Sunday 30 September 2018

Bumblebees are amazing!


This week we have started learning about what makes us special. We talked a lot about the names for different parts of our bodies and how we are the same and different. To help us with our learning, we had a visit from Mr Bones:


Mr Bones showed us the different bones he and we all have in our bodies and taught us the song Dem Bones. On a different day, he sent us 2 parcels to help us learn about our senses and we had a go at listening to different sounds and smelling different fruit to guess what they were. We also felt and smelled different natural materials that Mr Bones found at forest school and talked about their textures.

We learned different songs to help us remember the names of different body parts and played games where we had to use our sense of hearing to guess the animal.


We used our sense of touch to build lots of different models and to count different things on the maths table:



And just look at how fantastic our busy fingers were when we tried to put screws in place, to put hats on little people and to cut out pictures of our favourite fruit!




Outside, we enjoyed mark-making, pretending to be the police and riding bikes, trikes and scooters.


We liked climbing, car chases and, by the end of it all, relaxing with a nice book!











 



Sunday 23 September 2018

Busy Bumblebees


Welcome to Bumblebees Nursery Blog!



The children have had a fantastic start to their first term at Upland! Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and carers for your support. 


Over the first two weeks, the children have been coming in gradually to help aid transition from home to big school. Over this time, they have been getting to grips with the nursery rules and routines including finding their name and choosing a book in the morning, sitting on the carpet to sing and listen to stories, having a snack and a drink and using the toilet and washing their hands independently.

They have also been making their own bumblebees for our display in the cloakroom. 


In addition, they have started getting to know the adults in the classroom and began to make new friends.



The children have been really busy trying out new activities from mark making...




...
...to role play both inside and outside...




...to small world play...

...to working on a building site!


Please keep reading the blog to find out what we will be learning about this term.