Author: Miss Taylor

We have had a very busy week in Nursery. We have continued to explore ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ in a variety of ways.

The children have been observing the caterpillars and since last week they have grown quite a bit….

This week as part of our Hungry Caterpillar work, the children helped Miss Taylor create something called a ‘Story Map’. The children were very good at explaining what happened in the story making sure everything was in the correct order. Can you draw a story map of the hungry caterpillar story? It would be lovely to have some up in the class. Please see below the one we created in school:

This week Nursery and Reception created some artwork for the Crowing of Mary Assembly we will go to on Tuesday:

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We hope you can join us for our Coronation Picnic on Friday 5th May.

Please join us for reading mornings every Friday 8:45-9:00am.

In the bookbags today is a letter inviting you to our Pentecost Party which will be happening at the end of this half term.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Miss Taylor

Welcome back everyone, it was lovely to see the children back on Tuesday. The children took part in circle time where they told their friends what they did in the Easter Holidays. It was great to hear all the lovely things they got up to including easter egg hunts, visiting relatives and going to the cinema to see Super Mario!

This week we have looked at the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Lots of the children already know the story so it was great they could join in with the words. We watched a video about a lady called Mabel, she visited a butterfly sanctuary and told us lots of wonderful things about both caterpillars and butterflies.

Today our special visitors arrived…..

We are going to be watching the caterpillars over the next week or so to see how they change, I wonder how long it will be before they turn into butterflies?

Our new role play areas are open, the children can play in the new school or they could visit the pizza parlour to either make or taste yummy pizza.

This term we will continue to do PE on Monday mornings and visit the Library every Friday.

Please could all spare clothes bags be returned to school.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

This week we read stories around Easter and thought about this special time of year. The children helped to create an Easter Garden.

On Wednesday morning we made easter nests:

The Easter bonnets have looked fantastic being displayed in our classroom this week, this morning we showed them off in assembly.

The children have worked really hard this term and are ready for a rest. I hope you have a lovely Easter break and I look forward to seeing all the children back on Tuesday 18th April 2023.

Wishing you all a very happy Easter

Miss Taylor

This week we looked at the story The Gingerbread Man. We have read and watched different versions of the story. On Tuesday we made our very own Gingerbread man to enjoy at home. We helped prepare all the ingredients and then put them in to a bowl and gave it a good stir! We all had a piece of dough to roll out and a cutter to make our gingerbread man. Some of us put raisins on our gingerbread man – yummy!

Lent

Thank you for bringing in your Lentern Promises. The children have been enjoying looking at the tree and talking to their friends about the promise they have made.

On Thursday afternoon we joined Mrs Porter and the KS2 children to walk around the path on the field. Mrs Porter is completing The Big Lent Walk during Lent and we wanted to join her to show our support!

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Please join us on Friday mornings between 8:45-9:00am for reading mornings.

Next Friday (17th) we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly in the hall – parents are invited to attend.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

In PE this term we are completing the Movement Development unit. We explored moving around in space in the hall pretending to be different sized animals e.g. we pretended to be an elephant and made big steps or a snake by moving on our tummies. We then played a game of bumper cars, we had a hoop bumper car and tried really hard not to bump into another bumper car.

This week we looked at the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children took part in a range of activities throughout the week including making and playing with porridge oats, acting out the story in the tuff tray, making a baby bear mask and even tasting some of mummy bears famou porridge – delicious.

Today in school we celebrated World Book Day. The children looked fantastic dressed up as their favourite book characters. We had a trip to the library where they listened to a story about a frog who didn’t want to be a prince. The children chose new books to read at home.

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Please join us every Friday from 8:45-09:00am for Reading Morning.

Mothers Day Assembly – 17th March – 09:05am

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

This week we looked at the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’. One day Mr Wolf decided he wanted to make some pancakes but was unsure how, he asked his neighbours to help him read the recipe book, write a shopping list but they all said no so Mr Wolf had a go at making them all by himself and the neighbours all thought they smelt yummy. Ask your child what happened at the end of the story.

This week we thought about pancakes and why we have them and discussed some of the things we are giving up for Lent. On Tuesday we had pancakes for snack and also had the chance to make a pancake at our pancake station.

This half term we will be reading a variety of fairy tales including Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Our role play has changed into the 3 Bears cottage, the children have enjoyed playing in there, taking on a role and making porridge.

For snack today we made a sandwich! The children had a go at cutting their bread in half – well done.

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Thank you parents and carers for coming to parent consultations this week.

Don’t forget Fridays are reading mornings (expect Friday 17th March as we will be going to the Mothers Day assembly in the hall – parents welcome).

Please bring in your Lentern Promise by Friday 3rd March so we can talk about them and put them up on our tree.

Friday 3rd March is World Book Day, children can dress up as their favourite book character if they would like too.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

This week we looked at the story ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ as part of Mental Health week and Valentines next week. We talked about the people we love and why they are special. The children also had the chance to make a valentines day card for someone they love.

On Wednesday we joined together with Reception to take part in Just Dance and then some relaxing Yoga.

Today we ‘Dressed To Impress’

Other photos this week:

Have a lovely half term!

See you on Monday 20th.

Miss Taylor

This week we looked at the story ‘Polar Bear Paddle’ about a young polar bear named Alfie who liked to swim in the baby pool but really wanted to swim in the larger one and with the help of his friends he was able to do this! We also looked at some videos of some polar bears and really enjoyed watching the cubs rolling down the snowy hill!

Today we dressed up for NSPCC Number day! The children looked really great in their clothes, we had children with sums on, colours, spots, stripes and even an domino!

We have a variety of maths activities in the classroom including a colour sorting activity with tweezers, putting pebbles onto pictures, making shapes with lolly sticks, pizza shape colouring in and some of us even had a go at writing some numbers! Thank you for all of your donations!

Important Dates

Monday 6th – Friday 10th February – Mental Health Week

Friday 10th February – Dress to express dress up day

Monday 13th – Friday 17th February – Half term

Thursday 23rd February – Nursery Parent Consultations

Friday 17th March -Mothers Day Assembly in the hall, parents invited – No reading morning.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

This week we learnt about Chinese New Year! We watched a video about the animals racing across the river and saw the order in which they finished! We also met a little girl called Abi who told us how her and her family celebrate Chinese New Year! We tried noodles, delicious. The children also got to act out the race in our tuff spot tray.

On Wednesday afternoon we spent some time creating our own junk models to take home, the children were really engaged and thought about what they wanted to add to their models.

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Remember that Monday 30th January is an occasional day and the school is closed.

Have a lovely long weekend and see you on Tuesday!

Miss Taylor