Little Learners - Nursery
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16th December
What an extremely festive week we have had, Nursery Class! You have all been busy little elves.
What a lovely surprise we had on the weekend; it's been so much fun playing in the snow this week with our teachers and friends. We have also really liked seeing all your photographs of you playing in the snow with your families at home - what fun you all had!
This week the children have had lots of fun playing in the class Christmas grotto.
The children have been practising ever so hard for their Christmas performance this week. It’s wonderful. We have heard some great singing and seen some fantastic dancing.
Nursery Class have been ever so creative all week! They have been making lots of Christmas goodies to take home. We hope you love them as much as we do! Nursery have really enjoyed getting stuck into every activity. Well Done, everyone!
On Wednesday, Kim, our school cook, made us all a delicious Christmas dinner. We all walked down to the hall and sat in there with all the children from the school. It was so nice to see everyone in their Christmas jumpers. You all looked very festive - what great effort you all made. Afterwards we went to play outside on the top playground with all the children. We really enjoyed ourselves.
We have thoroughly enjoyed decorating Christmas hats this week too, using some special Christmas stamps. We used paint and sequins too. They look fantastic!
On Thursday we made some Christmas shortbread biscuits. The children really liked using the cookie cutters and all took it in turns to use them - great sharing Nursery Class! We hope you enjoy eating them.
We all had a lovely surprise this week; a very special visitor visited us in our classrooms. He was a wearing a red suit and a red hat, can you guess who it might have been? The children were very excited to see him.
On Friday we put on a brilliant Christmas performance in the morning and afternoon. Nursery you have been all superstars this term and your teachers are very proud of you all.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. See you all next week for some more festive fun - don't forget the school and Little Learners finish at 1.00 pm on Tuesday 20th December (morning session children will still finish at their usual time of 11.45 am).
For those of you who have already finished for this term, we hope you enjoy your well-deserved Christmas break. We cannot wait to hear all about what you all got up to.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Little Learners.
Love from all your teachers x
9th December
What another amazing week we have had, Nursery Class! We have had so much fun exploring all the different activities on offer.
Throughout the next couple of weeks, we are making special art and craft creations for our families and friends to see.
We have continued going to the big hall every morning and afternoon to practice our Christmas rehearsal. On Monday we explored our Stickman story, which we can now recall independently - Well Done, Nursery!
On Tuesday we had fun making our own Christmas mats, ready for our Christmas lunch with all our friends and teachers at Great Oldbury. We had a choice of different materials and coloured paint to use, which look so lovely on our finished mats - Well Done, Nursery!
We really enjoyed looking at all the different colour paint, so we decided to carry out a colour mixing activity. After we mixed red, blue, green and yellow together it made a lovely brown colour which we then made reindeer handprints with. We also added googly eyes and a red nose!
On Wednesday we made our own Christmas decorations which we can’t wait to show you all!
On Thursday we made our Christmas cards with different colours and sparkly glitter which look fantastic! We had so much fun making them.
We also thoroughly enjoyed playing Christmas bingo with all our friends. The children were able to take turn and share brilliantly, which was fantastic to see!
On Friday we continued to make our lovely Christmas creations. We have been talking to our friends about what we have made and discussed our Christmas trees and decorations which we have at home. We also talked about the different ways we celebrate special events with our families and friends.
Well Done, Nursery Class, for other an amazing week! You have all shown some wonderful creativity this week and your teachers are so proud of your efforts! Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week for more festive fun!
2nd December
What another brilliant week we have had at nursery! We have started our new story “Stickman,” and enjoyed seeing the adventures he went on.
The children also had a go at making their own Stickman out of play-dough. The children used googly eyes and sticks to add to their brown play-dough to make their own unique Stickman. The children were so proud of what they made and loved showing each other their own creation!
Throughout the week we have also been doing more practice for our Christmas performance. The children are doing so well at remembering all our songs, and actions, and have so much fun dancing together. It is lovely to see how confident and excited the children are about our performance!
We have started to do some more Christmas activities this week. The children have had so much fun decorating our Santa and snowman that is now on our display board. They stuck lots of red and white tissue paper on our Santa and put some fluffy cotton wool on our snowman. They look really lovely, and the children worked so hard on them, Well Done, Nursery Class!
On the 1st of December we had a very exciting letter come to Great Oldbury Primary Academy... The children helped opened it and saw it was from Santa and the Elves! They were very kind and gave us some decorations to decorate nursery and the children were so excited. They helped their teachers put the decorations up and our Nursery classroom looks so Christmassy, thank you Nursery Class children!
Well Done for another great week. It has been so lovely to see how confident you are all are becoming. We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to another week filled with lots of learning and fun!
25th November
It’s been another great week in Nursery Class, with lots of different activities going on! We’ve been exploring lots of play opportunities and enjoyed continuing our story ‘It was a Cold, Dark Night’ with Ned the hedgehog and his friends. We’ve been remembering our characters in our book on each of the pages. We began to retell the book to our teachers and explain what happens on each page. The children have used their imaginations beautifully which has been great to see!
We have also been celebrating the World Cup, decorating our own trophies and singing football songs from Cbeebies. In our classroom, our teachers made our tuff tray into a football pitch and we played with little people using the bouncing balls to kick the ball in the goals. They also made a small football pitch in the garden which we could practice our gross motor movements using our feet to kick the outdoor balls. Despite the weather this week, we’ve managed to get outside when we can since we love playing in the garden!
Well Done Nursery Class for a brilliant week! Your teachers are so proud to see you becoming more independent, exploring different skills and grow in your confidence with interacting with others. We look forward to another week with you and we hope you all have a great weekend!
18th November
What a great and busy week we have had in Nursery Class this week. Our main focus this week has been all about road-safety. We have also been talking about the importance of being kind to others, to mark anti-bullying week.
On Tuesday we learnt about lots of animals and the different habitats they live in .
The title of our Talk 4 Writing focus book is “It was a Cold Dark Night”.
The story is all about a hedgehog, trying to find his home, and his friends help him to find it. The children really engaged well with this story. They did brilliantly at coping the animal sounds and having a go at doing the actions.
Well Done, Nursery Class!
We have also had the farm and zoo animals out. In our small world area. The children distinguished where they lived. They divided them into two different homes e.g., a farm and a zoo. They did so well at this activity.
The children went on a bug hunt around the school grounds, which they thoroughly enjoyed. They each had a magnifying glass and were looking for spiders, worms, and other insects. The children had fun looking down holes in and bushes - what great little explorers they were!
Nursery Class have been very creative this week. We have enjoyed painting animal posters with the paint dabber pens, as well as pigs, cows, sheep, giraffes and snakes. They look very colourful on our working wall display. They have also made traffic lights using their hands prints, which look fantastic!
At carpet time this week we have had lots of discussions about road safety. Mrs. Robinson found a song to sing, which the children picked up very quickly. It’s all about what you must do to cross the road safely. It went like this…..
Stop, look and listen before you cross the road
Stop, look and listen before you cross the road
Use your eyes and your ears, before you use your toes,
Stop, look and listen before you cross the road.
Wow, Nursery! You all looked great in your Pudsey spots for Children in Need - we were all very impressed! What a great effort you have all made. You have done amazingly well at designing your Pudsey bear posters too, they look very colourful.
We hope you have a brilliant weekend, see you all next week for another fun packed week.
8th November
What an amazing first week back we have had at Little Learners! It has been lovely to see the children reunited with their friends after the half term.
We have also been exploring pumpkins, so we could make our own face on it. It’s been lovely to see all the children’s imagination in their lovely designs! They have loved seeing all the different shapes and discussing what they are.
As it is Bonfire Night, we have been discussing and doing some activities based on it. The children enjoyed exploring with our firework play dough and making their own fireworks out of it. We had also built a bonfire in our tuff tray and discussed with the children about being safe around bonfires and fireworks. We then watched some videos of fireworks, and the children were talking about all the different colours they could see in them and how they went “bang.”
The children have also enjoyed making firework themed biscuits. The biscuits had red and green icing and the children had so much fun spreading this all over their biscuit and putting some sprinkles on top to make it look like fireworks.
It’s been lovely to see all the children back this term and having so much fun at Little Learners. We hope you all had a lovely half-term!
17th October
What another brilliant week we have all had, Nursery Class! You have been superstars.
This week our focus has been Autumn. The children have really shown an interest in our focus story, Owl Babies. The children have listened so well and can recall what Bill, the baby owl, said. Well Done! Your teachers have been very impressed with your listening skills.
The children used their fine motor skills to print leaves on their tree pictures. They look marvellous!
On Tuesday, it was Mrs. Halls birthday and Little Learners made her a special card. The decided to make flowers using their hands as the design. It was very pretty. They also thoroughly enjoyed singing Happy Birthday to her in the hall.
This week we wrapped up warm and went on walk around the school grounds. Nursery Class loved exploring the area. We found lots of leaves, twigs and acorns scattered on the ground. We collected a pile and brought it all back to our classroom, ready to use for crafts and to put in our tuff trays.
For our sensory play this week, Mrs. Robinson made us some red play dough; it had lots of different herbs in, so we have enjoyed using our senses to explore it.
The children have loved playing with the dinosaur small world set this week. We've seen lots of collaborative play amongst the children, which was wonderful! They have been making dinosaur sounds and stomping the dinosaurs onto the dried pasta to make big crunchy noises. Great imaginations everyone! They have also used their fine motor skills to pick up dried pasta and acorns with the tweezers and placing them into individual bowls.
It’s been a great, fun week with lots of dancing, singing and happy faces!
Well done everybody, see you all next week!
7th October
What a fantastic week we have had, Nursery Class!
We have been really interested in our new topic which is about Autumn, and our new book is called “Owl babies”. We used our good listening and thought of the same topic skills, which was lovely to see.
Our fluffy and happy owls look an amazing on our working wall; the children worked really hard to use and recognise patterns and familiar shapes.
Nursery Class went on an Autumn trail to see what we could find on the trees and on the floor in the school grounds and Forest School.
We found some different sized sticks/twigs, acorns and leaves which were flying in the air around us - we were all amazed to see the wind whip up the leaves on the floor!
