Welcome to our 2 Year Old Nursery
W.B- 10th July 2023
Just like that we've finished our last full week of the school year! WOW!
This week our focus book was '10 little dinosaurs' and we have enjoyed exploring all things dinosaurs!
We used flour paint to create funky textures on our dinosaurs and used sand and glitter to make sparkly background for them to explore! They look so good!
We have also been using our fine motor skills to resure the dinosaurs from the tape and peeling it away to make them free.
Our rhyme of the week was 'London Bridge'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, just three little days to go! Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 3rd July 2023
This week have been so busy! Some of us have been having visits into our big nursery ready for starting in there in September. We have also been meeting our new friends who will be starting in our 2s in September and showing them our lovely environment.
This week our focus book was called 'Aaaarrgggg, spider' and in between visits we enjoyed making our own spider prints!
We have also loved discussing our pets we have at home and sharing photographs of them with each other. We talking about what they were called and what types of animals we had, a lot of us have dogs! We also loved looking at photos of Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott's dogs!
We have also been finding the largest and the smallest pets and organising them into groups, we were so good at this!
On Friday we had so much fun on our inflatable assault course, we couldn't stop laughing!
Our rhyme of the week was 'Incy wincy spider'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 26th June 2023
This week our focus book was called 'Shark in the park' and we have enjoyed exploring the theme of under the sea!
In our tuff tray we have enjoyed exploring the rock pools using magnifying glasses to have a closer look at all of the sea creatures and shells. We have also been finding similarities and differences with different fish and then finding pairs from the group.
We have made sand playdoh and used different shells to create beautiful patterns and using our hands to explore the different textures.
Our rhyme of the week was '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, not long to go until summer! Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 19th June 2023
This week was sports week! We have had so much fun taking part in different events like running races, egg and spoon races, balancing games and seeing who can throw the wellies the furthest! The children have all been amazing and have following instructions to learn how to take part in the different events.
Our focus book this week was 'What can I see in summer?' and explored the change of season. We have enjoyed exploring the ice play and talking about how it feels in our hands. We have also been exploring the outdoor environments and seeking any chances that may have happened with the change of season.
Our rhyme of the week was 'Little Miss Muffat'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 12th June 2023
This week we have been celebrating Fathers Day with our story of the week 'I love my Daddy'. We enjoyed making cards for our loved ones and spoke about who we might gift them to, some of us said our Grandads, Daddys or our Mummys because they are FIN-TASTIC! We have also been practicing our pencil control when writing our names in our cards.
We have also been exploring our family tuff tray and playing house.
Our rhyme of the week was '5 little men in a flying saucer'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 05th June 2023
And were entering our last term of the school year!
This week our story of the week was 'Monkey puzzle' and we enjoyed making our own cheeky monkeys by painting our hands and printing them!
We also had fun exploring our jungle tuff tray and naming all of the animals we could see.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 22nd May 2023
This week our story of the week was ‘Go, go pirate boat’ and we enjoyed making our own treasure maps to follow in the forest!
On Wednesday morning we had fun joining the nursery summer disco! We loved showing off our best moves and party food.
We can’t believe we are at the end of another half term and can’t wait to see what Summer 2 term brings! Have a lovely half term everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 15th May 2023
This week our focus story was ‘Elma’s Friends’ and looked at how different every one of Elma’s friends were. We enjoyed using the different shaped sponges and the different colours to create patterns on our own unique Elmas!
We have also been comparing sizes and arranging the elephants into colours and finding the ‘biggest’ and the ‘smallest’ from a group.
Both inside and outside we have been bonding while making dens with each other! It encouraged us to explore new activities and share stories with our friends.
On Friday we made cakes and dressed up with different accessories, all looking amazing and unique like Elma!
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Pussy cat, pussy cat’
Just one more week until half term! Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 9th May 2023
Tis week our story of the week was ‘A busy day for birds’. We had lots of fun using the different shapes to create our own tweeting birds. We have also been following the actions the different birds did in the book, like standing on one leg like a flamingo and waddling like a penguin!
We have also been exploring the water play! We had so much fun…maybe a little too much fun!
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Goosey, Goosey gander’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 2nd May 2023
This week we have been so busy celebrating King Charles III coronation!
We have been making our own Union Jack flags to wave when celebrating and we have been making crowns like the new King's. On Friday we came into nursery wearing red, white and blue and enjoyed cake at our tea party!
We have had such an amazing week making memories that will last forever!
Our story of the week was 'Zoom to the moon' and our rhyme of the week was 'Twinkle, twinkle little star'
Have another lovely long weekend full of celebrations everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 24th April 2023
This week our focus book was 'In the tall, tall grass' and we have enjoyed exploring the theme of mini beasts! We had fun exploring our sensory area and searching for the different coloured creatures in the 'grass'. We have also been measuring some wriggly worms in our tuff tray!
We have been enjoying spending more time in our garden now the weather is warmer and have been busy in our herb garden planting some beautiful flower.
At the beginning of the week, some of us morning children were lucky enough to see a bearded dragon and some of us were brave enough to stroke it! Wow!
Have a lovely long weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 17th April 2023
We hope you all had an amazing Easter break!
This week our focus story was 'Sharing a shell' and we explored the theme of under the sea! We really enjoyed exploring the playdoh and molding it into different shapes on the playdoh mats. We have also been looking at similarities and differences when matching the story characters to the bingo sheet. We have also been developing our number recognition and counted out the shells to match the numbers.
In the water area some of us found some sea creatures lurking in our water tray!
This week we have loved spending time in the garden during the sunny days, we enjoyed singing songs and watering our flowers in our herb garden.
Our rhyme of the week was 'Mary, Mary quite contrary'
We have had an amazing first week back and loved welcoming new friends into our nursery, we hope you have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 20th and the 27th March 2023
Over the past two weeks we have had so much fun celebrating Easter!
We have enjoyed using Easter cutters to make salt dough decorations and then painting them in different spring colours. We have also been busy making Easter cards for our loved ones and developing our pencil grip when writing our names in the cards.
We have also been celebrating Spring! We used pompoms to make colourful sheep for our seasons display, we absolutely love them!
On Friday we couldn't believe who came to visit us in nursery...The Easter bunny! He came and gave us lots of cuddles and hid Easter eggs in our garden for us to find, we had so much fun searching for them.
Our stories of the weeks were 'Spring' and 'Hop little bunnies'
Our rhymes of the weeks were 'There's a worm at the bottom of my garden' and 'Sleeping bunnies'
We can't believe the Spring term is already at an end and we can't wait to see what Summer will bring!
Have a lovely Easter everyone, Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott :)x
W.B- 13th March 2023
Happy Mothers Day!
This week our focus book was ‘I love my mummy’ and we’ve loved making gorgeous flower cards for our loved ones.
We have also been using our thumb and first fingers to pinch the pom-poms from in between the string! Some of us could even name the colours that we found.
This week we have loved scarf dancing! We followed the video and moved the scarfs around our bodies and we absolutely loved it…Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott were a little tired though!
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Mary had a little lamb’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 6th March 2023
Our focus book this week was ‘Where’s Mrs T-Rex?’ And we enjoyed exploring the theme of dinosaurs!
We used our fine motor skills to put the pegs onto the stegosaurus’ back and we followed instructions to blow the paint and make flaming volcanos! We also did some dinosaur sorting, finding the biggest and smallest dinosaurs from a group.
This week we also enjoyed bring the outside in and exploring our climbing frame! We had so much fun exploring the different ways we could move across the frame and crawling through the different holes.
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Dr Foster’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 27th February 2023
This week our story of the week was 'The tiger who came to tea' and we enjoyed making cupcakes out of our playdoh and making tiger masks for our tea party! We had a little tea party in our den we made, we had so much fun!
We have also been exploring obstacle courses and making them both indoors and outdoors. This helped us develop our balancing skills and jumping skills.
We also enjoyed celebrating World Book Day this week! We came to school dressed as our favourite book characters, like Woody, Elsa, the hungry caterpillar and Harry Potter! We also loved sitting down with each other and sharing our special books. In our mark making area, we enjoyed using our colours to make our own book covers!
Our rhyme of the week was 'hot cross buns'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 20th February 2023
This week we have loved celebrating Pancake Day!
We made pretend pancakes out of the playdoh and used the rolling pins and cupcake cases to make other favourite desserts! We also enjoyed eating real pancakes and tasting the different toppings we could have, like chocolate and strawberry jam, and talking about what topping we have at home. Some of us liked sugar and lemon and others liked bananas!
This week we have also loved making lots of music with the musical instruments and dancing to the sounds they made. We laughed and smiled the whole session long!
Our focus book with us week was ‘Toddle Waddle’ and we explored the water and sand play just like we were at the beach. Our rhyme of the week was ‘Pat-a-cake’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 06th February 2023
This week we have been celebrating Valentine's Day with our story of the week 'Guess how much I love you' and enjoyed making lovely Valentine cards for our loved ones. We explored our family photos in our tuff tray and talked about who we would like to make our card for.
We also made made repeated patterns on our love hearts and loved watching the patterns appear when we folded them in half! We also finished the week with decorating yummy biscuits.
