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Autumn Term 1
Welcome!
We welcome back the children who have previously been with us, they were very happy to see us and told us all about what they got up to in the holidays. We are very proud how they have welcomed and helped our new starters settle in.
Ours new starters have completed their first full week now! They have all settled into the nursery routine and have enjoyed exploring and learning about all of the nursery areas.
Yoga
We are very excited to be taking part in yoga sessions as part of the whole school's 'Well being Wednesday's' when each week we will be looking at the importance of mental health, well being, mindfulness, healthy eating, hygiene, exercises and keeping safe.
Vanathi, our yoga teacher, introduced us to 'Tatty Bumpkin' who helps us with our yoga positions and breathing techniques through stories and songs. We loved it.
Our First Forest Friday
We were very excited to work in our forest for the first time this year. We learned what we could do in the forest and checked it was safe to play in after our long Summer holidays. Miss Porter cut back long, spikey branches and Mrs Raine tidied the flower pots. We explored the paths in the trees, collected and used sticks to make sounds, found acorns under the oak tree and counted them.
Our Families and Ourselves
This week we shared our homework with our friends, telling them all about who lives in their houses. Some of us had 3 people, some had 6! We talked about brothers and sisters and if they were bigger or smaller than us. We noticed that some families were they same as our own and some were different.
We also spent time looking at ourselves. Using mirrors to see our faces and also our friends looking at us to tell us our eye colour or hair colour.
"I have yellow hair, it's called blonde." Leo B
"I have blonde hair to but mine is long and Leo's is short." Evie
"My eyes are a bit green and a bit brown." Florence
We used the ipad to take a photo of our faces then used them to paint them.
Forest Friday - Autumn
We have noticed our forest has begun to change. We looked at the leaves on the trees and noticed some are beginning to change colour. Before we went in the forest we learned about autumn colours - green, yellow, orange, red and brown!
We used a colour chart to find the colour of the leaves on it.
Then we used shaving foam and paint to create our own 'giant leaf' which we will use to create an Autumn forest inside our nursery!
Peace at Last - Jill Murphy
We have really enjoyed developing a greater understanding of our focus book. We have learned all about the different sounds Mr Bear heard that stopped him falling asleep!
"Oh no, I can't stand this......."
We have sequenced the story using the sounds, thinking about where Mr Bear heard them. Painted representations of the story. Learned about day/night. Been on our own sound walk around school with our big listening ears on!
See if your listening ears work at home and listen for sounds in each room of your house.
Forest Friday - Leaf crowns
This week we collected Autumn coloured leaves to make a leaf crown. We were great at describing the leaves we found.
"This one is bumpy." - Evie
"This one has a bit of green and a bit of yellow." - Leo B
"Look at this really long one!" - Libby
"This one is red and this one is orange." - Ivy
"This one is still just green." - Kobie
In our crafty corner we used broccoli to print Autumn colours onto a tree.
We used our big gardening tools to collect the grass that had been cut!
Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year
Today we learned about the Jewish New Year and how they celebrate it.
Rosh Hashanah means 'Head of the Year' in Hebrew.
To help celebrate this, families share apples dipped in honey and wish each other with the typical greeting of 'Have a good and sweet new year.'
For Forest Friday, we looked at all the trees in our forest and around the school for apple trees!
We identified lots of other trees by their fruits - oak trees , fir tree and a sycamore tree.
We found a big apple tree at the bottom of our yard and we could see 1 apple hanging on the branch, we tried lots of ways to knock it down! We were successful but unfortunately it fell on the other side of the fence!
We eventually found an apple tree in the allotment and noticed that they had been eaten by some creatures so it was good that Miss Porter had bought some from the shop!
Mrs Raine used an apple corer to slice the apples and we enjoyed dipping them in the honey and wishing each other a sweet new year.
This is the way we wash our hands!
We have learned the importance of 'when' we wash our hands, 'why' we need to wash them and most importantly 'how' to wash them!
We learned a new song to the tune of 'Here we go round the mulberry bush' - 'This is the way we wash our hands....'. Maybe your child can remember it and sing it to you!
The children loved playing the game 'Pass the germ!' - passing it around the circle and when the music stopped if you caught the 'germ' then it made you sneeze and you were out of the game!
We looked closely at our hands to see if we could see the germs but germs are very tiny and we cannot see them so Mrs Raine painted her hand green and demonstrated how germs are spread around the nursery if we don't remember to wash them!
We had lots of fun finding the germy hands and cleaning the germs away!
Harvest Festival
This week in our nursery we have celebrated Harvest by thanking God for the food he provides for us.
We have looked at lots of vegetables and learned about where the grow, above the ground or below the ground. We used new language to extend our vocabulary by describing how the vegetables look and feel.
Then 'Peter' (Leo's Grandad) brought in his prize winning vegetables that he grows in his allotment!
They were enormous! They looked like they belonged to a giant!
We were able to compare the size of them to the ones Miss Porter bought in the supermarket.
On Thursday, we joined reception and Key stage 1 to celebrate Harvest. We sang the song 'Big, red combine harvester' and joined in with the actions.
Rosie's Walk - Pat Hutchins
We have focused on the story about Rosie the hen who lives on the farm. She goes for a walk and is followed by a sly fox! The story follows Rosie as she goes through, around, under, over and across the farmyard but the poor fox meets lots of obstacles in his way.
We have used paint and feathers to create our own 'Rosie'.
We have watched and learned the story using Makaton signs. (You Tube)
We have made our own story maps and our own character figures to retell the story.
We have learned about prepositions - on, under, in front, behind, beside, on top etc
Thank you to all of our families who attended our EYFS Curriculum Cafe. It was great to see so many of you here enjoying learning with your children!
Spooky Spells and Potions!
Well, in our nursery this week we have shared the story of Meg and Mog. This led to lots of learning based on making spells, magic words, being a witch and exploring slime!
There has been lots of children being turned into frogs, spiders and unicorns.
Mrs Raine had the best idea and made a 'quiet spell' although this didn't last very long!
The children loved making their own spider, practicing scissor skills to cut straight lines for legs. We then needed to count how many legs spiders have checking to see how many we had on our spider and how many more we needed.
We hope all our families have a wonderful half term with their children and we will look forward to hearing their stories on their return.
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Motto
“We walk in the footsteps of Jesus so that we may have life in all its fullness”
John 10:10