The week concluded with our Nursery leavers going to Oak base for their Transfer Day. Judging by their big beaming smiles they all had a fantastic time.

Our focus this week has been Firefighters as part of our People who help us topic.

The children have enjoyed playing in Verwood fire station in our role play area and using water play to help put out the fires!

We are looking forward to the summer Sizzler and our children performing “sticks up high” song.

We are continuing to enjoy our topic People Who Help Us and we continue to learn about the dentist. Oral hygiene is an important part of the new curriculum and as Early Years providers we are required to promote the importance of oral health. We have learnt how to brush our teeth and dental hygiene and to visit a dentist regularly.

The children are enjoying their new topic People Who Help Us. The focus this week has been dentists and our focus book has been Alans Big Scary Teeth.  The children have been learning about healthy food and drinks and oral hygiene. Our role play has been a dentist which the children have loved.

Our school ready group of children will be eating their lunch in the hall next week which is very exciting and will help familiarise them for September. Our younger children will remain in Nursery and will benefit from a quieter lunch time. 

We finished the week of celebrations with a royal banquet outside and then a whole school celebration singing and dancing.

We are also super proud of our school ready group of children who will now be attending praise worship every week.

Our focus book this week has been Oliver’s Vegetables by Alison Bartlett. The children have enjoyed talking about their favourite vegetables and doing some vegetable printing. We have been enjoying the sunshine and lots of outside play. Sensory play is so important and the children have opportunities of this every day. The favourite is always the gloop.

Our topic for this half term is Plants, Flowers and Minibeasts. Our focus book for this week has been What the Ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed hunting for mini beasts in our garden and the woodland area.

We have used play dough and pasta to create our own minibeasts.

Our Hedgehogs our starting the Nursery programme for Read Write Inc and we are so proud at how quickly they are learning the new sounds.

Our Squirrels have been enjoying dressing up for a minibeast ball.

We continue our topic about The Jungle and our focus book this week has been The Selfish Crocodile. We have been talking about being a good friend.

We have been doing different animal dances and looking at how the animals in the jungle move. We have also been looking at the different patterns on their skin, fur etc. We talked about our favourite animal and the reason why we liked them.

We continue to use the school more each week and enjoyed another PE session in the hall.

With the heavy rain showers on Wednesday and the beautiful sunshine on Friday- it certainly has been an interesting time.

The highlight for us this week was being able to take the children back to the main school building for Pe sessions. During the next few weeks we hope to use the hall more and also the jubilee room and library with our children. This is one of the benefits of being a school nursery so that we can share the school facilities. Due to the pandemic we have been quite isolated in our own little building at times but this is changing which is very exciting for us all.

We have continued our theme of The Jungle and this week our focus text has been Handa’s Surprise. The children have enjoyed acting out the story remembering which animal took which fruit from Handa’s basket. Also, during snack time, we have been trying different fruits - water melon and melon seems to be the favourite.

The children enjoyed pancake day by taking part in races and then making pancakes and of course eating them. Lemon and sugar were the favourite topping.

We also enjoyed World Book Day and the children looked amazing dressed as their favourite book characters. We took part in a parade with Oak base and enjoyed sharing our stories with each other and making a special book mark to take home.

Friday was great as the sun made an appearance and we had afternoon snack outside.

The children enjoyed pancake day by taking part in races and then making pancakes and of course eating them. Lemon and sugar were the favourite topping.

We also enjoyed World Book Day and the children looked amazing dressed as their favourite book characters. We took part in a parade with Oak base and enjoyed sharing our stories with each other and making a special book mark to take home.

Friday was great as the sun made an appearance and we had afternoon snack outside.

On Friday it was Dress to Express day it was great to see the children dressed up in different ways. We have been discussing children’s mental health and well being this week. We have been talking about how we are all special and unique.

We have continued to learn about Night and Day and looked at non fiction books this week.

Our key text this week has been Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson. We have looked at activities that we do in the night time and day time and discussed these. We have also continued with our theme of nocturnal animals and we have made collage animals.

We celebrated Chinese New Year by making some noodle and rice art and cooking some noodles. We have made tiger masks as it is the year of the Tiger. We will continue this next week as Chinese New Year is celebrated over a couple of weeks.

We have learnt about different bears and their habitats. We have made our own teddy bears and sung lots of songs about bears. We used porridge as our messy play which was fun to explore.

The frost in the morning has been super to explore. The water tray was frozen and even the sand tray was too. The sand was really hard and the children enjoyed feeling the texture and describing where Jack Frost or Elsa had been in the nursery garden.

On Friday we used skipping ropes and hoops on the large playground for our PE session we were really proud of how the children did.

