Nursery
Welcome to Nursery 2019
Achieving Excellence Together
Fordbridge Nursery Staff 2019/2020
Week Beginning 06.07.2020 Theme: Music to my ears
Week Beginning 29.06.2020 Theme: Let the games begin
Week Beginning 22.06.2020 Theme: Brum through the years - Can you think of all the places you can visit in Brum and complete activities linked to there? Here are some ideas for you...
Week Beginning 15.06.2020 Theme: Food Glorious Food
Lots of ideas for our new theme this week-Food Glorious Food
Around the world activity ideas
Week Beginning 8.06.2020 Theme: Around the World
Miss Laura plays and sings the Wibble Wobble Song
Week Beginning 1.06.2020 Theme: Under the Sea
Homemade Slime - 1/4 cup chia seeds, 1 3/4 cups of water and 4 cups of corn flour
Number Recognition Bingo - Ask someone to call the numbers out for you and colour them in when you find it!
Name Writing - Are you practising writing your name ready for Reception?
DIY Marble Run
Save the dinosaurs from the ice cubes - freeze your dinosaurs over night and enjoy trying to get them out!
We’re Going on a Sound Hunt
Flower letters
Hand moulds - To make these you need 1cup flour, 1cup salt and 1/2cup water
Have a go at completing a car colour survey
Nature Names - Can you use natural resources to make your name?
Wriggle, wriggle little caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
Look how much they have grown!
The tomato plants are growing big now! Updated 21.5.2020
The Slip, Slop, Slap song for sun safety.
Sun safe information
George The Sun Safe Superstar! Read the story all about George and find out how to become a Sun safe superstar too 🌞
These Caterpillars are growing fast! I hope you enjoy watching them grow. I think it's exciting what do you think? 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 19.5.2020
Tiny little Caterpillars 🐛 They are starting to grow 16.5.2020
My tomato seeds are growing! Have you tried it at home yet? Are your seeds growing too? Why not share them on Twitter so that your teachers can see them.
Miss Laura
My Dog is a Good Dog
Graph Sorting - Fun maths activity for you to try at home 🔢
Solihull sports are doing a virtual sports competition.
It is a great chance for all children to represent the school and to get active. Also, the school could win some prizes and beat other schools.
Gross Motor Number Recognition Game: Can you throw the balls at the numbers and tell a grownup what number it is?
Estimation Jars: Can you estimate how many buttons, Haribo and Lego are in each jar?
Ice cube painting
Dandelion clocks.
This is something Mrs Lander and Mrs Rooke love to do at Forest school 😊 See if you can find a dandelion clock when you go out for your walk or in your garden and share it with us on Twitter or Tapestry. Watch the seeds fly away!
Let Mrs Lander know on Twitter if you spot any of these beauties when you go out for your daily exercise. 🐛🦋
Bombini the Bee
Mark making in sand
Sensory play ideas
VE Day - Why don't you make a model air raid shelter, a tank or make and colour a paper aeroplane. Please add them to our Twitter page so we can see them or put them on Tapestry.
Play your instrument
Miss Laura says you will need a shaker. We have played and sung this one in nursery before.
Rainbow Rock painting
Egg box colour nature hunt
Fun Maths activity ideas
1, 2, 3 Pancake Recipe
Growing tomatoes. I heard that you can grow tomatoes like this, put your tomatoes in the soil and then cover them up, water them and hopefully watch them grow. I will let you know when mine start growing 🤞🌱 Why not try this at home! Mrs. Lander
Fordbridge Anthem
Recipe for play dough, this is how Mrs Rooke makes it in nursery
1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of salt
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of cooking oil
1 teaspoon of cream of tartar/small sachet
Few drops of food colouring
Mix all the ingredients together and place in a microwave for 2 minutes, mix again and microwave again for 2 minutes.
It should be done now but might need another 10 or 20 seconds in the microwave. It will be very hot so make sure to cool it down, the children love feeling the warm playdough. Enjoy!
This makes quite a bit of playdough but it keeps quite well because of the salt which acts as a preservative. Wrap in clingfilm when not in use to prevent it from drying out.
