Nursery Information

Welcome to our Nursery

The Teachers in nursery are;

Mrs Barnett and Mrs Horvath

The Teaching Assistants in nursery are;

Mrs Burrell (HLTA), Mrs Bexton (Nursery Nurse),

Miss Kelly (Teaching Assistant), Miss Sherlock (Nursery Nurse),

Miss Gillgrass (Teaching Assistant), Miss Jenkinson (Teaching Assistant) and Miss Coates (SENTA)

Our fifth topic this year is 'What do animals need to live?'.

We will be talking about what animals need to live, where animals live, what animal babies are called and life cycles. We will be learning about the life cycle of a caterpillar, playing in our vet role play area and learning how to look after animals.

We will be reading the books -

'Owl Babies'

'The Magic Porridge Pot'

'A Good Place'

'Find Out About Animal Babies'

'Lulu Gets a Cat'

and

'Who Is In The Egg?'

We will be learning the songs;

There's A Tiny Caterpillar On A Leaf

Wiggly Woo

5 Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day

5 Little Speckled Frogs

Here Is The Beehive

Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.

Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach

Things to look out for this term

*Grandad Wheels visiting school

*Colour Run

*Outdoor Learning Day

In our Curiosity Box we will watching our caterpillars get bigger and seeing what happens when they emerge from their cocoon.

Our first topic this year was 'Who is in my family?'.

We discussed our families, and who we live with. We created self-portraits to display in nursery, role-played in the house area and looked at similarities and differences between us and our friends.

We read the books -

'Harry and The Dinosaurs Go To School'

'Peace At Last'

'Guess How Much I Love You'

'The Enormous Turnip'

'Goldilocks and The Three Bears'

'The Leaf Thief'

and 'We're Going On a Pumpkin Hunt'.

We learnt the songs;

Tidy up time, If You're Happy and You Know It, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Make a Face, Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, and Big Red Tractor.

Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.

Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach

Our second topic this year was 'What makes a magical place?'.

We learnt about Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day, Diwali, our feelings and emotions, and Christmas. We created firework pictures using a range of different skills and media, we pretended to be firefighters in our role-play area, and learnt about different traditions we celebrate in our own families.

We read the books -

'Kind'

'The Magic Crayon'

'Feelings'

'How Do You Make a Rainbow'

'Kitchen Disco'

'The First Christmas'

and 'Stickman'

We learnt the songs;

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney, Funny Little Snowman and On Christmas Day Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey.

Our third topic this year was 'Where in the world do I live?'.

We learnt about travel and transport, our Earth, space, Chinese New Year, weather and traditional stories. We created space rockets using found materials and a range of different skills, we pretended to be in an icy environment in our role-play area, and learnt about where we live (our village and our planet).

We read the books -

'One Day On Our Blue Planet'

'Love Our Earth'

'Mini Rabbit Not Lost'

'In The City'

'The Marvellous Moon Map'

'The Owl and the Pussycat'

We learnt the songs;

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

5 Little Men In a Flying Saucer

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, We're Going To The Moon

The Owl and the Pussycat

Wheels On The Bus.

Our fourth topic this year is 'How do things grow?'.

We have learnt about what plants and flowers need to grow, Spring, fruit and vegetables, recycling and Easter. We pretended to work/shop in a garden centre and sharing our experiences of this, planted seeds and looked after them as they grew, tasted a variety of different and unusual fruit and vegetables and learnt about Giuseppe Arcimboldo and his famous paintings made from newspaper, books, fruit and vegetables.

We read the books -

'Lift and Look Fruit and Vegetables'

'Seasons'

'Jack and the Beanstalk'

'Daisy Eat Your Peas'

'The Little Red Hen'

We learnt the songs;

Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Four Seasons

Hickety Pickety My Red Hen

Five Little Peas In A Pea Pod Pressed

Mrs Bunny Looks Funny

We learnt the songs;

Tidy up time, If You're Happy and You Know It, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Make a Face, Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, and Big Red Tractor.

Alongside many traditional nursery rhymes.

Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach

Things to look out for this term

*New children starting in nursery

*Learning our new routines

*Parent's Evening

In nursery we have a Curiosity Box which during the year has a variety of different items in for the children to look at, and wonder about. These items will be things the children may not have seen before and we will be asking them the questions “I wonder what it is? I wonder what it does” and recording their answers.

In Autumn 1 are currently exploring a disposable camera.

Click here to visit our nursery information page which shows what we have planned for the year.

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