Blog Author: Mrs Atkinson

This week we have been using our senses to explore. We smelled different scents with our noses. The Parmesan cheese was not very popular! 
Today we have used our sense of touch to explore , using our feet. The children gathered toys from inside and outside. Ivy told us the sand felt smooth and…

Today we have looked in our Harvest chatterbox . We found a tractor and lots of different vegetables and fruit. We talked about some of the fruit being picked in hot countries. We found out that our bananas came from Costa Rica.

The children asked could we have a Teddy bears picnic. We made our own plates and snacks and all children were encouraged to talk about their bears using a full sentence. Older children had to tell the others two facts about their bear.

We have been experimenting with different sized vehicles and tubes. We tried to predict which vehicles would fit down which tube. We tried out our predictions.

Ready for our big roll. We had a practice of the rolling action first which everyone managed. No eggs went splat today!

Yesterday we painted some boiled eggs and left them overnight to dry. Today we rolled the eggs down the playground which turned out to be the perfect hill. All of the children’s eggs made it to the bottom. We had a few sad faces when the eggs cracked but our chocolate prizes soon cheered us up. We…

A very special visitor came to Nursery and told us we had been good. He has brought us a present 

We were very excited to have Christmas crackers with our lunch today. We discovered that it’s fun to pull the cracker with a friend.

We have taken turns to dress up as our favourite character from the Nativity story.

We have heard lots of versions of the traditional Nativity. Our favourite part of the story is mean King Herod. We are all happy that Jesus escaped with Mary and Joseph to Egypt.

We are counting down the days to Christmas. We are making lots of Christmas gifts to bring home.