Saturday 28 February 2015

One World Week

We have been talking and learning about 'Food', our likes and dislikes and finding out about where it comes from (far away, somewhere hot, specific places) and how it is grown (e.g. From a seed/ on a tree, plant, underground...)

We have been playing games, including the 'shopping game', "I spy..."and using Beebot to play the Picnic game developing our letter sound and shape knowledge - great fun!

We have also used the iPad to play a memory, matching game about fruit and taking turns with a friend. We have also used the PC to play a problem-solving game to sort the food into 'healthy' and 'unhealthy'.

It has been interesting learning about where the food comes from and how it is grown before we get it...?

We have decided to create our own pizzas next week and we made a class shopping list. We will be seeing if we can remember where the toppings come from and how they are grown when we make our pizzas.

Please talk about this and find out more at home.

can you play "I spy..."at the supermarket?

Sunday 8 February 2015

Super story times!

In Nursery, we all really enjoy daily story time sessions!

This week, we have had extra special story times.

Sinead, Khadijah, Lewis and Kabir have shared their stories with the group and very confidently talked about their books using the pictures as cues to create their own stories.

Fantastic!



And Katie and Umsha too!




Our Gingerbread House

Have you visited our Gingerbread House?

Who will you see?

So far, the three bears, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf, Hansel, Gretal and the old woman have visited us?

We have been thinking about and using the question words: What, where, who, when and which to develop our understanding of story structure and we are trying hard to use story language: once upon a time, and then, after, soon, later on, names for characters and 'the end'.

I wonder who will be visiting us next?

Watch this space...


















Dear Zoo (Rod Campbell)

We have really been enjoying sharing this story.

It has helped us to use vocabulary related to size, height, feelings and action words. We have been using actions, signs and sounds when reading the story together. Lots of us are spotting letter sounds in our own and our friends names and other words too, e.g. Animal names. We are increasing our awareness of print in and around the environment, its purpose and meaning. 

We have also enjoyed going on an outdoor adventure looking for the animals using binoculars we had made! Excellent independent and team work here. Mrs M was very impressed!



We have worked very hard writing letters to the Zoo to ask for a pet or two. We thought about whether we would send it back or keep it! It was fun posting the letters too!



We have also made our own class big book and are going to try and make our own lift-the-flap books too, which we are going to show to another class.

We will also be learning the song, tackling a tricky puzzle, practising our walk through the jungle routine and doing the animal boogie. Watch this space...


Keen to make our own books. Come and read them with us!
Reading my book to a grown up


Using mark making for drawing and writing
Adding detail to drawings. Talking about what is happening
Writing a letter to the zoo


Concentrating and trying very hard
Making choices and using language from the story
Trying new things
Solving problems - great team work!
Keep trying!




Wow! Excellent focus and perseverance!

Well done!