Category Archives: Nursery Weekly News

Language, Literacy & Communication

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

We read “Dear Zoo” and had lots of fun making the animal noises.

We made zig-zag books about zoo animals.

Mathematical Development

We have talked about pattern when looking at Zebras.

We have been practising counting to 10 with our Rugby Tots moves.

We have been singing lots of number rhymes where we take away one – five little ducks, five speckled frogs, – so that the children learn the idea of one less.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Swansea in Bloom is fast approaching so the children have continued to care for the flowers y watering them. We have also planted more flowers in buckets, wellies and milk bottles. I hope you like how the garden is looking!

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We talked about keeping safe near roads to fit in with our Walking Bus event. Children played road safety games on the computer and we had a zebra crossing outside with the bikes.
We also discussed the question “Should animals be kept in a zoo?” with lots of interesting answers.

Creative Development

We made a zebra z and practised our cutting  skills to cut the black paper. We then talked about the zebra’s pattern and made that on the z shape – They looked great.

We have also drawn stripy patterns on the zebras on Penpals on the interactive whiteboard.

We learnt the song “Daddy’s taking us to the zoo tomorrow”.

Physical Development

Rugby Tots were here for Move-it Monday and we practised throwing and kicking the rugby ball.

We took part in The Walking Bus around the school grounds. I was very proud of how sensible the children were. Thanks for your kind donations for a good cause.

Welsh Language Development

We have done some big counting in Welsh this week, counting all the children in class.
Also I am very proud at how good some of the children are getting in understanding my Welsh questions for the Welsh board every morning – Well done!

Anything else!

Please remember to put suncream on your child before coming into nursery during the hot weather. You can also send them in with a sun hat for added protection.

Don’t forget to let me know if you are coming in the school trip to Pembrey – £5 per adult, free for children.

Language, Literacy & Communication

We had a focus on food this week for Healthy Eating Week, so we learned the rhyme, Old Mother Hubbard.

The children were given the challenge to think of food that could go into the empty cupboard….but only healthy food.

Mathematical Development

We made repeating patterns with pictures of our favourite fruits.

We practised our counting along a number line, adding pictures of fruit as we counted.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We made a very healthy egg salad for our cooking this week. Children made decisions about what types of vegetables they wanted in their salad and then topped it with some egg. An easy way to try new healthy foods.

We noticed that all the plants we had planted outside were a little bit dry so we all worked together to water them to help them grow.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We discussed what benefits different kinds of healthy foods gave us – protein in meat,fish and eggs to make our muscles grow, fruit and vegetables to give us vitamins, carbohydrates in bread, pasta and rice to give us energy and dairy products to make our bones and teeth strong.

The children were good at remembering that foods like crisps, sweets, and cakes are only small treats.

Creative Development

We coloured in the different food groups on a special colouring sheet which was laminated to make a placemat to use when eating our healthy food at home.

We looked at pictures of different fruits and clapped out the patterns,
e.g: ap-ple = clap-clap
ban-na-na = clap-clap-clap, etc.

Physical Development

We practised our scissor skills when choosing healthy foods to cut and stick into Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard.

Rugby Tots were here for Move-it Monday and will continue for the next 6 weeks.

As part of Healthy Eating Week we used a trial of Fab 5 Fitness – five minute exercise videos, where we pretended to be footballers, cowboys and cowgirls, and hula dancing.

Welsh Language Development

We continued to practice the Welsh “Dwi’n hoffi…” to say “I like…” when talking about their favourite healthy foods.

Anything else!

Please remember to send your child into school in comfortable clothes and trainers for Move-it Mondays, as we will be very active in the hall.

Thanks

Language, Literacy & Communication

We read a book called “Yum,Yum, Yummy”, the children loved it when the Mummy Bear chased away the naughty Guzzley Bear!

Mathematical Development

We played a teddy bear game, seeing how many teddies we could grab in our hands and then we practised counting them.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We have enjoyed helping with the gardening in nursery – we have planted peas and onions, helped to paint the boxes and found some very interesting bugs while we were doing it.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We have been reminding each other of how we use kind hands in the classroom and talking about how someone feels if they get hurt.

Creative Development

Children thought about their favourite food and drew it on their plates. They had to think about using the correct colours for what they were drawing.

Physical Development

We have enjoyed the sunshine and done lots of physical activity outside – jumping around chasing bubbles, pedalling the bikes and rolling the hoops.

Welsh Language Development

We are trying to be more confident to say “hapus” or “trist” when we check in with Rhodri – Bendigedig!

Anything else!

We have had some lovely WOW vouchers brought into class and the children have been so proud when we have celebrated their achievements.

If you visit a beach over the half term, please can your child collect some shells and bring them into school to add to some outdoor art – Thank you.

Language, Literacy & Communication

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “y”.

We read “Yum,Yum, Yummy” and talked about the yummy things we like to eat.

We practiced writing y on the scrimbling table and in lentils.

Mathematical Development

We played a teddy bear game, seeing how many teddies we could grab in our hands. We counted them and used the number line to have a go at writing the numbers.

We worked together as a class to order the number cards and figure out what number comes next

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We have enjoyed helping with the gardening in nursery – we have planted peas and onions, helped to paint the boxes and found some very interesting bugs while we were doing it.

We also had a colour hunt in the classroom and collected all things that were yellow – the children were very good colour hunters and we had a yellow mountain of things they had collected.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We played some circle games to practice waiting our turn – we passed a handshake and a high five around our class circle.

Creative Development

Children thought about their favourite food and drew it on their plates. They had to think about using the correct colours for what they were drawing.

Physical Development

We have enjoyed the sunshine and done lots of physical activity outside – jumping around chasing bubbles, pedalling the bikes and rolling the hoops.

Welsh Language Development

We talked about the yummy food that we had drawn on our plate and had a go at saying “Dwi’n hoffi…” (I like…).

Anything else!

We have had some lovely WOW vouchers brought into class and the children have been so proud when we have celebrated their achievements.

If you visit a beach over the half term, please can your child collect some shells and bring them into school to add to some outdoor art – Thank you.

Language, Literacy & Communication

We have read some fab books this week and children are getting much better at listening and responding. We read “Fox’s Socks” by Julia Donaldson and we loved the story called “Someone Bigger” about a kite being blown away in the wind.

Children are becoming more confident to talk during check- in.

Mathematical Development

We explored the Numicon by building towers with the shapes and pegs.

We have been singing lots of number rhymes and counting numbers over 20 at registration time.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We have been exploring the sand tray, making sandcastles and pretending to make ice-creams.

We cooked chocolate chip cookies as a treat which were very tasty.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We talked about keeping our teeth nice and healthy as we had the Designed to Smile team come into school to give those children who had consent their magic sparkles (fluoride coating).

Creative Development

We made black and white paintings this week as well as practising our cutting and sticking making collage pictures.

Physical Development

We having been moving and grooving to Sticky Kids songs this week. Our favourites have been the Wiggle and Jiggle song and Lets go Driving song.

Welsh Language Development

We are trying to become more confident saying Prynhawn Da (Good afternoon) when we come in in the afternoon.

We are also getting better at sing or goodbye songs in Welsh…Da iawn!

Anything else!

Don’t forget, bring your child’s WOW vouchers into school so we can see what they have been up to at home and celebrate in class.

Language, Literacy & Communication

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “x”.

We read “Fox’s Socks” by Julia Donaldson, where fox finally found his socks in the toybox and the jack in the box.  We were good at listening for the “x” sounds and the end of the words.

We practiced writing w by playing noughts and crosses – have a go at home.

We practised our writing this week writing an invitation to our class assembly.

Mathematical Development

We practised recognising the Numicon shapes this week and our challenge was to fit the Numicon shapes into an X shape.

We also explored the Numicon by building towers with the shapes and pegs.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We looked at real x-ray pictures and tried to guess what parts of the body they were from.

We cooked “x marks the spot” biscuits as a treat using chocolate chip cookies to make an x shape on them.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We talked about keeping our teeth nice and healthy as we had the Designed to Smile team come into school to give those children who had consent their magic sparkles (fluoride coating).

