Curriculum Evening

Nursery Curriculum Evening 2022

This week we enjoyed inviting parents into school to get some ideas of activities to try at home with their children.  The families who came to visit had fun trying out a range of activities to help with mathematics and fine motor skills.  

You can read about the activities here and see pictures of children and parents having fun below!  Please have a go at some of these fun ideas at home.

Fine Motor Skill activities develop the muscles in the hands and fingers to help with things such as drawing, writing, getting dressed, brushing teeth.

We tried...

• learning to use scissors for snipping and cutting
• having fun with playdough (Playdough recipe | BBC Good Food) 
• scrunching up thin paper (like newspaper) and playing throwing games
• building with Duplo and other construction toys
• pegging socks on a low line

Maths

We also explored some maths games to help us learn to recognise dot patterns.  

• rolling a dice and adding conkers to a 'tree' 

• rolling a dice and adding candles to a playdough cake

• making your own dot counters using bottle lids and then....
  put them in number order
  hide them for a number hunt
  show a bigger number, smaller number, the number which is 1 more or 1 less

Here are our children and parents having a go at these activities at school!

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Physical Development

Obstacle Courses

Children in Nursery have enjoyed making obstacle courses this week.  These are great ways to support children's physical development.  You could try making your own at home with cushions, chairs and blankets!!

 

Growing

 Growing

We have been busy in Nursery planting and watching our seeds germinate and start to grow.  

Look at these cress and mustard seeds starting to sprout and grow.  We will enjoy tasting this next week in a sandwich!

                                        

This sunflower seed now has a shoot and two leaves.  Look how the seed case is still attached to the leaves.

Our runner beans have been interesting to watch.  We can see everything that is happening as we are growing them inside a clear plastic bag.  The children noticed this week that the roots have started growing downwards.

Our tadpoles are also doing well and have now developed back legs!

                          

                        

Farn Animals

 

Farm Animals 

We have enjoyed learning about farm animals this term.  We have enjoyed many songs and stories about farm animals including:

Old MacDonald had a Farm
Baa Baa Black Sheep
 Goats Went Marching
Busy Farmer Ben

We coloured these pictures of cows on the laptops.  Some children used the touch screens and others used the mouse pad.  Children used thier imagination to choose the colours!

We have learnt the names of baby animals and many of the names of animals using Makaton signs.  Ask your child to show you some at home!

Eid Celebrations in Nursery

 We had fun learning about the Muslim celebration of Eid this week and we really enjoyed our Eid party on Thursday.

Children wore Eid clothes or party clothes to school to celebrate. 

We decorated hats which said "Eid Mubarak" which means Happy Eid.

We decorated hands with Mendhi patterns.

We had a lovely party snack of fruit, biscuits and squash.

We also enjoyed party games and dancing in the hall.