Five Minutes Peace

This week we read the book 'Five minutes peace'.

Our learning time this week we spent quite a bit of time outside 

with the lovely weather learning with different cars, making bird feeders 

and being in the shared area. 

    

    

    

During adult directed activities we listened to the story, 

created a shopping list using food magazines, scissors and glue and 

practised our memory skills by looking at a tray and finding what is missing. 

    

    

Maths

This week in maths we sorted a collection of different coloured 

objects. 

    

Boogie Tots 

This week we danced along to lots of different songs to get our 

heart rates up.

  

This is the bear

This week our book was called 'This is the bear'. 

During our learning time we explored how to use 

graters and peelers with different vegetables. We also 

used teddy bears for a tea party and we used a mirror to draw our reflection.

    

    

Our adult direct activities this week involved drawing a 

teddy bear picture to post home, to walk to the postbox and 

to look at different teddy books. 

    

    

Maths 

This week we explored dots and how many we could find around the room. 

    

Boogie Tots

During our boogie tots session we danced along to our book. 

    

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing resilience every day and improving in going to lunch and 

after school club. 

Ten Little Pirates 

This week we looked at the story 'Ten Little Pirates'. 

We explored our environment with fine motor skills inside and

outside. We also used musical instrustments 

to express how we feel alongside friends. 

    

    

Our adult directed this week we created treasure maps, 

we danced like pirates and we read the book. 

    

    

Maths

This week we looked at how we can build a tower for Humpty dumpty 

to sit on, looking at shapes which shapes can stay stable. 

    

Boogie Tots 

This week we help the three little pigs build their homes using dance moves.

    

World Book Day

We celebrated world book day with a book sale, 

drinks and cake also having the chance to sit and read with grown ups. 

    

Pancake Day 

In our environment we also had the opportunity to explore 

how we make pancakes and explore the textures. 

    

Greenfield Greatness 

For improving all values and for improving on speech. 

Old McDonald had a farm 

During our exploring time, we created bubbles using 

different equipment, we had a tea party and we freely created pictures 

with a variety of textures. 

            

Our adult directed activities this week involved lots 

of singing and dancing, creating our own animals and we 

went on an animal hunt. 

    

    

    

Maths

This week we looked at take 1,2,3. We encouraged children to 

count and take 1 away using objects as reference. 

    

Phonics

This week we started our phonics journey using phonics shed. 

We have been introduced to Jo and where he lives. 

    

Boogie Tots

We started back with boogie tots and we used 

pom-poms to dance to different music. 

    

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing resilience in becoming more independent. 

Incy Wincy Spider 

This week our song was Incy Wincy Spider. 

During our learning this week we explored mark making, 

cutting skills and different textures. 

    

      

  

Our adult directed activities this week we sang the song with other

songs with a similar beats, we decorated chocolate cupcakes as spiders 

and we looked at different seasons and what weather we expect in

the seasons. 

    

    

Fussy Eater workshop

We held a fussy eater workshop for parents and children to 

experience different foods we offer at snack time. This allowed 

children to try new foods and share this time with parents. 

    

Maths 

This week we explored patterns and creating

our own patterns. 

  

PE 

Our final PE lesson for this term and we completed 

an advance obstacle course. 

    

Valentine's Day

  

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing wellbeing by settling well into new nursery. 

Fox's Socks

This week our book was 'Fox's socks'. 

During our learning time we created a winter paintings,

investigated the ice and tipping and pouring of 

different water colours. 

    

        

    

During adult led activities we looked at matching socks, we 

designed our own sock and we made snowflakes for the season tree.

             

Maths

This week we looked at positional language such as 'on top', 

'under', 'behind', 'in front' and 'next to'. 

    

PE

This week we were pirates, having to keep the ship 

clean using different movements. 

   

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing resilience by coming into nursery with a smile. 

 

The Three Billy Goats Gruff 

This week we looked at the book The Three Billy Goats Gruff. 

During our learning time, we explored building with outside equipment,

hanging up the washing and we used materials to express 

different emotions. 

    

    

Our adult led activities this week involved reading the book, 

creating a goat face using different materials and 

we looked at size ordering using different objects. 

    

    

Maths 

This week we counted 1,2,3 using different methods such as 

jumping through hoops, singing and counting 

objects. 

    

PE 

This week we focused on ball control using our bodies 

and pe equipment. 

    

Chinese New Year 

On Wednesday 29th January we explored Chinese New Year

by exploring Chinese writing and snack we tasted Chinese food. 

    

Greenfield Greatness

For showing aspiration for exploring the environment 

of her choosing. 

Poo in the Zoo

Our book this week is Poo in the Zoo. 

We explored our environment with bricks, cutting different materials 

and balancing along beams. 

    

    

    

Our adult directed activities this week we read the book, 

we spoke about how to keep clean and used babies to investigate this and 

we also used our fine motor skills to draw our favourite animal. 

    

    

  

Maths 

This week we looked at how numbers can be shown which 

we used songs to explore this. 

    

PE 

This week we had our last week of the obstacle course 

which we continued to balance and improve core muscles. 

    

Greenfield Greatness 

For improving his welling by finding a way 

to support his own wellbeing coming into nursery. 

Three Little Pigs 

Our book this week was 'Three Little Pigs'. 

We explored our environment with ice, vegetables and dolls house. 