Creative Development

We made x-ray painting by painting with white paint on black paper. We also made x-ray pictures of our hands using talc and cotton buds.

We listened to and tried singing along to the skeleton song.

Physical Development

We having been moving and grooving to Sticky Kids songs this week. Our favourites have been the Wiggle and Jiggle song and Lets go Driving song.

Welsh Language Development

Lots of children are getting very good at trying to tell me the weather in welsh…da iawn!

Anything else!

Don’t forget, bring your child’s WOW vouchers into school so we can see what they have been up to at home so we can celebrate in class.

Class assembly on Thursday 15^th, 9.30 in the Junior hall – We look forward to seeing you there.

Language, Literacy & Communication

Our favourite story this week has been “The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water” – the children loved the surprise at the end when the crocodile turned out to be a dragon!!

Mathematical Development

We made worms out of playdough and then talked about longest and shortest, longer and shorter.

We counted as a whole class to songs like “Five little ducks” and “Ten green bottles”

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We are getting our nursery garden ready for Swansea in Bloom by doing some weeding. While doing this we found plenty of wiggly worms in the soil.

We cooked watercress soup and talked about all the healthy vegetables that were used to make it. Some children thought it was very yummy!

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We looked at the World Wildlife  Fund website and talked about how the money raised from the financial fortnight can be sent to help an animal who needs it. The children voted and we will be sponsoring an elephant.

Creative Development

We drew pictures of ourselves and talked about the different parts of our body we would need to draw – our head, body, arms, hands, legs, feet.

Physical Development

We have been practising some movement songs this week such as “If you’re happy and you know it”, “The animal boogie” and “The wheels on the bus”.

Welsh Language Development

Tedi Twt has been teaching us weather words nad we have played the dress Tedi Twt for the right weather game in our Cwtch Cymreig.

Mae hi’n bwrw glaw – It is raining

Mae hi’n heulog – It is sunny

Mae hi’n oer – It is cold

Mae hi’n wyntog – It is windy

Anything else!

We will be starting our Wow vouchers next week – see the letter that children brought home today. Write down on the Wow voucher if your child achieves something, has celebrated something, or has helped out at home.

Don’t forget, Bank Holiday on Monday, so see you all on Tuesday 6^th May.

Language, Literacy & Communication

This week Ben and Betty have been teaching us he letter sound “w”.

We read “Superworm” and then decided what our own superworm would do. We made our own books with our ideas.

We practiced writing w on a piece of paper and rolled it into a “w”  wand – see what the wands can spot at home beginning with “w”

Mathematical Development

We have been looking putting numbers in the correct order. We found the wellies and put them onto the counting stick in order from 0 to 10.

We made worms out of playdough and then measured them against a measuring tape, counting how long our worms were. We talked about longest and shortest, longer and shorter.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We are getting our nursery garden ready for Swansea in Bloom by doing some weeding. While doing this we found plenty of wiggly worms in the soil.

We cooked watercress soup and talked about all the healthy vegetables that were used to make it. Some children thought it was very yummy!

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We talked about different types of washing and discussed why we need to wash things.

We looked at the World Wildlife  Fund website and talked about how the money raised from the financial fortnight can be sent to help an animal who needs it. The children voted and we will be sponsoring an elephant.

Creative Development

We looked closely at the colours on a watermelon. We then painted an observational picture of the watermelon, with some very artistic results.

We made wheel prints by dipping cars in the paint and rolled them across the paper.

We learnt the song “There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden”

Physical Development

We did movement to the Write Dance song “The Water Schute”

We also played a game with the parachute “Where is…?” – the children crawled to hide under the parachute while we sang a song to find them.

Welsh Language Development

Tedi Twt has been teaching us weather words nad we have played the dress Tedi Twt for the right weather game in our Cwtch Cymreig.

Mae hi’n bwrw glaw – It is raining

Mae hi’n heulog – It is sunny

Mae hi’n oer – It is cold

Mae hi’n wyntog – It is windy

Anything else!

We will be starting our Wow vouchers next week – see the letter that children brought home today. Write down on the Wow voucher if your child achieves something, has celebrated something, or has helped out at home.

Don’t forget, Bank Holiday on Monday, so see you all on Tuesday 6^th May.

Language, Literacy & Communication

We had lots of hen and spring animal stories this week to link with our Easter enterprise craft.

The children talked in groups to consider “What should we call the egg cup? What could we put inside it? Who could we give it to?”

We had some fabulous ideas and the children voted for the product to be called “Happy Hen egg cups”

Mathematical Development

We have been looking at coins this week for financial fortnight. We had a coin treasure hunt and then placed them on the correct picture to match them, we have made patterns in playdough by pushing the coins into it and we have sung “Five currant buns in a baker shop”

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

I asked the children “What is Easter?” and unsurprisingly, most children talked about how the Easter Bunny leaves us lots of chocolate eggs. WE then looked at a book which showed us how a family celebrated Easter by going to church and having special family meals.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

 Linking with financial fortnight, the question on our thinking wall this week was “Having no money is good/bad because….”

Creative Development

We made Happy Hen egg cup gifts for financial fortnight – thank you for bringing in your old egg boxes to enable the children to create these cute little gifts – You can buy them on Tuesday as part of our Easter enterprise fair.

Physical Development

We continued to practice our throwing and catching skills in a large circle and the children are improving greatly.

We have also done lots of dancing in the classroom to Sticky Kids songs.

Welsh Language Development

Tedi Twt wanted us to match baby animals with their mothers. We sang the song below and had lots of fun making the animal noises!!

“Buwch (cow) ydw i, buwch ydw i, moo, moo, moo, moo, buwch ydw i”

“Dafad (sheep) ydw i, dafad ydw i, baa, baa, baa, baa, dafad ydw i”

“Iar (hen) ydw i, iar ydw i, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, iar ydw i”

Anything else!

We hope you enjoyed the Easter bonnet parade – it is always a fun event and a chance for parents to show off their creativity!!
This weekend, use the Fairtrade logo, which the children have brought home, to be Fairtrade spotters. The children can take it with them when you go shopping this weekend and find the logo on items in the shop. Look in the baking aisle, tea and coffee aisle and the chocolate aisle. Let us know how you get on as we will be doing more Fairtrade activities on class next week!

Language, Literacy & Communication

We read the book called “Oliver’s Vegetabes”, a story about a boy who played a game with his Grandpa to see if he would try new vegetables. Children were keen to tell me what vegetables they did and didn’t like.

Children had a go at writing their names for their mother’s day pictures.

Mathematical Development

We tasted carrots, cucumber, peppers and beetroot. Each child decided their favourite vegetable and put the picture into a pictogram.

This helped us count which was the most popular vegetable.  The children answered questions like “Which has the most? Which has the least? Do any have the same amount?”

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We explored and pretended to cook with the vegetables from the story “Oliver’s Vegetables”. We talked about where the vegetables grew and whether we had tried them before.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We talked about foods that are healthy for us and foods that we should only have as a treat.

We used the computer to create a healthy plate of food.

We made healthy Houmous and vegetable wraps….Yummy!!

Creative Development

We made a “V” vase and drew dotty flowers in it. This made a pretty picture to give to someone special on Mother’s Day. We hope you like it!!

Physical Development

We revisited one of our favourite Write Dance songs – Kringeli Krangeli – the children are very confident at exploring the movements they can make with their bodies when doing it.

We also played a large circle game with a ball, practising rolling and receiving, and throwing and receiving.

Welsh Language Development

Tedi Twt likes his vegetables because he knows they keep him healthy, so he asked the children to sort the pictures but only put the vegetables on the picnic basket. The children listened to the welsh word for each vegetable and had a go at saying the word themselves – moron (carrot), pys (peas), brocolis (broccoli), pupur (pepper), yd (sweetcorn), tomato.

Anything else!

We have a busy final two weeks of the term, including an Easter bonnet parade, Fair Trade fortnight, financial fortnight and an Easter fair!!
This weekend, encourage your child to think about what fruit and vegetables they are eating – draw pictures and write down the fruit and vegetables they eat and bring it into school to share with the rest of the class.