Donaldson Class Nursery
Welcome to Donaldson Class!
Hello my lovely Donaldson's
These are our class rules:
We share and take turns.
We walk in nursery.
We keep our nursery tidy.
We play together and we are kind to our friends.
Today we have been painting in the style of Ivey Hayes
We have been working hard on our phonics
We have been having a go at lots of different sports this week.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
We had ice poles to help us cool down after playing tennis.
Friday
BOG BABY IS HOME OUR TRAPS WORKED !!!!
Friday. Today we have been doing lots of maths.
Building our traps.
Thursday. Today is the day we are building a trap to hopefully trap Bog Baby and return him to the Magic Pond.
We are still learning about Bog Baby and have had lots of fun with him this week.
We learnt the Floating and Sinking song to help us when we were scientists to see if Bog Baby floats or sinks in the Magic Pond.
We also learnt our number bond song to 10, this helps us to count on from a number up to 10.
Testing our Bog Babies.
BOG BABY IS MISSING !!!!!!!
On Tuesday we realised one of our Bog Babies was missing. Mrs Kennedy had printed off some photos showing the Bog Baby playing in the nursery. Frankie and Siddy suggested we look on the security cameras to see if anything could be spotted.
We decided to make wanted posters as we needed help to find Bog Baby, we put them up around the school.
Our posters.
We decided to search outside to see if he had left any clues, we used our magnifying glasses to help us.
Searching for clues.
At the end of the session we decided to leave Bog Baby some food and Siddy suggested that Mrs Shelton looked on Facebook to see if that would help find him.
On Wednesday Mrs Shelton told us that she had searched on Facebook and found Bog Baby, he had changed his name to Bog Baby Bill. He said that he was happy but wasn't coming back yet. We discovered that all the food we had left out was gone. Mrs Shelton printed off the photos that she had found and we looked to see if he was still there.
We searched for clues outside in the garden.
After we had finished finding all the clues we decided we needed a plan to try and catch him, so on Thursday we are going to build a trap to try and catch him.
Our ideas.
Term 6
This term our topic is water. Our first book is 'The Bog Baby' by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward.
We have been Maths Wizards today !
We have been painting, drawing, playing with playdough and playing outside.
We have been talking about our Bog Babies.
We made a magical pond for our Bog Babies.
We have been so busy this week doing lots of different activities with our Bog Babies. We hope to see some more of our friends next week.
Monday 1st June our first day back. We were so pleased to see some of our friends. We were busy building Bog Babys and playing with the toys.
Making Bog Babies.
Our first afternoon back.
​​​​​​​Information for Parents
Story time
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Check out this great advice from our favourite Julia Donaldson characters!
Coronavirus explained to children
If your child is feeling worried about returning to school after Lockdown have a look at our resources below.
Home learning for Summer Term 6.
Home Learning for Nursery children
Story Time!
Topic Web - Summer Term 1 - Rhyming
Nursery - Learning for Summer Term 1
A Day in The Life at Nursery.
Come and Play in our Early Years Foundation Stage
Our outdoor classroom is as important as the indoor classroom..
Topic webs for September 2019- July 2020
Long term plans for EYFS 2019-2020
Term 4
This term our topic is 'minibeasts'. We are looking at 3 books this term, 'The Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle, 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson and 'What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday' also by Julia Donaldson.
We have had a fantastic last day at Nursery. We have played games, sung songs, made cakes and made fabulous Easter Hats. We hope to see everyone soon. Stay safe and remember you are all *Superstars*.
We are fabulous singers and should all be on X Factor !
Having a go at Kids Zumba from youtube. We were all fantastic at it.
Then we all cooled down and relaxed !
We had a great afternoon in Nursery. We hope to see you all soon.
We have painted lots of different butterflies.
We hunted for minibeasts in our garden.
On Tuesday we celebrated 'Holi' The Festival of Colour. We learnt dances and finished our day by dancing to our parents and used power paints to share happiness.
Our fantastic Bollywood dancing.
Bollywood Dancing
Bollywood Dancing
Bollywood Dancing
Bollywood Dancing
We have ducks in Our Reception Class, we have been lucky enough to see and hold them.
Story Trays for World Book Day
Thursday 5th March was World Book Day. We came to nursery dressed as different characters.
We have been doing lots of 'Funky Finger' activities to help with our writing.
We have made lots of different minibeasts.
Term 3
This term our topic is 'Routines'. We are looking at 2 books this term 'Cave Baby' by Julia Donaldson and 'Peace at Last' by Jill Murphy.
Today 13th February is 'Growth Make a Diffrence Day'. We have had a pamper day in nursery looking after the chldren's well being.
Morning children enjoying their pampering.
Then it was the turn of the afternoon children.
Today 7th February was Number Day. We had lots of challenges set up for the children to enjoy.
Number Day. Morning children.
Number Day. Afternoon children.
We had an aeroplane throwing competition, Betsy won the morning her plane reached number 18 and Ayodele won in the afternoon also reaching number 18.
We talked about what furniture fitted in which room.
We found sounds to match our story 'Peace At Last'.
We measured a life size dinosaur using children.
We have been archaeologists searhing for bones and fossils.
We are great artists in Nursey !
'Cave Baby' by Julia Donaldson. We have been very busy since we came back after Christmas. We have made caves, made dinosaur footprints, done cave paintings, made fossils and bones using clay and we were Archaeologists searching for bones and fossils.
Term 2
This term we are learning about traditional tales.
We have been reading 'The Enormous Turnip', 'Goldilocks and The Three Bears' and 'The Three Little Pigs'.
We have had lots of fun with paint and glitter getting ready for christmas.
Christmas dinner day.
Christmas is arriving in Nursery.
We have had a fantastic maths challenge this week.
Growth Day - Make a Difference 2019. We had great day, we went for a walk and collected rubbish, this helps to keep our enviroment clean. We talked about things that make us happy and what things are good for us. We did finger painting and planted cress seeds. To finish our day we did some mindful stretching.
We are reading about 'The 3 Little Pigs'. We have made playdough pigs and built houses for them to live in.
We played a fantastic phonics game today.
We acted out Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we made beds for baby bear, made playdough bears and painted lots of bears. We tried porridge with different flavours in.
