Another week has absolutely whizzed by in Nursery, and as always, lots of fun was had by all! The children have been busy, curious and full of excitement as they played, explored and learned together. It has been a joy to see their enthusiasm each day.
In Literacy, we continued to explore the features of both fiction and non-fiction books. The children are becoming very confident at spotting the differences and love talking about what they can see on the covers and inside the books. We also carried on with our phonics learning, focusing on the sound “a” and practising how to write it. The children approached this with such positivity and were very proud of their efforts.
The children have worked incredibly hard on developing their fine motor skills this week. Through a variety of fun, hands-on games and activities, they have been building the important muscle strength in their hands and fingers that supports early writing. Threading, squeezing, pinching, mark making and playing with small objects were all firm favourites!
This week we leaned more into mathematical learning, and what better way to do that than with dinosaurs! We sang counting songs, practised counting forwards and backwards, and learned how to form our numbers 1–5. During child-initiated learning, the children enjoyed interactive games that helped them match numerals to the correct number of objects. They loved taking part and were very keen to show off their fantastic number knowledge.
Our role-play cave continued to be a much-loved area. We have been busy caring for our baby triceratops and diplodocus dinosaurs, who according to the children have now grown up enough to start eating real food! This led to a lovely activity where we made herbivore salads together. Some of the children were even brave enough to taste the kale and lettuce leaves we used.
Throughout the week, the children also enjoyed creative activities, construction play, small world play and plenty of outdoor learning, helping to build confidence, independence and teamwork. It has been wonderful to see their imaginations come to life across all areas of the classroom.
How to help at home:
Share a story together, look at both fiction and non-fiction books and talk about how they are different.
Practise counting forwards and backwards using toys, snacks or everyday objects.
Strengthen little hands by playing with playdough, threading beads or using pegs to pick up small items.
Next week we will be moving on to a brand-new topic (I won’t spoil the surprise just yet!), and we’re sure the children are going to love it just as much. Thank you, as always, for your continued support, we can’t wait to see what the next week brings! 😊
The Nursery Team xxx