Cooking with kids: Easiest ever bread recipe
Make the most of time at home and bake your own bread with this super simple recipe, which is perfect for cooking with kids. With 5 simple store cupboard ingredients, you can create delicious fresh loaves when you need them, without leaving the house.
- 5-10 minutes
- 500g bread flour (granary, strong wholewheat or white), 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast, 1 tsp salt, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp clear honey, a loaf tin
Method:
Remind your child to always wash their hands before you start cooking.
- Tip the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl. Now, your child can mix it all together with their clean fingers.
- Help them to fill a jug with 300ml warm water and add the oil and honey. Then they can pour it into the dry ingredients to stir it to make a soft dough.
- Sprinkle a little flour onto a surface. Tip out the dough and knead for 5 minutes, until the dough no longer feels sticky. You can sprinkle on a little more flour if you need to.
- Oil the loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Put in a large plastic food bag and leave to rise for 1 hr. Alternatively, place the loaf tin inside a large bowl and pop a tea towel over the top.
- Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
- Make several slashes across the top of the loaf with a sharp knife (keep little hands out of the way for this bit!), then bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and golden. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked. It should sound hollow.
Baking is science!
This recipe is particularly good because children can touch the ingredients and feel them changing at every stage of the recipe.
A huge hello from Mrs Reilly and the Nursery team! 🙂
Skittles - You could make your own skittles using bottles or cardboard tubes (toilet rolls). Decorate them and put numbers on them. Can you recognise the numbers that you knock down and see if you can write the numbers down. Can you add the numbers together?
Sleeping Bunnies
Easter song number 3 from Miss Laura
Little Peter Rabbit
Miss Laura with her second Easter song
Chick chick chick chick chcken
An Easter song from Miss Laura
Zip a dee doo dah - Another song from Miss Laura
Child friendly messages
Phase 1 Easter Competition
Look at the picture clues and try to find out which book they refer to
Miss Laura sings and signs "3 Little Birds"
Indoor scavenger hunt
Easter craft ideas
Miss Laura sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Miss Laura sings Incy Wincy Spider
Miss Laura sings Hello
'Please supervise your child whilst on the internet to keep them safe at all times'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
World Book Day - Nursery went to the year 5 classes today where the older children read a book to them
Forest School
We are reading the book Each Peach Pear Plum.
We learnt about Mr Wolf's Pancakes. We made pancake batter and watched Mrs Smith fry and toss pancakes. The pancakes tasted yummy.
we have been learning about Kipper's Birthday
We are celebrating Chinese New Year
We have been reading One Snowy Night featuring Percy the Park Keeper
Donkey visit
It's Christmas!
Forest school - using the storm kettle.
Using a storm kettle at Forest school.
Children in Need
Fireman Sam came to visit today
Mud kitchen
Our homework wall
Celebrating bonfire night at Forest School with our family
Bonfire Night Display
Vegetable exploration
We went on our first visit to Forest School
Working together
We learnt about Maisy and Spot
The children painted pictures of their homes and made pictures using shapes
Paper plate bears
Settling In
Self Portraits
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Phonics 
In Nursery we teach the children about listening skills, rhyming and will begin to show children how to form letters and make marks.
To help you at home why not click on the links below to access some free RWI resources and phase one phonics games.
Please feel free to use the resources made available on our Reception class page below there are resources Thank you
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Would you like to find out more about Read Write Inc? Well here’s your chance … click on the image to view some sample lessons.
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Fantastic free phonics games for your budding reader to play at home.
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The CBeebies ALPHABLOCKS has a great where your children can play games and enjoy short videos.
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Here is a free website to help you support your child with reading and to foster a love for reading. Here you will find over 100 FREE ebooks to enjoy with your child. A great way to keep them reading over the holidays.
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Check out our Nursery website regularly to see what we are learning about
Sun Safe Nursery!
Sun safe update.
Sun Safe Superstars! How to stay safe in the Sun.
Sun safety information for parents.
General
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