Nursery Certificates- 19.05.23

 

Each week, 2 children in Nursery will receive an E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work. 

A massive congratulations to Elisa, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for her increasing independence. Elisa is always keen to show what she can do and we have been very please to see her using the potty all by herself.

A huge well done to Alayah , who has been awarded the E for Excellence for her constant enthusiasm. She always comes into school with confidence and a big smile and shows a real love for learning. 

Well done to Andrew, Medhansh and Zayba, who have completed their tracker by reading 'our five favourite books' in Nursery! Super job, keep up the reading!

Nursery Learning - Week of the 15th May

Nursery Learning

 This week we have added grated soap and whisks to the water tray. The children have enjoyed watching as the soap melted and mixing with their whisks. They have had to carefully twist the whisks showing good hand to eye co-ordination and have enjoyed watching as bubbles appear. 

The children decided to create a car wash this week! The weather has been lovely so they added soap and bubbles to a bucket and worked hard scrubbing the cars and bikes. They showed great team work during this activity. 

The children have also enjoyed building dens outside, reading on picnic blankets outside and creating obstacle courses with their friends. 

The lovely weather also allowed us to take our large scale art outside. The children absolutely loved painting in this way and the large brush strokes supported their gross motor skills.

As usual, the children were cooking up some delightful dirty dishes in our mud kitchen and decided to add some sand to the mix. The adults enjoyed 'eating' lots of these different recipes! 

For snack this week the children have been creating some delicious pizza bagels. They carefully cut the toppings; courgette, sweetcorn and peppers and added this to their bagel after spreading the tomato passata and sprinkling on cheese. They all agreed they were very yummy. 

We had the BeeBots out in the environment this week and the children loved working out how to use them. Without instruction, they worked out that you could use the arrows and other commands to program the BeeBot to travel from one location to the other. This was a great introduction to programming and debugging (problem solving) without the children realising what important skills they were developing.  

'What's the time Mr Wolf? DINNER TIME!' The children love to follow their own interest and it was fantastic to observe them this week organising this game without support. They allowed lots of children to join the game at different times and took turn to be the wolf. There was lots of great communication during this, and even more fun!

Inside, the children were also organising their own games. We spotted these children independently choosing and setting up to play snakes and ladders. It was fantastic to see such important skills such as communication and maths, being used in this way. 

This week's art area was focused on designing their own mask, linked to our book this week, 'Elliott he Midnight Superhero'. We were practising our cutting skills so the children were encouraged to use collage to decorate their masks and scissors to cut it out.

And to finish with, look at the skills shown here in a penalty shoot out the children took part in. They used the nursery equipment to set up the goal and then each took a turn to shoot and be in goal. 

Reception Certificates 12.5.23

 A big congratulations to all of our certificate winners in Reception this week!

E for Excellence

Each week, a child in each class is awarded the E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work.

Aspen -  Tommy, for your hard work in literacy this week applying your sounds to write instructions on how to plant a seed.

Apple - Ashar, for your hard work writing sentences in phonics. You have been using 'Fred fingers; to sound out words. Well done for using capital letters and full stops!

Alder - Happiness, for your hard work during your Read, Write, Inc lessons. You showed great enthusiasm towards your reading. Well done!

Dojo Winner Of The Week

During the week, the children in reception can earn dojo points for good behaviour. They can earn these for good listening on the carpet, being kind and polite, sharing and tidying resources or helping a friend. Each week, the child with the most dojo points will be awarded with a certificate and have their photo displayed in the classroom.

Aspen - Serghei

Apple -  Alariah

Alder - Maya

Star Writer 

Awarded to children who have worked hard in their writing this week. 

Aspen - Harley

Apple - Emily

Alder - Nico

MDA Awards

Each week, the mid-day assistants will award a child in each class with a MDA award for demonstrating consistently good behaviour at lunchtime.

Aspen -  Jason and Sreeja  

105 Books to Read Before You Leave Broadford

Silver Award - Jack, Rylie, Ashlean, Levi, Lenny, issam, Ayva, Alexandra, Jason, Freya, Harley, Sophia, Matthew & Damian

Gold Award - Ahmad

4R Awards

Resourcefulness - Maya

Resilience - Connie

 

Nursery Learning - Week of 8th May 2023

 

Nursery Learning - Week of 8th May 2023

Special moments this week

Zenaya  has been growing caterpillars at home with her family. She has been sharing her knowledge with us at nursery. Zenaya told us how she watched her caterpillars develop into butterflies, which she released this week in her garden. Nursery teachers would like to thank Zenaya for sharing her new knowledge and experience, along with her butterfly photos. 

Baking Banana muffins

This week the children have enjoyed making Banana muffins. The children identified each ingredient and discussed what makes each ingredient different from the other. For example the differences between flour, baking soda and baking powder which all are white in colour. The children enjoyed sharing their knowledge with each other as to where the ingredients come from, such as Mason's knowledge that chickens lay eggs and Luca who knew we can buy flour at Tesco. The children practised their numeracy skills; counting to ten and counting down from five when taking turns mashing bananas and mixing ingredients together. We also reinforced our weeks learning on the number zero and its meaning when measuring and counting.

Learning about the number Zero

This week the children have been introduced to Ten Town, A maths resource for the early years which has characters, songs and activities to support numeracy skills. This week the children were introduced to Ten Town's Zero pond. The children learned all about the number Zero and have been playing fun games during group time to help support their understanding, as well as develop their mathematical language. learning about zero the children have discussed the links between numerals and quantity, with some children developing their understanding of using zero in addition.  

Parents are welcome to discover Ten town at home with your children using the link below.

Ten Town

Outdoor activities

The children have been practising their gross motor movements in the garden at nursery this week. Using obstacle courses, creates and wooden planks the children have been fine tuning their physical skills.  In particular, balancing which enhances the bodies core muscles later supporting posture for writing and jumping which supports coordination and spatial awareness. The children have also been practising their turn taking, which supports their emotional literacy; dealing with big feelings, grasping concepts of empathy towards others and how we make good choices.

Junk modelling

The children have had so much fun junk modelling this week. We have seen some fantastic creations go home and listened to even more wonderful ideas, stories and language development as they have played. We only hope our children's families love all the art work as much as the children enjoy creating them. 

Gardening with our friends

The children have discovered a love of gardening with their teachers over the past few weeks, leaning about plants, flowers and wildlife within the garden. This week we enhanced our garden by adding strawberry plants. The children very much enjoyed adding soil, using gardening gloves and tools to plant the seeds. They also helped teachers to add the milk bottle plants to the fencing which in time they will decorate. Please feel free to talk to the children about our strawberry plants and how they may grow. The children have already been caring for our plants by watering them using watering cans. 

Marvellous Maths in Reception 12.05.23

 

Marvellous Maths in Reception

This week in reception, the children have been learning to add more. We explored this through mathematical stories such as acting out a bus journey. The children were able to see that the numbers of items/ people in a group can be changed by adding one more. We used the first, now, then sequence to show the change in the quantity of the group. 

E.g. First there were 3 people on the bus. 

Then 2 more got on the bus. 

Now there are 5 people on the bus. 

   

The children explored this further during their group activities and used ten frames to represent number sentences. 

Activities: 

Elyssa: "5 add 2 is 7" 

Farzaan: "There are 7 altogether"

Eridola: " 3 add 2 is 5" 

Adam: "There are 5 altogether" 

Anika: " 3 ad 4 equals 7"

Tommy: " 6 and 4 makes 10" 

Key vocabulary: 

Add more, count on, total, number sentence, ten frame, counter, altogether, add, equals

Nursery Certificates- 12.05

 Each week, 2 children in Nursery will receive an E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work. 

A massive congratulations to Kailan, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for his excellent baking skills. Kailan listened well to instructions, poured and mixed and made the most amazing, delicious banana muffins. Well done Kailan on being such a super baker!

 A huge well done to Mason, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for his growing concentration and participation during circle time. Mason now waits patiently for his turn and is always excited to join in. Super job Mason, keep it up!   

Well done to Luna and Archie, who have completed their tracker by reading 'our five favourite books' in Nursery! Super job, keep up the reading!