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.
Information for Parents
Home Learning for School Closure
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.
We made a giant poppy using hand prints for Remberence Day.
Today we made vegetabe soup for our snack time. The morning children cut all their own vegetables up using the knives carefully.
The afternoon children made soup for their snack.
We made Autumn leaf pictures.
This week we have been celebrating Diwali, we have had Mendhi patterns painted on our hands and we have done lots of Rangoli Patterns using rice, paint and even using the interactive white board. We have been very busy.
Morning children celebrating Diwali.
The afternoon childrens Diwali activities.
Term 1
This term we are learning about prepositions.
We have been reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'.
We have been practising our cutting skills.
We have been reading Rosie's Walk and learning more about prepositions and about the animals that live on a farm.
'We're going on a bear hunt'
Swishing through the grass
On our way back home
Back through the grass
Splashing through the water
Splash through the water
Squelching through the mud
Through the mud
Stumbling through the forest
Freezing in the snow
Through the snow storm
Oh no its a cave !
What's in the cave?
Who can it be ?
Two big fury ears
Today the morning children learnt Bollywood Dancing.
Morning children Bollywood Dancing.
Bollywood dancing
Bollywood dancing with the afternoon childen and reception.
Bollywood dancing.
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