Another fantastic term in Nursery. The children have been joining in and settling into the routines to confidently explore the learning. This term our theme was ‘Ourselves.’ Children have been learning about what they look like, who is in their family, who is special to them and how we all celebrate special event in our lives. Parents have sent photos of a celebration they have had with their child, families and friends. It has been marvellous seeing children get excited about their photo and sharing these; talking about who they celebrate with; what they do; what special clothes they wear and what yummy food they eat. Children are beginning to develop conversation, often jumping from topic to topic. They are also beginning to remember special times in their own experiences.

Families came and enjoyed the children’s first class assembly. We all learnt together about Guru Nanak’s Birthday, Diwali and the Festival of Lights. The children have enjoyed reading the story about Rama and Sita. They have been acting this out using puppets as well as making their own paper diva lamps and puppets of the characters.

The children had a visit from The Little Angel Theatre and watched the performance ‘Wow said the Owl’. Children manipulated and played with different media to make their own owl.

 

The children enjoy talking about themselves and identifying when it is their birthday, beginning to make reference to numbers of significance. Children are developing counting-like behaviour, counting in everyday contexts like candles on a birthday cake and number rhymes.

     

 

During this Autumn term, children have started visiting Curwen Library and Ms Fuller the librarian. They are learning how to treat books with respect, turning the pages carefully and responding to the pictures. Children can identify ‘pictures’ and ‘writing’ now. This is supported through our self-registration or recognising their picture and their name.  They took part in ‘Science Day’ to explore media and materials around them and have been getting ready for their big outcome their First Nativity concert.