In F1 the last few weeks we have been busy focussing on the story ‘Aliens love underpants’.

We received a letter from a little boy called Ben who lives on Kynder street telling us that his favourite underpants had been stolen, he asked if we might know who’s taken that and we quickly figured out it must have been the aliens! He also told us that his mum had bought him some new underparts but that they were plain and boring. He asked if we could help design some new ones for him and of course we did!

In Literacy we have written caption to go with our pant designs and also re-told the story using a story map. We learnt a new song about the aliens and also designed a new front cover with a book title. As a class we came up with the story Alien love hats and drew a story map of the events in our story. The children did a great job recalling key events, settings and characters. 

In Maths we have been designing 2D shape rockets as well as counting moon rocks and singing a song about 5 little men in a flying saucer! We have also been counting down from 10 just like a rocket launching into space- blast off! 

In our creative work we designed patterned pants, made our own alien planets and even made our own play dough aliens. 

We have been busy creating a new space themed role-play area- Planet Zorg! The children have loved blasting off to space in own rocket and then meeting the aliens in outer space.

The children have also been busy outside making spaceships and exploring our moon sand and space water.

We all helped to make a new pair of underpants for Ben and together we wrote him a letter which we have posted- we hope he likes them as much as we have liked learning out this story! 

Watch this space for more out of this world learning in F1……

In F1 this week we welcomed parents and carers to join us in our class to see some of the activities the children take part in at Nursery and also see how they have settled in and are following class rules and routines. The children loved showing off their work on ‘Aliens love underpants’ and singing their grown-ups a song. The children showed off some of their new and developing skills in the writing area and also had fun designing a new pair of underpants at the creative table. We made play dough aliens and built rockets in the construction area. Outdoor we showed our grown-ups how we can ride the bikes and scooters and also how we build using the large crates. Thank you very much to all the adults who came along, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did  

We have had a fantastic time in F1 focusing on the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ as part of our Traditional Tales topic.

It all started with a letter which arrived in our class one morning along with a broken chair. It was from Baby Bear asking us if we could help him figure out who had done it. We had to become detectives and use the clues to solve the crime.

In Literacy we have been making story maps and also innovating the story by creating our own ending. The children have wrote sorry letters from Goldilocks to Baby Bear and have also written character speech bubbles.

In Maths we have been working hard on our counting and number recognition in preparation for F2. We have also been sorting objects by size and making our own repeating patterns.

In Phonics we have been continuing to practice our oral blending and segmenting skills with lots of fun games and activities. Some children have begun Phase 2 Phonics in Miss Randall’s group learning the first sounds: s a t p i n m d

We have a new Role-Play area- The Three Bears Cottage. The children have loved acting out scenes from the story in here developing their communication and language skills.

In our Outdoor play we have been busy making Obstacle courses and using the crates to make houses and dens. The children have enjoyed looking for snails and other mini beasts in the garden area and also cooking some lovely ‘porridge’ in the mud kitchen. The children have also loved performing on our stage and using the musical instruments and dressing up box.

We even got another letter from Baby Bear this week thanking us for helping to solve the mystery of his broken chair and he sent us some of his favourite porridge to try!

What a busy and exciting few weeks we have had in F1- keep up the great work everyone. Not long until we finish for the summer now.

Key dates to remember-

Transition morning 5^th July

Sports day- 19^th July

What a great start to 2019 it has been in our Nursery Class! The children have loved our Winter Topic and we have certainly had the weather to go with it ?

In Literacy we have read the book ‘The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud’ and we innovated the story to add our own twist. The children used their imaginations to think of other arctic animals that the snow cloud might make for the polar bear. They have been working hard on listening to initial sounds in words and include these in our mark-making. We also read ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers. We created a story map, ordered events in the story and wrote lists of things we would take in our rowing boat on a trip to the South Pole.

In Phonics we have been working hard on rhyming words and alliteration playing lots of fun new games to embed this learning. Keep up the good work! We have also enjoyed Interactive games on Phonics play such as ‘cake bake’.

In maths we have been working hard on number recognition and counting. We have played lots of fun games and learnt some new number songs. We have also been busy making 2D shape pictures and thinking about shapes in our environment. We have been working hard on recognising when we have the same or more/less objects and practiced this vocabulary in our learning.

