This week in Nursery we have been thinking all about bonfire night and fireworks. We have been counting down how many sleeps until the 5^th of November as lots of us are going to see the fireworks. We started the week by reading the story ‘Sparks in the Sky’ and then we thought about some words that describe them. We came up with ‘bright’, ‘bang’, ‘zoom’ and ‘whizz’.

We have learned all about how to be safe around fireworks such as how we should wear gloves when using sparklers and to stay a safe distance from any lit fireworks.

We have been really creative and made our very own sparkly firework pictures and we have also been making marks in glitter with our fingers and paintbrushes.

This week in Nursery we have been reading the story Owl Babies and taken part in lots of activities. We have been using our busy fingers to twist pipe cleaners around sticks, to mark make our own owl babies and re-telling to story using puppets. We also got creative and made owl babies using different types of materials with different textures.

We are really beginning to settle into our life at Roebuck Academy and enjoying making friends and working together.

In Nursery’s Geography week we have been exploring our outside area and looking at the environment around us. We started the week with reading a book all about different mini beasts, and then we went on a bug hunt. We found lots of different creatures including woodlice, spiders and a snail.

We also learned all about British birds such as the robin, woodpecker and blue tit. We thought about what they need to survive and then made our very own bird feeders using a pine cone, lard and bird seed.

We also looked at some pictures of some natural art which was made using different natural objects such as leaves, stones and sticks. Then we had a go at making some ourselves.

We used our senses to go on a senses walk and looked through a ‘viewfinder’. We talked about what we could see and described things in our environment.

We finished our very busy week with a ‘teddy bear’s picnic’. We got to decorate a biscuit and then ate them in our outdoor area with our teddies.

This week in Nursery we have been reading the story ‘Romp in the swamp’ and we have been searching for dinosaurs in our Nursery garden.

We have been mark making in the paint using the dinosaur’s feet. The children have been measuring the dinosaurs using non-standard units of measure, such as the duplo blocks, and practising to write the numbers onto the whiteboards.

We have been using our gross motor skills to help us build a dinosaur cave using the crates and a cargo net. The children have also enjoyed acting out the narrative from the story in our very own dinosaur swamp.

The children have been busy being palaeontologists, digging up dinosaurs, their bones and fossils in the sandpit. They were very excited to dig up a dinosaur and match it to the correct name.

This week we have introduced the children to our key question ‘How does your garden grow?’ The children were really curious to see the giant beanstalk and giant feet in our role play on the first day of term. Lots of them guessed correctly that our focus story of this week is Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have been busy acting out the story in the role and using the puppets outside. They have also been making and describing their own beanstalks using different resources such as duplo, junk modelling and megablocks in the water tray. They have also been taking on the challenge to count out the correct number of magic beans. This has been tricky as the children have had to use their fine motor skills and mathematical knowledge.