Easter Cards and much more!
This week in nursery, we have been learning about Easter. We shared The Easter Story and produced Easter related art work, computer pictures and made play dough crosses. We started to make our Easter cards which have chicks on and discussed 'new life' and that our...
Frog Facts in Bees
The Bees have been learning about non-fiction texts. They have been collecting lots of facts about frogs, especially the frog life-cycle. Today the children were using their super reading and thinking skills to sort their facts under sub-headings to organise the...
Book Fair 2023!
Come and join us for the Windy Nook Book Fair! There are lots of the latest titles, brand new, available on our shelves. The Fair's first day was a huge success - lots of people found great books to enjoy. The Fair continues during break times this week - plus,...
Mother’s Day and much more!
This week we have continued to focus on the book, Titch. We made some beautiful Mother's Day cards and discussed the different heights of the stalks/flowers on the front of the card. During maths we continued to use the balance scales to find heavy and light items...
Great mums
Today we have been thinking about all of the great mums in our lives - these might be our mum, our nana, our aunty or anyone else who is important to us. We have written poems and made a bouquet that we can give to our special person on Sunday.
Titch
This week nursery, our focus has been growing and plants. We read the story, Titch and re-enacted the main parts using props. For maths, we used cubes to measure the heights of all of the plants in our classroom. We discovered that Kelly (one of our plants) was the...
Shrove Tuesday (a week later) and much more!
We have had a super busy week in nursery. On Tuesday, we read the story, Mr Wolf's Pancakes and made our own pancakes. We thoroughly enjoyed adding delicious toppings to our pancakes and eating them during snack time. We learned the song, Mix the Pancake, Stir the...
Performance Poetry in Bluebells
This week, we have been studying poems written by Benjamin Zephaniah. The children have responded to his different poems by drawing pictures and writing their thoughts. They have then written their own poem inspired by his poem The British. Their poems focussed on...
In the hot seat!
Year 1 have enjoyed reading Mr Wolf's Pancakes this week. We thought about questions we would like to ask Mr Wolf if we ever met him and wrote these down. Then, we took turns to play the role of Mr Wolf and answer these questions. Article 12: you have the right to an...
World Book Day 2023!
On Thursday 2nd March, Windy Nook Primary joined schools around the country and around the world to celebrate World Book Day. The idea of this special day is to promote a love of reading and enjoyment of books. We had lots of book-based activities going on in school,...
Questions and statements in the Bees
Today in the Bees the children have been creating questions and statements for one of the pictures from the traditional tales we have been reading this term. They shared their ideas with each other before writing them. We have enjoyed all of our traditional tales and...
Space Party!
On Tuesday, for Valentines Day we drew pictures of people who we love or are special to us.We have continued to focus on Space throughout the week. It has been wonderful to observe the children independently drawing and making rocket and planet themed creations as...