Nursery

This week we have been learning about dinosaurs.

The children have been painting pictures of dinosaurs, cutting out dinosaur shapes and making dinosaurs with mathematical shapes.

This week the children have been learning how to use our computers.

They have been playing a game called “Beep” where you have to choose different clothes for the character.

The children in Nursery have been sorting animals by colour and by size. They have been using words such as “small”, “little”, “big”, “large” and “medium-sized”.

Nursery children thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day. They all came to school dressed up as a character from a book by our class author, Eric Carle. Our favourite stories by Eric Carle are “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “The Bad-Tempered Ladybird”. They have been printing their own pictures of ladybirds.

Nursery children have been playing a game where they throw adice and count that number of buttons onto the snowman. They then had to try tomatch the correct numeral to the number of buttons.

Nursery children have been making repeating patterns with the different coloured beads. They have been working on patterns with two colours and some children have managed to make a pattern using three colours.

Nursery children have been learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights. They have all made their own diva lamps which are used to signify the triumph of good over evil in the story of Rama and Sita. The children loved listening to the story of Prince Rama rescuing Sita from the evil king Ravana.

Diva lamps

Step 1 – we used clay to make the small lamps.

Step 2 – we painted the clay lamps.

Step 3 – we decorated the lamps with glitter and then varnished them.

Step 4 – we placed tea lights in the divas.

Nursery children have been practising writing their names. Some children have been tracing over their names and others are copying them.

Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed learning about space over the last couple of weeks. They have all made planets and learnt some facts about each one. The children have also made some amazing rockets.

Our recent topic in early Years has been “Pirates”. We have been reading stories and singing pirate songs. These children have been making treasure maps and treasure chests.