Welcome to Nursery!

The children in Nursery are taught by Mrs Pinchi and are supported by Miss Ward. We hope that you will visit this page often and find it useful in keeping up to date with your child's learning experiences.

Mrs Pinchi and Miss Ward

The children have observed the caterpillars making cocoons and turning into butterflies. 🦋🦋

This half term the children will be reading ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’ by Eric Carle. We will be learning all about different insects and their life cycle. The book will give us the opportunity to discuss social skills and ways to get along with our friends. 

Last term the children planted beans, potatoes, mint and strawberries look how they have grown!

We’ve been painting the Bad Tempered Ladybird, we looked carefully at the pictures from the story book.

In maths we have been learning to use ordinal numbers, first, second, third etc., also first and last.

In phonics Nursery 2 are learning to recognise the letter ‘l’ they are also learning to segment words to hear sounds. Please remember to share your child’s reading book on the Rising Stars website. Help the children to read words by saying each sound and blending the sounds together. 

Nursery 1 are developing their listening and language skills by learning nursery rhymes and songs. 

This week in Nursery we will completing the next part of our bean diary and also planting some sunflowers and sweetpeas. 

In Maths Nursery 1 will be learning all about number 5 and will matching the number to the correct quantity. While Nursery 2 will be working with numbers below 10 comparing quantities saying if there is more, less or the same. 

Our new RE topic is all about friendship and we will be discussing what makes a good friend. 

Nursery 2 are working so hard in Phonics and can now hear the initial sounds of words. We are starting to sound out words very slowly so that we are able to hear some middle and final sounds too. 

Nursery 1 are enjoying their phonics activities learning to keep a beat with the musical instruments, using the pots and pans on our outdoor stage. 

The children in Nursery 2 are now recognising letters and are beginning to read some words, so please remember to share your child’s reading book on the Rising Stars website. https://www.risingstars-uk.com

We are learning to appreciate different music and are enjoying the opera Lakme, especially the Flower Duet. I think we have some budding opera singers waiting to be discovered. 🎶

The children have been planting bean and keeping a bean diary.

The children have settled back into Nursery and have shared their holiday news. This links nicely to our RE topic ‘Good News’ where the children will begin to talk about how they feel when they have good news to share. In Literacy we will be reading the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. This book tells the story of Jasper trying to plant his bean and grow a Beanstalk. The children will be looking at different seeds and finding out how we can look after our plants as they grow. In phase 2 phonics the children will be learning the letter 'c' you can see these lessons with Read Write Inc on YouTube. In phase 1 we are learning to hear the sounds in words through games. In maths this week we are matching numbers to quantities. Please see photos from gymnastics.

This week in Art we will be making play dough and then modelling it into vegetables, looking at the shape, texture and form. The children with then mix colour to paint their model food. 

There are lots of opportunities for the children to explore and choose their own activities and play, look out for photos as the week goes on.

In phonics Nursery 1 will be playing ‘Follow the sound’ where the children have to repeat the sounds they hear, using percussion instruments. 

For phase 1 phonics the children in Nursery 1 will continue to develop their listening skills through musical instruments. The children will explore playing the instruments in different ways such as quietly and then noisy! 

Children in Nursery 2 also enjoy taking part in phase 1 phonic games and are learning to decode words to hear their sounds. We will play 'Silly Soup' taking an object out of the pot and speaking like a robot saying all the sounds of the object. 

In phonics this week Nursery 1 are playing a fun game called 'Mrs Pinchi's Box.' Inside my box are a number of familiar objects that make sounds that the children should be able to recognise, such as rustling paper, snipping scissors, wooden blocks knocking together etc., The children have to  use their listening skills to guess what objects are in the box. 

Nursery 2 are learning the sound 'm' please see www.ruthmiskin.com or YouTube for Read Write Inc home learning. 

The children noticed all the leaves that were now on the floor in the garden and asked where the leaves had come from. We looked at the trees around school and could see that the leaves had blown form the trees. The children enjoyed collecting the leaves and talking about the colours, shapes and sizes. We also used the leaves in our maths activities; sorting, counting and making patterns. 

We made a giraffe 🦒 out of everyday materials.

First we covered a milk carton with glue.

Next we stuck on yellow paper.

Then we added a tube for a neck.

After we added a small box for a head.

We chose a long box.

Then we covered it with green paper and paint.

After we added paper teeth and eyes 👀 

Thank you so much for emailing in your beautiful family photos. I will be looking at them with the children next week and then adding them to our class display. If you have not sent in any photos yet, there is still time. The children love to talk about  their families and share their experiences.