Summer has begun…at last! We have enjoyed the sunshine as it has allowed us to use lots of water in our play and learning! It has been such fun to splash, squirt and spray everywhere!
A gentle reminder that we need your Sports Day t-shirts in as soon as possible…Health and Happiness weeks are getting close.
Worship
May-The Month of Mary
May is a very special month, as we remember Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all.
The whole month of May we will be learning about Mary and the Rosary. We will be thinking about Mary, saying special prayers to tell her how much we love her, and to ask her to help us stay close to her son Jesus and to try to live as Jesus shows us.
We will also be learning the Lords Prayer and the Glory be. We have already learnt the Hail Mary and next week everyone will be making their own Rosary!
Perhaps you can pray the Rosary at home together as a family.
Emma’s Blog
Hello everyone,
I hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday and have been enjoying the sunshine.
We have been in the garden every day this week and have been busy growing our brains, watching our seeds grow in the sun. The children have shown so much interest looking after everything they have planted and they especially love to water them.
Here is a fun growing activity to do at home; growing cress heads. The best thing to do once it has grown is to give your cress head a haircut and taste what you have grown. Click here.
The children have been busy in the water, using large pipettes for filling up large bottles and containers. This will help with developing the children's fine motor skills and strengthening their hand muscles. The children have also been pouring large containers of water over our wheel to make it spin. Carrying heavy objects carefully, can help the children develop balance, coordination, and strength. The children have loved the challenge.
We have continued using our muscles in PE as we have been using the apparatus for jumping, balancing, hopping and moving our bodies in different ways across the beams. The children came up with some fantastic ways to move their bodies and some were a bit tricky too. The children have been practicing their jumping from a high platform and landing on their feet without wobbling over. Their confidence is growing, which is lovely to see.
Something different happened at one of our story times this week. Some children stood up in front of their friends to help tell the story of the Gruffalo. Using the puppet characters, the children enjoyed getting involved and told the story beautifully. Everyone was so proud.
Here is a lovely story about a seed by Eric Carle. I hope you enjoy as much as me. Click here
Have a wonderful sunny weekend, and see you all on Monday.
Emma
Michelle’s Blog
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.
The weather has been glorious this week so we have found lots to do in the garden. Our sunflowers we planted from the seeds of last year's flowers have all start d to germinate. We are planning on sending them home before half term so you can grow them at home. It would be great if you could send us some pictures so we can see how big they are growing.
Preparations for sports day are well underway, Mr Murray gave us lots of practice of the fundamental movement skills in PE this week. The fundamental movement skills are running, hopping, jumping, throwing and catching. We hope you can come to Sports Day to see how well we have all improved in these skills.
We continue to work hard on our counting and number recognition. Here is a good game to practice number recognition, helicopter rescue. Click here
We were able to go on an adventure this week and explore school while everyone was at mass in the church. We were challenged with finding a cross, a set of rosary beads and a monkey in every classroom. We had lots of fun exploring and also visited the office and the kitchen.
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week
Michelle
Exploring school
All the children on Thursady went to mass which left us in school alone!! We had great fun exploring all the other classrooms and shared areas in school. Can you spot where we went?
Parent ‘Drop in’ session
We will be holding our half termly drop in session on Tuesday 14th May from 3.45pm to 4.45 pm. Try and pop in to see us and look what your child has been learning about at nursery.
Eco Day
Friday 17th May is Eco Day in school! Children attending nursery on that day are invited to bring £1 and wear green! If it is not your day…choose and other day to join in.
Our Eco Warriors in school will use donations to to enhance our eco environments in and around school. Please give us your support!
Reminders!
‘Walk, Scoot, Cycle or Skate’ to school month
Help us win £50!!! Each week the class that has the least cars arriving at school will win £50 to spend on new equipment of the childrens choosing
Remember to ‘Walk, Scoot, Cycle or Skate’ to school month during May. We want to encourage all members of our school community to get involved. If you drive to school, could you park a little bit further away so that you could walk in and quieten the roads? There is the Parish Centre car park that can be used or even just further down the road. Do you have bikes or scooters in your shed that need their cobwebs brushing off?
Each day during May we are going to tally this in each class and create a whole school picture. We really are counting on you to keep our roads around school safe.
Sports Day
Foundation Sports Day is being held on Tuesday 18th June at 2.00pm. All children are invited to attend this event but must be in nursery no later than 1.45 pm wearing shorts and trainers. As in previous years each child will be designing their own t-shirt. We therefore ask if everyone can bring in a. s. a. p. as named, plain white t-shirt. We have to start early to ensure that we get them all finished in time!!
Finally, word has it that it will be a sunny weekend, please make the most of it! Enjoy your time together and make some magical memories.
As always stay safe and God bless.
Barbara