We have continued to explore our five senses from last week, as we were really interested in this activity. Some of us said the fruit and vegetables were really “heavy" and some were "very light" to hold.
Some of us also described how the fruit and vegetable smelled, using our developing vocabulary.
We explored the studio inside school, as it became very windy outside, where we listened to owl sounds and used our arms as owl wings to swoop around the room. We also used colourful string to make wings and threw P.E balls into the air as high as we could, as we have learned that owls fly very high in the sky in the night.
We really enjoyed exploring our green playdough that Mrs. Robinson made for us and began to make our own markings using the different shape cutters and tools. We also played with some flour and used our fingers to make our own markings.
Well Done Nursery Class for another brilliant week! We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you all next week.
30th September
What another fantastic week we have had at Little Learners! The children have been settling in so well and are enjoying getting to know each other.
During our carpet times, the children have loved discussing our new calendar. They have also enjoyed singing our 'Days of the Week,” song and looking outside to see what the weather is like that day.
The children have also loved using bingo dabbers to create beautiful pictures of animals. They really enjoyed exploring all the different colours, and even made some multicoloured animals!
We have also enjoyed exploring our 5 senses this week. We had a play around with marmite, jam, lemon juice, carrot, pear and even tomato. A lot of children thought the marmite was chocolate spread at first. Once they smelt it, they then realised that it definitely did not smell like chocolate spread!
It has been so lovely to see all the children’s confidence growing as they’re settling into Nursery Class! We hope all Little Learners have enjoyed this week and we look forward to all the fun we have planned for you next week.
Have an amazing weekend!
23rd September
Wow, Nursery Class! What a fantastic second week we have had. You have settled in so well already and your teachers are really enjoying getting to know you all.
We have already seen some great friendships forming and the children are very eager to see each other at Little Learners when they arrive for their session.
On Monday we went for a walk up to our Forest School site. We really loved exploring the area. We played so well in the mud kitchen with our friends. In the tuff tray were some acorns, which we sorted into different colours using some tweezers. We listened so well to our Forest School teachers and followed their instructions brilliantly. Well Done, Little Learners!
Every day this week we have been free flowing in and out of the garden. We have explored the sandpit and the water trays, which has been so much fun. We have also been using our gross motor skills to climb up onto the balancing crates. We have thoroughly enjoyed the bikes and scooters too.
With the sad news of our beloved Queen passing away last week, we held a circle time session with the children to talk about her. We talked about where she lived and our new King. The children saw a photograph of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and described what they saw. Nursery Class have done some great sticking on a poster of the Queen, using red, white and blue card. They look fantastic! We have displayed them on our windows, so please take a look when you can.
16th September
Wow, Nursery Class! What a fantastic second week we have had. You have settled in so well already and your teachers are really enjoying getting to know you all.
We have already seen some great friendships forming and the children are very eager to see each other at Little Learners when they arrive for their session.
On Monday we went for a walk up to our Forest School site. We really loved exploring the area. We played so well in the mud kitchen with our friends. In the tuff tray were some acorns, which we sorted into different colours using some tweezers. We listened so well to our Forest School teachers and followed their instructions brilliantly. Well Done, Little Learners!
Every day this week we have been free flowing in and out of the garden. We have explored the sandpit and the water trays, which has been so much fun. We have also been using our gross motor skills to climb up onto the balancing crates. We have thoroughly enjoyed the bikes and scooters too.
With the sad news of our beloved Queen passing away last week, we held a circle time session with the children to talk about her. We talked about where she lived and our new King. The children saw a photograph of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and described what they saw. Nursery Class have done some great sticking on a poster of the Queen, using red, white and blue card. They look fantastic! We have displayed them on our windows, so please take a look when you can.
Well Done Nursery Class for another fantastic week, we look forward to seeing you all next week. Have a lovely weekend.
9th September
Wow Little Learners what an amazing week it has been. We have been meeting all our new learners and helping them settle in. You have all been so brave and so kind to all of your friends, which makes us all very happy.
We have enjoyed singing our “Good morning” song to our friends and teachers and our “Goodbye song” at the end of each session. We then spoke about our nursery class rules which are “Walking feet inside, using kind hands and good listening ears to our friends and teachers”.
Throughout the week, we have been exploring our painting skills and have painted our hands with all different colours. This is for our welcome board which is between the nursery and pre-school corridor. We had lots of fun and liked mixing different colours together to see what colours we could make. We have also loved role playing with different safari animals and have shared so well, learning to take turns with our friends. We have been making our own markings with colouring pencils on different coloured paper and have been making our own patterns and shapes.
We have also been enjoying our snack time in the morning and afternoon where we have a selection of different fruits and a cracker, breadstick, rice cake or cheddar biscuit.
We enjoyed having our free flow throughout the day, being outside with lots of different activities to explore such as the mud kitchen, water play, sand play and small world play. We even get to see our friends in pre-school too!
We hope all Little Learners have enjoyed their first week at Great Oldbury and looked forward to more learning and fun activities next week. It has been really lovely to meet all of you and your families!
