COLOURS
Week 7
13th - 17th October

Our colours this week are brown and grey.
We have been thinking of and naming grey and brown animals including; elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, bear and monkey. We listened to stories featuring these animals. Our favourite was;
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

This story helped us remember the colours we have already learnt, and we learnt the names of lots of different animals.
In our literacy lessons, we retold the story by sequencing the animal pictures and retelling the story in our own words.

In mathematics, we have been learning the 2D shapes; circle, triangle, square and rectangle.

We have been learning how to use these shapes to make pictures.
We painted brown circles to make our own paintings of brown bears.

  

We used circles and rectangles to create our own brown and grey monkeys.

 

We used grey paper shapes to design our own elephants at the creative table.

 

We have also been learning about the colours of autumn and collecting different coloured leaves.

 

  

We painted and printed our own autumn trees.

  

Next week, we will be talking about all the colours we have learnt this term with a focus on rainbows. 🌈

 

 

Week 6
6th - 10th October
COLOURS

Our colours this week were black and white.

We have been learning about black and white animals and reading stories with zebras, pandas and penguin characters.

  

The children created their own black and white animals.
Green Pear Class painted their own penguin pictures.

  

Red Apple Class made zebras and pandas.

In our literacy lessons we have been recognising, reading and forming the letters of our own names. We had fun painting spots over our written names with cotton buds and our fingers supporting name recognition and letter formation.

  

We designed some wonderful zebra patterns by tearing white paper with our ‘pinchy' fingers and sticking the torn pieces onto a black background to create a stripy zebra pattern.

In our mathematics lessons we have been learning about the number 3 and the 2D shape, triangle. We counted the sides and corners of a triangle and then used our design and technology skills to make our own triangles from lolly sticks and pipe cleaners.

  

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
                  We have also been celebrating Black History month with stories featuring black characters,               including 'JoJo and GranGran' and learning about Black History through CBeebies Black History Heroes, including; Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Mary Seacole, Serena Williams and Michelle Obama.

Next week, we will continue our work on colours and learn more about Autumn.

 

Week 5
29th September - 3rd October

Our colours this week have been pink and purple and the children have been making patterns with these colours.
The children tried to draw around different sized circles using pink and purple pens to create their own circular patterns.

  

They have threaded pasta on to pink and purple pipe cleaners.

We have been reading the story, 'Dog's Colourful Day' and the children used different coloured pens to draw spots on an outline of the dog and retold the story by saying what made each coloured spot on the dog in the story.
This story also encouraged the children to practise their careful counting from one to ten.

In Green Pear, the children have been looking carefully at their own faces and talking about their similarities and differences.
They painted some amazing self-portraits which will be displayed in the nursery.

  

In Red Apple, we have been beginning to look at Autumn, making our own squirrels and hedgehogs out of a range of exploratory materials. These have encouraged the children to think about hibernation and the different things that these animals do and eat. These will look lovely on our Autumn display!

  

In our my happy mind lessons, the children have been learning how their brains help them to learn new skills and that their brains are the same size as their fists.

The children enjoyed using pink playdough and rolling worm shapes to create their own playdough brains.

 

Next week, our colours are Black and White. We will be reading Zigby Zebra and Pandas.

We will also be reading stories with black characters to celebrate Black History Month and watching a CBeebies programme, JoJo and Gran Gran.

 

 

Week 4
22nd - 26th September

This week we have been learning about the colours green and orange and how these are made from our primary colours.

We worked on some marble colour paintings to mix some of our previously learnt colours together, and created the new colours, orange or green.

Next, we used our focus book 'orange fish, green fish' to inspire the creation of our own fish, with either green or orange scales.

  

  

For a sensory activity, we explored some feely bags, looking at different colours, textures and materials and the differences between these. We used some lovely language to describe the different textured objects.

In our literacy learning, we began to look at and recognise the first letter of our names, creating an initial collage to go on display.

  

  

Within our exploratory based choosing, we have continued to develop our maths learning, looking at colour, shape and counting.

 

Next week, we will be learning about the colours pink and purple and reading the story, 'Dog's Colourful Day'.

 

 

 

 

This week we have been learning about the colours blue and yellow and the shapes square and rectangle.
We looked at a painting by Piet Mondrian and used red, blue and yellow paint to create our own inspired Mondrian paintings.

  

We used different types of red, blue and yellow paper to create our own colour collages.

In our mathematics lessons we have been practising our rote counting and sorting objects by colour and    matching 2D flat shapes. 

We learnt about scissor safety; how to hold scissors and that we only use scissors to cut paper! We practised our scissor cutting skills by snipping paper and cutting along straight and wavy lines.

Next week, we will be learning about the colours orange and green and continuing to practise our listening skills.

 

How wonderful to have all the nursery children at school together this week!
The children have been learning our daily routines and expectations and how to share the resources and toys with their new friends.

We started our topic, ‘All About Colours” by learning about the colour red. The children thought of things that they know are red and hunted around the nursery environment for red objects, made red collages and used red crayons, pens and pencils to create pictures and make marks.

 
They counted and sorted objects into groups using the criteria, red and not red.

We have had our first P.E. lessons in the hall with our P.E. coaches; Coach Jack, Coach Andrew, Coach Sonny and Coach Josh.

 

 

We looked at ourselves in a mirror and talked about our facial features before drawing our first self-portraits.

   

We also tried to read and write our own names.

 
Next week, the children will continue to develop their friendships, listening skills, turn-taking and sharing skills, and will be learning the colours yellow and blue.

 

 

 

 

Welcome to our Nursery, it has been lovely to meet all our children and families this week. We look forward to getting to know you all and giving the children lots of wonderful learning opportunities.

Meet Our Nursery Team

Red Apple Class: Miss Lee, Mrs Andrew and Mrs Bevan

Green Pear Class: Mrs Piper, Miss Bishop and Mrs Carter

The children have loved exploring their new learning environment and creating their first day handprint pictures which are on display in the nursery.

The children have been learning which class carpet to sit on for registration, snack time and stories. Your child will sit on either Red Apple carpet or Green Pear carpet.

                                 

Alongside this; the children have had opportunities to meet and play with some of their new friends, both inside and outside in our lovely nursery garden. We explored a variety of free flow learning opportunities; covering maths, literacy, colour sorting, sensory play, exploring letters and using expressive art and design to create our own collages. As a group, the children came  together for both singing and storytelling.

      

Next week we are looking forward to having all the children in together, establishing routines and completing activities linked to our class story, 'The Colour Monster goes to School.'

                                                                   

Our topic this half-term is All About Colours.