Nursery learning 28.3.24

 

Important information

• Holiday dates (School and Nursery closed): 

Easter Holidays;  Friday 29th March to Tuesday 16th April 2024

Bank holiday; Monday 6th May 2024 

Half term; Monday 27th to Friday 31st May 2024

Last day of term; Tuesday 23rd July 2024 

School inset dates; 15th April, 2nd May, 24th July 2024 

Parent notices

The nursery team would like to remind parents:

Please leave a bag with a spare set of clothing at nursery. This bag should be a labelled drawstring bag or a carier bag. 

As we do not have space for rucksacks, from January childrens rucksacks will be returned and belongings placed in a carrier bag. Rucksacks take up space on pegs making it challenging for the children to access their belongings. 

We would also like to remind parents toys from home are not allowed in the nursery. They can be dangerous, cause incidents over sharing and the children become very upset when they get lost or damaged. 

Thank you for your understanding

We polietly ask if children have recieved nursery clothing can they please be returned washed back to the nursery after the holidays. Thank you

This week we have sent home the childrens sunflowers planted at nursery. We would love to see how the children are caring for their flowers and recieve pictures via the nursey email of the sunflowers progress. Please send photographs to: 

nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk 

Story of the week

This week the children have been listening to our story of the week, We’re going on an egg hunt. The children loved the idea of search for eggs in the story and were super excited to find out they will be taking part in an Easter egg hunt at nursery too. 

Fun with numbers

The children have been having fun matching numerals to pictures of chicks. counting and correcting their matches as they go along up to number ten.

Outdoor fun

The children have enjoyed planting seeds so much, we decided to plant the rest of our sunflower seeds in the nursery flower bed. With some amazing helpers we dug an raked the soil, planted our sunflower seeds and made sure to water the seeds to help them grow. The children are very excited to see how much the seeds will grow when they come back from the Easter holidays, with some children believing the seeds will grow into flowers as big as them during the two week break.

With the lovely sun shining down the children have had lots of fun playing with our new bubble machine, kindly donated to nursery by our Mid day assistant Ms Stef. The children have loved chasing and popping bubbles all over the garden. Thank you Ms Stef for our lovely gift.

Creative play

The children had lots of fun using our Easter theme this week during their play. We made creative patterns in playdough and used the playdough to make our own easter eggs. 

This week the children have been practicing their cutting skills in the art area. We have been trying to use the correct hand formation to hold scissors, make snips in paper and for those who can, cut complicated patterns using scissors. 

We have a special finger gym tray to develop our fine motor movements at nursery. This week the children have been attempting the thread and knot ribbon to hand easter eggs .

The children have absolutley loved our themed tray this week with our hollow easter eggs. The children have been adding different resources to the eggs and asking others to guess whats inside by the sound it makes. The children developed this listening game all on their own. We are so clever at nursery, we can create our own games. They have placed lego, playdough, lentils and pasta inside when playing their game.

Easter Bonnets

The children loved wearing the easter bonnets they made at home with their families. We paraded our bonnets around the school hall to music and had lots of fun discussing our hats and how we made them. Wow! they all looked amazing.

Congradulations to our Nursery bonnet winners: Billie, Adelynn, Matei and Patrick.

Easter Egg Hunt

We had so much fun during our Easter egg hunt based in the Reception playground. The children were great at answering the clues to find the easter eggs and loved playing on the Reception play equipment. But best of all they loved eating their Easter eggs. 

The children had so much fun in the Reception playground, they were super excited to transition to reception to play there everyday and as always the big slide was a super hit.

We hope you had an amazing Spring term and nursery and look forward to having more fun after the Easter holidays. See you all on Tuesday 16th April 2024.

Have a lovely holiday.

Reception learning 22.03.24

Dinosaurs 

This week, our topic was dinosaurs. 🦖

Thank you for your kind toy donations.

In Literacy, we were writing prehistoric letters such as hieroglyphics!

In maths, we were looking at 3D shapes.

Please see Dojo for more photos!

Mrs Marie, Miss Speirs and Miss Onabiyi

Reception learning 15.03.24

 Castles and Knights

This half term we are learning about Inventions and Discoveries.

