Another busy week…
We have continued our exploration of the body and how to stay fit and healthy. We started by watching the following short videos:
Click here to find out about the main parts of the body and here to find out about the major organs of the body. We have also been discussing which foods are good for our body and which are treat foods.
Remembrance day
This week we have been talking about the importance of peace, unity, and bravery in our everyday lives. We have been encouraging the children to share their thoughts related to these themes, and discuss ways they can practice these values at home and school.
We talked about the reason poppies are used to remember those who have given their lives in battle; because they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World War One ended. We watched a short video that depicts The Great War experienced by the animal inhabitants of a WW1 battlefield. Click here to watch at home. Everyone spotted the poppies straight away. We even have made our poppy wreath for or Worship table.
On Monday we will be observing a Moment of Silence: to honour those who have served in wars and conflicts. We will sit quietly and think about the themes of peace, unity, and bravery during this time.
Emma’s blog
Hello everyone,
What a wonderful week we have had, continuing to grow our brains.
We have been busy making firework sticks using sparkly pipe cleaners. The children were challenged to wrap the pipe cleaners around the stick. It was a little tricky, as the children had to use both hands to control the twisting and wrapping. This activity targets improving fine motor skills, like the pincer grasp and hand strength. The children enjoyed making the sounds of fireworks as they were making them.
We have also continued to be creative this week, making poppy's for our nursery remembrance wreath to go on the worship table. The children painted part of an cut out egg box in the poppy colours, and as we were making them, we discussed what the poppy represents. Here is a video showing you how to make a egg box poppy wreath if you wanted to have a go at making one at home. Click here and have fun!
We have been enjoying PE outside this week with Mr. Murray. There has been lots of throwing activities and balancing the bean bags on our heads. We have been working as a team, sorting the coloured cones into our house colours. The children really enjoyed this time with Mr Murray.
As the weather is changing, we have needed to wear our coats a lot more. We have been teaching the children how to do the 'coat flip' to help them put their coats on themselves. Here is a video for you to have a go at home. This will help the children become a lot more independent when putting their coats on. Click here.
Have a fantastic weekend, and a big rest. See you all on Monday.
Emma
Michelle’s blog
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.
We have had a very busy week as we continue to learn all about our bodies. This week we have explored our insides, trying to work out how our bodies work and how all our organs fit into such a small space. We think our bodies are amazing, but we are learning that we have to look after them. We have to get lots of exercise and make healthy food choices.
We discovered that our potatoes and carrots had grown and were ready to eat. We worked hard digging them up, sorting and washing them. Then we had a carrot picnic in the garden. They were delicious!
We have also been busy learning about remembrance by making poppies and also bonfire night by making fireworks pictures on the computer.
We have also had lots of practice at writing the numbers we have met, 0 and 1.
Why not have a go at home. Don't forget your duck fingers!
Have a lovely weekend
Michelle
Christmas Nativity
We will be starting to learn our Christmas Nativity songs next week! We are all excited. The nursery children will be stars in our production. They will all require white leggings, a plain white t-shirt and a strand of silver tinsel please (named please). We have the shiny star costumes here ready and waiting.
Nativity productions will take place on:
Tuesday 3rd December: this production will be the dress rehearsal for the main school only. If you want your child to take part they will have to be in nursery at 8.45 am and collected at 10.30 am if it is not your child’s usual session. Please note a DVD of the production will be taken at this performance that you will be able to purchase.
Wednesday 4th December: Parent performance 9.30 am
Thursday 5th December: Parent performance 9.30 am
Please note: tickets are priced at £2 and owing to fire regulations are limited to 4 per family over both performances.
PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHILDS BOOK BAG TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS
Water bottles
May I please remind everyone that only water should be in your child’s water bottle. We have milk available if they prefer.
Spare clothing
An urgent request for any spare clothing you can donate to nursery. Our clothing stocks have dwindled and need replenishing. Please can you help? As always we would be most grateful.
Travelling Nativity
This week we will be starting sending home our Travelling Nativity sack. We start early to make sure that everyone has a chance to journey to the stable with us. It contains the story of The First Christmas, candles and some figures so that your child can act out the story that you have read together. Also in the sack this year there will be a Journey to the stable reflection book. We would love your child to draw a representation of the story in the book. Remember to write your child’s name on the page so we can share the reflections at school.
We would be grateful if you could send some images of your child using the story sack for our Worship book. If you send them from your phone we will print them here. Enjoy!!
Children in Need
Next Friday (15th November) we will be collecting for Children in Need. The children are invited to come to nursery in their pyjamas, bring along a teddy and pay £1!!! All proceeds will go to Brian House Children’s Hospice. Please give them your support.
Parent Drop in session
This half we will be holding our drop in session on Tuesday 19th November 3.45-4.45 pm. This is an opportunity just for you to come to nursery and see what we have been learning. It will also give to chance to chat to the nursery team . Please try and bob in to see us.
Number 1
This week we met number 1. We discovered the concept of ‘oneness’. One is a single unit. If one is the quantity then what is being counted is arbitrary, and the size of the one thing counted is also arbitrary, e.g. one sun or one ant- there is one of each even though the sun is bigger than an ant.
One is represented as a Numberblock, as a finger, familiar things, as a spoken word, as a movement (one hop), as a numeral. Related words for oneness, e.g. first and alone.
During this episode there is opportunity to attach the number name ‘one’ to a single unit.
We use ‘one’ in multiple situations, e.g.
The answer to ‘how many…?’
One is the amount
One is the quantity
First means position one
Once means one time
We encourage the children to use a stem sentence to talk about a single unit, e.g. “ I see one apple.”
Click here to meet one and everything will make sense! In this episode a little block falls out of the sky, meets her numberling, ONE, and discovers one wonderful world of numerous single things that appear during the song. One also sings about being first in line and being lonely.
As you can see it has been another very busy week! Have a lovely weekend and I will see everyone on Monday.
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara