Class pages | Nursery

Staff

Mrs Avery | Mrs Morgan | Mrs Frost | Mrs Gibbons | Mrs Taylor

Welcome

In Nursery we strive to help children develop confidence and independence while developing a positive attitude to learning. We provide a happy, caring environment where children feel safe and can develop and learn.

Creative Curriculum Theme

Curriculum Theme: Curriculum Theme:  New Life

We will focus on a different Spring or Mini Beast themed book over the course of this topic, including ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’, ’One Little Frog’, ‘Mad About Minibeasts’ and ‘The Tiny Seed’’. We will be creating our Nursery Garden Centre role play area. The children will be able to independently access this during discovery time, taking turns to be the shop keeper or customer.                                   

As we introduce ’New Life’, we will talk about the seasonal changes around us. The children will go on a sensory nature Spring walk as they look at the trees and signs of new life. We will visit our forest area; the children will explore the bug hotel and use magnifying glasses to search for caterpillars, ladybirds, ants, and worms. Our time at the forest will also include gathering leaves, twigs, and grass to make nature pictures.

The children will enjoy a range of creative activities, including potato masher caterpillars, mixing blue and yellow to create different shades of green for frog painting and creative trays for exploring different materials and joining techniques such as glue, sticky tape, and paperclips!

There will be opportunities for number exploration as the children play the caterpillar counting game, matching numeral to quantity and sing the number rhyme ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs counting how many frogs are left on the log each time. The children will also use coloured pebbles to create a repeating pattern for the frog to jump along and explore 2D shapes by creating a butterfly with a range of shapes in its wings. The children will sort spring items, compare sizes of animals, match mommy animals to their babies and explore patterns on bumble bees and ladybirds.

The children will create movement sequences in response to music as they crawl, flutter, turn, curl, wriggle, and twist. The children will also practise jumping as they play a frog themed version of musical statues, hopping like frogs when the music plays and jumping onto a lily pad when it stops!

During this topic Nursery will also have their very own Butterfly Garden; the children will watch their caterpillars grow into beautiful butterflies as they begin to understand the key features of the life cycle. They will explore fruits caterpillars like to eat using a mystery bag, sorting the fruits into sets.

We will use a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to discover facts and interesting information about mini beasts.

 Sensory and mark making trays will be available throughout the provision including play dough, rice, sand, water, beans, seeds, garden tools, soil, and plant pots.

Programme for Half Term

Letters and Sounds:

The children will enjoy a Letters and Sounds session each day. The focus of each session and activity will be based on Voice sounds, Oral blending, and Segmenting. Examples of some of these activities are: ‘Metal Mike’ where children are encouraged to recognise the CVC word being sounded out. ‘Cross the river’ where children are encouraged to listen carefully and cross the river when they hear the toy sounding out their object; ‘Old Mc’Fred had a House’ where the children say the CVC objects being sounded out from the bag.

Drinks and Snacks

Milk, fruit and fresh water are available to children on the ‘snack table’. Fruit and milk are free until your child’s 5th birthday.