Our Weekly Learning

Our story this week was Jack and the Beanstalk, click the link to watch the story at home. We went to forest school and planted a bee friendly garden. We have been planting our own runner beans and in maths we have been comparing the height and length of different objects.

Our final week before Easter and time to celebrate new life and to learn about traditions and celebrations at Easter time. We learned a new song about Hot Cross buns, tasted Hot Cross Buns at Forest school and had an Easter Egg Hunt in Nursery. The children made Easter Nests and cards for home and had a lovely time celebrating together. Happy Easter everyone, have a lovely break and we will see you soon.

We had a special delivery this week 10 eggs and we were very egg tied to see what would hatch out. We watched very carefully and as the week went by we became the proud parents of 10 wonderful chicks, 3 girls and 7 boys. We read a great story about an egg too, click on the link to read it together.

We also learned about the lifecycle of a hen and explored and investigated what else comes out of an egg,

This has been our focus text for this half term and we have had lots of fun this week exploring the text in detail and learning more about healthy and unhealthy eating as well as continuing to understand what a life cycle is.

Outside we made healthy lunches with grass noodles and even tried bananas and sweetcorn on the grill at forest school.

This week we have been spending a lot of time outdoors and looking for signs of spring. We have real frogspawn in nursery and have taken some of the tadpoles up to the pond already! We have learned new words frogspawn, tadpole, froglet and frog and learned that lots of different animals grow and change as part of their lifecycles. Take a look at our pictures and read the story to find out more.

We have been out and about for our learning and have been hunting for signs of spring, we took our clipboards and looked for daffodils, sticky horse chestnut buds, catkins and bluebell shoots.

Back in nursery we had time to explore some flowers and learned that flowers have petals and stems, we used the magnifying glasses to take a closer look.

We also painted daffodils for our special cards. Happy Mothers Day to all and have a lovely weekend 💐

Welcome back after the half term break and take a look at what we have been learning in the ladybirds these last two weeks. We started this half term with a celebration of pancake day and a story to introduce us to some traditional story characters. Click here to read the story together.

This week we read another traditional tale about an and old man an old woman a dog, a cow, a horse and a fox! Can you guess which story it is? 

It’s the Gingerbread Man! Share the story and help your child to join in with the phrase “run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me lm the Gingerbread Man!”

We baked Gingerbread Men and used them for counting and number recognition. We talked about how to make gingerbread men and had a think about what would happen if he had gone into the river. At forest school Mrs Mellor used the pond to test out our ideas and we found that the Gingerbread Man sank and went soggy in the water. Then we made boats and tested them in our water trays to see if they would float and sink. Here are a few pictures of our busy week.

At home have a go at this lovely counting activity or maybe make some gingerbread men and count out different amounts of currants to decorate them.

Ladybirds have been very busy this week with lots of learning outdoors and extending our learning about our enquiry question what is a family? Click below to read our stories of the week.

Both of our stories have rhyming patterns to the words and this term we are focusing on finding and saying rhymes, maybe you can find the rhyming words together as you hear them.

The children spent a lot of time at forest school birdwatching and can now identify magpies, crows, pigeons and robins with the help of binoculars that they made.

Friday was NSPCC number day and we had great fun dressing up as characters from Ten Town! We had lots of number activities including making jam tarts, luckily Thelma Three didn’t try to take them!

it’s been a great week in nursery and we have been very busy learning about family, the number 3 and a little bit of outdoor learning in the freezing cold weather. Let’s start with a beautiful story about a family celebration.

Story books are so important to us and we have used a traditional book to complement our number work and develop our oral storytelling. Can you guess what it is from our pictures?

The weather has been too cold at zero degrees to run our full forest school sessions but we have managed to get out a little to look for birds make nests and find lots of ice to explore.

we have been looking and learning about birds inside this week, exploring them learning how to identify them and making bird feeders, fingers crossed that next week it will be a bit milder and we can use or binoculars and place or feeders at forest school.

A warm welcome back after the Christmas holiday and a Happy New Year to you all. This first week of the term has started with a story about a family of sticks!

We collected and compared sticks, painted our sticks and used them for all sorts of fine motor skills. Here are a few examples.

At Forest school we have been exploring winter wrapping up warm and enjoying a breakfast on the fire grill. Tasty toast which was delicious!

Here is our winter story tray and a story about an animal that lives in a cold winter climate.

What a great singalong today in ladybirds. The children were great, thank you parents for your support.

We have been really busy in Ladybirds this last week and lots of things have already started to change as we move into December and start to think about Christmas. Our first important story was Star in a Jar, we learned the importance of giving and sharing and used stars in our creative work for our calendars and the Christmas fair. We also placed a star on the top of our Christmas tree. 

The start of December was the focus for learning at forest school and we went for a winter walk , noticed how icy the pond is and used the icy windows to develop our patterns and mark making.

The Christmas festivities have also been celebrated in nursery this week with the retelling of the first Christmas with our nativity set and with our Christmas jumper day and Christmas lunch for the children that stay at nursery all day. It is a truly magical time of year and we have been learning songs and finding out so much take a look at our special times together.

