Donaldson Class Nursery
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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.
A Day in The Life at Nursery.
Nursery Staff
Long Term Planning 2020-2021
Today we said goodbye and good luck to our children who are starting Reception in September. Please see our video resource page for our videos.
Summer 2 : Topic - Water
This term we are exploring water. The first book we are looking at is 'The Bog Baby' by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Milward.
Our new book is ' Tiddler ' by our favourite author Julia Donaldson
This week is sports week, everyday we will be doing different sports
Thursday Hockey and archery
Wednesday Tennis and table tennis
Playing tennis Sianna, Aaron, Myla-Rae and Dexter
Having a go at table tennis Dexter and Priscilla
Tuesday long jump, high jump and curling
Monday - javelin, discuss and shot putt and golf
Today we came dressed in red and blue to support England on Sunday, Mrs Kelly painted England flags on our faces ! 'Come on England !'
We have been looking at lots of books together
Our boys really enjoy using the whiteboards to do their writing
After reading our story the afternoon children asked how the diver in the story could write underwater. We wasn't sure of the answer so we decided to do an experiment to see if we could find out how she did it.
We googled it to see if that gave us any ideas, then we were ready for the challenge!
So then we decided we would have to try and find out for ourselves. First we had to choose if we wanted to use a whiteboard or paper, then we picked what we would like to write with.
Then Mrs Shelton filled some trays with water and we all had a go to see if what we had chosen would work
We found out that the paper went soggy and ripped and nothing would work on the whiteboards, however the chalk worked for a little bit before the paper ripped.
As the chalk worked a little bit we decided to use a blackboard so Isabelle gave it a go
It worked so we all had a go and some of us wrote our names
Maddi and Nellie-Rae looking at our story.
We picked our first crop of strawberries and we will enjoy them at snack time
We made our own ' Magic Pond '
Today we predicted if our Bog Babies would float or sink. We also talked about different materials and what our Bog Babies were made of.
We have painted Bog Baby pictures in the style of our artist Ivy Hayes
Our Pictures
We talked about how to clean our teeth and how to keep them healthy
We made and painted our own Bog Babies using salt dough and we added eyes, a tail and arms, then we painted them blue.
We have made the most of the sunshine and played outside with lots of water
Summer 1 : Topic - Growing
Today has been 'Growth Day', we have been doing activities to help look after ourselves and things that make us happy. We have danced, done Mindful Stretching, painted in the style of our artist Yayoi Kusama, checked on how our flowers and vegetables are growing and enjoyed playing in the sunshine.
How are flowers and vegetable are growing.
We were great at dancing
Enjoying our Mindful Stretching
Our artist Yayoi Kusama
Our pictures
We had a fantastic Math's Day with lots of different activities inside and outside in the garden.
Our latest book is 'The Gruffalo' by our favourite author Julia Donaldson. Dexter really enjoys this story.
We made a giant Gruffalo and sponged painted him brown, then we added purple prickles, orange eyes, a black tongue, and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose.
We had chocolate smelling playdough to make our Gruffalo's.
We have made the characters from our story. Repeating pattern snakes, Gruffalos, the mouse and we used 2d shapes to make the fox.
Our first book this term is 'What the Ladybird Heard' written by our favourite author Julia Donaldson.
Our outside tuff trays all about our story
We had a go at writing labels for our animals from the story
We have planted Spring Onions, Parsley, Basil, Chives and Garlic Chives in our allotment
Spring 2: Topic - The Garden
We really enjoyed trying out the new trim trail in the playground
Great balancing Emelia
Tianna and Maddi
Jimmy and Aaron
Freddie was our expert climber !
The afternoon children had a great time
Our second book this term is 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileene Browne.
We have been learning about odd and even numbers.
We have be doing fabulous phonics listening for initial sounds of the animals from our story.
We tried to balance a basket of food on our heads like Handa and we made baskets using purple playdough.
Our first book this term is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle.
We used natural materials to make pictures of mini beasts.
We made a special butterfly card for our mums.
We have been learning about repeating patterns and we can even correct patterns when they are wrong.
We have been exploring mini beasts and recording our findings.
Emelia made a fantasic caterpillar using play dough.
We made caterpillar names.
We enjoy maths in lots of different ways.
We have fantastic artists in Nursery
Spring 1: Topic - Routines
Our Nursery garden looked like this today.
We had lots of fun playing in the snow, then we had hot chocolate to warm us up.
We made a snow mouse
Aaron and Sianna making snowballs.
Sianna and Oscar had lots of fun.
Harry, Maddi and Oscar having fun in the snow.
The afternoon children really enjoyed the snow.
Freddie and Amber having lots of fun.
Freddie and Mrs Shelton
We really enjoyed ourselves today.
This weeks story 'Peace at Last' by Jill Murphy
