Four Swannes Primary School
Diversity. Inclusion. Belonging
Welcome to the Nursery Class Page.
Mrs. Aksu
This week we have read the book "Waiting for Wings" by Lois Ehlert. We had a circle time and discussed the each stage of the butterfly life cycle. The children enhanced their language amnd communication skills as they listened each other, waited for their turn to talk and learned new words.
The children actively engaged in our mud kitchen area that supports their creatuvity, language and comunnication skills. They have made blossom cakes and flower soup.
We have also learned how to save our planet. The children worked hard to sort out the recycling and non-recycling items. We had a discussion where England is on the planet. The in our art and craft session the children used their creativity to make a planet out of paper plate and paint.
This week we have focused on rhyming words in literacy. We have read the book "oi frog" by Kes Gray. It is a fun, rhyming story where the little cat says the frog what kind of different animals should sit on. For example frog sits on logs and cat sits on mats.
We have also learned the stages of the life cycle of a frog. End of their practical sessions the children could tell me the name of the stages such as, eggs, tadpole, froglets and frogs.
The children used their creativity skills to make and decorate Easter cards for their families. They have used their early phonics skills to write their names. We have practiced oral blending and focused on the sound "p".
Happy Easter!
Mrs Aksu and Mrs Aveen
WB:24/03/2025
This week we have been reading the book "Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?" The children could predict what animal comes next and then they made a story map using the picture cards. In pairs the childtren told the story to each other by pointing the pictures on their story maps.
We had a science workshop on Tuesday, the nursery children did good listening and they participated well during the experiments.
We had a lovelystay and play session this morning. We focused on fine and gross motor skills. Thank you to parents for their continous provision.
WB:17/03/2025
This week we have focused on the story "Three Billy Goats Gruff" We have made stick puppets and acted out the story in our role play area.
The children were really excited to see the volcano. We have taked about how volcanos erupts and why lava is extremly hot.
We have focused on the number 2 this week and th letter "a". We have done listening games and oral blending in phonics sessions.
WB:10/03/2025
Rocky Animals - Children were excited to see farm animals on Monday morning. They have listen carefully the facts about the animals and asked sensible questions. The children was very brave to stroke and feed the animals.
Phonics - This week we have started to teach sounds and the children will be learning one sound every week. This will be through variety of activities such as writing on a glitteror sand, colouring the sound, making the sound of the week by using play dough.
Literacy - In literacy we have focused on the book (song) 'Old MacDonaland'. The children learned where these animal live, what they eat and enjoyed making sound of the animals.
Maths - In maths we focused on number '1' this week. We played games and activities to understand the quantity.
Science week - we have done two science activities this week. The children made raisins dance, using water, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. They also learned how about static electricity by rubbing a baloon onto a wooly jumper.
Have a good weekend!
WB:03/03/2025
This week w have focused on the book 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' by Jan Fearnley. The children created their own story maps and could retell the story in their own words. The children actively engaged with art activity where they used paper plates, coloured markers and pompoms.
On Tuesday the children made some pancakes while practicing maths skills by measuring ingidients and developing their fine motor skills by stiring and pouring. Then the children dcorated their pancakes with their favourite toppings which supported their hand and eye coordination.
We had a great reading session on Monday morning. Thank you to parents who came and shared books with their children.
Have a lovely weekend!
WB: 25/02/2025
A New House For a Mouse
This week we have read the book called ' A New House for a Mouse' by Petr Horacek. The children could able to predict and share their ideas what might happen next. We have disscussed the featuress of the book before we start to read, such as front cover, blurb and illustration.
The children made a story map altogether as a team and could able to retell the story by using the story map. Then the children mada a house by using the egg boxes and a new house for a mouse by using the materials from our constraction area.
We have also talked about the non-ficion books and children actively listened and asked lots of question during reading a book that is called 'Badgers' which is one of the characters in our story. Then the children told me one fact about them and i have written them down. They were anmazed that the badgers wake up at night and sleep in a day. They have practice saying 'noctornal.'
