Nursery

The fifth of November! Bonfire Night and fireworks have been our theme this week in EYFS and we could not have been more excited. The children spent time engaging themselves in experiences all around fireworks and bonfires. They used their communication and language skills to discuss their experiences of fireworks and bonfire night (many of them having gone to a display at the weekend) and used drama to role play these out. They used their expressive art and design skills to make a range of fantastic artwork; using paints, carboard, tissue paper and glitter! Take a look at some of their wonderful work below!

The children in reception also had a great experience decorating firework biscuits! They loved using the different primary colours (which many of them found out could be mixed to make other colours!) in icing to add to their biscuit before adding sprinkles and glitter to make it look like a firework!

This week the children in nursery and reception have been all about art, through their themed learning! In nursery, the children explored colours, colour matching and colour sorting. They have used their wonderful mathematics and art knowledge to produce a fantastic colour-matched rainbow for display!

In reception, we have taken our Me, Myself and I learning from body parts last week into our skeletons! We talked all about what our skeleton is and different types of bones (including how to keep them strong). We looked at the book ‘Funny Bones’ and used our art skills to produce cotton bud skeletons and watercoloured images from the story. The children loved their learning!

This week, all the children in reception and nursery have been welcomed to their new classes, new teachers and, for many, their new school. We have spent lots of time learning new routines and settling in to our new environments. Our theme this half term is Me, Myself and I and we focused on ourselves; from our faces to our feelings. We have made self portraits, created name trains and produced emotion plate faces. They have all had a wonderful first week!