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This week…(22nd April 2019)

In Catkins class this week, we will be learning about the story ‘Dear Zoo’ Some of the activities you will see are playing sound lotto, reading ‘Dear Zoo’ as a group, making animal masks and playing with sawdust and animals.

In main nursery this week and for the next few weeks we will be learning about Growing. Each week will concentrate on a different aspect of growth. This we we will be learning about ‘Planting’. Some of the activities you will see are planting a variety of seeds, a garden centre role play area, printing with different fruits and reading the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk in small groups.

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to a new year and a new term! We welcome all our new families joining us this term.

In Catkins this week, we will be learning about Snow and Winter. Some of the activities you will see are self portraits, emotion lotto, hand printing and playing with the puppet theatre.

In main nursery this week we will be learning about the Vets. Some of the activities you will see are a vets role play area, pet bingo, catch the tail game and making our own pet accessories.

It’s Christmas!

This week and until the end of term we will be learning all about Christmas. We will be learning about the First Christmas and the story of Mary ad Joseph. We will be making cards, calendars, decorations and lots of other festive activities!

‘Switch Off’ Week

This week (26th Nov) we will be learning all about electricity. The children will have chance explore simple circuits, wiring a bulb to a battery to watch it light up. We will talk about how to save energy by switching off lights when they are not needed. We will be taking part in activities where we will be sorting equipment and toys that need electricity and those that don’t. We will also be taking part in an obstacle course to help us understand how electricity wiring needs to be connected in order for it to work.

Our Local Area

This week (12th Nov) and for the next 2 weeks, we will be learning about our local area. We will be going on our local area walk to learn about the things that we can find in our local area. We will be learning about local shops and will be having a role play supermarket and role play post office. We will be playing games such as the shopping list game and playing games with shop logos!