Phonics & Reading for Reception Parents
Further to the Reading meeting in school this week, please find attached information about phonics and reading information for Reception aged parents. You can download the presentation Windy Nook - Phonics and early reading meeting information 2021 or watch it in...
Edible Plant Collages!
We have continued our plant topic this week. We finished off making some plant collages to show the structure of a plant which have been displayed in nursery and look fabulous. We made some fantastic edible plant collages using a range of salad and fruit. It was...
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum
This week in the Reception classes we have been focusing on Jack and the Beanstalk. We couldn’t believe when footsteps were left in our classroom. We used some super detective skills to work out who had left them, we discovered it was the Giant! We have looked at...
Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in a pan.
This week we have been reading the book Mr Wolf's Pancakes. We have also been learning all about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. We had a fantastic Pancake day making, choosing a delicious topping and then eating pancakes. We also had fun learning lots of pancake songs and...
Pancakes, World Book Day and much more!
We have had a super busy week! We started our new topic this week which focuses on plants. We read the book, A Seed in Need which informed us about what a seed and plant need to grow. We learned the names of the different parts of a plant and some of us made a collage...
More fun on World Book Day!
As you'll see in another post, World Book Day was celebrated enthusiastically by staff and children at Windy Nook this week! 3rd March is a day to revel in a love of books and reading, to celebrate the amazing places books can take us and to share our favourite...
World Book Day at Windy Nook!
What a wonderful World Book Day we had at Windy Nook! On 3rd March, along with children all over the country and many parts of the world, the Windy Nookers celebrated the joy and wonder of books. The children had brilliant costumes of many great characters from story...
Jam sandwich anyone?
Article 12: you have the right to an opinion and to be listened to. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 17: You have...
Nightingales research non-fiction books features
Nightingales have been researching the features of non-fiction books. They discovered that most non-fiction books have: headings, sub-headings, photographs, diagrams, labels, captions, an index, a glossary and a contents page. Article 29: Your education should help...
Who is your super hero?
This week we have combined Valentine's Day and the story, A Super Hero like me. We talked about the special people in our lives and who help us. We talked about a variety of jobs like; doctors, dentists, recycling truck drivers, carers and our parents. We made some...
Performance Poetry in Nightingales
Today we have been learning a poem to perform to the rest of the class. We worked in groups to work out who would perform each part and then helped each other with ideas to perform it. Some children even memorised their words. It was lots of fun and we know what it...
Secrets of Winter
This week we have participated in activities based around the book, Secretes of Winter. The book requires a torch to reveal hidden animals within some of the pages and we expertly used torches to find them and retell the story. We found out that snowflakes have six...