We have enjoyed sharing our Christmas adventures and we are looking forward to a new term of fun learning and playing together.

Our topic this term is Winter and Day and Night. We have been reading the story of Owl Babies and learning about the signs of winter. Let hope the weather improves.

The children are enjoying all the Christmas craft activities and the glitter is out! We have been learning about The Christmas Story through our singing and reading books.

We are still practising our songs for the Nativity that will now be filmed and put onto Tapestry and the school website.

 The children have enjoyed making bear masks. They have also been very creative making bear caves for the bear to hide in.  We enjoyed using the percussion instruments to create the sounds of the grass Swishy Swashy and mud Squelch Squerch  etc

We also went for a bear hunt around the school playground and made a large story map together.

The children are enjoying learning their Christmas songs ready for our little nativity.

We are looking forward to welcoming Buddy and Holly our Christmas elves to Nursery on Wednesday.

The children have been learning all about being a kind and caring friend this week.

On Monday we talked about how we are all different and unique and we showed this by wearing odd socks and we designed our own odd socks -  which was fun.

On Tuesday we used the story of The Rainbow Fish to look at how we can be kind and help our friends.

On Wednesday we read Sharing the Shell and we looked at how sharing toys is so important in Nursery – we came up with the saying “Sharing is Caring “

On Thursday we talked about being a kind friend and we drew pictures of our friends and why they are special.

On Friday we did some activities around Children in Need. We talked about what kind things we can do for each other. We made a display of our painted hands and we talked about using kind hands and words in Nursery.

We have been talking about Remembrance Day and using the lovely animation from CBeebies which explains it so beautifully and simply. Ask your child about the rabbit in the film. The children made a big poppy to take home. We joined the rest of the school for the two minutes silence, and we were so proud of how respectful the children were.

We have even started thinking about Christmas (already) and we are learning our songs for our little performance on Thursday 9th December, and we hope to see you there.

We have been enjoying the Autumn sunshine and making leaf soup in the mud kitchen. We  have been making fireworks pictures using marbles and paints. We have been learning about Bonfire Night and we made a camp fire outside in the woodland area. We also used out tuff trays to make our own fireworks – the glitter is out !

We have made firework cookies and chocolate sprinkle sparklers. The children enjoyed making them but I think eating them was more fun.

The weather has been ever changing and we have enjoyed exploring Autumn leaves and finding signs of Autumn in the woodland area. We had great fun leaf printing and doing some Autumn colour collage pictures. We also made some banana bread which was great to have as snack this week.

The children have enjoyed learning new wake and shake routines.

We have also had some fantastic new kitchen equipment for our role play areas – the staff have been treated to cups of tea, fish and pineapple sandwiches and all sorts of other delights. 

We have continued to practice name recognition on the whiteboard and develop listening skills using soundtracks games.  We also have enjoyed a daily yoga session.

Outside, we have been lucky enough to find all sorts of mini beasts- ladybirds, spiders, woodlice and the odd butterfly too.  We also enjoyed an Autumn walk in the woodland area too collecting leaves and sticks.

We enjoyed playdough, making all sorts of animals and food, making patterns with coloured beads of different sizes, working out some new puzzles together and the sand pit continues to be very popular.  Using the interactive white board, we have practiced name recognition and drawn pictures to discuss key points in the stories we have read. 

We have had lots of fun during music and movement learning some great new songs including The Birdie Song.  We had a real treat on Friday watching the bins being collected and waving at and thanking the Refuse Collectors.   In addition, we had a Lock Down Drill practice – we explained to the children that there might be a frightened horse on the field and we had to stay still and quiet.  The children responded positively and we had a successful practice. 

The children and grown ups have learnt a new song for music and movement called “Ram, Sam, Sam” as well as trying out the new Joe Wicks/Hey Duggie programme of movement.   We have practiced scissor skills with both paper and playdough and will continue with this over the coming weeks. 

The children made some delicious looking iced biscuits, used crayons and pencils to decorate flowers and made sandcastles outside.  We have been luck enough to have some new outside ride on toys which have been enjoyed by all as was the small adventure playground.  We look forward to the next week of fun at Nursery. 

Football has been a popular activity as has hoola hooping!   Wake and Shake is always high energy and we have had requests for  Agadoo, The Superman Song, Let’s go Walking and Music Man. 

The children have practiced mark making with the new paint dabbers and giant chalks on the pavement.  We are looking forward to finding out what fun activities we can be a part of next week

Thank you to all our parents for your support to make this first week back a success.

The children have been enjoying the outside area and particularly exploring the woodland area.

Lets hope this lovely weather continues.

The children have enjoyed wake and shake this week and we have introduced more challenging routines to build up their fitness and resilience and to add to the Get Set Go challenge.

