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Planting Potatoes

Before the half term, we left some potato seeds on the sunny windowsill to ‘Chit’. This means to start growing shoots. When we got back from our Easter holidays the potato seeds were all nobbly and ready to plant. We put some compost in a big bag and buried the seeds, sprout bits facing up. Now we have to wait for the green shoots to start showing before we cover them with more soil. We will post some more pictures soon.

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Monster Mask Making Day.

We invited our Grown Up’s to come into Nursery and help us to make Monster Masks as part of our Monster Topic.

It was lots of fun. We got to cut, stick tape and glue all sorts of things to create our masks. Some of the grown ups even made their own masks. We think that they had fun too!

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Winter Wonderland

In our topic called Winter Wonderland we read a story called Lost and Found. It was about a lonely penguin who travelled from the South Pole all the way to England to find a friend. We learned about where the South Pole was on our globe. We practiced our scissor skills by making some crafty penguins and we practiced our counting skills by counting all the penguins in our small world South Pole scene

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The Dress Rehearsal

On Thursday the 14^th of December we had a practice at singing our Christmas story songs and wearing our costumes at the same time. We are dressed up as the special characters from the story. Angels, Stars, The Animals from the Inn Keepers stables and Mary and Joseph.

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Santa Dash

Today we took part in the Santa Dash with Mr Ellis. We ran around the big children’s playground for ages listening to Christmas music. It was really fun and we got a bit wet when it started to rain. We all tried really hard to keep going and Mr Ellis said we were superstars.

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Bathing the Tortoises

Today we gave Taz and Shelly a bath. We learned that tortoises need to have a good soak in water and that they suck water up through their tails as well as drink it. We gave their shells a little scrub with a tooth brush to make them extra shiny.

Exploring Our Environment

We are exploring our outside area in our first week of nursery.

Art with Miss Chesney

In the Spring Term, we started some work with our school art teacher Miss Chesney. We used the book Lost and Found that we had read as part of our Winter Wonderland topic. We practiced sketching different scenes from the story step by step, then adding paint. We learned to mix skin colours so we could paint the little boy.

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Rainy Day Play

Because of all the rain we’ve had our playground has been flooded this week. So we got our waterproofs and wellies on and went for a splash. We poured and mixed and used pipes to make the water turn round a corner. It took a lot of problem solving to get out pipes lined up!

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Snowmen!

Part of the curriculum in nursery is to Understand the World, to explore natural materials and understand changes in weather. So today we did just that. We now understand how we can change snow into different shapes, like snow people. We know that snow is cold and it melts in our hot hands. We know that when snow melts it turns to water so we need wellies to keep our feet dry. 

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Party Day

On Friday the 15^th we had a Christmas party in Nursery. We played lots of games like musical bumps and pass the parcel. Then we had some party food on special Father Christmas plates. It was yummy!

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Scarecrows

We have been learning a song called Ding Dangle Scarecrow to sing to our Grown Ups for our Harvest sing song, so we decided to make our own. We named him Mr Tape, because Miss Dobb used lots of tape to hold him together! His face is made out of a carrier bag, we like the big handle hole mouth!

Mark Making

We have been exploring making marks outside on different surfaces with big fat chalks. We tried them on the side of the metal freight, but found they really stood out on the squidgy soft floor. We drew around each other and tried labelling our ‘shapes’ with our names.