​It’s been a really lovely and busy week in Nursery!  We have had lots of enthusiastic and lively children bursting with brilliant ideas on how to make our new Post Office area outside.  We used the children’s ideas and added new resources to the post office such as post box, wrapping paper, till, money, envelopes, Christmas cards, bags and ribbons. This contributed to the children’s excitement and helped to make this time of the year so sparkly and magical. When playing inside and outside we have worked on our perseverance, resilience and determination skills. 

​In Nursery this week we have been reading the story ‘Stick Man’ by Julia Donaldson. We collected sticks and leaves from our garden to make our own pictures of Stick Man. Look at our fantastic work. 

As part of our Collective Worship we have been creating prayers for our prayer tree. We thanked God for the food we eat, our toys and our families and we asked Him to give us love, decorations and ‘a house’ for Christmas. 

In Maths we sang the song ‘The twelve days of Christmas’. Then we counted the characters mentioned in the song and recorded the number on our paper using lines, circles and hearts. We used these to make our Maths display. 

During our Religious Education lessons, we continued to learn about Angel Gabriel visiting Mary, using our creative and cutting skills to make Mary and Angel Gabriel out of different materials and have completed our RE display. 

We have continued to work on our rhyming skills during our Letters and Sounds sessions. We looked at what rhymes with cat, pen, dog, pig and ten. Ask your child what words they can think of that rhyme with these words.  

The children’s special interest this week was having a birthday party. We have been very busy planning, writing invitations for our friends and lists of party food. ​

After reading ‘Gruffalo’s child’ by Julia Donaldson, the children were very excited to make a new display.  ​

In Religious Education we have learnt how to help our family by role playing ‘taking care of a baby’. We did the rainbow experiment using smarties and observed how colours mix and form a beautiful rainbow. ​