Category: Early Years
Little Lyndhurst – Nursery
Nursery in Little Lyndhurst have been enjoying looking at books independently and with their friends, telling the story and predicting what’s going to happen. They have been using the magnetic letters and the large whiteboard to showcase their their phonics sounds they have been learning.
Little Lyndhurst – Minibeast
Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been enjoying learning all about Minibeasts in their topic. The children have been exploring in the small world area with magnifying glasses, looking at each insect. The children sat in a circle and had to choose an insect to describe, they did extremely well at telling every0ne what…
Red Nose Day
For Red Nose Day the children were all allowed to wear red – it was lovely to see all the bright clothes around the school. Each child had told their jokes in class then two class representatives presented their joke in the whole school ‘Funny Power’ Assembly. Mrs Dodd and Miss Symes had the hard…
Reception Number bonds disco
Reception had lots of fun taking part in a number bonds disco. They had to pair up the right partner to make number bonds to 10. There was some great dancing and some brilliant maths work getting the number bonds to 10!
Little Lyndhurst – fine motor skills fun
Nursery and Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst always enjoy playing with water. Recently, they loved filling up the bottles using the pipettes and jugs. They used their fine motor skills to squeeze the end of the pipettes to suck the water up and empty it into the bottles. Nursery have also been using their pincer grip…
Little Lyndhurst – Life cycle of a plant
In Little Lyndhurst, their focus has been on the life cycle of a plant and the children have enjoyed carrying out lots of activities on this topic. They had to draw the amount of petals around the flower that matches the number in the middle. Some children painted a flower using the paint dabbers, whilst…
Little Lyndhurst – Nursery French
Nursery have recapped their previous topic of farm animals and enjoy joining in singing some of the words to ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ to start off their lesson. Their French teacher, Madame Hole, has started a new topic of pets and they have been having fun learning the names for fish, mouse, cat and…
Little Lyndhurst – Park trip
Nursery and Pre-Reception always love their trips to the local park! It is great for their road awareness walking down to the park and they have lots of fun when they get there using their gross motor skills to use the climbing equipment.
Little Lyndhurst – Growing Up
In Little Lyndhurst, both Nursery and Pre-Reception have been having lots of fun learning about growing up and understanding the different stages in our life cycle. The children completed a human growth timeline, some of the children did brilliantly and were able to do this independently. The children also loved looking at all the beautiful…
Little Lyndhurst – Maths Carousel
During maths this week we have been splitting the children around three tables to form a carousel. On table one, they had to add the correct number of spots to the caterpillars body. Table two had to choose a card and add that number of counters. Table 3, had to roll the dice and quickly…