Each week seems to be getting busier and busier, we are running out of time every day. We have and lots of glorious sunshine which has enable us to play in part of the garden. The builders have been hard at work making our new play house, the children think it looks fabulous and can’t wait to play in it. Next week they will be replacing equipment in our builders yard and rebuilding the wooden pathway between Reception and us.

After the Easter holidays we will be focusing on growing and planting, all donations gratefully received!

Worship

As it is world book day on Thursday we have been reading stories from the Bible, and what great stories there are. We particularly enjoyed Noah’s Ark. We used our Noah’s Ark resource to tell the story along side the book. Click here to watch the story at home.

If you fancy reading more Bible stories at click here.

As you would expect we are continuing our deep dive into the Easter story. This week we have discussed further the feelings of Judas, Mary, Jesus and His disciples. The peg people that Mrs Gregan made have help us to understand the meaning of Easter.

World Book Day

World Book Day provides a fantastic opportunity to focus on reading for pleasure, supporting children's autonomy in book choice, and embedding a habit of reading that brings a wide range of benefits.

On Thursday we all came to nursery dressed as a book character. We also joined in the school challenge of writing a story to go into the story telling chest. Our story was a Space story about the adventures of a moon rock!

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone,

We have been very busy again this week.

Firstly, we have been continuing our learning thread about space. We have been looking at the different planets and wondering what they look like. Did you know that there are 3 gas planets, and that the planets closer to the sun are the hottest. The ones farther away are the coldest.

The children have been busy making planets with Justine, using lost of different materials and textures to bring them alive.

We have also made our own story about a piece of moon rock that Barbara found on the moon! The children all contributed to the story, they had some great ideas.

As number 7 is the number we have been leaning about we decided to explore rainbows (as they have 7 colours). The children drew rainbows using chalk, blending the colours.

We investigated how rainbows are made in the sky, we became scientists. We found out that rain and light from the sun together make a rainbow, with the rain causing the light to refract (the bending of light). We did an experiment using a torch, water and a mirror to see if we could make a rainbow, and it worked! The children were very excited to see the rainbow we made.

Click here to see how rainbows are made.

We also did another experiment using Skittles sweets. We added warm water to the sweets which we had placed around the outside of a plate; we watched the colours creep towards each other, making an amazing rainbow. Have a go at home. I will be sending home some instructions for you to have a try.

We have been outside this week enjoying the Spring sunshine, getting back into our garden. It's not finished yet, as you have probably seen, but the children have been busy making their favourite obstacle courses which has been lovely to watch.

For all of you mums, have a wonderful Mother's Day and a great weekend. See you all on Monday.

Emma

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. We have continued growing our brains by learning the names of the planets in our solar system. We are learning that different planets have different properties. Some are big, some are small, some are made of rock and some are made of gas. Here is a fun quiz about planets, why not do it with your child. I am sure you will be surprised by how many planets they can identify from the clues. Click here.

This made us think if there were any other people/ creatures/ aliens living in our solar system. What would they look like? What would they sound like? We have decided to paint lots of aliens to decorate the wall. We read Here Come the Aliens to give us some ideas. Click here to listen at home. We then made our alien and called him Neno Cloudy.

We have continued our role play in our very own space station as we pretend to be astronauts in space. We have also practised our counting as we made an astronaut number line, blasting down from 10 to 0. We explored the one hundred square as we blasted off with the Numberblocks in space Click here.

We developed our physical skills by making a huge astronaut agility course in the garden. It was very big, and included lots of tricky balancing and our favourite thing of jumping off at the end.

This week was World Book Day and we have enjoyed learning about the greatest book of all, the Bible. We have re-enacted on of our favourite stories, Noah’s ark. This led to a discussion about looking after the world and the children had lots of suggestions for what they could do to help keep the planet safe for us all. They said we should not throw rubbish in the sea and we should look after the elephants and the tigers. We then visited the pen recycling centre in school to recycle some of our old pens.

Don’t forget we have parents’ evening for the next 2 weeks. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing all the fantastic progress all the children have been making.

Lastly, please log in to Purple Mash when you get the chance as there are some activities for your child to do.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle