Nursery Learning: 03.11.2023

 

Important reminders  

• Reception school applications: Please be aware reception application deadline is January 15th 2024. Outcomes will be released April 2024. Please use this link to apply for your childs primary school place for september 2024 https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/

• All children should be wearing a winter Uniform which includes a warm coat to school. The children will continue to play outdoors during the winter months. Parents may provide wellies for oudoors if they wish. Please make sure all items are clearly labelled with your child's name.

• If parents/carers have any dolly baby buggies, garages with ramps or small cars that are no longer used at home we would really appreciate donations of these items. 

• Nursery stay and play; Wednesday 8th November am- 8.45-9.45, PM- 2-3pm

Focus play this week:

This weeks focus has been all about Owls. The children have been learning where owls live, how they communicate with each other and their features. We have been marking owl pictures, using scissors to create owl collages and using paint to create our own owl art work. To end a fantastic week, the children met two owls named Mystic and Edgar. They flew around our hall, shared information on how they live and even let us take photographs of this special memory. 

Book of the week:

This week the children have been listening to the book Owl babies. The children have enjoyed learning the story and joining in with repeated refrains. Within our key groups the children are identifying emotions and discussing their understanding and shared experiences of family leaving and coming back. The children have enjoyed using the owl teddies during their play and at story time.

Please click the link to watch Owl Babies- Youtube

Rhymes of the week:

This week during group time, the children have focused on learning two nursery rhymes; Twinkle, twinkle little star and I had a little turtle. 

Please click the link to listen to:

Twinkle twinkle little star 

I had a little turtle

Our learning fun this week:

Christmas in November:

This week the school has celebrated Christmas in November. The children have been busy making Christmas cards and enjoyed our Christmas dress up day on Friday.

Autumn fun:

This week the children have been making and tasting pumpkin soup. We followed Mrs Light yummy reciepe, it was a big hit with the children. Most of the children loved the pumpkin soup with bread, whilst others were happy to have a taste of the soup they made.

Mrs Light's Pumpkin soup reciepe:

Ingredients:

Pumpkin, carrots, onion, sweet potatoe, vegetable stock, pepper, garlic, cream (optional).

Instructions: 

1. chop all the veg, drizzle with oil and soften in the oven

2. In a large saucepan add approx 1.5-2 pints of water with stock.

3. Place cooked veg from the oven into the saucepan, stir then using a hand blender or any electrical belnder to make the soup smooth.

4. Enjoy!

Rainy day fun:

The children play in the garden in all weather. Wear appropriate clothing we have fun splashing, pouring, filling and stamping in he water.  We love learning no matter the weather.

Wow moments:

We have special relationships with our peers and love to help each other during our play. As a team the children helped each other to build colourful robots. They were so proud of their creations they asked for a picture. 

Maths fun:

The children enjoyed counting dinosaurs. They extended their learning by using the numeral cards and working together to organise them in the correct numerical order. They counted to check the cards were correct as they went along. Wow! we are good at counting number bonds to ten.