Our rhyme of the week was 'Tommy thumb'
We hope you have a lovely half term everyone, Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott :) x
W.B- 30th January 2023
This week we have loved exploring the theme of dinosaurs with our story of the week 'The Hugasaurus'! We enjoyed exploring the dinosaur tuff tray and learning lots of dinosaur names.
We also enjoyed using our fine motor skills when putting the pegs onto the stegosaurus' back and made lots of different patterns on the dinosaurs body.
This week was also National Story Telling Week and we had the best time coming into nursery in our pajamas and sharing our favourite stories with each other. We also used props to act out the stories and take on roles in our play.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 23rd January 2023
This week our focus book was 'That's Mine' and we've loved exploring our safari animal tuff tray!
Our rhyme of the week was 'Wind my bobbin up' and we've been developing our fine motor skills and trying to thread the bobbins. We also practiced our colour names and matching them to their coloured pots.
We have also loved decorating our yummy short breads while building on our 'effortful control'
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 16th January 2023
This week our focus book was 'Noisy farm' and we enjoyed exploring our sensory farm tray. We used the animals to crunch the different types of cereal and some of us could even name the animals we were using!
We also used the farm animals to create marks on our paper and loved watching their tracks appear!
This week we also celebrated Chinese New Year, this year is the year of the rabbit! To celebrate we made our own colourful dragon masks and tried some yummy Chinese food. We tried noodles, prawn crackers and soy sauce! Our rhyme of the week was 'I'm a Chinese dragon'
We'd love celebrating the different cultures around us this week
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :) x
W.B-9th January 2023
Happy New Year!
We have all had a lovely week being back in nursery after our Christmas break, the children couldn’t wait to tell us about all the things they did while they were off.
This week we have enjoyed welcoming some new friends into our nursery who have all settled in amazingly! The children have enjoyed exploring some of our favourite activities while we settle back into nursery routine.
Our focus story this week was ‘Ness the nurse’ and we have loved role playing as doctors and nurses.
We’ve had an amazing first week back and we can’t wait to see what we get up to this term! Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :) x
W.B- 12th December 2022
It’s Christmas!!
We have had the most amazing week this week and the children have been so excited to come into nursery every day!
On Tuesday we had such a magical day on our special experience day. The children took part in lots of different Christmas activities, like making reindeer hot chocolate cones, chocolate reindeer cakes and reindeer dust so Santa can find our homes on Christmas Eve! Later on we had a special and exciting visit from 2 of Santas reindeers.
Thursday was our party day! We loved dancing with all our friends and singing on the microphone with Adam from KABs. The children also make their own Christmas hats to wear during the party and when Santa came to visit!
We can’t believe the first term of this year is finished and we can’t wait to welcome so new faces in 2023!
We would like to thank all the parents for all their continued support and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and an even happier new year! From Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott :)x
W.B- 05th December 2022
This week the children have been so busy getting ready for Christmas!
We have enjoyed reading our focus book 'Spots first Christmas' and used the catalogs to make our own Christmas lists for Santa. Some of us wanted new bikes and others wanted new dolls and prams.
This week we also had 2 themed days! We wore our pyjamas and got all cosy while watching a film with our hot chocolate and biscuits, then we ended the week in our Christmas jumpers.
We have also been enjoying exploring a sensory trail! We took our shoes off and walked along it, talking about what each circle felt like, we used lots of lovely words like "prickly" and "soft"
I can't believe it is our last week before Christmas next week and we are going to have the best week ever!
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 28th November 2022
Its starting to look a lot like Christmas…!
This week our focus book was a winter non fiction and showed us lots of different photographs of what the weather could be like, so in our sensory tray we explored ice play! Lots of the children told us how cold the ice was and loved watching it melt away.
This week we have also slowly started our Christmas celebrations as we’ve had a little visit from one of Santas elfs! He’s going to watch us and let Santa know how good we are when we’re in school. We’ve also been decorating our room and it looks so festive!
The next two weeks are going to be so busy and we can’t wait!
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle:)x
W.B- 21st November 2022
This week we have loved our focus book called ‘The journey home from Grandpa’s’ and our rhyme of the week was ‘The wheels on the bus’
We have enjoyed exploring the theme of transport and enjoyed working together to make our own little villages using the train tracks and the house models. We used the little figures to begin to develop our pretend play by taking on roles and using our imagination of what we can do with the characters.
We have also enjoyed using the cars and vans to make marks when rolling them through the paint! We had so much fun and loved watching the colours change when they mixed together!
At the beginning of the week we celebrated Englands first game of the World Cup! We made our own England flags and waved them in support.
We have had such a lovely week and we hope you have a lovely weekend, Miss Boyle:)x
W.B- 14th November 2022
This week our focus book was ‘One rainy day’ and our rhyme of the week was ‘The grand Old Duke of Youk’
We enjoyed playing pairs and matching the different woodland animals in our book together and seeing if we could remember their names.
