Welcome to Nursery 2!

Have a look at what we have been doing.

Earth Week

The first week of the Summer Term was Earth Week. We read lots of stories about looking after our planet. We talked about recycling and sorted the different rubbish. We made beautiful Earth pictures, using dowels to dot paint – our adults were very impressed! We also made some Earth Day crowns to wear. 

Butterflies

We have been watching our caterpillars turn into butterflies. We have been asking questions about what has been happening. We had 4 beautiful butterflies emerge from their chrysalis. After we had let them develop further, we then let them go into our nursery garden – we watched them fly away!

Summer 1 – Why can't I have chocolate for breakfast? Wow! 

We started our topic by talking about our favourite chocolate and what Easter eggs we had been eating. We started to play in our role-play café – we enjoyed being waiters/waitresses and taking orders for the food!

Easter

In the last week of term we celebrated Easter. We learnt about why Easter is celebrated and looked at ways that different people celebrate it. We made some chocolate nests by melting chocolate and mixing it with some Shreddies. They were very yummy!

Spring 2 – Are eggs alive? 

We enjoyed learning about different animals that grow from eggs and what the different baby animals are called. We learnt about Spring and how the flowers and weather change. 

Red Nose Day!

We dressed in red to raise money for Red Nose Day. We also completed different red activities in the classroom.

 Mother's Day

We made some special cards for our mums and talked about why we loved them. We drew lovely pictures of our mums too!

World Book Day!

We brought in our favourite book from home and a small cuddly toy to read the book. Year 6 children came to read our favourite books to us – we enjoyed sharing books with them and different adults too!

 

Spring 2 – Are eggs alive? WOW!

We started the half-term by celebrating Holi and Chinese New Year. We dressed up in Chinese clothes and learnt the Chinese animal story. We did some marble painting to make bunting to celebrate the beautiful colours of Holi.

Our caterpillars and stick insect eggs also arrived for us to watch them grow.

 

Spring 1 – Do Dragons exist?

We enjoyed reading lots of fairy stories about dragons, etc. We learnt about different castles around the World and built some out of bricks.

 

Spring 1 – Do Dragons exist? WOW!

We started our topic with making and decorating dragon eggs – it was fun but a bit messy!

We also started to play in our role-play castle and dressing as princesses and knights.

Christmas!

We walked to the postbox to post our Christmas cards to our family's. It was a bit cold, but we had fun and walked very sensibly along the path. We saw the postman arrive in his van, just as we were leaving.

We made our own Christmas decorations and put them on the VERY BIG Christmas tree in the hall.

We wore Christmas jumpers and designed our own jumpers on paper.

On Thursday 18th December we had our Christmas Lunch – it was very yummy! We sat beautifully at the table and enjoyed wearing our party hats that we had made.

Snow!

We enjoyed playing in the snow! When we came into class, we then had hot chocolate to warm us up.

Autumn 2 – How many colours in a rainbow? 

Each week we focused on a different colour of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and last week we had a purple week (which included indigo and violet.)

We went on a colour walk around school and looked for the different colours of things we could see.

We finished the topic by making a colourful rainbow with Skittles and adding a drop of water.

 

Autumn 2 – How many colours in a rainbow? WOW!

We started our topic by thinking about the different colours of the rainbow and sang a song about them.

We also started to play in our new role play Post Office.

Autumn 1 – How many pebbles on the beach?

We enjoyed our topic about the seaside. We have learnt about different animals in the sea and created them using collage materials. We have also talked about different things that you find at the beach. 

We have talked about Autumn and created our own tree with printed and coloured leaves. We learnt about Harvest and Diwali and did some activities to celebrate these – this included making Diva lamps and making our own vegetable soup.

Autumn Walk

We went on a walk to the bottom of the school field to find some Autumnal objects. We found leaves, sticks, twigs, pine cones and many more things!

Autumn 1 – settling in

We have had a great time settling into Nursery 2.

We have been making new friends and exploring our inside and outside learning areas. We have played with toys that are familiar to us but also toys that are new to us.