A big welcome back to nursery everyone. I hope you have managed some rest over the festive period.
This week we welcome a new nursery lady, Justine. She will be working alongside Hannah as a support key person. The children think she is wonderful! When you see her at the gate, introduce yourself and say a say a big hello!
The children have all come back to nursery ready to grow their brains. This week have been ‘finding out’ about Space, and working and thinking like a scientist. We have found out about the Hubble space probe, astronauts, space travel and the moon. We have even written our own song about aliens, (to the tune of ‘The Animals went in Two by Two’).
An alien came to visit you,
He roared, he roared,
An alien came to visit you,
He roared, he roared,
An alien came to visit you,
His head was green and his nose was blue,
You could hear him roaring
Did he frighten you?
NO!!
Here are our plans for January. We are going to be so busy!
Key Person Blog
Wow what a week to blast off with! We cannot believe the children have returned this week, so calm, focused and eager to learn. They have enjoyed telling us about their time at home over Christmas and drawing pictures of what presents they received.
Our new learning thread has well and truly launched itself with a bang. The children all had the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas in small groups…giving us nursery ladies plenty food for thought! Our discussions have given us some amazing wow words and the excitement has been evident all week—we have all been buzzing!
We have talked about and read the Cape Ability story about Tommy Turtle...a scared and shy character who needs to face his fears. This has in turn helped us all and we have had plenty of ‘Have a Go’ moments ourselves… rocket making; (including plenty of astronaut role play!), moon rock exploring and painting and drawing our own stars!
Thank you children for such a lovely first week back.
Colette, Hannah , Justine and Frances
This week we have started to explore the number 4. Click here to find out more. If you fancy a challenge here a Number 4/ Learn to count video. Click here.
We also looked at the sound ‘i’ with Geraldine the Giraffe. Click here to watch.
Worship
God made Me, God made you.
Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are created by God out of love and for love, it helps the children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships:
We learnt a new song called God made Me, God made You, and a new prayer. See if your child can remember them.
Next week we are planning to expand our knowledge of the moon and space travel. Perhaps the children can find out some facts to share?
We would also like the children to make their own rocket. Could each child please bring to nursery a named tube to start us off. Thank you in anticipation.
In the meanwhile here are just a few photos to give you a flavour of our learning this week! Lots more next week!
Next week, Michelle our new nursery deputy will be joining us, she can’t wait to meet everyone!
Please have a restful (and fun) weekend and we will see everyone on Monday. Don’t forget to check Purple Mash for more learning! Enjoy!
Barbara