All Things Autumn
Our first week of Nursery!
We are so proud of all of the children for how well they have began their Nursery journey at Hollybush! The children have loved exploring their new learning environment and outside area. We have spent lots of time getting to know our new friends and our new teachers. Here are some photos of our first week! We learnt about feelings and Sarah came to teach us some Makaton signs. We read 'Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?' story and we started developing our skills to become successful writers.
Week Commencing 16.09.24
This week we are learning about 'Marvellous Me'. The children read stories 'Marvelous Me' and 'Happy in Our Skin'. We then talked about what we look like and compared colours of our skin using different shades of paint. We also used our senses to explore our kitchen ingredients to find our shade of skin. The strawberry milkshake was our favourite. We had lots of fun outside being chased by the big bad wolf and visited Forest School for the first time. On Friday we engaged in our P.E. lesson where we are practising ball skills. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Week commencing 23.09.24
We had another very busy week full of learning. We learnt about what our families look like and looked at different types of families in Art. The children then had a go at drawing their self-potraits and creating black and white family art. Some children showed some fascinations in seeds inside the apples and snakes. We learnt about how apples grow and explored different types of snakes on Google. In Makaton this week we learnt animals sings. We can now sign a cat, a dog, a hamster, a horse, a sheep and many more. In Phonics we played 'Guess a sound' game and in Maths we are currently usinging our noticing skills to develop our mathematical language.
Week commencing 30.09.24
This week the Nursery started learning about Autumn. We observed what is happing to the trees and plants outside. We learnt words such as hibernate and deciduous. We looked at different types of animals that we might see in Autumn. In Maths we started subitising with numbers 1, 2 and 3 and in Phonics we learnt about body percussion and created a dance using our bodies. The children have many opportunities to develop their social and communication skills when exploring different activities inside and outside engaging in meaningful conversations with adults and their friends.
Week commencing 07.10.2024
We had so much fun showing our grown ups around the nursery during our Stay and Play session On Tuesday. This session was all about the importance of play. We also had our Harvest assembly for grandparents and other significant adults. The children were amazing at singing 'I am a dingle dangle scarecrow' using Makaton sings. The children are getting very good at understanding a composition of numbers 1 - 3 and are very quick at identifying amounts to 3. We have been exploring Autumn and read a story 'We are going on a leaf hunt'.
Week commencing 14.10.2024
What a wet start to a week! However, this did not stop us from our learning. We used this opportunity to explore some mathematical concepts such as full and empty, more and less. We practised our counting when collecting raindrops in pots and discussing how many more we would need to fill the pot to the top. We took risks when pretending to be 'the biggest giant in town' and jumping off logs. In our forest school lesson this week, we were searching for autumnual objects and worked colleboratively lifting large logs to find these objects. In our Maths session, we consolidated our deep understanding of numbers to 3 and started learning about number 4. We also used our creativity and develop some science skills to make hedgehogs. Another very busy week!
Week commencing 4.11.2024
Children settled back into the nursery routine very quickly. They enjoyed learning about fireworks, Diwali and Remembrance day. We used PVA glue, salt and water colours to create firework art, we learnt about festival of light and made some Rangoli and Mehndi patterns. We watched a little video to remember our soldiers and we used different materials to create poppies. In Maths we exlopred a concept of big and small and we looked learnt new vocabulary such as bigger than, smaller than and medium size. In Phonics, we explored rhyming.