We have enjoyed practicing for our sports event each afternoon. The children have loved taking part in the different activities  and they have enjoyed cheering on their friends. We hope the sun shines next week.

We also have been exploring the sports sanctuaries that have been set up on the school field. The dance area was a huge success. We will continue to use these for “brain breaks “ next week.

The children have continued to enjoy being active for the Get Set Go Tokyo challenge.

We have enjoyed fruit tasting this week and discussed healthy eating. The children have made  fruit faces with real fruit and fruit printing and painting fruits too.

We have planted some seeds this week in our garden and the nursery sunflowers are growing well – we hope your are growing aswell at home.

We have continued to enjoy Handa’s Surprise and also Handa’s Hen as our focus books.

Our Get Set Go Challenge has really taken off and we are well on our way to Tokyo ( virtually). Lots of children have been talking about the sports activities they do at home, please remember to log them. We are running around the school field each day as part of our fitness challenge aswell as a wake and shake session each day.

We had fun making Sushi this week to link to our Tokyo challenge and the children were mixed in their responses as to what it tasted like!

We have been using Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne as our key text this week. The children have been looking at the different fruit and making fruit fun faces, as well as sequencing the story with the animals.

We have had lots of exciting things happening this week including the butterflies emerging from the cocoons. We also enjoyed Dare to be Different Day on Friday to launch our Get Set Tokyo project.

The children have enjoyed sensory play this week with scented play dough and moon sand. They have also enjoyed exploring the small adventure playground each day,

The highlight of the week was Thursday which was World Bee Day . The children enjoyed learning about bee keeping from Mrs Palmer. They made and ate honey sandwiches at snack time. They painted bees and hives and made their own bee. They played with honey gloop and sung and danced to The Honey Song. The children really were busy bees as Nursery was buzzing that day!

We are really excited that the caterpillars are now in their cocoons so hopefully not too long until we see some beautiful butterflies.

The children have been adding to our Jack and the Beanstalk display by making magic beans and decorating a wish leaf.

We are hoping next week to send the sunflower plants home for the children to look after and to watch grow.

The children are loving their water play and our water wall causes lots of excitement.

The caterpillars are growing daily and the children are enjoying watching them. We are very excited to see them change into butterflies. Will it be next week?

We also have had fun in the garden and planted sunflower seeds and we will have a competition to see whose sunflower will grow the tallest.

We have been enjoying the school field at play times and also the woodland area.

The highlight of the week was Earth day. The children really enjoyed the day and took part in some fantastic learning. They made a collage Earth and their own paper plate Earth. They also used salt dough to make their own Earth and painted these. 

The children also made their own bird feeder and took these home to hang in their gardens. We used all recycled materials in these activities and we talked about looking after our world. 

We had fun filming our song for the Christmas Concert this week and we hope that parents will be able to join the zoom concert either Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

We finished the week with Christmas Jumper Day and the children looked super in their range of jumpers, shirts and dresses.

Holly and Buddy our elves have returned and are enjoying watching the children doing their activities and they will be reporting to Father Christmas.

We have been doing lots of festive activities and the glitter is everywhere.

The highlight of the week was Santa coming in to see the children in his van on Friday. The children gave him their Christmas letters and we hope that he will bring their gifts on Christmas Day.

We have used  the story  - We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, as our main focus for the week. The children have enjoyed acting out the story and creating the different parts of the story. We have made bear masks, bear collage pictures and we have made homes for the bears. The children had fun during a yoga session where they used the rhyme to create different yoga exercises. We made bear homes outside with the large waffle bricks and foam bricks and the playhouse became The Three Bears cottage for the week.

We are excited about next week and beginning our Christmas activities – there will be glitter everywhere!!!!

In circle times we have talked about being a kind friend, to link to this week’s whole school theme of Its cool to be kind.

Due to the changing weather we decided to bring the outdoors in! We had the slide and other apparatus set up inside and the children had great fun playing on these.

Thank you for your continued support.

Our focus this week has been zoo animals and the book “Dear Zoo” The children have made a giant giraffe and a giant lion which look wild on the Nursery Wall! This story has led to some fantastic animal dances!  We have used all sorts of creative resources to make animal masks.

Outside play this week has been fun as always. The children have had some amazing ideas using soft bricks, giant Brio construction and Duplo and made some lovely animal homes. They also followed clues to hunt for hidden zoo animals in the garden.

On Friday we watched the Cbeebies Poppies animation.  The children made their own poppies.

 As the weather continues to be dry, we have been able to spend lots of time outside and enjoy the fresh air and the autumn leaves and acorns!

Thank you for your continued support.