video clips and talked about how we have helped other children.
Nursery Autumn Walk
On Tuesday morning, despite the rain, all the Nursery children completed our Autumn walk. We saw lots of Autumn leaves and jumped in many puddles. The children all behaved very well and managed to walk quite a distance. We went past the park and the river. We walked under one bridge and walked over a different one.
Halloween Singing
In Nursery this week, we have been practising our Halloween number rhymes, 5 little ghosts and 5 little monsters. To celebrate Halloween on Thursday we had a Halloween party. We played musical monsters, wrap the mummy, apple bobbing, pin the tail on the pumpkin and had a Halloween feast, thanks to the generous donations from parents.
Mapping our Walk
This week, we went for a walk around the village, looking at features of Wolsingham. We noticed houses, bridges, shops, the library, church, cars, a caravan site and so much more. When we got back to Nursery, we drew a map of our walk, remembering all of the places that we saw along the way.
Gingerbread
This week, in Nursery, we have been talking about the special people that live in our house, and our family members. We decided to choose one of our family members and create a gingerbread version of them.
A visit to see the excavator
After lots of discussions about the building work that is happening down by the river, we decided to go and see the excavator. We had fun exploring at the river, pretending to dig in the pebbles for treasure. We even saw a safe that had been discovered under water.
Making Pizzas
In Nursery, we have been talking all about ourselves. Looking closely at our faces and features, discussing how we are all different, and equally all special. We used our fine motor skills to cut different ingredients carefully with a knife to make face pizzas. They tasted yummy!
EYFS Sports Day
Reception and Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed their joint sports day. The children all tried their best and worked together as a team. The highlight was the ice cream during the interval – well done Early Years!
Christmas Visitors
Nursery have a had fantastic last week with a visit from two Disney princesses who came and sang to them and reception. Then we had a doorstep visit from the big man himself Santa. The children are so very excited for Christmas.
Autumn Activities
In Nursery, as well as welcoming all of our new children, we have been learning all about independence, autumn and Halloween. We have been discovering all of the things we can do for ourselves, such as putting on our own coats, tidying up and even making a sandwich. We went for autumn walks where we collected seasonal items and brought them back to nursery to explore. We have had lots of fun mark making in lots of varied materials from shaving foam to salt. We have had lots of fun in our water tray too, making potions for Halloween, autumn soup with leaves, spaghetti with spiders and lime jelly with eyeballs. We have done lots of cooking and have made gingerbread men, fairy cakes, chocolate hedgehogs and pumpkin soup. We have even had a visit from Barry the hedgehog from Huffle hedgehog rescue.
Colour Mixing
This week in Nursery we have introduced a colour mixing station. The children have access to the three primary colours and a paint palette. They have enjoyed exploring all of the different colour combinations that they can make using just three colours.
Fun in the Snow
We had lots of fun in the snow today. We made snowmen, raced on sledges, pulled each other back up the hills, threw snowballs, and made coloured marks in the snow with food colouring.
Library Visit
In Nursery, we are very lucky to have weekly visits to the local library in Wolsingham. Children enjoy sharing stories, with adults and their friends whilst at the library. They then select a book every week to take home and share with their families.
Aeroplanes
In Nursery we have been learning about the Wright brothers who invented the aeroplane. We created our own airport, built a huge aeroplane, and made paper aeroplanes. We went on an adventure to find a steep hill so that we could test our paper aeroplanes, and see how far they would fly.
Supertato
This week Nursery children thoroughly enjoyed reading the stories about Supertato and the evil pea. They enjoyed lots of crafts which included; making their own Supertato models, cutting superhero vegetable sticks, making Superhero masks, finding the hidden vegetables and paying for vegetables in our vegetable shop with pennies.
