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Talk 4 Writing - The Enormous Turnip (Traditional tale)

The Enormous Turnip is a popular tale of old. This term we will be learning about the story and helping the children remember it by engaging in tasks that are linked to this wonderful tale. We will talk about real turnips and we might even be able to taste some during this half term.

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Maths

Alongside our Talk 4 Writing activities the children will take part in Maths activities. We will consider the size of objects and talk about weight, length and capacity in our everyday activities. For example sorting objects smallest to largest or heaviest to lightest. We hope to consider some of our maths activities in our outside play too!

Topic - Growing

With the Summer quickly approaching it is ideal to have activities connected to the Topic of growing. We hope to try planting our own flowers and vegetables and learn how to look after them. We will also look at how each of us has grown from when we were babies right up to now! Hopefully seeing the chicks arrive in Reception will also help our children to understand the idea of growth.

RE - Easter and Pentecost

For the first half of the term we will be learning all about the joy that Easter brings. The children will learn about the story of Easter and how we use Alleluia in celebration of Jesus' risen life. We will engage in activities that support this learning and for the latter half of the term we will be learning about the Holy Spirit and Pentecost. We hope that the children will have fun engaging with the activities and start to understand the importance of these seasons for us.

Week beginning Wednesday 27th April - Welcome back!

We had a short week, as we returned on Wednesday, but have had some great fun settling back into our Nursery classroom. All the children are adapting fantastically and are settling in well after a fairly long Easter holiday. We look forward to continuing with our learning and hopefully enjoying the finer weather now that the Summer is coming. Below are some photographs from the first few days back!

Talking about new life and flowers...how do they grow?

Putting flowers on our prayer table to celebrate new life...

New life alleluia!

Painting flowers for our painting over our prayer table...

Making crosses for our art work above the prayer table.

Great cutting and pasting skills!

Blowing our dandelion seeds...

Making a garden outside...

and different sized cups of sand on the table.

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Finding out about the newly hatched chicks...

Helping to celebrate a special day...

Happy birthday!

Week beginning Tuesday 3rd May - Week 2

This week has then been a short week because of the Bank Holiday. We hope you had a good break. We have had a busy week, however, and having been blessed with fantastic weather a fabulous outdoor day on Friday. The children have been adding to our Easter artwork (over our prayer table), enjoying Music with Mrs Toole, meeting a tortoise, replanting some bluebells, looking for bugs and working together to clear weeds and sow some flower seeds around the statue of Our Lady, in the Nursery Prayer Garden. We look forward to continuing our exploring next week!

Practicing my name. Well done!

A flower for our Easter Artwork.

A heart for Jesus' cross.

Listening to the story of the Thankful Leper...

The Leper was 'grateful' to our Lord Jesus.

Talking about our Art work and what we could be thankful for.

Putting our flowers above our Prayer table...

...as a thank you to God.

Learning how to stop and play along with Mrs Toole.

Well done!

A surprise visitor!

It's a shell! It's a sea shell!

Look at my popsicle Mrs O!

Superworm!

My building has got wheels!

A blue beetle...

...a beetle! A beetle!

A beetle's on the grass!

A slug! A slug!

Our drawing...a big monster and a monster truck!

Replanting the bluebells.

Can you find the roots?

Everybody will have a turn...

Remember roots first into the soil.

And tap the soil down...

Working as a team to get the job done!

We need more compost...

...and planty of water.

Well done!

Out door activity day!

Planting bulbs and sowing some seeds...

Filling up the watering cans...

Being careful not to wet your toes!

Gathering around the campfire to toast some popcorn and sing some songs!

Tasting the popcorn...

Checking out the charcoal the fire makes!

Some water colour painting in the shade.

Gathering around the water to see what floats or sinks.

Which cup holds the most water?

Clearing the weeds around our special statue.

Filling the tyres with soil.

Taking a break from the sunshine!

