Chaucer Community Primary School

Nursery Blog – Autumn 2

Remembrance Day

This week we have enjoyed learning all about Remembrance Day. The children enjoyed looking at Mrs Gough’s grandad’s army medals. We then looked at these to design our own medals. We have looked at poppies and created our own using a variety of media – clay, loose parts, paint and chalk. We created our own cenotaph using small and large construction materials. Later in the week we enjoyed looking at Children in Need. We had a special visitor (Pudsey) a few weeks ago which we relooked at and have enjoyed creating our own Pudsey pictures.

Diwali

We have enjoyed looking at Diwali this week. The children have enjoyed learning all about the festival and how we celebrate it. We used clay to create our own Diya lamps. Outside we have enjoyed using the shapes to create different Rangoli patterns. We have also enjoyed making our own firework wands and recreated the fireworks using our gross motor skills outside. We even used breadsticks and chocolate and looked at melting to create out own sparkler sticks.

Halloween

This week we have enjoyed looking at Halloween. The children enjoyed exploring the pumpkin and cutting shapes out of it. We have enjoyed looking at the text “Pumpkin Soup” and we then created our own Pumpkin Soup practicing our knife skills cutting the different vegetables. We have been building towers and talking about height, seeing how high we could make them. In P.E we have been developing our gross motor skills, building our balancing on the benches and throwing different objects.