This week we have also been exploring boxes! We had lots of fun climbing into the box and playing peek a boo with each other, then we cut the box up and drew on them!
On Friday, we celebrated Children In Need. We decorated our shirts and then coloured in our Pudsey pictures in our colourful pens!
This week was also National Rhyming week. Everyday we sang a different nursery rhyme:
Monday- The Big Ship Sails
Tuesday- 12345, Once I Caught A Fish Alive
Wednesday- Five Little Speckled Frogs
Thursday- BINGO
Friday- Twinkle, Twinkle
The children loved being apart of this and really enjoyed learning a new song every day!
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 7th November 2022
Our focus book this week was called 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What can you see?' and our rhyme of the week was '5 little ducks'
We have been using animals to create different patterns! It was so much fun watching the animals little foot prints appear when they moved through the paint.
We also enjoyed exploring our sensory coco pop tray...it tasted amazing!
On Friday we also celebrated Remembrance Day, we used balloons to make beautiful poppies.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 31st October 2022
Our focus book this week has been ‘Hippo has a hat’ and our rhyme of the week was ‘Humpty dumpty’
We have enjoyed exploring our fancy dress corner and taking on roles in our play, some of us were police women, some of us were fire men!
We’ve been developing our effortful control and taking turns with our friends while playing bingo! As well as this we’ve been looking at different patterned socks and matching them to their pairs.
This week we have also celebrated Bonfire Night and made edible sparklers with breadsticks, chocolates and sprinkles and made firework paintings. We also explored all the different textures in a bonfire rainbow rice tuff tray!
Have a lovely and safe weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 17th October 2022
We can’t believe it’s already the end of our first term!
We have been so busy continuing our Halloween celebrations and took part in a Halloween themed day.
We had lots of fun making spooky treats! We covered apples in gorgeous melted chocolate and sprinkles as well as decorating biscuits with different sweets and sprinkles.
Our story of the week was called ‘5 Little Pumpkins’ and we made our own pumpkins to match the ones in our book, some of them had very funny faces!
All of the children have had an amazing first term back and have all settled into nursery life like ducks to water!
We hope you have a lovely half term and we can’t wait to see you all in Autumn 2, Miss Boyle and Miss Abbott :)x
W.B- 10th October 2022
This week we started our spooky Halloween Celebrations with our focus book ‘There’s a witch in your book!’
We used paper plates to create our own witch hats like the one in our book and decorated them with lots of glitter!
We also used our fine motor skills to peel masking tape off the table and use it to make spooky mummies, then we used googly eyes to help them see.
We’ve also been exploring the spooky gloop in our sensory area!
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow”
We have loved starting our Halloween Celebrations and can’t wait to carry n next week, have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 3rd October 2022
We have had a lovely and busy week this week while reading our book ‘Owl Babies’
The children have enjoyed going on a autumn walk into our forest school area and exploring our big school field. While we walked we collected sticks, leaves and conkers to create our own owl nests in our sensory area.
One day we also make owl nest cupcakes and used jelly beans as our owl eggs, they were so tasty!
We also used the conkers we collected on the field to create marks when we shook them around the tray! We loved watching them move around the tray and leaving a mark.
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Old Mac Donald’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 26th September 2022
Autumn has arrived!
This week our focus book was about exploring all things autumn and that’s exactly what we did! We used rollers and bubble wrap to create patterns on apples, which are now on our seasons display, and we decorated biscuits. We loved putting marshmallows onto them and the rainbow sprinkles!
We have also been exploring foam play in our sensory area…we got very messy!
Our song of the week was ‘Autumn Leaves Are Falling Down’
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
W.B- 20th September 2022
This week we have been exploring our emotions while reading our focus book ‘Making Faces’!
We enjoyed looking in the mirrors and copying the facials in the mirrors. We also discussed the different emotions we feel throughout the day, some of us said we are tired towards the end of the day and some of us said we’re always happy!
Our rhyme of the week was ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ and we had lots of fun finding the different parts of our body.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, Miss Boyle:)x
W.B- 5th September and 13th September 2022
Happy first weeks back!
The children have all settled into Nursery amazingly and have had a lovely first 2 weeks back. We have been exploring the different environments available to us and have had fun playing with the different resources.
One afternoon we enjoyed putting our coats on and filling the bags with different leaves from our forest and used them to create beautiful trees for our autumn display.
We are super proud of how all the children have settled right in and we can’t wait to get this new year started!
Next week we will start exploring our focus books! Have a lovely long weekend everyone, Miss Boyle :)x
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