Nursery: Blog items
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 12:20pm
Today we created a Christmas tree deocoration. We're so angelic, don't you agree?
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:28pm
This morning the children made their Nativity headbands. We're not going to tell you who we are going to be, but maybe you can guess by looking at the pictures.
Date: 18th Nov 2024 @ 12:51pm
On Friday we celebrated Children in Need in Nursery.
We came dressed in Pudsey clothes, or something spotty.
We enjoyed lots of different Pudsey activities such as making headbands with Pudsey ears, playing a listening game -'Pudsey says...', adding spots to Pudsey using pompoms and tweezers and adding a spotty pattern to Pudsey.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 6:54pm
Today in Nursery our learning centred around Remembrance. We watched a video that helps younger children understand this important time of year.
Here it is for you to look at again over the weekend, with your children at home - Poppies by the BBC
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
We talked about how the animals felt at different points in the animation and lots of the children showed a good understanding of the changing emotions. One child stated, "It's the soldier's light' at the point in which the poppies began to grow again after war. This was a beautful moment of insight to share with his class.
Everybody used either their scissor skills to snip or their talking fingers to tear grass for the poppies to grow in. Later on the children chose if they wanted to create a poppy. They followed Steps 2 Success to make tissue paper or painted poppies. Here is the picture from the end of the animation that inspired us and then our very own field of Remembrance Day Poppies. We hope you love it as much as we do.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 3:40pm
Yesterday and today, during story time, Nursery had a special visitor. One of the junior children came to read one of her favourite stories to us. The Nursery children were an excellent audience, looking and listening and joining in with words and actions. Our visitor told the story with such good intonation and expression. Maybe she will become a Nursery teacher when she grows up?
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 1:46pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning about an Autumn Celebration - Bonfire Night. We've joined in with a poem. We've made our own craft rockets and we listened to Katy Perry's 'Firework Song'. We collaborated to make a huge fireworks display too!
Fireworks Poem please click
Katy Perry's song with fireworks display please click
Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 7:18am
Just before the half term holidays, Year 6 joined Nursery for a Harvest Celebration. The Nursery children had been learning about how farmers harvest the food during Autumn. They also found out why farmers use scarecrows. Nursery loved the scarecrows so much that they learned and then performed a song and dance about them to the older children.
Click on the link to sing along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Knowing how much Year 6 like to dance, the Nursery children then paired up and danced a Samba! Harvest Samba
The younger children loved sharing their learning with Year 6 and we hope to do it again very soon. Thank you Year 6 for being an amaxing audience and for looking after us.
Coach Kane comes to school again!
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 2:05pm
Coach Kane visited us today in Nursery. We learned about people who need to use wheelchairs to move around. We took turns to sit in a chair and tried to move it by pushing the wheels around. It was very interesting learning about Inclusion.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 2:00pm
Did you know you can create a pattern by repeating the same object over and over again? We have made lots of repeating patterns this week. Can you make one?
Physical Development Sports Day
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 3:47pm
Today we had an amazing time when we invited our grownups in to Nursery to take part in our Sports Day. We completed our Friday Challenges with them:
- We used fine motor skills to make skin tone handprints.
- We danced and moved to the beat. ( Would you like to dance along too? https://youtu.be/Y9LLfv7yauM?si=Klx6c-dNLohIl9ZP )
- We listened to instructions to play a stop/go game.
- We travelled around the obstacle course in different ways.
Thank you so much to all of the adults who stayed and played with us. It was fabulous spending time with you all.
Physical Development Sports Day, Friday 4th October, 2024
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 8:07am
Here's a reminder of what is happening on Friday. We're so excited to welcome our parents and carers in to share our learning and some of the fun activities we like.
We've had a fabulous time with you
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 6:17pm
We've spent the past three days welcoming new children into Nursery with 3 days of Stay and Play sessions. All of the children have enjoyed playing and listening to stories in their new classes, with their adults. We'll post lots of phtos of our learning soon but for now, here's a reminder of the times of the sessions next week.
The children will come in to class by themselves next week for the morning OR afternoon session. Please remember to bring a bag with a spare change of clothes in it to leave at school. We're so excited to see you all again on Monday!
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 2:47pm
This morning Nursery shared their learning with their grown-ups. Parents were invited into class to review their child's Guided Draw books and Connected-Curriculum books and look at what their child has learned and achieved this year. The children also sang the song 'Try Everything' to their audience and danced to the rhythm.
When I asked the children why their grown-ups came to school they said:
"To watch our performance" "They came to look at our red books" "They looked at our Guided-Draw pictures"
Well done Nursery!
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 2:12pm
Today we have made football hats and flags so we can cheer on England Men's Football during the final of Euro 2024. We are so excited! We still believe!
Click on the link to hear our good luck message:
https://youtube.com/shorts/v0jfShBFaI8?feature=share
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 11:06am
Today in Nursery we have made red and white England flags and hats to celebrate England making it to the EURO 2024 final.
We learned the "3 Lions" song and discussed what football is and what happens during the competition. We hope you enjoy our photos and our photos of us practising our football skills last week with Zahra.
