Tuesday 21 October 2014

Learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night


Using materials to create a card for Diwali. Lovely work, Logan!


Umar used all sorts of colourful shapes to create his diwa light. Well done!


Sinead created this independently, carefully selecting what she needed to represent her diwa light. Wonderful!


Katie worked independently and selected what she wanted to use. She decided to add four flames.


We enjoyed using the clay to shape our diwa light. Aut was quite tough so we really used our fingers to work it into the shape we wanted. We are looking forward to deportation them once they have hardened.



Busy, busy bees in nursery...


Cutting, sticking, fixing, positioning, talking and representing our ideas and thinking through art and design


We have also enjoyed listening to and learning songs about Diwali and have shared the story about Rama and Sita.

We enjoyed learning about Diwali and making rang oil patterns...








Creating mehndi patterns


Mark making outdoors to create a rangoli pattern



Using puppets to support our retelling of the story of Rama and Sita...

We shared the cbeebies version of the story - the one with shadow puppets. This really helped us to understand what happened and the sequence of events. 

We took turns to take on the roles of different characters. We did very well indeed!


We have used the puppets during activity time and tried to act out the story with our friends. This has been a real joy to watch! 

Bang, pop, whizz, crackle, and BOOM!

Using sound words whilst a mark making for our firework pictures.


And fantastic fireworks!

We used media to make marks whilst using our voices to create sound effects and actions. We pretended to be fireworks using our whole bodies to create shapes and movement too whilst learning about keeping safe on Bonfire Night.

















Monday 20 October 2014

Special effort and achievements...

Great effort when listening and following instructions - Anoud, Mohammed

Careful counting - Ysee, Logan, Hayden, Asiya, Umsha

Great number work - Lewis, Sami, Kabir, Khadijah, Katie

Excellent work using the computer - Liliana, Hayden, Umar, Sinead

Super writing - everyone! Well done for trying so hard with making marks, including: name writing, shopping lists and recording thoughts and ideas following talk time.

Super singing - everyone! We learn many songs and rhymes in nursery to help us develop skills in many aspects of learning. Great effort by all and we enjoy hearing your favourites and songs you have made up on your own!

Brilliant sharing, taking turns and team work - everyone!

We are all working hard in nursery! Well done!



Thursday 16 October 2014

We are Writers Week

We have been very busy and enjoyed taking part in activities related to developing our early writing skills...


Our name writing! We really enjoy signing in on entry to nursery.


We have set up a mini shop and take turns being the shopkeeper. Here are our shopping lists. We can all tell a grown up what our mark making means. Fantastic!


Look at our cooperative mark making. So much quality speaking and listening as we engaged in meaningful mark making. We created a BIG book.


We all enjoyed exploring the letters in our names!


When I grow up, I want to be...


Following our story workshop, we created our own 'cat' characters too.



















Well done everyone for trying your best!





Wednesday 8 October 2014

I've got a body, a very busy body...


We have enjoyed learning songs and rhymes to help us to learn about body parts and our senses...

Thank you Mrs H for your help too. This was great fun!


Look at me now!

We will be sharing photos of us when we were babies and talking about how we have changed and grown. What could we do when we were little? What can we do now?


Walking through the garden, what shall we see?


















Nature Walk



What a busy day we have had!