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Autumn term 1!
Autumn 1 saw the arrival of our new Seedlings and we can’t believe how quickly they adapted to nursery life! They have loved exploring both inside and outside. This half term has seen us exploring caterpillars, looking at the change in the season, reading two key texts (Where is Spot and Dear Zoo), learning our key nursery rhymes (Twinkle Twinkle, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Hickory Dickory Dock), celebrating World Smile Day, discovering a Blue Tit and learning all about it, developing our fine and gross motor skills and also taking part in World Mental Health Day. We can’t wait to see what autumn term 2 brings!
Autumn term 2!
This half term has been incredibly busy in nursery! We started by taking part in Remembrance Day by learning what it is about and making some poppies to decorate both nursery and to send over to Winton Court. We have done our daily Dough Disco and Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle Sessions and have also finished our first aspect of our listening games which was all about environmental sounds. Each week we have loved doing a Tales Toolkit session and then using the resources which are then left out in our continuous provision to retell the story in our own words. We have read two more key texts - We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and also Brown Bear Brown Bear. We have been taking part in NUFC coaching sessions each Wednesday and are getting really good at listening and following instructions. This half term saw us celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week where we posted a different key rhyme each day on Facebook and we also celebrated World Kindness Day. During antibullying week we observed Odd Sock Day to celebrate all our differences and we also took part in Children in Need. Finally, December brought around Christmas which has seen the return of our chief elf Elfie and his little helper Buddy who loves to hide each day and also our Christmas role play shop. We welcomed in Mel from Nustem who read a story called The Not So Perfect Penguin and we pretended to be glaciologists melting giant snowballs and drawing pictures with coloured ice. As well as decorating our Christmas tree on Cosy PJ Friday (whilst watching The Snowman and having some hot chocolate) and doing lots of Christmas crafts we invited our parents and carers in to nursery to join us with our festive Christmas sing along. Finally, we had our Christmas lunch on Christmas jumper day and also had such a good time at our Christmas party! What a busy time we have had!
