April

We have been learning all about wild animals, the noises they make, different patterns and their features. We have been on safari and wild animal searches. We have practised our cutting and mark making skills, making wild animals.

We have been 'under and over,' outside; we had great fun exploring the tunnel and balancing over obstacles.
 

We have been very musical. We have been learning about different instruments, the sounds they make and how to play them. We have been busy singing and dancing in our theatre.
 

We enjoyed the Easter holidays and completed a reading challenge. If we read 10 books, we got a McMillan bookmark! Well done to everyone who completed the challenge.

March 

In March, our Core Story was ‘The Three Little Pigs' which ran alongside our predicted interest of 'Can we Build it?' We enjoyed building the different houses the pigs lived in and then used them to retell the story. We also made other buildings in our creative workshop area and in the construction area and looked at different ways we could join i.e. with shaving foam! At the end of the theme, we put all our houses we had made, together, to make a McMillan Street! We made dens up in Wonderful Woodlands and had so much fun, we made lots of dens in nursery too.

We celebrated ‘World Book Day’ and dressed up as our favourite characters. We enjoyed reading and talking about our favourite books together, in our Key Person groups. Story Pebbles were hidden around the community. If we found one on our way to/from Nursery, we got a medal. We also enjoyed painting our own story stones.

We have been learning about dissolving in our solids and liquids tray. We were very interested in making the solids disappear in a liquid!
Our Masterclass this half term was Dance. Pendle Academy of Dance and Performing Arts came to nursery to teach us Bop Tots. It was great fun.
Throughout Ramadan, we collected food for families in need. We visited 'Curry on the Street' to give our food parcels. We had an Eid celebration in our home corner, and we sent Eid cards home to our families.

We have been spinning and jumping too, on some new outdoor equipment.

Since our clay potter visit, we have really enjoyed experimenting with a range of tools in the malleable area. We have used clay, salt dough and play dough.
We ended the term with a 'Wonderful Woodland Stay and Play'. We enjoyed completing Easter activities and had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny!

February 

In February we celebrated the Chinese New Year. We went on a Chinese New Year Hunt and used our cutting and sticking skills to make Chinese Lanterns. Together, we made a dragon which we used in our Dragon Dance parade. We tried to eat noodles with a fork!

Our predicted interest was 'People Who Help Us.' The police came to visit and showed us their police car. We enjoyed playing at doctors in our role play corner and then we had a rescue centre. We were window cleaners and cleaned our windows making our shoulder muscles stronger. We even put out fires. We helped a lot of people!

In Wonderful Woodlands we got a new climbing wall. It was a great challenge and took a lot of courage to climb along it.

Our snack skill was cutting. We practised cutting lots of different fruits and vegetables for our snack table.

We also got some new bikes; we learnt how to ride them and follow the road around the playground. We had a fuelling station and zebra crossing where we had to stop.

January 

In January, we learnt all about Winter and the weather. We had great fun exploring the snow. We made some ice decorations and enjoyed sledging. In Woodlands we made some bird feeders so the birds wouldn't go hungry over the Winter months.

We enjoyed our Goldilocks and the 3 Bears theme. We made and tasted porridge, loved reading the book and dressing up as characters and retelling the story. We learnt about size, small, medium and large and made beds and a house for Goldilocks and the Bears to live in.
Our Masterclass was Art We read the book The Dot by Peter H Reynolds and worked in the style of the artist Yayoi Kusama. We used a variety of medium for our art, including watercolours. The Clay Potter also came to visit. We worked with clay and even used the Potter's Wheel.

We have been bare foot playing and feeling different sensory materials with our feet.

December

We have been very busy in December! Mr Pilkington brought his campervan into Nursery to show us and celebrate our transport predicted interest. We were amazed how much fitted into such a small space.

In Wonderful Woodlands, we have been reading the Gruffalo and doing Gruffalo activities. ‘Little Zoo’ came to visit us and showed us all the animals from the story. We were very brave and gentle, and stroked all the animals.

We learnt about Advent and Christmas traditions. We made Christmas cards and decorations, practising our sticking and cutting skills. We went on a walk and posted our cards in the post box. We also learnt all about road safety on our way and how to use a zebra crossing. Outside, we went on a bauble hunt and have been singing and dancing along to Christmas songs. We even made a sleigh for Santa who got stuck up the chimney!
 

We had a Christmas Crafts and Carols session with our families. We made some Christmas crafts together and had a Christmas sing-along. We showcased our Bell Ringing Master Class.

We had a Christmas Party and played lots of party games including pass the parcel. Father Christmas and his little Elf came to visit us and gave us all a present; the Gruffalo book which we loved so much from Wonderful Woodlands and the Little Zoo visit.

We are still looking after our plants in Key Person time. Miss Athena comes to check that we are watering them and to see how well they are growing.
 

We have been practising our pouring skills at snack time. We are getting very efficient at pouring our own water now!

We have loved playing with the shaving foam in our solids and liquids tray. Oh, what fun!

November

In November we learnt about a range of festivals and traditions such as Bonfire and Remembrance.

We also enjoyed our transport theme, learning about different types of transport and the noises they make. We did a transport survey looking at the different vehicles that pass nursery and went hunting for cars. We even had a campervan visit nursery! We practised our creative skills by making transport colleges and trains for us to role play in. We made tyre tracks on large paper. We used our construction skills to make different vehicles. We enjoyed playing with airports, garages and trains in our small world aera. We used our gross motor skills to wash real cars and ride our bikes and scooters around the road we made.

We have been enjoying the rainy weather and exploring this natural phenomenon with umbrellas. We learnt the poem ‘Breezy Weather’.

We have been learning about shapes and done lots of shapes activities, jigsaws and making shapes in the sand.

Some children started heuristic play - we made lots of creations from household materials.

October

In October we learnt about Autumn; what happens to the trees and the weather, woodland animals and berries and fruit that grow at Autumn time. We went on an Autumn walk and made a woodlands fruit crumble. Flint and Matilda the Owls came to visit us. Flint sat on our hand and Matilda waved to us. She was just like Mummy Owl from our Core Story, the Owl Babies.  

Our parents came for a 'Stay and Play'. we enjoyed playing with them in  Nursery.

In social snack time, we learnt how to cut up fruit and peel lids of our milk and yoghurts.

We started our Music Master Class, we have been learning how to bell ring.   

Our skill of the half term was to put on and fasten up our own coats. We did very well at this. 

We enjoyed lots of spooky activities at Halloween and dressing up too.  

September

In September we got to know the nursery environment and each other. We enjoyed learning how to use all the areas in continuous provision. We were learnt how to use glue and tape to join and how to cut with scissors. We experimented with different tools in the malleable area.

We learnt 'All about Me,' naming face and body parts. We enjoyed painting a self-portrait and making faces out of playdough.

Mr Pilkington, a sports coach came to teach us balance and ball skills in our Sports Masterclass.

The Farm was our predicted interest, we learnt about different farm animals and the sounds they make. We re-enacted Farmer Duck our core story.  

July

In July, we invited our parents to our mini-Olympics. We did lots of sporting activities including football, egg and spoon and basketball. We all won a trophy and had an ice pop to cool us down after our energetic work out!

We continued to love to build, after our ‘Can you Build it?’ theme last month. We made some super constructions.

This month we had our ‘Summer, Beach and Pirate’ theme. We enjoyed making up stories about pirates and even went on a treasure hunt!

Elsa and Anna, the donkeys came to visit, and we all had a ride on them. We were all very brave and the donkey’s loved to be stroked. Then we had our beach party, and we did lots of beach activities. Finally, Captain Blue the Pirate and Fidget Fairy joined us, and we played lots of games together and had lots of end of term fun!

June

We couldn’t believe how much the fruit and vegetables in our allotment, had grown over the holidays. We were ready to harvest. We dug up the vegetables and picked the fruit. We washed and prepared the fruit and vegetables and ate them at snack time. They tasted delicious, especially the strawberries.

 Our theme this month was ‘Can we Build it?’ We read the traditional tale, ‘The 3 Little Pigs.’ We built houses made from straw, bricks and sticks. In our Woodland area, we had great fun building dens.

Our Masterclass this half term was Dance. We had a dance teacher from Pendle Academy of Dance and Performing Arts who taught us how to dance.

The Superheroes arrived at our writing table this month to help us with our writing.

We had a special visitor too, an historian. She told us what toys she used to play with a long, long time ago. We all found it very interesting and asked lots of questions.

May

In our Great Outdoors Theme, we went on a discovery walk around our local area. We followed a map! We found shops, a mosque, a church, a bridge, a train and bus station and lots more. Shark in the Park was our core story and we enjoyed making lots of park constructions and paintings. 

Now the weather is getting nicer, we have really enjoyed performing in our outdoor theatre. 

We have been very busy in Wonderful Woodlands. Poor Woody (our Woodland Mascot) got stuck in a tree. We had to problem solve to save him. We learnt how to use a hand drill to make decorations and invesitgated the different flowers growing in our Woodland area.

We got a new Chatter Box Cube for us to read and talk in with our friends.