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.

What is age expected in the Early Years Foundation Stage.docx

A Day in The Life at Nursery.

a day in the life of Nursery.pdf

Children learn in many different ways, this is known as the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning'.

Have a look at our outside area

Please look at our video resource page for a video to look around our garden.

Come and Play in our Early Years Foundation Stage

Lots of our activities are set up using tuff trays, here are some examples of ones we have used.

Developing gross motor skills are very important, as children need to master these skills to help them to write and form letters. These muscles are developed by encouraging the children to take part in physical activities, such as climbing, balancing, dancing and crawling.

In nursery we do lots of 'Funky Finger' activities, this helps the children with their fine motor skills. These activities help the children to develop the muscles in their fingers, which will help the children develop their writing skills.

We are having a new nursery built and we have enjoyed watching the builders and playing in our construction area.

The inside of our new nursery is coming along nicely

We are fantastic builders in Nursery

We are becoming expert builders in Nursery

Nahum and Kalli are really good at mixing the cement

Take a look at our video resource page to see Orla's expert building skills

Nursery - Long Term Planning

Long Term Plan N&R - Sept 2021.docx

Water - Summer 2 - 2022.pub

Summer Term 2

This term our topic is water. the first book we are reading is 'Bog Baby' by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward.

This week we have been painting in the style of Ivey Hayes

First we painted the paper blue for the sea then we added the fish, rocks and plants

Our beautiful finished pictures

Our book 'Bog Baby'

Our Bog Babies

We made 'Bog Babies' using blue playdough and different materials for arms, legs, tails and eyes.

Then we made the 'Bog Baby' its own house

Our finished 'Bog Baby' all safe in its home

Summer Term 1

Rhyming - Summer 1 - 2022.pub

This term we are hoping to grow fruit and vegetables in our garden and hoping the weather is kind to us and the grass will grow in our new areas.

We are reading 'What The Ladybird Heard' and 'The Gruffalo' both by our favourite author Julia Donaldson.

Nursery has also been getting ready to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee by making cakes from playdough, making crown and flags and learning a song to sing with the whole school on our celecbration day.

Jubilee Day ! We enjoyed our day playing party games, dancing and singing along to our Jubilee song, 'Here's To The Queen'

'Here's To The Queen'

'Here's To The Queen' Afternoon children

Making flags to wave on Friday

Making our lovely crowns, we had to use our fine motor skills to stick the crowns on

Making cakes for the Queen using playdough

We really enjoyed volleyball today

Look how much we enjoyed volleyball, we had an elephant race

We had animal races

Today we have lots of fun playing in our new sand pit it's so big we can play with lots of things and reception can play with us as well.

We have had lots of fun building farms, acting out our story and playing in the garden

We used the falling blossom to make potions

We used our listening ears to hear sounds in our enviroment

We painted in the style of Yayoi Kusama, using spots and dots

Spring - Term 2

Growing - Spring 2 - 2022.pub

We have been enjoying the story 'The Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle and 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileen Browne'. We have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly, how to eat healthily and lots of different mini beasts.

Please look on the video resource page for a video about our trip to Africa.

We really enjoyed learning Bollywood dancing today.

Morning children enjoying their dancing

Morning children

Fabulous Lola and Oscar

We were fantastic at dancing !

Our lovely afternoon children enjoying Bollywood dancing

Lovely Isla-Blue from our 2 year old room really enjoyed the dancing

Our afternoon children

We had a really fun time

Today was World Book Day, we came to Nursery dressed in our pyjamas and listened to lots of different stories.

Spring Term 1

This term we are learning about Dinosaurs. The first book we are reading is 'Cave Baby' written by our favourite author Julia Donaldson.

Today was the last day of term and we had a 'Growth Day', we have listened to different music, taken part in volley ball and painted in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.

Volley Ball

More volley ball

Volley Ball games

Morning Volley Ball

Afternoon children

Afternoon children volley ball

Afternoon volley ball games

We have had lots of fun today it was Maths Day, we have learnt about odd and even numbers.

We painted like Cavemen using leaves, twigs and grass as paint brushes.

Our fabulous artist's and pictures

Autumn Term 2

Traditional Stories Autumn 2 - 2021.pub

This term we are learning about Traditional Stories. The books we are reading are 'The Enormous Turnip', 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and 'The Three Little Pigs'.

We really enjoyed our Christmas dinner wearing our Christmas jumpers

We had a lovely relaxing pamper day

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Nursery

We have been learning about numbers that make 5. These are our numbers bonds to 5

We have a been having a go at really tricky maths this week. We had to work out if a number was bigger than or smaller than a given number. We were fantastic at it.

We all pretended to be Goldilocks, we made porridge and added different flavours to it and then decided which was the best flavour.

To celebrate Diwali this year we talked about and did symmetrical painting and we made Diva Lamps

We made a poppy using red handprints for Remembrance Sunday.

Our finished poppy

We enjoyed making firework pictures using a cardboard tube

Today we made vegetable soup. This is what we used to make our soup.

Chopping the vegetables

Then we put the chopped vegetables and the stock into the soup maker to cook.

We then had lovely vegetable soup for our snack

Autumn Term 1

Prepositions Autumn 1 - 2021.pub

This term we are learning about prepositions. One of the books we are reading is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen. We have also been looking at Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.