What a surprise the children had this morning when they came into class - 8 baby chicks had hatched during the night! We think 6 are girls (they are brown) and 2 are boys (yellow chicks).

The children have enjoyed watching the chicks this morning. Pipping (pecking out of their shells) was hard work - the baby chicks are sleepy and need lots of rest. We are leaving the chicks in their incubator today as they dry off and become fluffy. We are still watching the other 2 eggs that have not hatched yet - one has had pipping and cracks emerging, so hopefully there will be at least one more chick... Watch this space!

This half term, we are learning about 'new life' - this week focussing on plants and flowers. Nursery enjoyed an action packed morning on Tuesday 25th April - they walked to Monkswood to see the beautiful bluebells that are out at the moment. After a biscuit stop, the children enjoyed several activities: a woodland hunt, sketching the bluebells, building a den for teddy and in this picture the children are seeking out hidden numbered paper bluebells so that they can arrange them into a number line. 

This half term Nursery have been focussing on stories and different fairytales. To date, they have had activities linked with 'The Gingerbread Man', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes'. On World Book Day (Thursday 2nd March) they showed their 'Fantastic Finish' to their families. Thank you so much to everyone that came to this event - we had a record attendance with nearly every child supported! The families were treated to: 

• a puppet show performance of 'The Gingerbread Man'
• some children talked about their favourite stories
• parents saw videos of their children in a 'Little Red Riding Hood' PE lesson and in role play
• a video of them playing 'What's the time Mr Wolf?' in the EYFS garden
• tasting different pancakes toppings and charting the results
• a workshop with sequencing, cake decorating, pancake tossing, sharing books and finally
• Mrs Beard read the story 'Mr Wolf's pancakes'

Next week, Nursery's new fairytale story (requested by the children) is 'Cinderella'!

Nursery have now settled back into school and relocated into their new group setting. This first half of Spring Term we have been learning about the 'Weather' and 'Colours' as well as counting up to 20. The children have looked at rainy days, clothes for cold and frosty weather and we thouroughly enjoyed our snowy day. They have painted rainbows and looked at colour mixing. They have counted raindrops and snowmen up to 20 and made melting snowmen biscuits. Now we have started looking at animals and people that live in cold weather.

This half term, Nursery have been learning about Vehicles and Shapes.

The children started by looking at space rockets and counted backwards from 10 to blastoff. They enjoyed designing and making rockets out of the new large construction blocks in our EY garden. (Thank you RSA for these blocks - they are great!) Nursery have also sorted different vehicles into same sets and found out which went on land, rail, sea or air. We have now set up an outdoor role play garage area outside our classroom where the children enjoy washing and fixing bikes and other vehicles.

We have been learning about 2D shapes - their names and properties.  This week the children have cut out play dough shapes and matched them to their shape outline, they have sorted shapes into same sets, played pair games with shapes and have been on a shape hunt outside.

Nursery are also preparing for their Christmas show. We have found out about 'The First Christmas' story, and are now preparing songs, music and dances for our show. Please come and watch us next Thursday 8th December at 11.15am.