Category Archives: Nursery Weekly News

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “p”. We read the story “The Three Little Pigs”.

Betty didn’t know the story so the children tried to recall different parts of the story for each character. We had some really good story telling words.
Our Write Dance had us practising circles, dots and curved lines.

We explored ways of making 10 with two Numicon shapes to fit inside the three pigs’ house.

We made patterns copying the Numicon pattern cards.

We explored different materials to make large houses outside for the pigs. We collected dry grass, big and small sticks, and rocks to make the three houses.

We asked the children “Who did you like playing with today?” and encouraged children to tell others what and who they played with.

We painted pink pigs and made some beautiful pasta heart bracelets and necklaces for valentine’s day.

We used special paper to design a new house for the pigs. When our drawing was done we chose what construction set we needed to build it.

We used the balls in the hall to practise different ways of passing to each other. We rolled, threw and caught the ball.

We moved our bodies to Write Dance “Pat-A-Cake”.

We played a parachute game where we had to listen to our names and then swap places with a friend.

We have been practising the Welsh animal song in preparation for the Eisteddfod.

We read “Picnic” and learnt some new words such as brechdannau – sandwiches and sudd oren – orange juice.
We have continued using Rhodri “Mae h’in amser….” signs to tell us when there is a change in routine.

Have a great half term.

We look forward to hearing what you have all been up to when we see you back at school on Monday 23^rd February.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “o”. We read the story “Jolly Olly Octopus”.

We talked about what made Jolly Olly laugh and smile. The children had to then tell me something that made them laugh or smile.

We made our own counting octopus, making sure it had 8 tentacles.
Each tentacle had a number and we had to count the correct number of stickers for each tentacle. The octopus is also great to practice counting at home.

We explored oranges in a variety of ways.
We made freshly squeezed orange juice and the children had to explain how they made it and express whether they liked it or not.
We also took oranges outside and made ramps to roll them down. We added tubes to the bottom of the ramp to see if the orange would roll through it. Lots of fun!

We had a go at giving praise to our friends for the work they showed the class. We clapped, gave thumbs up and used comments to let children know that we were proud of what they had done.

We printed with oranges using orange paint.
When this was dry we explored using different tools – crayon, pens, and pastels – to make “o” shapes to decorate the printing. We made some lovely works of art.

We moved in different ways across an obstacle course in the hall. We climbed on, jumped off, balanced, slid, and climbed through.
We had a game of Simon Says, and we used our bodies to make circle shapes with Penpals.

We have been practising the Welsh animal song in preparation for the Eisteddfod.
We have also been using Rhodri “Mae h’in amser….” signs to tell us when there is a change in routine.

Have a good weekend.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “n”. We read the story “Spike’s Best Nest”.

We had a visit from a bird called Tweety who left us a letter to say his nest had blown away in the wind. The children wrote letters back to Tweety to say how they were going to help him.
We did the “Merry Go Round” dance in Write Dance and had to make circular movements with our bodies. .

We explored the Numicon shapes in lots of creative ways this week. We pressed the Numicon into playdough and we printed with the Numicon shapes.

We also went number fishing and tried hard to recognise which number was on the fish. We sang “1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive”

We watched a video of a robin building a nest. We talked about what he had used to build a nest. We then used twigs, leaves and grass to make a new nest for Tweety. He even sent us a video message saying thank you and telling us how much he liked the nests we had made for him. Hopefully Tweety will visit us again soon.

We talked about how Spike was feeling in the story “Spike’s Best Nest”. He was grumpy, tired, sad and then happy, which gave us lots to talk about.

We drew a nest and some children even included eggs.

We made a newspaper collage of a letter “n”.

We did the “Straight, Bent, Cross, Happy” dance in Write Dance and had to make contrasting movements with our bodies to match the music.

As well as our daily Welsh board, we have been practicing our Welsh numbers with lots of number rhymes. Encourage your child to count in Welsh at home.

Don’t forget, school inset day on Friday 30^th January.

See you on Monday.

