Autumn 2 - end of October to December 2023
We are looking forward to another busy term. The children will be learning the stories 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?' by Bill Martin Jr/Eric Carle and 'Dear Santa' by Rod Campbell. We will find out about Celebrations and talk about why they are important to us. We will also talk about our 'senses' and the changes that will happen around us as we start getting ready for Christmas. We hope to be performing for you towards Christmas, by singing Christmas songs and having our own Celebration to share! We look forward to all the other learning and activities planned for the coming weeks. Welcome back and please check the website and Tapestry for regular updates.
Autumn 2 Books
For this half of the Autumn Term we will be learning 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?' and 'Dear Santa'. These wonderful stories are filled with fantastic expression and we hope the children will enjoy taking part in retelling the stories with lots of enthusiasm as our term progresses. We hope that the children will enjoy learning the stories and taking part in other learning related to the stories too. We will talk about colour and animals from Brown Bear and as we move closer to Christmas we hope that Dear Santa and the gifts within it will inspire the children to tell us about some of their own wishes for Christmas. Perhaps we can make our own letters Christmas wish lists.
Topic - Celebrations
We will be finding out all about Celebrations (Fireworks night, Remembrance Day, and of course Christmas) and what they mean to us, for this half of our Autumn term. The children will take part in activities that will help them explore the importance of celebrations and what they mean to people all over the world. We will also be talking about Autumn and the changes that happen at this time of year.
Maths
This term we will be looking at positional language, as this works so well with our story for the term. We will also introduce looking at size and comparing the size of objects. Along with this we will be continuing with counting (and developing ways of counting) 1 to 5+ and recognising digits 1 to 5+.
RE - God Our Father Cares for Us and Advent
We will complete our 'God Our Father Cares for us' topic and move onto our Advent - Getting Ready topic. The children will learn about this very special time of year, where we welcome Jesus and rejoice at his birth. We will share prayers and activities to support our preparation, which will include making an Advent Wreath and saying sorry for things we've done wrong.
To end the term the children will prepare a performance for you all to watch. This will help us celebrate the children's acheivements and hopefully bring a smile to your faces. We hope that you will enjoy our surprise!
Week 1 and 2
We have had a busy start to this half term. We started Autumn 2 with a Sound/Autumn walk, where we talked about the sounds we could hear outside on our walk to the field and around it. We also collected objects on our walk that we can link to Autumn. We were lucky to find many different coloured Autumn leaves and some smooth, rough and spikey objects too! We are learning our new book, 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?' and we have been continuing to learn about how God loves and cares for us by visiting the church and meeting Fr Joe. He taught us how to make the sign of the cross and was very pleased with how some of the children already make the sign of the cross. We have also enjoyed having children from Year 5 come to read with some of the Nursery children on a Thursday afternoon. Thank you Year 5! Please see below for more of the learning the children have experienced over the last two weeks.
Our Sound Walk/ Autumn Walk. Look how long this stick is Mrs O! And look we've found mushrooms!
We have painted our own rainbows in the rain to remember God's promise to Noah, we have made firework pictures, talked about our families and people who care for us, pretended to be squirrels for PE and learned a song about Noah building the Ark. The children scooped out the pumpkins we grew in Nursery and were fantastically well behaved when we visited our church and Fr Joe. Well done everyone!
Week 3 and 4
Below are some photos from the busy weeks we have had in Nursery...we have counted bears and stars, talked about the people we love and also drawn them in chalk. We have continued developing our friendships talked about Rangoli patterns and heard about Diwali in our Wonderful World week! We have enjoyed playing games in the hall and counting bean bags and we have continued to learn to share especially when we want a story in the book corner. Well done everyone!
Counting stars
Can you put them in order?
Drawing people we love
Making Rangoli patterns
Making friends and taking turns
Developing friendships
My mommy Mrs O!
Using different shapes to make Rangoli Patterns
More Rangoli patterns...
Squares and triangles
Using glue sticks for the shapes
Can we do the same?
Developing counting behaviour
Listening to stories
Making poppies for Remebrance
More poppies and painting skills
Exploring for worms and other bugs
Making a fruit salad...great cutting!
Our Celebration banner...what shapes have you used?
Counting blue bears
I have used squares, triangles and circles!
Can you call a friend and roll the ball to them?
How many bean bags in you hoop?
I can sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...
We can play and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Week 5 and 6 and end of Autumn Term celebrations
The last couple of weeks of this Autumn term have flown by and have been full of exciting learning connected to our Advent theme, our Dear Santa Story and getting ready for our Christmas Performance!
The children have been amazing during this period, even when the weather has been damp and miserable. Please see below some photos of our learning. We wish you all a very Blessed and Peaceful Christmas and look forward to seeing you all when we return (on Tuesday 9th January) in the New Year!
We had fun talking about what we would like to have off Santa and wrote him letters.
We made Christmas decorations for our Stay and Play! Thank you for coming!
Working together to decorate our Christmas Tree! Good sharing and helping each other!
We shared Christmas Crackers and ate Christmas lunch together and we had fun making Reindeer biscuits by spreading icing and putting what we chose to make eyes, antlers and our reindeer noses. Well done everyone!