We have enjoyed weekly dance lesson in the hall where we have learnt to use the movement dice and traffic lights. Children have loved dancing along to our snowflake poem and snowman music. We celebrated Chinese New Year and learnt about the zodiac calendar and why each year is named after an animal. We tasted Chinese food and made Chinese lanterns too!

Our small words area turned into a Winter wonderland with lots of arctic animals and even the castle from Frozen. Children have been using some fantastic imaginative language acting out different characters. In our Outdoor learning children have been busy experimenting with ice and how to melt it. We have built dens in the construction area and also made obstacle courses with the sports equipment.

What a super busy learning time it has been in F1! Thank you to all parents/carers for your continued support and we look forward to more fun after the holidays where our topic will be ‘People who help us’.

We have been very busy in F1 over the last few weeks learning all about Autumn! 

We begun by reading the story of ‘The Little Red Hen.’ The children loved receiving some freshly baked bread from the hen and her special recipe. We made our own craft little red hens and loved retelling the story using our class story map and puppets. We have also been practicing our mark-making skills by tracing patterns/circles and lines and children have shown great development in their independent name writing.

Recently we have enjoyed reading the story ‘That’s not my hedgehog’ and the children have been busy feeling different textures and describing them. We have made hedgehogs using play dough and have loved lots of craft activities making Autumn leaf collages and our own hedgehogs too.

We learnt about a special festival called Diwali and even made our own Diva lamps to take home. We also loved taking part in lots of fun activities last week for Children in need.

In maths we have been continuing to learn lots of fun numbers rhymes and songs. The children have been using Numicon to carefully count objects to 10, we have learnt the names of some 2D shapes and created shape rockets. Children have enjoyed learning some position vocabulary and also learning to use scales to see which items are heavier/lighter. We have loved using real Autumn objects for our counting games too!

In phonics we have been continuing to work on our listening and attention skills with games like sound lotto and we have also been thinking about how we can make different sounds using our bodies too. The children have been able to discriminate between different sounds and especially love to play ‘Noisy Neighbour.’

In our Outdoor learning we have been busy making Autumn soup in the mud kitchen as well as lots of role-play in our new fruit & veg shop. We have been on a shape hunt looking for real-life 2D shapes outside and have played lots of fun phonics games too such as Follow the leader and Grandma’s footsteps.

We are very proud of all of the children and their achievements so far in Nursery, keep up the good work everybody!

 

 

What a fantastic start to the year we have had in F1! The children have settled into school life so well and have already begun to make great progress in their areas of learning. All of the children are able to select their own resources and are already very independent learners!

Our Topic this half term has been ‘All about me’ and the children have really enjoyed talking about their families, their likes and dislikes and also about what makes them special. We have drawn self portraits and also had lots of fun playing Guess Who with our own baby photographs.

We have read lots of stories to encourage the children to join in with repeated phrases and also loved reading about Elmer the Elephant who is a very special patchwork elephant. We have learnt about how God created our wonderful world and painted pictures of all the things God created.

In maths we have learnt many new number rhymes and songs and have loved joining in with the words and actions. We have been busy learning the names of shapes and also counting objects.

In our Outdoor learning we have loved playing builders, singing on our stage and learning to ride the bikes and scooters. Children have enjoyed baking in our mud kitchen and also creating their own ramps for cars and obstacle courses.

We love Snack Time in Nursery, we sit and socialise with our friends during snack and we have loved trying different fruits and especially love Toasty Friday!

Thank you for all of your support this 1^st half term, we hope you found the EYFS Curriculum meeting useful and hope that you are enjoying looking through your child’s observations on Tapestry- please feel free to add your own observations/photographs, it is really lovely to see the children’s development at home as well as at school.

Over the past two weeks F1 have been learning about Autumn. We have been learning about the changes that we see in our environment during this time and have been exploring lots of autumn objects such as leaves, conkers and pine cones. We have created autumn pictures and explored leaf prints. We have also drawn lots of autumn pictures and explored our autumn small world. We have used autumn objects in the maths area and have been very busy counting and sorting them. Our core text for this topic has been ‘The Little Red Hen.’ We have created our own story, by drawing the key events and had a go at creating our own book. We have also enjoyed playing with the story spoons. We have used them to help us retell the story.