Have a good weekend.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “m”. We read the story “Monkey Puzzle” and looked in the book to try and find all the ”m”’s
We did the “Merry Go Round” dance in Write Dance and had to make circular movements with our bodies. .

We played with money this week. We put our hand in the lucky dip and whatever coin we got, we put it into the correct purse by matching.

We have been singing along and dancing to 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and % Little Monkeys Swinging from the Tree.

We had some lost animal babies who needed us to find their mummy. It was a bit tricky because the baby animal names are different to the mummy animal names and they don’t always look the same.

We read Little Miss Muffett and then talked about why she was scared of the spider. The children talked about whether they would be scared or not.

We went outside and mixed mud paint. We then used large pieces of paper to make lots of muddy marks…lots of messy fun!

We made milk bottle maracas and used them to play fast music and slow music.

We had to change our body movements in time to the tambourine – fast movements for a fast tambourine and slow movements for a slow tambourine.

As well as our daily Welsh board, we have been practicing saying Diolch – Thankyou  – at every opportunity because the children seem to be forgetting! Encourage tham at home to say Diolch.

We will be doing “n” next week so have a number hunt at home or out and about.

Have a good weekend.

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “l”. We read the story “What the Ladybird Heard” and used small world figures and Puppet Pals on the iPad to retell the story. The children also thought about ways to stop the robbers stealing the cow.
We had a go at making different lines and writing the letter l in trays of lentils.

We played a ladybird matching game on the interactive whiteboard where we had to count the spots on the ladybird and match it to the number on the leaf.

We also explored how a mirror can make half a ladybird into a whole ladybird.

When it was dry enough to play outside the children had fun exploring the big puddles in our nursery play area. Some children decided to float boats in the puddle and then other children collected other toys to try and float in the puddle. Some floated and other just sunk to the ground…good investigating!

We talked about things we like and don’t like. Children were encouraged to express what things they liked playing in school and what things they don’t like playing in school.

We used the paint easel to paint ladybirds for our Reading Garden in class. We looked at photos of ladybirds before we did this to find out what shape and colour they are.

We used apparatus in the hall to create different lines to move along. We had different level benches, skipping ropes and balance blocks. The children had to think of different ways to move along each of them

With all the awful weather this week, we were able to add two new weather words to our daily welsh board: bwrw eira –snowing and cenllysg – hail

I have attached a nursery timetable as a reminder of our weekly activities. If you have any questions, please ask a member of nursery staff.

Have a good weekend.

Sparkle the elf arrived in nursery this week and his special mission is to report back to Santa what all the boys and girls are doing. Sparkle the elf has been giving us a few surprises each day as he seems to be getting up to mischief every night, such as making a mess with tissue, building himself a train, drawing pictures, leaving us clues for tasks, etc.

Sparkle’s antics have given the children lots of opportunities to talk and share their ideas about what he is doing.

We have been counting lots of Christmas objects and matching then to the right number to complete our Christmas puzzle.

We have had a Christmas picture hunt in the classroom, where we match the pictures we find to those on our list and tick them off. We then counted how many pictures we had found.

We had a lovely day out on our school trip to Poundffald farm. It was a beautiful sunny day which made our chocolate hunt through the Christmas trees lots of fun.

We saw lots of animals such as pigs, lambs and reindeer. We kept a lookout for Rudolph but he must have been busy helping Santa.

We have been reminding ourselves to do good listening in the classroom and to be kind to our friends, especially as Sparkle the Elf will be reporting back to Santa!

When we discovered Sparkle had drawn a picture of Santa, the children had a go at drawing Sparkle. They looked really hard at the shapes and colours needed for his face and hat.

We are doing some great singing for our show and can’t wait for you to come and watch us.

We have been listening to music on Penpals and moving our bodies in straight lines, zig-zag lines and in circles. The children have also been developing their fine motor skills by making paper chains to decorate Santa’s workshop in our classroom.

We have been singing “We wish you a Merry Christmas” in welsh for our show and are getting very good at it.

