Nursery Activities 07.07.21
Good evening everyone. Here are tomorrow's activities for nursery home learning. Miss Clough 🙂 Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. Wednesday Communication/Language and...
Hot Seating Grace Darling in Nightingales
This week in Nightingales we have been learning all about local hero, Grace Darling. We have listened to and read her story and thought about what life must have been like to live in a lighthouse. We then looked at some key events in her life and put them on a...
Gorilla Loves Vanilla!
This week we focused on the story, Vanilla Loves Vanilla and tasted the vanilla and strawberry ice cream that we made last week. It was delicious! We have continued designing and making computer and collage ice creams, which look almost good enough to eat! Article 28:...
Ice cream galore!
This week we have based our learning around ice cream. We enjoyed the story of Keith the Cat and his Magic Hat and some us designed an ice cream on the computer and then made a collage of it (we will be continuing this next week). We practised some number recognition...
Retelling a story in the Elms
This term, the Elms have been reading 'Journey to Jo'burg' and have been learning about the history of South Africa. The children were put in groups and were able to choose a chapter to re-enact in front of the class. We talked about making sure to develop the...
Leaf prints
This week, we have continued our camping/outdoors theme. We pretended that our maths area was a camp fire and used a frying pan and some fake sausages to help us learn the song, Ten Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan. We did some fantastic counting while making the...
Identifying trees
This week we have enjoyed spending time in our camping site and ice-cream parlour role play area as well as listening to stories about camping and also participating in linking activities. We have made the most of the glorious weather and spent a lot of time outdoors....
Read All About It – Rocket Rumble!
Earlier this week, the Beeches and Oaks were looking at the short video clip ' Pigeon Impossible' as a stimulus for writing. With that said, on Monday, they wrote some fantastic newspaper reports! Who is Walter Becket? Was the pigeon a Russian Spy? So many questions...
Debate in the Elms
This past week, Elms have been looking at balanced arguments. Last Thursday, children argued over whether or not pupils should have to wear school uniforms. This week we took a vote and children wanted to debate over whether pets should be allowed in school. Children...
Mini-beast Exploration During Science Week
We have thoroughly enjoyed enticing mini beasts into our nursery garden and identifying them this week. We made four different mini beast traps throughout the week which included; a butterfly bar (mashed banana on a plate), a beetle bucket (a bucket with holes in,...
Drama in English
This week in English we have been reading the book 'Over the steamy swamp'. To help them understand the point of view of the characters, the children took part in some drama. Each group acted out and narrated a different section of the story. We all had a lot of fun...
Baby on Board
This week we have been learning how animals carry their young. We were fascinated by the wolf spider who transport their hundreds of babies on their back and by alligators who carry their young in their mouths! We did some brilliant outdoor maths, recognising 2D...