Welcome back everyone!
I hope Everyone had a fabulous Christmas and are well rested. We are all raring to get our bodies and brains moving!
My Happy Mind
During this module, the children will learn all about the importance of gratitude, or being thankful. Key learning points include: learning the importance of being thankful and that it helps us and others to feel good. We will experiment with different ways of showing their gratitude. We will start to develop a habit of taking the time to stop and show gratitude as well as learning about the importance of stopping and taking time to be thankful.
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Meet Number 4
This week we met number 4! Four is the new block on the block and can’t wait to share how much he loves to be square! Click here to watch.
We are learning that:
4 is one more that 3
counting to 4
the structure of 4 as a square number
the recognition of 4 items without counting (subitising)
Look out for the number 4 puzzle to make at home!
Read write Inc.
This week we have been learning some new sounds; c, k, u, b, and f. We have been spotting them everywhere! The tricky part is remembering all the other sounds we learnt before Christmas. Keep having a go at home, it really does help.
Gealdine the giraffe:
for c click here
for k click here
for u click here
for b click here
for f click here
Don’t forget we are only learning Set1 Phonics, don’t be tempted to race ahead! Click here for more information.
People who help us!
This week we have started to explore the world of ‘Fearless Fire Fighters’. We have all been painting fire fighters, a pump engine and of course the hoses. To begin our week we read books about the life if a fire officer and then watched a couple of short videos…then we were off. The construction area quickly became a fire station and the garden our hose pipes put out lots of pretend fires!!! Click here and here to watch at home.
We also made a doctors surgery…great fun!
Snowy Days!
We had great fun in the snow this week…we made a snowman!!
Emma’s Blog
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
The children have got right back into nursery life, and have been enjoying being back with their friends and growing their brains again.
We enjoyed the snow on Monday, which was still untouched from Sunday in the nursery garden. The children helped to make a snowman, with a hat and a smiley face. We listened to the crunching sounds under their feet as we were playing.
As it is a new term, we have been discussing our new topic 'People who help us'? Firefighters, police officers, doctors, shop assistants, and many more. We played a game where we matched objects to a picture of someone who helps us, for example, bits of rubbish would go with the picture of refuse collectors etc.
The children had a great understanding of how people help us. Here is a video about different people who can help us. Click here.
We continued our learning by meeting numberblock 4. We found out that 4 blocks can make a square. We also have been learning some new sounds c, k, u, b, f. The children have been enjoying the challenge.
I have set some fun activities on the Purple Mash app. Please have a look, as I can't wait to see your work.
Have a lovely weekend, and I will see you all on Monday for more learning.
Emma
Michelle’s Blog
Hello everyone and welcome back to nursery.
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a lovely time with your family.
We were so excited to start the new year with snow. We made a wonderful snowman in the garden and watched him everyday until he turned into ice.
We loved hearing the children tell us all about their adventures over the Christmas holidays.
We will be sending home a challenge bag where the children have to build a snowman using tweezers. It would be helpful if you could return this back to nursery at your child's next session. Thank you in advance.
Our learning this half term will be concentrating on our theme of People Who Help Us. We have learnt more about all the important jobs that people do
We have also learnt that anyone can help somebody else. We can all be kind and make a difference. We watched this video and tried to spot all the acts of kindness. Click here.
This week we have celebrated the feast of Epiphany as we went on our own journey to the worship area where we met the Maji. Epiphany is a Christian festival that takes place just after Christmas, around the 6th of January. The Epiphany story celebrates when the Three Wise Men (sometimes known as the Magi or Three Kings) arrived to see Baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It is also known as Three Kings Day or the Feast of Epiphany and is celebrated in many places around the world.
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week
Michelle
Purple Mash
Purple Mash is a comprehensive suite of online learning tools and content, designed to be used by school and nursery in the classroom and at home. This is a wonderful site, please take full advantage of it! Your login details and how to use the programme will have been sent home. If you have misplaced them or not recieved them let me know.
Also, keep checking regularly as your child’s key person will be setting work for you to do at home (if you want to).
Enjoy!
Lastly, can I remind everyone that your child will need one piece of fruit or veg for each session. We have milk and water here or if you prefer you can send a water bottle from home. Please no juice.
As you can see it has been a busy start to 2025, even more learning next week so have a restful weekend and I will see yo on Monday.
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara