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.
A Day in The Life at Nursery.
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
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.
We painted like Cavemen using leaves, twigs and grass as paint brushes.
Our fabulous artist's and pictures
Autumn Term 2
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
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.
We made fabulous Bear Hunt maps.
Have a look on the video resource page for a video of our Bear Hunt.
We have been on a Bear Hunt today, searching for bears in our garden
Going through the grass
Through the water
Stumble trip, stumble trip
It was cold through the snow
We found a cave
The afternoon children went through the water
Through the forest
We needed hats and scarves for the snow
We found a cave
We made it safely back home
Today we took part in Bollywood Dancing, we were fantastic !
Bollywood dancing
Morning children dancing
Morning children
Morning children
Morning children
Morning children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon children
Afternoon childen
Afternoon children
Today was the grand opening of our Pizza Shop. We really enjoyed serving pizzas to our friends.
We enjoyed making 'Rainbow Toast' this week, we used food colouring and milk to paint our bread then we toasted it.
Today we made pizzas in preparation of the grand opening of our 'Pizza Shop' on Friday 17th September 2021. These are the things we used to make our pizzas.
It was great fun making and cooking pizzas and even better to eat them.
We have really enjoyed being back at Nursery with our friends.
Story time
If you would like to hear Mrs Shelton reading stories, please click on menu, then children, then video resource centre, under nursery you see her stories!