Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery
Welcome to Nursery
During the term we will be looking at the topic of 'Ourselves', and celebrating, Divali, Fireworks night and Christmas.
This week we preformed our Christmas production, We're going on a baby hunt. The children were fabulous and did such a good job. Here are a selection of our cast..
This week in nursery we made salt dough Christmas trees. We mixed together, flour, water and salt, then we had to knead it and then using the cutters we made Christmas trees, ready to decorate next week.
We have been thinking about sustainability and recycling this week. We joined the rest of the school to do activities about helping the planet. We reused toilet rolls by painting them and making them into sculptures.
What fun we had exploring the ice. The children used many different utensils to release the animals and people that were stuck in the ice. They found large shards of ice and tiny little pieces too. They persevered for a long time, squealing with delight when they had set the animals and people free.
This week we have been thinking about Anti-bullying week. We talked about how we need to be kind to one another and say kind things to one another. We also discussed what we need to do if we are feeling sad, unhappy about somebodies behaviour towards us. We then coloured in Odd Socks to show our support to stop bullying.
The children had a wonderful time making fireworks with paint, cotton wool and spoons.
This week in nursery, we have been celebrating Diwali. We made diva's, rangoli patterns, danced to Indian music and designed mehndi patterns on templates of hands.
Look at our beautiful rangoli patterns we made on the interactive whiteboard.
This week we have been looking at Handa's Surprise. We have listened to the story, watched the animation, spoken about the African animals and fruits and had a taste of them.
During CIL (choosing time) some of the children wanted to colour in a pumpkin on the interactive whiteboard. They had to chose the colour by changing it at the side and then they used their fingers to draw across the pumpkin to colour it in.
This week in nursery we have been thinking about houses. We read the story Peace at Last and discussed all the different rooms that are in our houses and homes. We then used a variety of construction materials to build our own houses.
This week continuing our learning about Owls, the children we given the opportunity of making owls. They needed to use small wooden discs, feathers and stick on eyes. They then displayed them on our autumn tree in the classroom.
What a wonderful time we had exploring jelly. We used our senses to smell and touch the jelly. We described what it smelt like, felt like and how it made us feel.
We had a fabulous time making cheerio bird feeders.
Well done to everyone, we had an amazing Sports Day, even if it was a little hot!
We had lots of fun in our forest school area this week.
This week we have been making Pirates hats...
We have been growing strawberries in the nursery garden. We are so pleased that they are now ready for us to eat. They taste delicious!
This half term we are thinking about Under the Sea. This week we made a volcano using boxes, and modrock. We then painted it. What do you think?
This week we made our very own frogspawn as we have been thinking about the Life Cycle of a Frog.
Here's what the children thought about it.
C - it feels slimey and cold
J - Feels like jelly
R - it’s gelatine
O- it’s cold and squishy
J - it feels cold
Look at our beautiful sunflowers! This week we have been learning about sunflowers and the life cycle of a plant. The children had a great time, painting, drawing and planting sunflowers. They also watched a time lapse of a sunflower growing, we really hope ours grow that big!
We had a wonderful day celebrating VE day. The children watched a short power point explaining what VE day is. We then had a selection of activities to take part in. We made Trench Stew, union jack flags, poppies and medals. We listened to 1940's music and danced and sang along to it.
This week in nursery we have been thinking about families and growing. We then made people using natural materials, thinking about what a person needs. Take a look, they are great!
This week in nursery we have started 'pen disco.' This is to help us with our pencil control and our fine motor development.
LI: To make marks to represent a daffodil
We have been doing observational paintings of daffodils.
We had lots of fun in nursery this week, thinking about the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy. We completed lots of different activities, one being drawing spiders on the interactive whiteboard. Just have a look at some of the wonderful spiders we made.
This week in nursery we have continued looking at helicopter stories. We read and acted out the story ‘Peace at Last’.
The children enjoyed acting the parts of objects - clock, tick tock, refrigerator, hmmmmmmmm etc and the animals bears, cat, hedgehog, owls all children joining in with “Oh No, I can’t stand this”.
This week we have been learning about Humpty Dumpty. We learnt the rhyme, and then constructed a 3D rhyme. We made the wall and humpty using paint, and different materials. Using playdough we also modelled humpty.
This week we focussed on our cutting skills by cutting around pancakes then cutting out toppings to stick on top. We practised moving our fingers in the correct scissor grip. We also did some pancake day finger tracing where we traced our fingers along the path. It was trickier than it looked to find the finish!
This week in nursery, we have been looking at positional language. We played a game placing the monster in different areas around the classroom. The children then had to tell me where they had hidden it by using the correct language.
This week in maths we have been using positional language. The children then hid the monster in a variety of places and then they had to use the correct language to describe where they had hidden it.
We had great fun on the large wheeled toys this week. We were developing our strength in our legs to pedal the bikes, push ourselves along on the scooter and manipulate the stepper.
We had lots of fun painting our winter scene pictures. We looked at a variety of winter photographs and then decided what we would like to paint. Then we chose the correct colours to represent what we had chosen to paint. Some children painted snowmen, a snowy owl, trees with snow and a perfect winters day!
This week we had indoor forest school and we looked at different beetles. We then had the chance to make beetles using clay and natural materials. We also coloured in different beetles and collected sticks and leaves to make a beetle home.
In nursery this week. we have been thinking about shapes. We used some junk modelling boxes and shapes from around the nursery. We tried to use the words sharp, flat, curvy, round or pointy to describe them. We then had to look and see if the any shapes were the same.
In maths this week, we have been making repeating patterns and building towers or roads with coloured blocks.
In nursery this week in nursery we have been looking at Elmer and we designed our own Elmers.
What an amazing performance from nursery this week. They all worked really hard to learn the words of the songs, whilst doing the actions and learning lines to say. Everyone is very proud of you for your wonderful production of A Warm and Fuzzy Christmas.
This week the children have enjoyed developing their cutting skills, using scissors to cut out Christmas stockings.
This week in Nursery we have been looking at different woodland animals. We have painted, cut and read stories about the different animals and went on a woodland walk through Forest School before enjoying a play in the sandpit.
To celebrate armistice day, we watched an animation from CBeebies about a little rabbit on the front line. It helped the children understand about remembrance day. We also decorated poppies using paint and cotton buds, tissue paper or colouring pens.
This week in nursery we have been thinking about Fireworks. We thought about how to keep ourselves safe when handling sparklers and going to a fireworks display. Some children made rockets using toilet roll tubes and ribbons and we did some firework colouring, watch a display on the interactive whiteboard and then we all made a little splatter picture to represent the fireworks.