We are also trying to remember our Welsh words for check-in – Hapus, Wedi blino and Trist.

We have a dress rehearsal for our concert on the 11^th December so please can all costumes be brought in to school on Monday. If you need any help with the costumes, please ask.

Don’t forget the Flying Start and Nursery show will be on Friday 12^th December.

Have a good weekend.

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “j” this week.

We listened to the story “Jack and the Beanstalk” and we practiced our pen control by tracing along the path to connect the characters from the story.

We used Puppet Pals on the i-pad to retell the story and lots of children were very good at remembering what happened. Ask them to tell you the story at home.

We used cubes of jelly to help us with our counting this week, placing the jelly cubes on the number squares and counting how many we had altogether.

We also looked at sizes by playing a matching game on the interactive whiteboard.

We also did some job puzzles which included firefighters, police, chef, dentist, vet, etc. The children had to talk about what each person did.

We talked about whether Jack was right or wrong to take the golden hen and harp from the Giant. Most children decided that it wasn’t right for Jack to have taken things that didn’t belong to him.

We did some junk printing by using rubbish we don’t need to create some art. It was fun to explore the different shapes each object made on the paper.

We have been playing jigsaws this week to develop our fine motor skills. We moved and danced to jelly on a plate making our bodies as wiggly as we could.

We are practising our Welsh counting this week by counting how many children are in school every day.

We also matched pictures in a counting book by counting in Welsh.

We are very excited to go and visit Santa on Monday for our school trip to Poundffald Farm in Three Crosses. Don’t forget to bring a packed lunch with you and dress appropriately for the weather – wellies will be a must if it is wet.

Have a good weekend.

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “i” this week.

We talked about needing invitations to invite someone to a party and the children then made invitations to give to you for our Christmas show on December 12th. I hope you will be able to come and watch.

We ordered numbers from 1 to 10 to make an insect picture.

We also counted the insects on the card and put a peg on the correct number.

We also looked at shapes and collected leaves outdoors and made triangles, squares, circles and rectangles with them.

We have been trying to remember to say please and thank-you when we are class and have praised children who have remembered. Diawn!

We have started practising our Christmas songs this week and we learnt the movements we need to go with the music.

On Move-It Monday we watched some Indian dancing and then had a go at doing the moves ourselves. It was lots of fun! We also practised our fine motor skills by trying to rescue the insects that were hidden in the lentils using tweezers.

We played a circle game called “Beth sy’ yn y bocs?” (What is in the box?) We sang the rhyme as we passed the box around the circle and the children had to pick an animal out of the box. We practised the animal names in welsh.

Thank you all for making appointments to see me for parents meetings.

Don’t forget to bring in your child’s costume for the Christmas concert. If you need any help with a costume, don’t forget to come and see us.

Have a good weekend.

Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “h” this week.

We have learnt the rhyme Humpty Dumpty and practiced singing it with props in the performance area.

We wrote advice for the Kings Men who couldn’t put Humpty together again with ideas of how they could fix Humpty Dumpty. My favourite idea was “Use glitter glue!”

We played a hedgehog counting game this week – rolling the dice and them putting the correct number of spines on the hedgehog.

We used our hands for playing counting rhymes “10 Little fingers” and “Peter Hammers 1 Hammer”

We read a story “Pudsey Like to Help” for Children in Need day and we talked about how we can be helpful in school and at home.

We used red hearts to make a poppy for Remembrance Day and we joined the whole school for assembly in the morning.

The children made a playdough Humpty Dumpty and built a wall for him to sit on.

On Move-It Monday we used different equipment to practice our gross motor skills. We moved in different ways around the hoops and the shared a hoop with a friend when the teacher said stop. We took turns to throw beanbags into the hoops and crawled through the hoops.

We have been learning a new weather song sung to the Adams Family tune!

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Sut mae tywydd heddiw,

Mae hi’n bwrw glaw!

Don’t forget parent meetings on Monday – I look forward to seeing you all.

Have a good weekend.