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Nursery Weekly Update 27th March 2015

Our Learning this Week

Financial Fortnight & Easter

 

What a busy fortnight we have had in Nursery!

Financial Fortnight has given us a focus on learning about money. We have fished coins out of gloop and looked at the different colours and numbers we could see on the coins, we have sang money songs such as 5 Currant Buns, we talked about shops and what we buy from different shops,  and we voted to have a Tesco in our role play area which the children have loved.

For our enterprise we decided to make some spring themed photo holders which the children worked had to paint in pretty colours and patterns. We hope you liked them and all money raised will go towards purchasing plants for our garden ready for Swansea In Bloom.

We have celebrated Easter by looking at a story about how a little girl celebrated Easter with her family, we made cute chick Easter cards and chocolate Easter nests, we sang counting songs with Easter bunnies, and we had a chocolate hunt outside.
The children’s Easter bonnets were amazing so thank you for all the effort that went into making them.

I hope you have a good two weeks school holiday with your little ones and we look forward to seeing you on Monday April 13th.

Thanks for your continued support.

Mrs. Amirat and the Nursery team.

 

 

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Nursery Weekly Update 13th March 2015

Our Learning this Week

Language, Literacy and Communication

 

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “s”. We read the story “The snail and the Whale”.

We talked about whether we wold rather be the snail or the whale and give a reason for our answer.

We made s shapes out of stones outside.
Our Write Dance had up and across movements as we pretended to climb a staircase.

 

Mathematical Development

 

We practised recognising numbers by completing a snail dot to dot. We talked about what number came next ad looked on or kite number line for help.

 

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

 

We have started gardening outside in preparation for Swansea in Bloom. As well as talking about why we needed to pull up the weeds and talking about why we can’t pick the pretty daffodils that has sprung up in the garden, we also found some little snails, just like the ones that hitched a ride with the whale!

Personal and Social Development, Wellbeing and Cultural Diversity.

 

We talked about people who are special to us and why they are special. Children used the computer to draw their favourite people.

 

 

Creative Development

 

We drew around our hands to make lovely stretchy message cads for our special people.

Physical Development

 

We listened to instructions on the Busy Feet CD, as well as making creative movements with Write Dance.

Welsh Language Development

 

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We have been listening to longer sentence patterns being used in the classroom during routines, such as “Mae h’in amser…” (it is time to….) and  “Beth wyt ti’n eisiau?” (What would you like to eat?)

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All you Mums and Nanas out there…have a look in Saturday’s Evening Post as you may find a surprise message from your littlest fans!

Have a good weekend.

 

 

 

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Nursery Weekly Update 6th March 2015

Our Learning this Week

Language, Literacy and Communication

 

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “r”. We read the story “Little Red Riding Hood”.

We looked at pictures of different characters had had to decide if they were from the story of Red Riding Hood or not.
Our Write Dance had us making curved shapes for rainbows.

 

Mathematical Development

 

We had a visit from Robbie the shape eating robot and his friends. He sent us a message with the challenge of finding different shapes outside. The children had to make sure they fed the shapes to right hungry robot. We remembered what each shape was called too!

 

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

 

We talked about the Fairtrade logo, what it looks like and what it means. The children then had to make a food basket for Red Riding Hood’s grandma but only choosing the foods that were Fairtrade. Help your child look out for the Fairtrade logo next time you are out shopping.

 

Personal and Social Development, Wellbeing and Cultural Diversity.

 

We talked about whether Little Red Riding Hood should have talked to the big bad wolf.

We also cooked healthy rainbow cous cous salad.

 

 

Creative Development

 

We painted beautiful rainbows and sang the rainbow song.

We also used rectangles to make robot pictures.

Physical Development

 

We counted down from ten to zero and zoomed around like rockets in the hall. Then we played ring a ring a roses.

We had some fun doing robot moves to a funny robot song.

 

Welsh Language Development

 

While painting our pretty rainbows we tried to say the welsh colours.
We also talked about what the shapes are called in Welsh when collecting the shapes for the robots.

 

                      Anything else…

 

 

We had a lovely time celebrating World Book Day by reading a very cute story called “Little Blue and Little Yellow” and it was great to see the children in their costumes.

Have a good weekend.

 

 

 

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Nursery Weekly Update 27th February 2015

Our Learning this Week

This week in Nursery we have been celebrating all things Welsh.

We have been practising our Welsh animal names for our Eisteddfod song.

We have looked at a painting by Welsh artist Ivor Davies called “Sky”. We created our own version of the painting by mixing glas (blue) and gwin (white) paints to make a blue sky and then we cut out white clouds to stick onto our sky. The results were beautiful.

We have looked at the Welsh emblems such as daffodils, leeks, and the Welsh flag.
We did observational drawings of the daffodil and we did mark making with leeks with was multi-sensory because the leeks had a very strong smell!

We listened to a Welsh folk tale about how the Draig Coch came to be on the Welsh flag. We then coloured our own flag.

We did an emblem hunt in the sand and found lots of pictures of daffodils, leeks, rugby balls and Welsh flags and when we had found them we counted how many we collected.

We also watched some traditional Welsh dancing in the interactive whiteboard and then had a go at some of the moves with a partner. I saw some fantastic dancing.

We finished the week with our Eisteddfod celebration
Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant hapus

Why not celebrate St.Davids Day at the free family event at The National Waterfront Museum – all free and always lots of fun!

28 February 2015, 12pm – 4pm

 

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Nursery Weekly Update 13th February 2015

Our Learning this Week

 

Language, Literacy and Communication

 

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.

 

Mathematical Development

 

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.

 

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

 

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.

 

Personal and Social Development, Wellbeing and Cultural Diversity.

 

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

 

 

Creative Development

 

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.

Physical Development

 

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.

 

Welsh Language Development

 

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.

 

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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 23rd February.

 

 

 

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Nursery weekly update 6th February 2015

Our Learning this Week

Nursery 6th February 2015

 

Language, Literacy and Communication

 

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.

Mathematical Development

 

 

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.

 

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

 

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!

 

Personal and Social Development, Wellbeing and Cultural Diversity.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Creative Development

 

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.

 

Physical Development

 

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.

 

Welsh Language Development

 

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.

                      Anything else…

 

 

Have a good weekend.

 

 

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