This morning there were still 10 eggs in the incubator when we arrived in Nursery...

But during the morning the children got to see the first chick hatch out of it's egg! It took a long time to peck it's way out of it's shell, but finally the little yellow (boy) chick flopped out, exhausted after all his hard work. He was very sleepy and wet all over. During the morning he slept, woke up and strutted around cheeping, then slept again. He slowly started to dry off and fluff up. Nursery children now have the job of deciding on a name for this first chick.

In the afternoon, more chicks began to hatch - second was a brown girl chick and Willow class got to see the third chick hatch (another yellow, boy chick).  Other classes also visited too during the afternoon, hoping to see  more chicks hatch...

How many chicks will nursery class find in the incubator when they arrive tomorrow morning?

Nursery celebrated a snowy 'World Book Day' by dressing up as book characters. They enjoyed hearing stories and sharing their favourite books. At the end of the morning they presented their 'Fantastic Finish' assembly to their family and friends. It included a selection of songs, story-telling, rhymes and dances to stories we have looked at this academic year (so far) in Nursery. They ended their performance by acting out the story of 'The Gingerbread Man', and then we all enjoyed eating a gingerbread man! The children took home book vouchers, stickers and a gingerbread man bookmark to colour in. Well done Nursery :-)

Nursery News & Weather!

This second half of the autumn term has been very busy. In Nursery the children started with learning about holidays and airplanes - we made a role play airport. They then moved on to finding out about rockets, space and planets - they made model rockets from junk modelling, found out about how astronauts train and then they learnt about the 8 planets in our solar system. (The role play area has been adapted now to launch rockets too!) We made special pictures for the gallery that are space themed - look out for these at our open evening on Wednesday 29th November...

Last week we looked as a whole school at the story of 'Goldilocks and the 3 Bears' - we acted out the story and sorted items into 'big - small - tiny' sets. Now our focus is on our show, 'the First Christmas' -  we are practising and preparing for our Early Years prerformance at the beginning of December.

All the new Nursery children have now started at Roebuck Academy and are settling in really well. The children have enjoyed their first few days, meeting and making new friends, learning the routines and joining in group activities. In these first few weeks our learning is focussed on 'Ourselves'. The children have looked at and painted pictures of their face, they have drawn pictures of themselves, painted hand prints and learnt many new songs about their bodies. They have joined in with school assembly and joined in with PE. Well done Nursery and a warm welcome to all your families too.

Nursery really enjoyed the whole school themed week last week on 'Aspirations'. Tony (cruise ship childrens entertainment), Kate (vicar) and Lacymai's Mum (Manager of an after school club) told us about their jobs. The children looked fantastic (see photo) when they dressed up on Wednesday - they talked about the different jobs they might like to do when they grow up. Sophie H won our class talent competition - then Sophie and her friends (Fabiola, Freya, Amelia, Bonni and Jazmin) lit up the school talent show (which they were overall Early Years winners of) with their dance routine to Katy Perry's 'Firework' song. The children have also recorded their ideas and painted pictures of themselves in their chosen career.