This week our topic was Castles and Knights. Our focus story was In the castle!

In Literacy, we wrote a dragon wanted poster!

In maths, we were making 10, exploring doubles, and learning about odd and even numbers

Please see Class Dojo for more photos!

𝗧𝗢𝗬 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

We are on the hunt for any toy donations. If you have any toys such as dolls, superheroes, castles, small people/ figures, car garages, train track, dressing up clothes, construction toys, marble run, mobilo, lego, HappyLand, books, etc, please could you send them to Mrs Marie in 𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻 class.

Anything can be donated, just drop me a message with some photos if you are unsure. We would be extremely grateful!

Mrs Marie, Miss Onabiyi and Miss Speirs

Nursery learning 22.3.24

 

Important information

• Holiday dates (School and Nursery closed): 

Easter Holidays;  Friday 29th March to Friday 12th April 2024

Bank holiday; Monday 6th May 2024 

Half term; Monday 27th to Friday 31st May 2024

Last day of term; Tuesday 23rd July 2024 

School inset dates; 15th April, 2nd May, 24th July 2024 

Easter Bonnet day: Thursday 28th March: the children can decorate/make a easter hat which they will then parade around the school.

Story of the week

This week we ontinued with the book Jasper's Beanstalk. The children have been using the knowledge from the book as they enhanced their practical skills when planting at nursery. 

Please click the link to watch this story at home Jasper's Beanstalk

Focus activities

This week the children have been learning the life cycle of a seed. We have been listening to stories about growing flowers and vegetables. The children were extremly excited to plant their very own sunflower seeds which they will be taking home in the summer term. 

Thanks to the generousity of parents we recieved flower seeds. After planting their own sunflowers they came up with a great idea to plant our donated seeds in our nursery flower bed. The children worked together and took turns to dig and rake the soil, then plant and water the new seeds. The children have been patiently watching for signs the seeds are growing.

Fun with numbers

This week the children have been practicing how to write the number 3. Our ten town focus number of the week is number Thelma three. The children love using their magic pencils to write numbers in the air.

We have continued our number fun using our new seed/ flower knowledge. We have been pretending to plant seeds by matching numbers and matching the number of flowers to the correct number on the flower pot in the maths area. 

Outdoor fun

The children have enjoyed the weather this week playing in the garden. We have been discovering shells in the sandpit and listening to see what we can hear.

Everyone had so much fun building and creating fun games with their friends using the Kit Kamp. We made castles, slides, a house for a witch, the floor is lava, lily pads and so much more. 

A favourite garden game is hopping, jumping and climbing around the logs. Counting as we go, the children enjoy taking supervised risks whilst practicing their balancing and navigation skills.

With so much of our learning this week envolving mud, many of the children natually took back to the mud kitchen to explore and use mud in different ways during their play. Some children even found a caterpillar, which lead to understanding the life cycle of caterpillars and foods they eat. 

Creative play

The children enjoyed expressing their new knowldge of plants and the plant cycle within their play. From mark making to play dough they have been using new vocabulary to discuss their understanding and opinions wit friends and teachers.

We love building at nursery. The children have been busy imaginatively creating using bricks and blocks. Working with friends to bring their play to life using figures and sories to extend their play.

With easter fast approaching the children have been busy making their own Easter cards from friends and family, which look so amazing! The children really concentrated when making the cards and tried extra hard to mark their names independantly.

With the summer term approaching the children have been very keen to mark their own names. We have noticed many of the children marking shapes which represent people  and stories tey enjoy. We have loved listening to the children talk all about their pictures, especially when they mark pictures of family.

We had lots of fun this week, we hope you did too!

 

Nursery Certificates 22/03/24

Nursery Certificates 22/03/24

        

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

A massive congratulations to Nathan for doing good listening during story time. Nathan was able to recall and discuss some key points in the stories we have read. 

We would also like to congratulate Victor for his wonderful work at the work station. Victor is able to independently complete some activities at his work station and placed the letter of his name in order.

Well done to Arthur, Maximus and Jahmai who have completed their trackers by reading 'our five favourite books'