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Feb 10
Children’s Mental Health Week
“It means no worries…” Hello everyone, As you may well know we start each day after our fiddly fingers with a yoga session. Among many other amazing benefits yoga can offer us such as developing our strength and flexibility and improving our concentration and memory, yoga also happens to be a great way to help …
Feb 03
Chinese New Year
Hello everyone! We have been very busy learning about another festival Chinese New Year! This is a special time for people all over the world to celebrate the New Lunar Year. Each year is named after a different animal and each animal represents different qualities and characteristics. Click on the link below to watch two …
Feb 03
This week in Nursery . . .
Hello everyone! This week in Nursery we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. Have you watched the videos on the blog about how people celebrate? We have made lanterns, dragons, had a go at writing ‘Happy New Year’ in Mandarin and tried using chopsticks with super long noodles! The children ( and the …
Jan 28
Non-fiction – Stegosaurus
Hello everyone, This week we are reading a non-fiction dinosaur book. Children have been learning about and using non-fiction books these last few weeks to extend their knowledge and skills. We have focussed on the contents page, which tells us where to find different information. This supports their ability to be independent little problem solvers …
Jan 20
This week in Nursery…
Hello everyone! This week in Nursery we have been carrying on with our dinosaur theme. In Literacy we have been reading the book ‘Dear Zoo’ and talking about words to describe the animals; big, gigantic, teeny tiny, grumpy. We used the words to talk about dinosaurs and then we had a go at writing to …
Jan 20
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Hello everyone, This week we are revisiting Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. Children love to read familiar stories again and again and again. It’s part of learning how stories are structured and will help them when they learn to write sentences. Their memories are remarkable and they will point out if you missed a word! …
Jan 13
Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland
Hello everyone, Our story of the week is Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland. It’s a rhyming story about a variety of different dinosaurs and their idiosyncrasies. In class we have been describing what the dinosaurs looked like using full sentences. Our sentences have ranged from ‘He is big’ to ‘It has a frill around its …
Jan 12
This week in Nursery…Digging a little deeper
Hello Everyone This week in Nursery we have been learning about dinosaurs. We have been enjoying the story Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland. We extended the describing words in the book with our own describing words. The children thought of words such as “scary” , “kind” and “colourful”. We have explored the different marks that …
Jan 06
This Week in Nursery…
Hello Everyone, Happy New Year! It’s the beginning of a new year and a new topic in Nursery, and we’ve started off with a real bang. The children will be learning about dinosaurs and we’ve already made a list of what we want to learn. Questions the children devised and would like answers to ranged …
Dec 16
This Week in Nursery
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas……. Hello Everyone, What a magical week we have had! We have been using our hot chocolate breath in yoga and perfecting our ‘christmas’ tree pose. Hot chocolate breathing is a deep breathing exercise which is good for calming an anxious child, it also helps them to use …