GO ENGLAND GO!
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 1:59pm
This week the children will be combining their knowledge of colour mixing with number and size when completing Bubble Maths challenges. Adults station themselves at each challenge and the children choose which they access.
- Bubble Machine Race to 5 - Ready, steady, go. Pop 5 bubbles.
- Popping Bubbles Counting - Blow bubbles to settle into the water tray. When one pops count it. How many bubbles were there?
- Bubble Colour Mixing Counting - Create new colours with paint and bubble mixture by blowing into the yellow/blue or red/yellow or blue/ red paint. Lay paper on top. How many bubbles can you count?
- Biggest Bubble - insert own straw into a large container of pre blown bubble mixture. Who can make the biggest bubble?
We decided there were too many bubbles to count on challenge 3 because there were loads! We popped more than 5 bubbles in challenge 1. One of the children said they popped 100! (I'm not sure that's quite how many they popped lol)
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 1:53pm
Yesterday we experimented mixing colours to create a rainbow. We had cups, food colouring, strips of paper and water. We sang along with Jack Hartmann's rainbow song and then tried to work out how we could create a rainbow of colours. We only had red, yellow and blue. We know how to mix these colours together but this time we wanted the rainbow to mix from one cup to th next. It was very exciting watching the colour soak up the paper strips but then it stopped! We have been wetting the paper today to see if that helps. So far there is no rainbow but don't worry, we have another idea to try tomorrow.
Sing along with Jack Hartmann here:
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 3:24pm
Nursery had a lovely Friday afternoon in the garden with Stuart. They used some tarpaulin and pegs to make a den to hide from the rain. It poured down with rain but the den the children worked together to make kept them safe and dry. The children were very excited when they got to wear their special gardening hats. Well done Nursery - great teamwork!
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 3:34pm
NEM had a wonderful time on their trip to Let us Play Little Town. We went on a big yellow double decker bus to the venue, played in lots of different role play areas including an ice cream shop, garden centre, post office, cafe and lots more! They enjoyed an exciting story-telling session, where they listened to Goldilocks and the Three Bears and got to enjoy a morning snack and take part in some craft activities too. The children were very well behaved and had lots of fun. Well done Nursery!
Date: 14th Jun 2024 @ 10:06am
This morning we held a glider competition in the astrocourt as one of our Friday Challenges. We all got the chance the throw the glider and the person who threw it the furthest was the winner. Some of our attempts ended up with nose dives lol. Afterwards, we chased after the glider that Mrs Ganner threw. "It kept on flying and it went under the fence!" "It flew so far away." "It's wonderful!" "It's great" "It was so much fun" the children told us.
Our winner held the glider as we all cheered.
Date: 13th Jun 2024 @ 11:17am
Today we have been creating some very special cards. Some of us live with our Dads. Some of us don't live with our Dads. Some of us don't have a Daddy but we all have one special man who we love and this is a song for them. Click the link to hear us sing
Date: 3rd Jun 2024 @ 2:52pm
Today in Nursery Mrs Ganner's class were learning about journeys and transport. This morning we explored lots of enhancements to our environment that had a transport theme or linked to an amazing book called 'The Flying Bath'.
This afternoon we experimented with different junk modelling bottles and boxes, to find out what would happen if we used them as boats. We discovered that some materials aren't very good to use as boats. "Cardboard breaks and it goes squishy." We liked the plastic containers because they all floated but we found out that if you fill a bottle up with water it sinks because it's so heavy. Can you experiment at home to find things from around the house that would float? If you do, send a photo in to nursery@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
We also tried to find as many ways as possible to move around the outdoor area - can you see us pushing pedals, sliding, bouncing and walking? How do you travel to school? Do you transport yourself on your legs or do you come to school in a different way?
Have fun being scientists and finding out about transport at home!
Date: 24th May 2024 @ 11:09am
Today we celebrated the end of a busy half term by making some fruit kebabs. They were for us to eat, not for minibeasts!
First we cut the fruit (we cut it lengthways so it's safe to eat). Then we pushed it onto the kebab stick. After that most of us put two chocolate chips onto the minibeast, so it could see lol. Finally we ate our yummy fruit snacks. We held the kebab sticks safely so we didn't get hurt.
Most of the children had never eaten a blackberry. All of the children tried all of the fruit. They know it's good to try new things.
"It was very tasty." "It was very juicy." The banana is soft." "Blackberries are so yummy and they're healthy."I want to make kebabs with my Mummy." " Tomorrow I will make one at my house." "It was delicious!"
Sunflower update and garden fun!
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 6:26pm
The children have worked hard caring for their sunflower and have enjoyed watching the stem and the shoot appear. They have also had a wonderful time exploring the garden with Stuart the gardener planting peas and smelling the herbs!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 11:32am
As part of our Friday challenges, the children went on a minibeast hunt in our school garden. The children used a photo checklist to encourage them to record the minibeasts they found during the minibeast hunt. The children did a great job at finding the different minibeasts, including a woodlouse, worm, snail, ladybirds and more! They also found a beattle which was not on our checklist - well spotted Nursery!
