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Nursery Blog – 25.09.26
Phonics We have continued to focus on developing our early phonics listening skills. Phase 1 phonics helps build crucial listening abilities. This week, we created a farm setting and made various animal noises for the children to identify the corresponding animals. We also reread “Dear Zoo” and collectively made some impressive animal sounds as a […]
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Phonics This week, we began our phonics sessions. We have been using our “robot arms” and “blending hands” to blend phonemes (the sounds of letters) and form recognisable words. We have also been using our “listening ears” to identify different sounds in our environment. Maths During our maths sessions this week, we focused on the […]
Read newsNursery Blog – 11.09.26
Dear Zoo This half term, we will be focusing on the book ‘Dear Zoo.’ We will also be reading lots of other books. By concentrating on ‘Dear Zoo,’ we expect the children to participate in repetitive chanting and actions. We will discuss the different animals in the book and make their sounds, such as stomping […]
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Phonics We have continued to look at the grapheme and phoneme for ‘g’. The children have practised forming it and have identified it on a letter grid. Maths This week, we have continued to practise our counting skills. We have sung songs and participated in action songs to represent different amounts. Everything else It has […]
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Phonics We introduced the grapheme and phoneme for the letter ‘g’. The children were able to think of many words beginning with this phoneme, and together we sounded out and blended several words. Maths This week, we continued to practise our counting skills by adding carriages to a train and counting how many we had. […]
Read newsNursery blog – 03.07.26
Phonics During our phonics sessions, we have practised forming the grapheme ‘d’. We have also found the grapheme on a letter grid. Word Aware This week, we have looked at the words ‘small’ and ‘slow’. Maths We looked at the book Big and Small. The children compared items in the story to determine which were […]
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Phonics During our phonics sessions, the children have looked at the phoneme and grapheme for ‘d’. They have thought about words beginning with ‘d’ and practised sounding out and blending words beginning with ‘d’. Word Aware This week, the children have looked at ‘short’ and ‘side’. Maths We read Bears in Beds to look at […]
Read newsNursery Blog – 19.06.26
Phonics This week, we have continued to look at the grapheme and phoneme for ‘m’. We have practised the formation and found it on a letter grid. Word aware We have looked at the words ‘shiny’ and ‘second’. Math The children have been using their listening skills to support counting this week. We dropped pebbles […]
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Phonics In our phonics sessions, we introduced the phoneme and grapheme for ‘m’. We explored words that begin with ‘m’ and blended CVC words that start with ‘m’. Concept words This week, we have looked at the words ‘rough’ and ‘same’. Maths For our maths learning, we have looked at and practised creating line patterns […]
Read newsNursery Blog – 05.06.26
Naughty Bus During this half term, we will be reading ‘Naughty Bus.’ Our focus will be on sequencing the events in the story and retelling it. The book is designed to encourage conversation, so we will discuss the actions in the story and consider how we might change them. The children have enjoyed watching the […]
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