A bit of a wet one this week. The children have been less keen to go in the garden. Towards the end of the week when the sunshine popped his head out we quickly found that the garden was a bit muddy and full of leaves and twigs that had been blown off the trees! A big clear up team was needed!
Dan Worsley: Author visit
On Wednesday, Dan Worsley came to school. Dan is a local author and ex-primary school teacher who is passionate about developing a love of books and story telling. Mrs. Gregan invited some of our children to join Dan as he told magical stories. We loved it!
Worship
Me, My Body, My Health
The children met the story book characters of Freddy Teddy, Mollie the Cat and Billy Bird who will reappear throughout this scheme of work. They will learn about their uniqueness in real terms, including celebrating differences and individual gifts, talents and abilities. They will learn about looking after and using their God-given bodies and develop their vocabulary around this topic.
Click on the button to read the story
We also continued looking at God’s Wonderful Earth by watching a short video about the story of ‘Creation’. Click here to watch.
Meet One- counting to one
A little block falls out of the sky, meets her numberling and discovers one wonderful world, singing and counting to one. Click here to watch at home.
The children have been spotting ‘one’ everywhere! Click here to meet one and perhaps you could count ‘ones’ at home; one pan, one chair, one carrot…you get the picture…enjoy.
Michelle’s blog
Hello everyone
We have continued with learning about the Creation and this week have concentrated on "one world, one me" exploring similarities and differences. We learnt that although we are all people, we are all unique, with our own skills and talents. Even though people can have the same name, nobody is the same.
We are absolutely loving our PE sessions with Mr. Nay and this week we also had a session of Cherry Tots, where we explore our emotions through music and dance. This week we met Sad and Glad cherries and had lots of fun pretending to be sad and glad.
One of our independent skills we have been practising this week is putting our shoes and socks on after PE. This is a good skill to have so any practise the children can get at home will help your child enormously when they go to school.
Some of the children were chosen to represent nursery at a storytelling workshop by a local author. This was lots of fun and we were so proud of how well the children sat and listened during this event.
This week we have also met Number block number one and have been exploring the oneness of one. We will be meeting the rest of his friends over the coming weeks.
As part of our healthy eating project we made (and ate) fruit kebabs. They were delicious!
As you can see we have been so busy this week, I'm sure I've forgotten lots of other things.
Have a lovely weekend everyone and we will see you all next week.
Michelle
Emma’s Blog
Hello everyone I hope you are all well.
All the rain and wind has not stopped us from having so much fun this week at nursery.
The children have been working on moving their bodies in Mr. Nay's PE class on a Monday morning. Mr. Nay has been very impressed with how our children can follow his instructions by showing him how good they listen. We played a game where the children were split in to 3 teams and they took it in turns to run to the middle of the room to get a bean big and then take it back to their team. At the end, we all counted how many bean bags each team had collected. The children thought this was brilliant. We also played a moving game where Mr. Nay would shout out a movement such as hopping, running, backwards, jumping etc. The children had to listen and follow the instruction but he was quick at changing the movement. The children are having so much fun in Mr Nay's PE classes.
This week we have started to look at the number 1. We have been busy with different activities such as playing find the number one on the tuff tray. There were different numbers in the tray and the children had to pick out the number 1 by covering it with a gem. The children found this to be working there brains. I'll be sending this activity to take home and you could try using an object to cover the number 1 and when you find number 1 colour it in. We also have been looking at the number blocks on the screen and meeting number 1 which children recognise. We also have been writing the number 1 on the TouchTV. The children all did really well with controlling the big pen for the screen (duck fingers). There were lots of different coloured number ones; we had a rainbow of ones!
Here is a number counting game for you to play at home. If you start from 1 to 5 and if children would like it a bit trickier, go higher with your counting. Have fun and good luck. Click here
The children have been busy painting their own colour monster out of kitchen roll. The children chose the colour which showed how they were feeling; red for anger, blue for sad, green for calm, pink for loved, yellow for happy and black for scared. When the children had finished, they glued on some googly eyes to make them look more like monsters. The children had lots of fun and enjoyed tell us how they were feeling. They are now pinned up on our colour monster wall in nursery. The children are so proud of their monster.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. See you all next week, take care.
Emma
…and a few extra form Justine.
This week we met Sadie Spider...
Nestled in the rolling hills of Cape Ability, lies Weaver’s Cottage. This is where Sadie Spider lives, spending her days trying to catch those pesky little flies for her lunch, but it isn’t easy!
Through her story, Sadie showed us how to keep going when things got difficult. She helps us to change our mindset and have a more resilient attitude towards challenges in life.
Sadie showed such resilience when she kept trying to make a successful web. She modeled true grit and has the mantra, ‘Try, try, try (to catch that fly)’ She expects to work hard and enjoy the process! We have all been trying to be more like Sadie Spider and not give up when things get tricky!
Lastly, this week we have been celebrating our uniqueness and the fact that we are all so different. Click here to read about Colin and Lee Carrot and Pea and find our how it’s good to be unique. Click here.
Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy being together.
God Bless
Barbara