28th September - 2nd October '09

This week our focus has been birthdays/balloons.

We read a story called "The Blue Balloon" (Communication - reading)

We coloured an outline picture of Spot the dog at his Birthday party (Communication skills - writing/mark-making)

Some more examples of mark-making activities we have enjoyed:

Rolling with paint

Free drawing


making patterns with our fingers in shaving foam

In this ICT activity on the Plasma screen computer, we counted out and 'drew' 4 candles on the birthday cake.

We used our thinking skills to create a simple repeating 2-colour pattern using our forefingers

During a PSE Circle Time session, we had a visit from our Persona doll 'Emily'. We talked about how she felt on her first day at school and had a think about what skills are needed to work and play together nicely.

We have had lots of fun in the play fort on the infant yard.

We have been using different skills in our free play:

Showing curiosity and exploring (Thinking)

Talk to themselves and others (Communication)

ICT

Match pictures (Number)

On Friday we all took a balloon home each according to what colour group we are in:

21st - 25th September '09

This week the focus has been on friendship and making friends.

This week we learnt the number rhyme "5 little ducks went swimming one day". Through this activity we practised reciting and counting numbers to 5.

Through this "Fizzy's Numbers" ICT activity we played some games which focus on numbers 1 - 10.

We searched for 2-D shapes (circles, squares, triangles, rectangles) around the Nursery yard then used our thinking and communication skills to sort and match them into shape sets. We then tried to make the shapes ourselves using our bodies.

We explored changes by melting chocolate in the microwave, sharing it into 'petit four' cases, then used our thinking skills to decide how we could make the chocolate solid again. We put our chocolates in the fridge and when they were set we decorated them with a smartie and took them home to enjoy.

We each made a friendship bracelet for a chosen friend. We decorated a paper strip by making marks with felt pens.


We have enjoyed playing a range of play perscussion instruments and exploring/thinking about the sounds that they make.

During a PSE Circle time activity, we passed chocolate teddy around each other in a circle. When it was our turn to hold chocolate teddy, we used our communication skills to tell everybody which friends we had played with that day. We listened to our friends when it wasn't our turn to speak.

We have been using our ICT skills in the infant computer suite. We work with our talking/computer partners and in this 'Mouse Skills' game we are practising our mouse control.

We have 'painted' pictures of ourselves on the plasma screen computer using the '2Paint' programme.

We have really enjoyed playing new games with the parachute during PE lessons.

Hello and Welcome to the Nursery Blog for 2009 - 2010. As you can see we have already been very busy settling into new routines, getting to know each other and making new friends. Two of us have even celebrated our 4th birthdays already!

(Nursery 1)

(Nursery 2)

We are having lots of fun outside - using the climbing frames, playhouses, riding on bikes, cars and scooters:

Also, inside we have enjoyed discovering lots of new activities: