Nursery Blog
Friday 4th April
Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who came along to Stay and Play this week. We have really enjoyed making lots of different Easter crafts with you. We finished the week off with an Easter egg hunt in the sunshine this morning.
Egg hunt
Monday 31st March
We have done such a brilliant job of looking after our beans! We made sure they had enough water and sunlight. We have now taken them home to repot and to see how tall they can grow.
Beans
Friday 21st March
We have made the most of the beautiful weather this week and spent lots of time outside. The children have been helping us with digging, moving soil and collecting stones as we try to develop our mud kitchen area. It is already looking so much better and the children have really enjoyed making potions and cooking each other dinner at our mud restaurant.
Mud kitchen
Friday 14th March
Run, run as fast as you can! We have had so much fun learning about The Gingerbread Man this week. We decorated our own delicious Gingerbread Men, had running races to see how fast we could run and painted the most amazing Gingerbread Men which are now on display in the classroom.
Gingerbread Men
Friday 7th March
Happy World Book Day! Everybody looked absolutely fantastic. We had tigers, princesses, superheroes and lots more. We went up to the hall for our first ever assembly and had a visit from Bookman in our class.
World Book Day
Friday 7th March
It has been so much fun turning Apple Class into a disco every day this week! We have learnt new dances, including Agadoo, the Macarena and the Superman song. We made disco balls and party hats to make our discos even more fun. We also explored different fruits-making fruit kebabs and peeling and chopping our own bananas.
Kitchen disco
Friday 28th February
Our learning this week has been based around Jack and the Beanstalk. Today we planted our own beans that we will look after in school. We found out about what plants need to be able to grow. We are excited to see how tall our beanstalks will grow!
Planting beans
Wednesday 12th February
In our Jigsaw PSHE lesson, we talked about different jobs. We talked about the jobs some of our parents do and thought about what we might like to do when we grow up.
We had lots of fun dressing up and pretending to do lots of different jobs, including doctors, police, knights, princesses, hairdressers and vets.
Thursday 6th February
We used shapes to make some amazing pictures of witches. We talked about the names of the different shapes and decided which shapes would work well for the different parts of the witch's face and body.
Friday 31st January
We have really enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year this week. 2025 is the Year of the Snake. We made paper chain snakes and red Chinese lanterns. We found out about how people celebrate the new year and found out that we were born in either the Year of the Rat or the Year of the Ox.
Our favourite activity this week was trying lots of delicious Chinese food! We tried noodles, rice and prawn crackers. We wrote our names under our favourite food. Prawn crackers were definitely the winner!
Chinese New Year
Friday 24th January
We have been looking at different ways of representing numbers to 5. We have used our fingers, claps, jumps and objects to show each number. In Busy Fingers, we worked hard to recognise each number and then build a tower with the correct amount of cubes.
Wednesday 8th January
We were all very excited to see some proper snow as we came into school today! We had lots of fun exploring the snow...seeing our footprints, building tiny snowmen and making snowballs. We also enjoyed exploring the ice that we found in the Nursery garden.
Chinese New Year
Wednesday 18th December
Apple Class had so much fun celebrating Christmas together. We put on an amazing Christmas play, had fun at the Christmas Fayre and even had a special Christmas Lunch Club. Thank you to all of the parents who attended our Stay and Play and made beautiful Christmas decorations and art work with their children.
Christmas in Apple Class
Wednesday 4th December
We were very lucky to have a visit from the Kings Langley Fire and Rescue service this morning. We found out what to do in an emergency and learnt all about the different parts of the fire engine. We even had a chance to sit inside the fire engine and pretend we were firefighters! When the fire engine left they set off the siren so that we could hear how loud it is.
Friday 22nd November
This week’s Nursery Rhyme is Hey Diddle Diddle. As we were singing the song we realised that we weren’t sure what a fiddle was! Miss Webster, one of our Y2 teachers came to show us her violin and play us some music. We even sang along to Twinkle Twinkle as she played.
Violin
Friday 15th November
This week we have been celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week. Today's song was 5 Currant Buns. We made our own delicious currant bun biscuits with a cherry on the top.
World Nursery Rhyme Week
We also visited our brand new library for the first time. Every week we will spend time in the library, sharing stories together and looking at books.
Visiting the library
Friday 8th November
Four children from Apple Class were given the very special job of helping Mr McDonough to plant trees in our new Eco garden. George, Rowan, Dottie and Maddison did an amazing job-digging holes and planting the new trees. We can't wait to spend time in the Eco Garden when it is finished!
Apple Planting trees
Thursday 7th November
As part of our Understanding the World learning, we have been talking about Remembrance Day. We created our own beautiful poppies and put them together to create poppy wreaths. These have been displayed on the fence outside the Nursery gates for everybody to see. On Monday we will take part in a minute of silence at 11am.
Poppy display
Thursday 17th October
This week we read the story Mixed by Arree Chung. In the story, there are three colours-the Reds, the Blues and the Yellows. The colours fall out with each other and decide to live separately. After a while, a Blue and a Yellow meet and decide to mix...they make Green! By the end of the story, lots of new amazing colours have been created. We did our own colour mixing by painting our hands and then rubbing them together to make a new colour.
Thursday 10th October
We now start off every morning in our Busy Fingers groups. This time is for us to focus on building up the muscles and control in our fingers and hands, getting our hands ready for drawing and writing. This week we had lots of fun rolling conkers in paint, creating autumn leaves, picking up conkers with tweezers, using the playdough and using the pompoms and dinosaurs to follow patterns.
Busy fingers 24
Friday 4th October
This week we have been making the most of the return of the sunshine! We went on an Autumn walk and collected lots of beautiful leaves. We used the leaves to make Autumn crowns. The children all looked amazing coming out at home time wearing them!
Our Phonics learning this week has been based on Humpty Dumpty. We have made up our own rhymes about Humpty, built walls to balance on and stuck eggs back together using plasters.
Thursday 26th September
Look at all of our amazing creations! We have been so impressed with all of the fantastic drawings and clever constructions that have been produced in Apple Class this week.
Thursday 19th September
Over the last few weeks, every class in the school has been working on their art display. Each display is inspired by an artist from around the world. Apple Class have been learning about the Australian artist, Anna Blatman. She likes to paint pictures of the birds, animals and flowers around her. We particularly liked her colourful birds. We made our own birds using paper collage. Can you spot your bird?
Apple Class Art display
Thursday 12th September
What a fantastic first full week in Apple Class! We have all enjoyed exploring the classroom and beginning to make new friends. We have been very busy-running the Daily Mile, going for a walk around the school and even having our very first PE lesson in the hall.
Apple Class first week
Tuesday 4th October 2022
Today we went for a walk around the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn. We found lots of different coloured leaves, as well as acorns, conkers and pine cones. We collected all of the different things we found and we are going to use them to create some beautiful Autumn art work.
Why don't you go for an Autumn walk at the weekend and see what you can find?
Autumn walk
Friday 30th September 2022
Today we had our first Mystery Reader! The children were very excited to see who it would be. Harry's Grandad read Norman, The Slug With The Silly Shell to us. We loved the part where Norman makes himself all slimy to escape from the bird.
Tuesday 27th September 2022
We enjoyed an outside PE lesson today while the weather is still nice! In PE we are learning to find a space, move around safely and stop and freeze when we hear the shaker. All of the children did a fantastic job of finding a spot to stand on and showed brilliant listening skills as they followed lots of instructions.
We had lots of fun playing the bean game. See if they can show you how to be a runner bean, a jumping bean, a jelly bean or a French bean!
Apple PE
Tuesday 20th September 2022
We have all had a wonderful first full week at school. We have explored all of the different areas of the classroom, got used to new routines and made lots of new friends. Well done Apple Class for settling in so quickly!
Apple 1
Thursday 21st October 2021
Today the whole school have enjoyed an amazing Art day! In Nursery we have been exploring different lines, shapes and patterns. We listened to some music and took our pens for a walk and a dance across big pieces of paper. It was lovely to see all of the different things that the music made us think of and it was a good workout for our muscles to make lots of big shapes on paper.
