Feelings and Emotions

We have had a lovely start to the new term in Owls learning all about emotions and feelings through the Colour Monster story. We have been busy in the provision learning to recognise and sort colours, exploring colours and colour mixing, making our own monsters with play dough and loose parts, drawing and talking about our own feelings and listening to music and expressing how it makes us feel. 

Pumpkin Soup

This week we have been reading 'Pumpkin Soup.' We made our own pumpkin soup, slicing and peeling the vegetables. When we tasted the pumpkin soup we thought it was delicious - just like the story! We developed our fine motor skills, hammering the golf tees into the pumpkins and filling and pouring in the water tray. We enjoyed retelling the story with the small world animals and used some fantastic story language. 

SMJ Falconry

We had a very exciting and interesting visit from SMJ Falconry and their owls. We got to see a barn owl, a little owl, a long eared owl and a tawny owl,who looked just like Mother Owl from our Owls Babies story. We learnt all about the owls and even got to hold the tawny owl on our hand. 

Trip- The Lowry

We had a very exciting trip to The Lowry Theatre to watch The Enormous Crocodile! We all enjoyed the show - the songs, the puppets and the costumes were brilliant! We enjoyed a picnic lunch before travelling back to school. Thankfully, The Enormous Crocodile didn't manage to eat any of us!

Busy Builders 

We have been 'busy builders' this week, using the blocks and junk modelling resources to construct our models. 

World Space Week

As it is World Space Week, we have been reading 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy and have been busy in the provision making rocket pictures using 2D shapes, building space ships using junk modelling materials, counting beads and matching the correct quantity to the numeral and using the props to retell the story together.

Hedgehogs 

We have been learning all about hedgehogs this week. We have read 'The Very Helpful Hedgehog' and used the small world to retell the story and talk about how we can be helpful to others. We have been counting and learning to recognise numerals as well as working on our fine motor skills by squeezing the pegs on to the hedgehogs. We have made spikey hedgehogs with clay and playdough. We have learnt all about where hedgehogs live, what they eat, what they look like and hibernation for the winter.

What a wonderful morning we shared with our families! We had a lovely time playing, crafting and singing together. Thank you to everyone who joined us. We raised an amazing £206 for new Nursery resources! Thank you so much for your support. Merry Christmas everyone. 

The Gingerbread Man

We have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man. We have been busy counting buttons onto the gingerbread men, making gingerbread people from Playdough, investigating which objects float and which ones sink, building bridges so the gingerbread man can cross the river safely, retelling the story and joining in with the repeated refrain and baking our own gingerbread men. We held them tightly as we took them home in case they tried to run away!