Blog Author: Lindsey Field

This week we completed our artwork inspired by Yayoi Kusama. We used dots, circles and printing to create a joint piece. We have displayed it in the Nursery cloakroom. 
 

The story we shared this week was the Hungry Caterpillar. We talked about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and used props to…

This week we have been celebrating feel good week. We took part in Sports Day on Wednesday, everyone did a fantastic job! The nursery team were so proud of how everyone took part in the activities including throwing, jumping, running and taking part in an obstacle course. 

On Friday we went to…

We've had a lovely week at Nursery. We have enjoyed playing in the garden enjoying the sunshine. We have been looking after our plants and giving them water everyday. 

This week we have continued learning about the story of the little red hen. We have been retelling the story using actions…

This week we started our new topic "How do things grow?" 

We talked about the flowers and insects that we can now see in the garden and drew pictures of them. We also planted a range of flowers and vegetables including peas, beans and pumpkins. We are going to look after them and give them…

We have had a lovely week playing in the sunshine and enjoying the garden. 
We have played in our next babies area, balanced on the slack line and used the crates and planks of wood to create obstacle courses. 
 

Our pattern line this week was an upside down arch. We decided it looked like a…

This week we shared the story Dave’s Cave. We talked about the differences between where we live now and where cave people lived. We then used the crates, wooden planks and pieces of fabric to make our own caves. 
 

In the garden we were very excited to use our new slack line. We used our core…

This week we have been learning about Dinosaurs. We share some dinosaur stories that we found in the library. We talked about the different dinosaurs and how some were carnivores and some herbivores. 

We used our fine motor skills to cut out triangles to stick on a stegosaurus' back. We made…

At Nursery this week, we started our new topic of What happened long, long ago? We started off by sharing the story of the great race. We learnt about how the animals all raced across the river and that is now the order of Chinese Zodiac was decided. We talked about Lunar new year celebrations. We…

This week we have been learning about the library. We looked at our school library and how it has two different types of books - story books and information books. We looked at the books and found them in the library. We talked about how the information books and story books looked different from…

We’ve had a very busy week in Nursery. 
 

On Wednesday afternoon we had a visit from the police to talk about their jobs. They showed us their uniforms and police truck. 
 

We have also been using our early reading skills to recognise shop signs that you might find in Hitchin.  Next week…

This week we have been talking about doctors and how they help us. We looked at the tools that are in a doctor’s bag and named the items we could see. We used our fine motor skills to cut out pictures of the tools a doctor would use and stick them in our own doctors bag. 
 

We also watched the…

We were pleased to see the children this week and to welcome some new friends who are settling in well. 
 

We started our new topic this week. We are answering the question “who helps us?” We started by talking about how vets and builders help us. We had lots of fun in our construction and…