Hello and welcome to the Nursery homepage. The team working in Nursery are Miss Marshall, Miss Jackson and Miss Goodwin. We are very excited for the year ahead and we will keep you updated on the children’s learning on the Chatter Feed on the right hand side of this page.
We use Seesaw to update you on your child’s progress and learning, when you log on you will see snapshots of some of the activities we take part in in class. We expect all parents to interact with posts on Seesaw and to work with their child on activities set at home.
Reading is fundamental to a child’s progress. It helps to introduce your child to new words and increase their vocabulary. We recommend that parents read with their child daily. It helps to spark imagination and plays a crucial role in speech development which introduces children to the world around them and new concepts.
If you have any problems accessing Seesaw or the Monster Phonics e-books, please contact us using the parentmail@pleasantstreet.liverpool.sch.uk email address and we will try to support you.
PE – Tuesday and Friday
Seesaw Activities – Activities are posted on Seesaw every Friday for you to view and complete at home with your child.
We enjoyed reading the story “Dinosaur Rocket” it allowed us to get creative and use our imagination. The children enjoyed making their very own rockets and shared ideas of what they would take to the moon if they were given the opportunity.
The children are becoming super confident with their number recognition 1 to 10. We’ve been working really hard in Maths to support the children’s number formation skills.
Today we enjoyed ‘Find Your Happy’ and listened carefully to the actions we can do when we feel sad, lonely or worried. We focused in on when we might feel in the blue zone and the actions we can take to try to make ourselves feel a little better. We hugged our friends, spoke about listening to music and having a dance and talked about eating our favourite foods to try to move to the green zone.
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Our story this week is Pip and Posy – The New Friend. Today our special word was “collect” so the children went into the garden with a checklist to collect particular items and put them inside their bag.
Nursery went on a special trip to Acorn Farm to see a range of different farm animals, to learn new things about the animals and see where they live. The children enjoyed watching the adults feed some of the animals and for some children this was their first time experiencing visiting the farm which they found really exciting.
In Maths we have been learning about full, half full and empty. During this activity the children used their fingers or a cotton stick in the paint to display a “full”, “half full” and “empty” jar, The children understood the concept and used the correct language throughout this activity to show a clear understanding.
The children have been reading a story called “Pip and Posy – The New Friend”. The story is set at the beach so we explored what types of things we might see at the beach. The children used a magnifying class to look closely.
This week, our mud kitchen was a hive of activity as the children made pancakes, ice-creams and magic potions in the sunshine. We also overheard some of our special words from Maths and NELI this week where the children discussed heavy and light.
Nursery have enjoyed observing caterpillars, spiders and bees in the garden. They used magnifying glasses and screens to take a closer look.
In Nursery the children have been learning how to measure height, in a group we used wooden blocks to measure how tall the children are. The children then began to use this knowledge into their play and make their own towers using the language taller and shorter.
Our families joined us to play, we explored the nursery and the children were able to show their families what new things they have learnt and currently learning about.
Nursery have been reading ‘Cinderella’ this week. The children have enjoyed making a carriage, writing invitations to the ball and creating magic wands 🪄✨.
This morning a number of children decided to go on a mini beast hunt. They looked under logs, branches and leaves to see if they could find any of the mini beasts on their checklists and they were pleased to find lots of signs of life in the garden!
The children listened to the story, The Squirrels who Squabbled. We noticed what happened when Cyril and Bruce argued over a nut they got into all kinds of trouble. We discussed being kind to each other and how important it is to share. We spoke about the things we can share with our friends and families in school and at home.
A big thank you to one of our Nursery and Y1 parents, who surprised the children this afternoon as our Mystery Guest Reader. He read two wonderful books, singing songs and putting on different voices for the characters.
Thank you for your time, the children loved it!
The children are showing a great level of understanding with their counting and recognising numbers. During this activity, the children independently counted the correct amount of flowers and glued it to the correct number plant pot.
This week we got the opportunity to explore the balancing and climbing apparatus, the children showed confidence and resilience.
Today we visited the Aquarium inside the Museum to further explore our under the sea topic, the children were able to first hand see different types of fish and sea creatures.
In Nursery we’ve been focusing on the word “same”, the children have enjoyed playing and matching the same and not the same items around our classroom independently and adult-led.
The children enjoyed looking at a Map of Liverpool, we looked around our school and tried to navigate areas that we may recognise or have visited before.
During diversity day Nursery discussed the different emotions we can feel. We looked at some images of emotions and spoke about what makes us feel happy, sad, angry etc. Nursery then used a variety of different resources to create faces with different emotions.
We read a story called “Kind”, the children completing a sorting activity highlighting what actions are kind or unkind.
In maths we practised sending repeating patterns of balls along the gutters.
We had a fantastic time visiting the Pumpkin Patch, we enjoyed exploring the big open field looking for different sized and coloured Pumpkins.
This week we have been reading Oliver’s Vegetables, we discussed what vegetables we already know and some new. To find out wether the children liked or disliked the vegetables we did a taste test.
We love playing and listening to music in Nursery with Mrs Grindley.
We enjoyed learning how to balance a bean bag on our bodies whilst travelling.
In Nursery we read the story “The Colour Monster Goes to School”.
We discussed a range of emotions, the children described how they feel and created their own monsters.
Nursery had a wonderful visit to Acorn Farm, building upon our Understanding of animals and the natural world
Great to see our nursery children exploring seasonal change, and enjoying themselves in our wonderful outdoor environment
Our EYFS garden looked like a Winter Wonderland this morning so we couldn’t resist the opportunity to explore seasonal changes to our environment………… and to have some fun ? ❄️ ⛄️
We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.
Today, we celebrated Diversity Day. In Nursery we read a wonderful book called “Marvellous Me”. This text allowed our children to consider how they’re different from their classmates, but how each of them are Marvellous in their own unique way.
