Kassie Collette | Holbeach Blog

Making Memories in the Nursery

Here are some pictures of the last couple of weeks at nursery, including our bubble party and leavers picnic.

What a fun year we have had! Thank you for all of our cards and gifts.

Have a lovely Summer! X

Culture Week in the Nursery

Nursery have been learning about Portugal.

We tasted ‘Pasteis de nata,’ a delicious custard tart.

We learnt about Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese football player.

Samuel’s mum taught us some Portuguese words.

Everyone’s traditional clothes looked fabulous!

We tried lots of different foods on the special plates that we had made.

It’s been a lovely week. Tell your family something you have learnt. Can you remember any Portuguese words?

Nursery are Butterfly Experts

We have been carefully watching the lifecycle of a butterfly and today we released them into our garden.

They started small but quickly grew bigger.

We have made some beautiful butterfly art work and learnt about symmetry.

Can you tell your family something you have learnt about butterflies?

Nursery celebrate the King’s Coronation

The nursery children have been learning about King Charles 111 and enjoyed a celebratory lunch.

We decorated biscuits like a Union Jack flag.

The children have been enjoying their school dinners and have been very independent.

We have been practising using a knife and fork and trying to cut our own food. Try this at home!

Mr Bulpitt read us the story of the King’s Pants!

Nursery celebrate World Book Day

Everyone enjoyed showing off their costumes for World Book Day.

We became Authors for the day and made up our own stories!

Remember to read books at home every day. Bedtime is the perfect time to listen to a story and wind down after a long day.

You can borrow books from nursery as often as you want.

Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

The nursery children have been enjoying the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes.’

The children recognised lots of familiar characters in the story from our Fairy tales topic and learnt some new character’s such as Wee Willie Winkie and Chicken Licken.

We learnt a new rhyme.

Listen to the rhyme at home. Can you remember the words?

We made shopping lists for the correct ingredients to make pancakes. Can you remember what we needed to make the batter?

Did you make pancakes at home? Send photos to nursery@holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk

Nursery – The Gingerbread Man

The nursery children have been enjoying the story of The Gingerbread Man.

Enjoy the story at home with your family.

Snowy Festive Fun

Here are some pictures of our Christmas themed learning over the past two weeks. The snow was a wonderful added bonus!

Well done to all of the children who performed in the Christmas show today! The staff were all very proud of the children. Please send any photos you took to nursery@holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk

I hope all of the children who are poorly get well soon.

Also, thanks for all of our lovely Christmas cards and gifts. Happy holidays to all.

Nursery – We’re going on a Bear Hunt

The nursery have been enjoying the Bear Hunt story and have been immersed in lots of new language.

Here is some of the learning in action.

We made long wavy grass and practiced our scissor skills.

Tomorrow we are going on a bear hunt around the school. I wonder how many bears we will find?

Listen to the story at home. Can your child join in with the repeated parts of the story?

The nursery have been celebrating this special week by learning some new songs and acting them out. Nursery Rhymes are so important for speech and language development and are part of the first phase of learning phonics.

Research shows that If children know 8 nursery rhymes by heart by the time they are 4 years old, they are usually among the best readers and spellers in their class by the time they are 8”. (Megan Fox, Reading Magic)

Here are some pictures from the past week.