Ball skills – dribbling

Until half term we are focusing on ball skills in our PE lessons. This week we learnt skills of dribbling and how to control the ball when we are doing this. We enjoyed a game of seals and penguins which helped us practise this skill at the end of the lesson!

Retelling a story – talk for writing immersion

We created pictures of the setting of our story Kassim and the Greedy Dragon and then also created puppets of the characters. We used these to retell the story and recorded each other doing this on the class i pads.

 

Art at Hodnet Hall gardens

We have been inspired by Monet’s landscape art of his garden in Giverny, France. We visited Hodnet Hall gardens and sketched the landscape there.

Spine poetry

As part of this English unit of study we created spine poetry about a dragon. We examined pictures of a dragon and then noted down 5 things we could see in the picture. Then we thought of adjectives that we could use to describe the things we had noted down. We learnt about the use of commas to separate adjectives.

Learning about Scotland

This week in our geography lessons we have been learning about Scotland. We located the main cities on a map using an atlas and then created posters including: the national flower, the national animal, 2 physical features and human features around the national flag.

Woodland Wednesday – Leaf man

A Leaf Man’s got to go where the wind blows…

We marked the autumnal equinox by sharing the story of Leaf Man. We were upset to learn that Leaf Man had been blown away by the wind and that he had not left any travel plans. The Forest Fairies were upset and in their letter, they asked us to make them some new leaf people to help take care of the forest. We got straight to this!

Exploring ladybirds

We found a ladybird outside on the paving slabs, we were fascinated by it! Lots of us spent a long time watching it crawl across the slabs and even fetched a magnifying glass so we could look at it more closely. Following the interests of the children the staff in our nursery class enabled them to create ladybirds in different ways.

 

Planting a herb garden

We explored some herbs that were bought from a local garden centre and some that were grown from cuttings by Mrs Noden. We talked about how they smelt different, looked different and how they were also similar. Later on we planted them out in the garden.

Our wonderful outdoor space

Each day we spend a great proportion of our time outdoors enjoying our wonderful outdoor space. We are so lucky to have this space to explore.

Enjoying books

We really enjoy sharing stories and reading books in our nursery classroom, each week we enjoy a book of the week. So far we have enjoyed “Socks” by Nick Sharatt and “Hairy McClarey from Donalsons Dairy” by Lynly Dodd.

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