Awesome adjectives in Nightingales!
This week Nightingales have been super creative with words. We have been reading Dogger by Shirley Hughes and looking at the setting in the story. We sorted adjectives and nouns to create expanded noun phrases and found many different options. Then we created more...
The Mystery of the Missing Writer in Bluebells
Bluebells took to the outdoors today to explore the mystery of a missing writer. Decades ago, a writer and illustrator called Harris Burdick walked into a publishing house with illustrations, a title and one line of text for 14 different stories that he had created....
Sports Day and much more!
This week we have continued to focus on activities which link to the story, Mr Gumpy's Outing. We created some excellent drawings of Mr Gumpy in his boat and some of the other characters from the story too. We attached a steering pole to our drawings which was...
Magical Reporters
Over the last few weeks, the children in Tulips have been reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This week, they wrote newspaper reports, reporting the news that Voldemort has been killed by Harry Potter. The children have worked hard on their reports all...
Another busy week!
This week we have focused on different forms of transport, in particular, boats. We read Mr Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham and discussed how Mr Gumpy moves his boat by using a steering pole as opposed to using oars. We watched a video of people using oars in a...
Look at our Playtimes in KS1!
Playtimes at Windy Nook have just got a bit more exciting. We now have lots of pens, pencils and crayons so the children can be creative at playtimes. We have a big box of books so they can lie on the rugs and read together when the weather is dry. We still have lots...
Stick and Stone…. the perfect ten!
This week in nursery, we have focused on the story, Stick and Stone. The story beautifully illustrates the importance of friendship and loneliness by incorporating the main characters, Stick and Stone who make a "perfect 10". We have produced the number ten using,...
Stick Man continued and so much more…
We have had another super busy week! We finished our Stick Man artwork and computer pictures as well as our usual tasks like, making play dough and participating in Squiggle While You Wiggle. We used our play dough to form some numbers as well as making Stick Man and...
I’m Stick Man that’s me!
This week, we have focussed on the story of Stick Man. Some of us produced some fabulous Stick Man collages, which we will finish next week. We discussed the fact that the sticks that we used to create our stick men used to be part of a tree. We created Stick Man...
Not a Stick Continued…
Following on from last week, and our focus story, Not a Stick, we have used our imaginations again to complete some more pictures using a stick to represent an object. We thought of some fantastic ideas which included using a stick for a nose, a broomstick,a sword,...
Not a Stick!
This week and next week our focus story is, Not a Stick. This week we have used our imaginations to pretend that a stick is is not a stick and that it is an object, which is what happens in the story. Some of us created a picture based around this idea and attached a...
Seasons Come, Seasons Go!
A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery. We are super proud of how well they have settled. We have focused on a book called Seasons Go, Seasons Go, Trees this week. As the title suggests, the story describes how trees change depending on the season. We chose a...