This week at Nursery, we used red paint, paintbrushes and paper plates to create our own poppy wreath for Remembrance Day. We sat together and used our paintbrushes confidently, exploring ways to add paint to our paper plates. We enjoyed getting messy and some of us explored the sensory experience of using our hands to put paint on paper. We had to concentrate carefully to ensure we painted all of our paper plates with our red paint! Once dried, we added black paint to create the centre of our poppies.

Once finished, we worked with our key adults to stick our poppies onto our green wreath. We talked about being kind as we did this to mark Remembrance Day together. Some of us joined our friends from 3 Year Old Nursery in the hall for collective worship on Remembrance Day. We listened carefully and quietly, thinking about Mrs Stott’s words about kindness. We looked at all of the poppies and wreaths that our friends throughout school had made and the glowing candles. Our adults were very proud of how we joined in with this special moment.

This week at Nursery, we enjoyed exploring Bonfire Night together! We used chunky brushes to experiment with adding paint to black card to create a fireworks in a night sky. We used our whole arm and hands with careful control to print our paint.

We also enjoyed sensory play with coloured rice, where we experimented with filling, pouring and scooping. We listened carefully to the sounds of the rice and talked about how it sounded like fireworks crackling.

We have all settled back very well into our new half-term. Next week, we will begin by celebrating Diwali together as we continue to explore special events and festivals that take place at this time of year!

This week at Nursery, we have continued our exploration of Autumn around us. We have enjoyed having a go at some different fine-motor themed activities linked to pumpkins. We learnt that pumpkins are ready to harvest in the Autumn months.

We used our orange playdough to create our own playdough pumpkins! We experimented with tools, our hands and our fingers to pat, press, squeeze and shape our dough.

We looked closely at some real pumpkins to notice what they are like. We thought about the colour, shape and feel of the pumpkins, talking about this together.

We added paint to our pumpkins to experiment with painting on a 3D surface. We enjoyed using our brushes to explore making different marks with paint and practised layering paint onto the pumpkins. We all really enjoyed pumpkin painting and showed wonderful concentration as we used our paintbrushes carefully. We have developed our fine-motor skills this week through different activities whilst having lots of fun together!

This week in 2 Year Old Nursery, we decided to go on a walk to notice the signs of Autumn in the world around us. We walked together as a group, showing our understanding of the importance of staying with our adults to keep safe when walking outside of our setting. We were all very excited to go on a visit to the woodland within our school grounds!

We held our buckets and explored the woodland, looking for signs of the changing season around us. We collected leaves and sticks that caught our eye and interested us, gathering a collection of many colours, shapes and sizes! We showed great excitement and an eagerness to show our friends and adults what we had found!

When we returned to Nursery, we combined our collections in a tuff tray. With great excitement, we explored the different Autumn materials, looking closely to notice all of the things we found. We will continue to learn more about Autumn next week at Nursery by further exploring our natural found resources.

Autumn is all around us and we have really enjoyed noticing the signs in our world this week. You can help your child at home by continuing to go outdoors and noticing where you can see Autumn in the environment together.

This week in 2 Year Old Nursery, we have had lots of fun developing our fine-motor skills through malleable play. We really enjoyed exploring how we can use our hands, fingers and tools to achieve different effects with our playdough.

We really enjoyed sitting alongside one another as we selected different tools and tried them out to see what we could do with them. We enjoyed using cutters, rollers, tweezers and mashers to press, cut and mould our dough. We also had lots of fun using the palms of our hands and our fingers to press, push, pat and squeeze our dough. All of these activities help us to develop strength in our fingers, hands and wrists.

Playdough pizzas, ice-creams and cookies were on the menu in 2 Year Old Nursery this week! We had another settled week at Nursery and had lots of fun exploring our provision together and making friends!

This week at Nursery, we have been busy developing our understanding of maths when busy exploring together! We have enjoyed exploring capacity through sensory play experiences and had lots of fun completing puzzle boards as we identified patterns, sorted and matched.

We noticed where colours and shapes were the same or different when completing puzzles together. We developed our problem-solving skills, spatial reasoning and shape recognition whilst having lots of fun!

We showed a great interest in filling and emptying containers during sensory play experiences this week. Both indoors and out, we used water, mud and sand to develop our knowledge of capacity.

Maths is everywhere and we are learning so much from exploring our own interests in the world around us! We have continued to develop our understanding of routines and form friendships at Nursery. All of the children are settling really well into their key groups and we are very proud of them!

During our first few weeks of term, we have enjoyed settling back in as we welcomed back our returning children and welcomed new friends into our group. We have been very busy exploring our indoor and outdoor provision with the help of our key workers, as well as becoming familiar with our daily routines.

We have enjoyed taking part in settling in sessions with our families, where we were introduced to our key workers and new friends. We decided where we wanted to play and had lots of fun trying out new things with our special people.

When busy outdoors, we have enjoyed making music and experimenting with different ways to move by climbing, running and riding on the tricycles. Some of us enjoyed developing our understanding of the world around us through sand play and by experimenting with chutes and ramps. We also enjoyed sharing stories together in the Book Nook, where together we talked about what we noticed.

We also enjoyed exploring different ways to make marks this week and looking at books linked to our own interests. We showed collaboration when building a small-world safari and had lots of fun experimenting with ways to make water move together. We developed our enjoyment in sensory experiences through bubble play, where we watched the bubbles travel through the air and used our fingers to try and pop them!

We also enjoyed visiting our school orchard and picking apples from our Nursery tree!

What a fantastic start the children have all had! They have all been so busy and showed great confidence in exploring their own interests and the environment around them. Welcome and welcome back to our 2 Year Old Nursery children!