Monthly Archives: January 2015

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.