Our fantastic story this week was Owl Babies and we have explored retelling the story through pictures puppets and small world. In our forest school learning we made simple lean to shelters and then enhanced them to make them into nests for Sarah Percy and Bill. So much language has been developed this week, ask your child about the words silently, talons and prey. I bet they can tell you all about owls, when they sleep and what they eat!

This week we started to think about getting ready for the Christmas festival and learned about Christingles, we made our own and had a little celebration of the light of Christ.

What a busy week we have had in the Ladybirds! Lots of important events and celebrations and our first one was Diwali, the Hindu festival of Light! Take a look at our pictures and follow the link to the website to find out more!

Tuesday was Anti Bullying Day so we had lots to learn through our Simon sock story about how we celebrate our differences and learn to good friends and then we had lots of sock activities!

Thinking of socks they always come in 2’s and our number this week was number 2. We have been counting out, counting in order, making two and having lots of number hunts around nursery. Take a look at number 2 numberblock by clicking the link. 

We finished our week with our annual wear something spotty day and bake sale to raise money for the Children in Need Charity. We did lots of spotty activities and came to school in our spotty outfits. Thankyou to everyone who took part and gave to others this week, little contributions make big differences.

This week was a very busy week in nursery and we linked our learning to rockets and trips to the moon with a story about a bear, click on the link to read the story.

Take a look at our amazing rocket and our mark making on the moon. At forest school we made rockets and talked about astronauts and gravity! Even our maths was space based with a great rhyme for punting backwards 5 little men in a flying saucer!

Welcome back ladybirds and Happy Halloween! This week we turned the clocks back and started off with a Halloween Celebration making lots of pumpkin soup, witches spells and learning a skeleton dance.

We had a great safety talk from our crossing patrol warden Tony! Look at us practicing our stop look and listen and using a safe place to cross! 

Our forest school sessions, well they were very muddy! Lots of finding magic wands broomsticks and the muddiest wettest session we have had yet, it was such fun! 

Our final week of the half term and a lovely story to explore with lots of hands on activities. The Gruffalo was a great hit with the children and we got to describe him and go exploring for him in our very own deep dark wood at forest school. Take a look at our pictures from the week.

Lots of counting drawing baking and enjoying our Gruffalo crumble and owl ice cream!

A song to sing at home and a lovely end to the half term. Enjoy the holidays and we will see you soon!

Who’s been eating my porridge? That was the question we investigated this week, can you guess what our story was?

Yes you are right it’s Goldilocks and the three bears 🐻. Take a look at how we investigated size through making beds for the bears, developed our drawing through doodling forest patterns and making and tasting our own porridge, chocolate porridge. We even used a daddy bear spoon to ladle it into our bowls.

At forest school things are starting to change and we collected the seeds from the sunflowers we planted last year and planted them out using our trowels that we learned to use last week. Hopefully they will grow and maybe some will be food for those little mammals that hibernate over the winter. The wind also gave us the fist falling leaves of autumn and the children enjoyed trying to catch them too.🍁🍂

We also had time to develop our friendships by playing hide and seek and peekaboo.

Last week was all about Ladybirds and this week we compared Ladybirds to Spiders! We had to look very closely at forest school to find their webs but sadly we only found one tree spider. Maybe it was the rain that washed the spiders away. Still we had fun drawing and chalking webs outside, collecting spiders from the cooker tray and of course singing Incey Wincey Spider. Check out the pictures to see how busy we have been!

Week 4 already and the children continue to amaze us with their great manners kind hands and friendly behaviour. This week we have been investigating ……what is a ladybird? We had lots of ideas …..like a spider…..it’s got two legs…… it’s red! The only way to find out was to hunt for real ladybirds at forest school so we took our nets and magnifying glasses and set off on an adventure.🐞🔍

In nursery we continued our learning through counting sorting and drawing ladybirds as well as doing lots of speaking and listening.

Click on the link to read a story about ladybirds 🐞 

Time is flying by in nursery and this week we have had two new members to our class. We started off with a fantastic story about choosing a pet called Dear Zoo. 

We have done lots of learning around writing and mark making to send a letter to the Zoo so that we can have a pet in nursery.

This week in nursery we have been learning about colours and reading bear stories. Click on the link to read our Key text at home.

At forest school we investigated colours, found more frogs and collected conkers! 

Our week ended with a surprise visit from Mr Hewitt who has a part time job at the zoo! He brought us 2 pets to look after in our nursery!

Friday was bun day , thankyou to Charlie’s chickens for the eggs, they made delicious buns for us to share at our carpet time. 🐥🧁🥚

We have had lots of fun exploring colours through creative activities and finding colours at forest school.🐞🌳

Our first week in Nursery and the children are learning the routines and songs that help us to come together at the carpet. Ask them about tidy up time, sitting on their spots on the carpet and sing these songs together at home.

Welcome to our Ladybirds learning page. Here you will find stories songs and things to share at home to support your child's learning. Its a sharing page with pictures and words and we will update it weekly to inform you about our weekly stories and activities. Click on the links at the top of the page to find out more about our curriculum and how we learn.