This week we will:

• Read ‘Room on the Broom’ with props and other themes stories (L)
• Decorate spooky biscuits (PD, CL)
• Match Halloween rhyming words (CL, L)
• Make pictures using shapes eg witches, ghosts (EAD)
• Spooky café role play (EAD)
• Mix potions in the water tray using measuring tools (M)
• Write recipes for our potions (CL, L, PD)
• Make shadows using torches (UtW)

This week we will:

• Read the story with props, patting knees with the rhythm (EAD, L)
• Talk about the things that make them scared, happy, excited, sad (PSED)
• Make dark dens and use torches inside (PD, EAD, UtW)
• Use cotton buds in the paint (EAD, L)
• Make brushes using sticks, grass and mud to paint (PD, EAD)
• Use brushes to uncover pictures in the sand (PD)
• Order the story (L)
• Fo on a bear hunt in the garden (L, EAD)
• Use finger prints to make snowy pictures (EAD, PD)
• Whisk soap to make snow (PD)

This week we will:

• Read the stories using props (L)
• Number songs for 5 (M, EAD)
• Jump off blocks and land like owls (PD)
• Make owls using natural resources (EAD, UtW)
• Talk about road safety (UtW, PD)
• Write letters in sand (L)
• Use feathers to paint with (EAD, PD)
• Make marks using twigs (PD)
• Use torches in the dark (UtW)

This week we will:

• Talk about seasons and how we identify each of them (UTW, CL)
• Learn new songs for Autumn (CL, EAD)
• Doctors surgery role play (EAD)
• Use magnifying glasses to look at Autumnal items (UTW)
• Pounding leaf prints with mallets (PD)
• Count pine cones, conkers, acorne to 4 (M)
• Thread leaves on string in order (M)
• Building dens (PD, EAD)
• Make bugs with natural resources (EAD)
• Write letters from our names in the sand (PD, L)
• Make hedgehogs in dough (PD, EAD)

This week we will:

• Read the story together in small groups (CL, L, PSED)
• Use sensory items to talk about what objects feel/sound/smell or look like e.g sticks, straw (CL, EAD)
• Build the pigs houses using the resources in the story (PD, EAD)
• Make paintbrushes using straw, sticks, mud paint (EAD)
• Continue colour mixing to create colours for the characters and label them e.g pink (EAD)
• Talk about the number 3, where else do we use it? Who is 3? What shape has 3 sides? (M)
• Use ribbon to weave (PD)
• Act out the story using props such as masks (EAD, L)

We were so excited last week to welcome some of our previous Buckles and Bows children and to welcome some new children, to begin their nursery journey. We were so impressed with how brave they all were when they said goodbye in the morning and how well they adopted to the new nursery routine! A huge well done to everyone, we can’t wait to see all the wonderful things you do at nursery this year!

This week we will read the Elmer story and talk about how everyone is different and look at our different features. We will mix colours and notice the difference.

My face

Today in the sensory shed we read the Elmer’s colours book.
We Listened carefully as we took it in turns to speak about our favourite colours and then looked at ourselves in the mirror and spoke about what colour our eyes and hair were.
We also spoke about our emotions and how we felt.