Nursery Newsletter

What a wonderful few weeks we have had in nursery.  The children have been really enjoying their traditional tales topic and have been focussing o the ‘3 Billy Goats Gruff’ and ‘Little Red riding Hood’. 

We have been using the junk material to build the Trolls bridge, and we have been comparing the differences in size, big, medium and small.  The children were able to demonstrate their knowledge of size comparisons with a simple sorting activity and various objects that were big, medium and small.

We have continues our link to maths through the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, playing a dice and ‘cakes’ game with Little Red’s basket she was taking to her Granny’s house.  The children had to try and subitize (recognise without counting) how many spots were on the dice a then find the corresponding number of cakes to put in the basket.  They continued doing this until they had 10 cakes for granny!

In our SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship)  sessions we have continued to look at the book ‘Elmer’ to think about how having differences is good and that all our families are different.  We have been celebrating our friends and the different skills and abilities we each have and learning that how to include everyone.

For our Religions Around the World lessons we have been celebrating Chinese New Year.  We had many activities to help celebrate this including making dragons for dancing and having a go at eating noodles with chopsticks!  We also looked at the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and how this is celebrated.  The Persian New Year celebrates the beginning of spring so we looked at differences between Winter and Spring and thought about thee changes of the seasons.