You will probably not be surprised to hear that digging for worms is one of our all-time favourite things to do in Nursery!  We are lucky enough to have our very own digging area which we cover over each evening to keep the foxes away.

We have been learning how to dig slowly so the soil doesn’t flick up into our friends faces and how to hold the worms carefully on the flat of our hands so we don’t hurt them.

This week, we decided to find out more about these wiggly creatures.  We read the story ‘Yucky Worms’ by Vivian French and Jessica Ahlberg.  At the beginning of the story, the little boy thinks worms are yucky and disgusting but, thanks to a visit to his Gran’s garden, he soon learns that they are actually fascinating, fun and very helpful gardeners.

We were amazed to discover that worms have a head and a tail.  They also have 5 pairs of hearts! No wonder they are so kind and friendly!

You can revisit the book in this video below.  It is quite a long story with lots of detail, so we just read the interesting bits and you might like to do the same!

We wondered what it might be like to wiggle like a worm under the soil and had a go at crawling through our own tunnels in the garden.  We took turns and gave each other lots of encouragement saying ‘you can do it’!  Well done Nursery!

And of course, after such a wiggly, wormy week, we just had to read the classic Julia Donaldson story ‘Superworm’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKN76BhTbkg

Who knows, we may find our own Superworm in the digging area next week!  But, in the meantime, here are a couple of the other creatures we discovered this week…a centipede and a stag beetle!  Wow!

Last weekend, several of the children told us they had heard fireworks during the night and wondered why? It’s almost the end of November, so they couldn’t have been for Bonfire Night.  They must have been for a different celebration and it seems most likely they were for the Hindu Festival of Lights known as Diwali!

The children were interested to know more, so we watched a BBC video to find out about Diwali and how it is celebrated.  In the video, a girl called Deeya told us all about the special clothes, food, decorations and fireworks she uses to celebrate with her family.  You can rewatch the video here.

We especially loved watching the fireworks and they inspired some fantastic firework pictures!  We also had a go at dressing up in beautiful fabrics, just like Deeya!

We also had our own celebrations this week, as two of our children had birthdays! A very happy birthday to you both!  We made lots of cards, cups of tea and cakes; both inside and out in the garden!

The children also decided they wanted to take a trip to beach to celebrate!  So, they quickly jumped onto the number 57 bus.  No, we didn’t actually leave the garden!  We just used our amazing imaginations and made our very own bus complete with wheels, steering wheel and, as the week went on, a red roof and the numbers 5 and 7.  Mrs Morris also made Oyster cards for the children so they could tap in when the got on the bus!

And when the bus broke down, Miss Cronin rang a mechanic who delivered a box of tools including spanners and spare wheels.  The children quickly set to work, changing the tyres and repairing the bus.  They also remembered to fill up the tank with petrol!  Well done Nursery!

It was no time at all before the bus was back on the road!  I wonder where you will go this weekend (in your imagination!)….?

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

It was so lovely to see all the children back in Nursery this week after our extra long half term!  The children jumped straight back into their play and, thanks to some very mild weather, we spent a lot of time outside…

Over the break, we suggested some home learning activities on Seesaw and we hope you found these useful.  One of the activities was to create your own dinosaur at home and we were so impressed by the results!  All week we have been admiring the pictures and models that have been sent in and adding them to our Steggy display.  It is no problem at all if you didn’t have a chance to create a dinosaur at home as we also gave all the children, including those who had already done one at home, the chance to paint one in Nursery.

I promised the children I would post a photo of Steggy and our all amazing artwork this weekend, so please do take a moment to have a look at it with your child…(and please note, if you cannot see your child’s artwork, it just means we haven’t put it up yet – we still have a few to add!)…we hope it makes you smile!

As always, we read some super stories during story-time this week.  We read the old classic ‘Peace at Last’ by Jill Murphy which you can revisit here:

And we also enjoyed ‘While we can’t hug’ by Eoin McLaughlin.  The children really understood this story and came up with lots of different ways to let someone know they are loved – well done Nursery!

On Wednesday, we joined the whole school and country in being silent for two minutes to remember all the brave people who have died in wars.  We watched this touching CBeebies video to help us with our quiet thinking on Remembrance Day and talked about why people wear poppies on this special day:

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

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