Autumn 2

The children have enjoyed another busy half-term in Nursery.

We have continued to focus on the theme ‘All About Me’, looking at the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.  The children enjoyed using their sight to idendify their favour colour, their hearing to listen to their favouite songs (wiggle dance), their sense of smell to identify hidden foods and their sense of touch to explore and describe sensory boards and the contents of ‘feely’ bags.  Snack-time was even used to taste and describe the texture of a variety of fruit and vegetables.

We then spent a couple of weeks focusing on the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. The children enjoyed listening to, then acting out, the story.  They also enjoyed exploring our ‘Bear Hunt’ small world tray and talking about or retelling the story in their own words. The children were taught about different breeds of bear.  After that, they made their own bear sandwiches and enjoyed their very own Bear Hunt, going ‘through’ the mud, grass, water and snow!

We have also focused on the changing seasons and winter.  The children have enjoyed a winter walk and was lucky enough to experience real snow to add to the Christmas excitement.  This has led us up to Christmas, which is always a very busy time. We have listened to the story of Christmas and Nursery joined with Reception learning songs for our Nativity performance.  They have also been busily engaged in a variety of Christmas-themed activities in class.  

During story-time, the children have enjoyed listening to a range of stories and information books linked to the above themes. 

We have started daily bucket time session, focusing to build children's attention, listening, eye contact, and ability to sit for a short period of time.

In Maths, we have focused on carefully and accurately counting a variety of objects and actions using one-to-one correspondence.  The children are also learning to use their fingers to represent numbers and to subitise (identify a small number of up to 6 pictures or objects without the need for counting).

As you can see, it has been a very busy time in Nursery!