Curriculum Impact Tag: English

We started our first guided reading session of this half term by solving a jigsaw puzzle of the front cover our new focus book.

To introduce our new book, The Three Little Pigs, the children were shocked to discover someone had made a terrible mess in our classroom! The suspect left footprints and left lots of straw and sticks laying around! We came up with a plan about who had committed such terrible crimes, we thought it…

Sharing our work or news from home is a very special time for us in Nursery.  This week we are enjoying time to share our half term news. Many children have been very busy with Halloween and Bonfire Night celebrations.  Thank you children, we love learning all about you!  

As part of our work on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark we had a visit from Lancashire

Visiting our school library for the first time was a very special trip for our nursery children. There were gasps of awe and wonder as the brand new resource was revealed to our youngest children.  We loved the books and listening to ‘The Lion Inside’ as part of story time.  We are learning how to…

The children have loved hunting for bugs in the garden this week.  After reading poems about mini-beasts we all searched the garden for their secret hiding places to see what we could find.  Harry was especially keen and helped lots of the children on their search. ‘I know all the good hiding…

As part of our Communication and Language work, we have been reading the book Home by Carson Ellis.  The children have been building different homes within the nursery provision.  They have produced some fantastic creations.  

The children have worked in small groups to recount Annie’s journey in her barrel as she approaches the end of the falls.

We focused on summarising the key events as well as thinking about how Annie would have felt at each stage. 

Preparing for our Writeaway

The children worked in groups to oblate ideas on what may have happened to one of our key characters. To finish our unit on Star of Fear, Star of Hope - the children will be retelling the story from the point of view of another character.

Some of the children have been keen to find out about the different birds they might see in the nursery garden.  

This week the children have started their phonics journey and have been introduced to the first sounds. The children have then independently created the letter sounds using loose parts and through mark making! What superstars! 

Everyone Reading in Class 

After a long and fun-packed week of learning, there’s nothing better than relaxing on a Friday afternoon with out favourite books