WB:10/02/25
This week we have read 'The Enormous Turnip' story. The children sequenced the characters who pulled the turnip in the right order and then acted out the story.
The children explored the root veggatables by using their senses.
The children made cards for their loved ones and decorated them by using their creativity.
Happy Valentines Day!
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Have a lovely half term!
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
This week we read the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children enjoyed acting out the story and then they could retell the story by using their story maps. The children also mad some porridge with some support and they used variety of adjectives to describe the taste of it.
Lunar New Year
We have focused on Lunar New Year and we have found out what animal year we have born. We have talked about how this special day is celebrated across the world. The children has been introduced the ingridients for cooking noodles and they have tried to eat their noodles with chopsticks which they have found it tricky and funny.
This week we have read the book Jack and a Beanstalk. The children could predict what will happen next with some support. We have learned and made discussion about the cycle of a broad beans. Then the children have planted their own broad beans by following the steps by looking at the picture cards.
WB: 13/01/2025
This week we have focused on The Gingerbread Man story. The children happily participated in sequencing the story and created a story map by using their creativity.
We have also baked gingerbread biscuits and the children decorated tgheir own gingerbread man biscuits independently.
WB:06/01/2025
This week we focused on the book 'Princess and the Pea' and children worked togfether to create the story map by using the pictures. Then some of th children could able to retell the story by using the pictures.
We also made pea soup, during this activity the children had a chance to see and feel all the ingridients. The children used safety knifes to cut onions and measured the other ingridents by using the measuring cups. At the end the children tried the soup that they made and some of them sked for the second bowl :)
This half term our learning will be about the theme 'castles'. this topic will support our children to enhance their knowledge of he different types of the buildings. We will be learning about the houses in the past and present.
Hello everyone, hope you are having a lovely week. We had a lovely, busy week. The nursery children was very barve during their Nativity show. They havemade beautiful cards for their loved ones and decorated them beautifully. Well done to our lovely children, hope they have enjoyed hot choclate and marshmellows this morning. Have a good break!
Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Nursery children visitid to Chicken Shed for the Puppet Show. All the children sat sensibly on the coach. Then we all sat in the cafe and had our lunches. Afterthat, the show began and the children participated the show by singing songs and dancing. After the show we had a chance to take a photo with Santa and his friends!
This trip supported our children's communication and language development in a fun way by following the conversations and understanding the questions and instructions.
Parent helpers thank you so much for coming and helping us! We couldn't have done it without you!
WB: 02/12/2024
This week we have focused on the book 'How to Catch a Dragon' by Carly Hart. The children drew their own castles by using 2D shapes. We have used adjectives to describe the dragon and the other charceters.
We also focused on listening games for our phonics sessions. For example we played a game called 'guess the instrument'. Children said 'hello' to all the musical instruments and played them one by one. Then children took a turn to hide the instruments and described it to the children to have a guess.
WB: 25/11/2024
This week we have read the story called MEG'S CASTLE. The children learned about plenty of anomatopoeia, such as 'bang, crash. The children made their own wands by using their creativity and fine motor skills.
The children actively engaged in mking potions by performing spells and mixing all the secret ingidients.
WB 18/11/2024
This week we have read the book 'George and the Dragon'. The children in our nursery class actively engaged making a house for George and a castle for the dragon. They used their fine motor skills to cut, stick and decorate the castle and the house. They worked learned the word 'callobration' and showed us they can work well as a team.
We started our week with Maths morning, thank you to parents who came and took part in a Mathematics activities to inspire children. The nursery children actively engaged making fruit kebabs where they enhanced their knowledge on making patterns.
We read the book 'Princess Smartypants' and children drew their favourite pets from the book and why. They used adjectives to describe the princess.
This week we have read the book called 'Sparks in the Sky'. The children used their creativity to make their own fireworks by using the variety of materials, such as pipe cleaners, paint, beads and glue. We also had a sensory tray where children used their fine motor skills for mrk making.
The children used their imagination and actively engaged in the kitchen role play area. they used the resources, such as money, shopping list and the cash register.
Welcome To Nursery Class
Welcome back!
We hope yo had a lovely, relaxing summer. We are really impressed how the children settled in our nursery class. It is a plesaure to see their big smiles on their faces that makes us to work even harder.
Class Teacher: Mrs Aksu
WB - 21/10/24
We have celebrated Black History Month by participating the African muic assembly. The children played African musical instruments and danced. The children said their favourite musical instruments were drums and tambourines.
WB 14/10/2024
This week we focused on the book called 'It's My Birthday' story Helen Oxenbury. Children enhanced their listening, comprehension and expressivbe language skills by listening the story, drawing the ingridients and baking cupcakes.
We also celebrated the Black History Month by baking Nigerian Pound cake and tasting variety of food from all around the world. Thank you for parents who made an effort to bake, cook and participated in this event.
W/B 8th July 2024
This week we read the story of the Tiger who comes to tea and had fun re- telling the story wth our Tiger masks. Some of us also spent the morning with our new teacher, Mrs Bryne Brown in Reception.
W/B 1st July 2024
On Monday we had our last maths morning of the year. Lots of our parents came to see what Maths work we have been up to the term. Lots was linked to our story of the week Shark in the Park.
This week we have been reading the book Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. We explored our own rockpool, made jellyfish and learnt all about hermit crabs.
We also had our Nursery Sports day on Tuesday, we all had lots of fun! So much fun that Mrs Attridge forgot to take any pictures!!
We are also looking forward to our trip to Lee Valley Farm next week!
29th April - 3rd May 2024
This week we have been reading the story of Errol's Garden. He wanted a garden so badly but lived in a block of flats. One day Errol discovered a roof garden. This week like Errol we have been planting seeds. We are patiently waiting for our cress seeds to grow!
28th March 2024
This week in Nursery we have had lots of fun celebrating Easter. We made Easter cards, we had an egg hunt around the classroom and read lots of lovely Easter stories. We hope you all have a fantastic Easter Break and see you back at school on Monday 15th April 2024.
Week Beginning 13th November 2023
What a busy week we had at school. Firstly showing awareness of anti- bullying week by wearing our odd socks, then our families came to school to see all the brilliant maths work for Maths week and finally ending the week by wearing our PJs to school to raise money for BBC Children in need!
November 10th
Today we made handprint poppies to mark Remembrance Day. We discussed why people wear poppies and who we are remembering when we wear them.
November 3rd
What a colourful week we have had lots of firework stories and painting.
20th October
All things Spooky! Our book this week was Funnybones. We enjoyed dancing and singing to the bones song and we made our own spooky town.
This week we have been learning all out Owl babies. We learnt anout nocturnal animals and sorted them in to groups. We also celebrated Harvest Festival and enjoyed exploring all the cereals that are grown on the farm.
25.9.23
This week we have been continuing with our book My Mum and Dad make me laugh. We have looked at repeating patterns and patterns all around us. We even tried wrapping some presents up with patterned paper.
This week we have been reading the book my Mum and Dad make me laugh. We have been talking about what makes us laugh! We all think our parents are funny and like to make us laugh!
15.9.23 This week we looked very closely at faces and drew a self portrait.
8/9/23
This week we have been getting used to returning to school and our new classroom. We have enjoyed playing in the new mud kitchen outside and enjoying the lovely weather!
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Archive Nursery
We have BUTTERFLIES!
Dear Zoo (W/b 19th June)
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The Curious Caterpillar (w/b 5th June-15th June)
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Mental Health Week 15/5/23
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Coronation weeks (2nd-12th May)
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This wee we have read the stories of Jack and the Beanstalk and Jaspers Beanstalk. We also have planted our own beans in the hope that they will grow into our own beanstalk very soon!
St George's Day
We hope you've all had a lovely Easter break! We would like to welcome all of our new children who have started this week. They have settled really well and adapted to the new routine! Well done!
