Hello everybody, we have had a very busy few weeks in nursery since returning after half term. Firstly thankyou to those that joined in the home learning and sent photos of the mini beasts the children found, we have looked at them and talked about with the children. This term our book is called “I’m going to eat this ant”, it is about an anteater with a very long tongue and tries to eat lots of things including the ants. We have explored lots of mini beasts throughout our activities. Here are some wonderful photos of our fun and learning.

We have been on minibeast hunts to the forest and nursery garden and some of us had fun mark making to show when we had found a certain mini beast. We found lots of spiders and worms. The children love to explore and are gaining in independence each time by taking off their shoes and putting on their own wellies. We are also encouraging the children to put the wellies back on the shelf as well.

This term so far we have also explored the pumpkin seeds and talked about how a pumpkin feels and have used pegs and tweezers to pick up the seeds, this is displaying good fine motor skills.

We must say a great big thankyou to the parents and carers who joined us for the pumpkin printing, we appreciate your help and support and we hope to be providing many more opportunities for you to come and share activities in the future. It was a lovely chance to see what the children get up to in their nursery environment. We have done lots of learning through exploring and here are some more wonderful photos for you to look at.

As you can see we have had lots of fun and learning, every opportunity is a learning opportunity for the children. The children are learning language skills, social skills, and lots of knowledge and understanding about the world. We have also introduced library time and a session in the hall to encourage physical movement activities where the children have been moving like different mini beasts.

A great big thankyou for your continued support, this term is usually the busiest as we will be incorporating Christmas activities along the way as well. Our Christian value this term is Trust so we will be looking out for children displaying this .

As always thankyou and please don’t hesitate to speak to a member of staff if you need to.

The Nursery Team