This morning Nursery had a special delivery - 10 living eggs with baby chicks growing inside them. We are looking after them in an incubator where it is warm and dry. We are waiting to see what will happen next... Please come and take a look if in school - but please remember to only look - don't bang or touch the incubator as something very special is growing inside.
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.
In the last couple of weeks, Nursery class have been finding out about Spring. We looked at what happens during the season of spring - plants and flowers starting to grow, warmer weather and signs of new life (our frog spawn has changed into tadpoles!)
Lana's Mummy came in last week and told us all about their Persian New Year which celebrates new life and spring - it was really interesting. We made Persian New Year cards, grew cress heads and tried smelling and guessing different spices. This week we have started to find out about the spring celebration, Easter. We are busy finding out about Easter customs, making our Easter cards and looking at patterns on eggs. We are looking forward (later on this week) to some Easter cooking and tasting too!
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:
Next week, Nursery's new fairytale story (requested by the children) is 'Cinderella'!
Nursery class went on a walk to Shephalbury Park on Friday 10th February. This snowy walk aptly marked the end of their learning last half term on the 'Weather'! They looked at how their environment has changed with this wintery season (and even saw snowdrops starting to appear)... then they came back to school and enjoyed a treat - a gingerbread man and hot chocolate! Thank you to all the parents who helped us on this occasion.
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.
Nursery performed their Nativity show to parents, friends and family on Thursday 8th December. The looked great in their costumes, sang, spoke and performed beautifully. They have really enjoyed learning about and showing their rendition of the story of 'The First Christmas'.
In addition to their performance, the children have all painted the character they were in the show and drawn a picture / talked about their role. This week they are making booklets about the first christmas.
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.
Nursery have been talking about their favourite foods. We looked at which foods they liked and decided which foods grouped together. The children chopped up fruit and vegetables and tasted some. They read the story 'Oliver's Vegetables' and also printed with vegetables. We thought it was a good idea to eat a selection of different foods, but not too much of one type (otherwise you might get a tummy ache!)
Please join us for our 'Fantastic Finish' on Thursday 20th at 11.15am (in the school hall) if you would like to hear more about Nursery's learning this half term.
Our new Nursery children have now all started at Roebuck and are settling in happily. In the picture you can see some of the class exploring our garden outside and enjoying the lovely weather we had last week. The children have started the term by learning 'All about Me' - we learnt songs and rhymes about our bodies and painted pictures of our faces. They are getting used to the class rules and routines and enjoying playing with their new friends. A very positive start for this new class of Nursery children.
Nursery really enjoyed their school trip to Woburn Safari Park on Friday 15th July. Here they are looking at the monkeys and listening to the zoo keepers talk. The children really enjoyed seeing all of the animals at the zoo but it was especially great (having learnt about 'Primates' this half term) to see the monkeys here, on safari and up close in the lemur enclosure.
Thank you to everyone that bought a raffle ticket for our gorilla fund. Nursery children found out about how the gorillas are endangered whilst learning about 'Primates' for our themed art week. They decided it would be a good idea to help raise money to help save gorillas from extinction. Mrs Beard donated a toy gorilla and a raffle began at the themed week gallery and was continued by KS2 pupils at our school fete. A grand total of £57.00 was raised - Enzo Catalosi was the lucky winner and the money has been donated to the Dian Fossey charity for gorillas. Well done Nursery and thank you to all who bought raffle tickets and helped run the event.
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