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Have a good Easter!
Easter w/c 27/03/23
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Easter week beginning 20/03/23
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Science Week 13/03/2023
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World Book Week (w/b 27/02/23)
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Pancake week (21/02/23)
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Week beginning 23/01/23
This week in nursery we have learned about Chinese New Year and:
Week beginning 16.01.22
In nursery this week we have been:
Happy New Year!
We hope you've all had a lovely half term!
We have had lots of new friends join our nursery class and have settled in very well!
Here is what we've been up to this week (9/1/23):
Nursery enjoyed their Christmas party playing party games and having a dance. They then had party food
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and see you all in the New Year!
Throughout December
During December nursery have been extremely busy. We have done:
Winter and Hannukah (w/b 28/11/22)
Nursery have had a very busy week this week. We have done:
World Cup (w/b 21/11/22)
World cup has come to nursery this week! We've had a very busy week. Nursery have done:
Children In Need (w/b 14/11/22)
This week in nursery we have been doing lots of fun activities for Children In Need. We have done:
Remembrance (w/b 7/11/22)
This week nursery have had a very busy week. We have been:
Fireworks (w/b 31/10/22)
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Black History (w/b 17/10/22)
This week nursery have been learning all about black history. We have also been learning about Madagascar. Here is what we have been getting up to this week:
RE day
We celebrated the Jewish festival of 'Sukkot'.
We decorated our own Sukkah by cutting our own bunting and creating a paper chain. Once it was decorated we ate our snack under the Sukkah just like the Jewish people do during the festival.
Harvest festival
This week in nursery we have learnt about:
Here is a few photos of what we have done this week for Harvest
We enjoyed decorating biscuits for the Macmillian coffee morning.
19/09/2022
We have made new friends this week in nursery. We have enjoyed reading our favourite stories to each other.
We have started to identify what our names begin with and during arts and craft we created this wonderful piece of work. We practise to write our names and then decorated the first letter of our names.
Outdoor Play
We have had lots of fun in the garden this week (12/09/22). On Friday we had an obstacle course get round, we all liked the tunnel.
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We hope you all have a wonderful summer and see some of you in September in nursery. Good luck in reception!
Here are some of things we have been getting up to recently in nursery.
Wimbledon day!
We had a wimbledon day at school as the finals were coming up:
We said goodbye to the butterflies!
We sadly said goodbye to our butterflies as they were ready to be free!
The butterflies went onto the children's hands/clothes before they flew off.
Update on the butterflies!
Miss Sheaf brought in some buddleja from her garden. The butterflies were attracted to the flower straight away!
We have butterflies!
Over the weekend the butterflies have started to emerged from their chrysalides.
We currently have 6 butterflies and we are waiting for 3 more!
Here is a few photos and videos!
Update on the caterpillars!
Over the weekend, the caterpillars had wriggled their way up to the lid and become chrysalides.
They will be chrysalides up to 2 weeks, they are doing an amazing transformation.
I wonder what they are doing?
If you would like to ask your child what do they think is happening and let us know
Here is a little video and update on photos!
Living things!
As you are aware we said goodbye to the chicks a few weeks ago. But now we have had a special delivery of....
CATERPILLARS!
It has been fascinating watching them grow so quickly in just 2 weeks. We will keep you posted on their growth. Here is a few photos of them so far.
Jubilee day
During the week leading up to the Jubilee we have been very busy in nursery.
We have been:
We said goodbye to the chicks!
We have been learning about the life cycle of living things. First we had living eggs and we were very lucky to see the chicks hatch! We looked after them for 7 days and then said goodbye to them as they were taken back to a farm.
Chicks Come To Four Swannes
The children in the nursery have been very eggcited this week. We have been very lucky to observe tiny chicks hatch out of their egg shells. There are 9 eggs and 7 have hatched.
Nursey Class 2021
Welcome to Our Nursery Class Page. Have a look at some of the fun things we have been up to in class this term so far...