Science Week in Nursery
We have had a great time being scientists this week. We all experienced going inside of a dome which was situated in our school hall. The dome had a projector inside and showed projected stars and constellations, planets and astronauts on the moon. We also took part...
Five Little Sunflowers!
We have continued to explore our beach treasure this week. We finished drawing some beach treasure of our choice which has been made into a beautiful display in nursery. We completed beach themed pictures and games on the interactive white board and continued to share...
Beach treasure!
We have started our new beach topic this week. We explored and examined crabs, seaweed, shells, pebbles and drift wood in our investigation area using magnifying glasses. We also shared the book, Look what we found at the beach which is a beautifully illustrated and...
Reading and much more!
In maths this week we focused on counting and recognising numbers. We played a game with baking trays and pictures of biscuits. We counted the amount of chocolate chips in each biscuit and matched it to the number written on the tray. We also played a game called Miss...
Super snails and much more!
This week we have continued to learn more facts about worms and composting. We started to make a display of what is compostable and which insects we can find in a compost bin. So far we have produced some fantastic worms, fruit flies and snails. We have enjoyed the...
Owls and Robins line up!
This week Owls and Robins have been manipulating numbers up to 100. They have been using Base 10 to partition 2 digit numbers and they have also been exploring number lines. Everyone was fantastic at estimating where their number would go on the number line. Well...
Oh how our garden grows!
This half term children in Reception have been exploring fruits and vegetables. We have looked at the difference between fruit and vegetables while reading the books Oliver's Vegetables and Oliver's Fruit Salad. We discovered that fruit grows above the ground in...
Another busy week in nursery!
This week we have continued to find out about worms and composting. We shared a non-fiction book about worms and we have learned that worms do not have eyes or teeth, they produce slime to help them move around in earth and they do not have a skeleton! We also found...
Welcome new friends in nursery!
We have had a lovely first week back after Easter. We welcomed three new friends who have settled into nursery life amazingly well. This half term we are focusing on composting and worms. We read the story, A Worm called Wallace this week which is a fictional story...
Planting seeds
This week our story was Jack and the Beanstalk. As part of this we looked at plants and how they grow. We talked about how to look after a plant and that plants start off as a seed. The children were all given a seed, soil and a plant pot and planted their own seeds...
Ice investigations in nursery
As well as continuing to find out more about Spring, we have been investigating ice this week to participate in Science Week. We completed two different investigations. We compared the look of ice made with water, salt and water, food colouring and water and lemonade....
Shrove Tuesday and much more!
This week we have introduced our new topics for this half term which are Spring and baby animals/mammals. We played a mother and baby animal matching game on the interactive white board and shared some topic based stories during snack time. We are looking forward to...