Spreading some seeds around our statue for Mary.

We will need to water them well and look after them. Hopefully they will grow.

Week beginning 9th May - Week 3

It is amazing how quickly the time is flying by. We have finished week three already! The children started the week by showing us how they can use their fingers to show us numbers 1 to 10. They all did amazingly well. We've also been remembering Easter and why it is a time to celebrate. This has helped us to discuss our values for this term: Grateful and Generous. The children have talked about how Generous God is, when they heard the Creation story, and said Thank you prayers to show how they were Grateful to God. During our Music lesson we had to move and 'cluck' like chickens and then move gently to some Music. We all loved this!

As the weather is becoming drier and warmer we have been spending more time outside and the children have enjoyed finding out how far water will travel when squirted through a syringe and have also been 'painting' our walls with muddy water. All great activities to improve their upper body strength and develop their motor skills. It has also been a great opportunity for the children to observe the changes that are taking place around us. We have had lots of insects showing up and causing much excitement!

To end our week we had a Stay and Play (many thanks to the parents who could make it) and a birthday to celebrate! We hope you had a fantastic weekend and below are some photographs of the week.

One,

Two,

Three,

Four,

(Five is there somewhere)...

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine and...

Ten!

Seeing what sinks and floats.

Practicing throwing and catching.

Squirting water through the gate.

How far does the water go?

Reading 'Superworm' to my friend.

I'd like to paint.

The green is the land and the blue is the sky.

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Moving gently to the music using our light scarves...

Junk modelling.

Counting the dots on the dice.

Painting our Enormous Turnip!

Choosing the right colours and mixing them with our hands.

We've finished!

Digging a pond...

...and painting the walls.

Collecting water to paint the walls...

Sharing the brushes and bucket!

Happy birthday!

Sharing the birthday cake with the other children!

Week beginning 16th May - Week 4

We are coming towards the end of the first half of our Summer Term. The children have settled into the newly decorated nursery brilliantly and we are finally able to enjoy warmer weather...

See below for some examples of what we've been up to...

Finding out about Tall and Small...

Which is 'tall' and which is 'small'?

Putting the characters in order of size.

Fantastic scissor skills.

We are getting involved with Walk to School Week.

Who walks every day?

Can I be first?

Why is walking good for us?

Waiting patiently to put our stickers on the map.

Can we put the pictures from The Enormous Turnip story in order from start to finish?

Good job everyone!

Practicing our cutting and pasting skills to make our own story from pictures.

Looking for worms...

Look! A little worm.

We're painting the house!

We're making it better!

Building our upper body muscles!

We're on a spider web...

Great climbing!

Great balancing!

Strong boys!

Talking about how we've changed from when we were babies.

How can we look after a baby?

Saying 'Hello' to Hooty Owl.

Singing the ball song!

Helping our listening skills.

Who will you roll the ball to next?

Can you stop when I stop?

Sharing the water colour paints.

The air around us and how does it affect bubbles and paper aeroplanes?

Chasing bubbles...

How high is this bubble?

Can you burst the bubble?

The aeroplane glides through the air.

I can blow bubbles too!

Searching for bones...

...I found a t-rex bone and part of his tooth.

Looking after the baby.

Cutting out the characters for The Enormous Turnip.

Great scissors skills everyone!

Thinking about how God loves us all even when we are lost.

Thinking about how we can help each other and love each other like God loves us.

Listening to the story of The Lost Sheep. The man never gave up looking for his lost sheep. God never gives up on us. We should never give up either and love each other like God loves us.

Making our own Lost Sheep like the sheep from the story.

Using the play dough to make worms and pasta!

Week beginning 23rd May - Week 5

This has been a wonderful week! The children have talked about more than and less than for maths. They have also retold the story of The Enormous Turnip (with some prompts), planted pumpkin seeds, talked about what makes a 'good' leader and had a celebration for our Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Have a wonderful half term and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 7th June.