A little reminder for the week . . .

• The Friday Fun Day Feast will be happening on Thursday this week! Please ensure that if your child is having a school dinner on this day, that you check the menu option chosen by Ash class. Thank you.

• A reminder that parent meetings will be taking place on Wednesday and Thursday this week - appointment times have been sent home.

• School will be closed for the children on Friday (staff  will be in) - next week will be half-term. We hope you all have a lovely break and we will see you in November!

Star of the Week!

Our Stars of the Week for last week were Evan W and Jack. Congratulations and well done to both of you!

A few of our favourite things . . .

As the completion of our first half-term in Nursery is fast approaching, we have been thinking about some of favourite things that we have enjoyed doing during our self-initiated sessions . . .

 

Drawing a Polar Bear!

Dressing up and doing puzzles!

Taking a train on a wonderful adventure!

We also asked the children what their favourite thing about being at our Nursery is - here are just a few of their responses:

"I love doing my pictures" (Alyssa)

"I like the numbers - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 - I can count to 100!" (Thomas M)

"It's fun!" (Lexie-Mai)

"When I come to see the teachers here! I like playing with the train track" (Evan W)

"Painting! They make the sun shine - so bright like the stars, twinkle in the night" (Ruby)

We'd love to hear what you think you would enjoy about being at our Nursery - let us know! 

Little Pigs Let Me Come In

We have had fun being little builder pigs. We constructed houses of bricks, sticks and straw. We decided that we were very good builders as the big bad wolves couldn’t blow our houses down!

A house of straw

A house of sticks

Our big stick shelter

 We also had fun exploring the woodland, finding and magnifying ladybirds!

Can you guess what I'm looking at?

A little reminder for the week . . .

• Please note the Friday 'Fun Day' Feast menu for this Friday which can be found on The Bell - any children having a school dinner on Friday will need to select from this menu. Thank you.

• A reminder that Parents Evening will be taking place next Wednesday and Thursday - appointment times will be sent home this week for those children that returned their forms.

• Please also remember that next Friday (25th October) is a PD Day - staff will be in school, but children will remain at home and the following week will be half-term week. Thank you.

Star of the Week!

Our Stars of the Week for last week were Alfie, Bailey, Lottie and Bethan - congratulations and well done to all of you.

If you go down to the woods today . . .

No Porridge Party would be complete without a walk through the wood! We were on the look out for any other bears that might have heard about our party and guess what - we think there may have been some hiding . . . 

"We found big footprints on the tree and lots of little ones" (Thomas H)

"When we walked we saw little prints and one big dad print. If we keep walking, we might find mummy prints!" (Cameron)

Thankfully there wasn't any sign of Goldilocks and when we got back to Nursery, we were able to enjoy some lovely porridge with our bears (and other cuddly friends!).

"Yummy scrummy tummy!" (Georgia)

"It was yummy. We all ate our porridge - wobbly, wibble, wobble!" (Alfie)

Let us know if you have an exciting party with any of your cuddly friends - we'd love to hear about all the fun that you had.

News Flash - Bears seen having lots of fun at Nursery!

This week there have been lots of teddy bears (and other wonderful cuddly friends!) arriving at Nursery for lots of party fun - tune in next week to hear what happened at our Porridge Party!

Sorting the Bears. . .

Having talked a lot about the Three Bears in the Goldilocks story, we decided to think about the different ways that we could sort some of our Compare Bears into different groups:

"He's a big one - lots of them are the same. Small - two small ones, that's like the little one. These are all big, these are all small, these are all little" (Gethin)

"That's big, that's small, and that's even bigger - I've sorted them into three groups - big, bigger and smaller!" (Felicity)

"Them two are the same - they're that size together. That's tiny and that is tiny. That one is big because his feet is big!" (Ava)

"They're all blue so they match - see, all of these bears match, they're all big and small . . . mmm . . . big and small. This one's a medium one!" (Freddie)

We were delighted with the size related vocabulary that the children used, and some of the children were also able to count and label how many bears were in each group - well done to all of our super mathematicians!

Bike It, Be Bright Day!

On Monday, we took part in the Bike It, Be Bright Day! The children came to Nursery dressed in really bright colours - and so did one of their bikes! We had lots of fun riding round the playground - do you prefer to travel on your scooter, bike or toy car? We'd love to hear about the adventures you go on in your favourite mode of transport!

A little reminder for the week . . .

• This week we will be holding our Porridge Party events on Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning - remember to bring your favourite teddy bear!

• A little reminder that you should now have all received your parent evening letter, one about Nursery sessions for January, and one about the Pantomime. Please complete and return these as soon as possible. Thank you.

• The next GSA meeting will be held on Monday 14th October at 3.15pm - all are welcome to attend.

Star of the Week!

Our Stars of the Week for last week were Thomas H, Oliver S, Evan E and Violet. Congratulations and well done to all of you!

Who will you invite to the Party?

We are all very excited, because next week we are going to have a Porridge Party! Unfortunately the Three Bears will be busy, but we have decided to invite our favourite teddy bears instead. 

Look at some of our super invitations:

Have you got a favourite teddy bear? Perhaps you could send them an invitation and have your own Porridge Party! 

Let us know what you put on top of your porridge - we might try the same toppings at our own party next week! 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears!

The children really enjoyed making their bread just like the Little Red Hen did in her story. 

This week, we have been reading another book about animals and food - but this time, it was about porridge and bears! 

Lottie knew a bit about the story already and told us - "Goldilocks went in the bears house and she ate all the porridge and she broke the chairs."

After we had read the book, we talked about how the bears might have been feeling and Alfie said - "Angry and sad - because she broke the chair."

The children have been enjoying looking at the story again during their self-initiated sessions:

We watched and listened to an alternative version of the story (Fimbles - Three Bears - CBeebies) and Harley noticed straight away that the ending was different!

How many different versions of the story do you know? Have you got a favourite? Let us know!

Adventure round the Farmyard!

We have been thinking about the different animals that the Little Red Hen might have met on her journey round the farmyard. After we had sung 'Old McDonald', we went outside and explored our outdoor apparatus - imagining that we were one of the animals having an adventure in the farmyard!

  

 

We had lots of fun - how many different ways do you think we found to travel up and down the ramp? Which way would you have chosen? 

Wellie Wednesday

 We have really enjoyed our first 'Wellie Wednesday' sessions. We have had fun exploring the treasure box and investigating the woodland area.

Mini beast hunting

Can you see what I found?

Digging for treasure!

We are really looking forward to our next session.