We also had tipping and pouring with natural resources. 

        

    

Our adult directed activities this week has involved looking 

at different size bricks to build a house, we made pig face biscuits 

using different ingredients and we also drew the characters 

from the story. 

      

    

    

PE Lesson

We completed an obstacle course using different 

muscles and body parts.

     

Maths

We investigated different shapes and what they looked using words such as 

‘sharp’, ‘pointy’, ‘curvy’, ‘round’ and ‘flat’, 

    

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing teamwork by settling in and becoming 

apart of the Greenfields team.

January 2025

Our first week back

We have had a lovely first week back welcoming new friends, getting back 

into routine and continuing our learning. 

Our song this week was '5 little monkeys'. 

While exploring outside this week with plenty of ice, snow and

cold weather we still made our new friends feel welcome and built relationships. 

We used different equipment to move the snow from one side to the other 

and created tracks using vehicles.

    

    

    

Our adult directed activities this week we sang the song counting along, 

we created our own monkey story props and we went on a monkey 

number hunt around the school. 

    

    

  

Our first PE lesson with Mr Brooks 

We used different movements to move around the hall 

at different heights. 

    

Maths

This week we looked at different stories and songs that 

had repeating words and actions. 

  

Greenfield Greatness 

For showing resilience in taking part in our lunchtime routine 

and continue to improve each day. 

 

Christmas Week 

This week we have had lots of Christmas craft, count down to Christmas and activities

within the classroom. 

We went to the Christmas fair, we made reindeer food and we had our 

Christmas party. 

    

    

      

    

We also had a visit from some special this week who kindly 

gave all the children a gift. 

  

Wind the bobbin up 

This week our song was "Wind the bobbin up".

During our learning time we explored different textures and

making marks, chopping skills and painting 

on mirrors.

      

    

Our adult directed activities this week we made bobbins, 

we sang the song and we practised our cutting skills. 

    

    

Christmas activities

This week we had a Christmas craft stay and play, Christmas camp fire and 

Christmas arts and crafts. 

        

    

Boogie Tots 

This week we had a special visitor come to our session 'Candy the Elf'. 

We had festive fun, dancing like a penguin and the Grinch came 

to visit. 

    

  

Be brave little penguin 

This week our book is called 'Be brave little penguin'.

During our learning time this week we washed up some pots and pans, 

we drew on different textures outside and decorated our Christmas tree. 

    

    

Our adult direct activities this week have been lots of movements and 

being creative. We mad penguins using different resources,

we moved like penguins and we looked at the story. 

    

   

Maths

This week we sang 'Goldilocks and the three bears' and we counted 

how many bowls, chairs and bears we could see, counting them in order '1,2,3'.

Boogie Tots 

This week we had boogie tots and danced along to the gingerbread 

man story. 

    

Titch

This week our book was 'Titch'. 

During our learning time we explored spaghetti using scissors, the 

outside area with sand and different vehicles. We also looked at mini me pictures, 

we used paints on different resources and we investigated different types 

of reading materials.

   

    

During our adult led activities we looked at the book, we explored different 

size natural resources and we also created kites. Also 

we played different size instruments. 

    

   

   

Maths

This week we continued to count using songs to support this. We counted 

forward and backwards. We sang '1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive' and 

'Zoom, zoom, zoom we going to the moon'. 

Boogie Tots 

During our boogie tots session we were pirates walking the plank. 

  

Guess how much I love you 

This week our book was 'Guess how much I love you' book. 

During our learning time we had lots of opportunities to explore 

the outside area due to cold weather we had ice, rain and autumn leaves. 

Also during our learning time we had different animals from around 

the world. 

              

Our adult led activities this week we looked at the book, we moved like different 

animals, we collected natural resources to create a collage and we drew 

something we loved. 

    

    

    

Maths 

This week we looked at number order and recognise numbers. We did this 

through songs. 

    

We had another boogie tots session this week. 

    

Dear Zoo 

This week our book was Dear Zoo. 

During our learning time we looked at books, tipping and pouring 

and building on different levels. The children also experimented 

outside with different resources to create potions. 

   

    

Remembrance Day 

We watched a video which helped support the understanding of why some 

people wear poppies and why we remember. We also had resources out to

explore poppies. 

    

During our adult led activities we looked at the book and discussed what 

animals we saw in the book. We also wrote letters to the zoo to ask for

an animal. Also we went to the theatre to see 'Dear Zoo' on stage. 

    

 

  

Maths 

For our maths this week we looked at AB patterns using natural resources. 

    

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall"

This week our song has been 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall'. 

We have had a few new friends start with us so we have 

helped them explore the surroundings. 

Outside we made ice creams using shaving foam and natural resources, 

made our own train tracks and explored the leaves in the natural environment. 

        

Our adult led activities this week we played musical instruments to

the beat of 'Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall', we protected the 

egg by using different materials to see which one would 

keep the egg whole and we decorated our own eggs. 

        

   

Maths this week we looked at repeating songs and how words 

are repeated in a certain way. We used musical instruments to 

support recognising the repeating words and rhythm.

  

We also had a Boogie tots session, which involved dancing, singing and having fun.

    

 

"If your happy and you know it"

Our last song of the term is was "If your happy and you know it"

Our learning this week has involved exploring pumpkin tea, different books 

and using cameras to see how the world looks. 

        

     

During our adult led activities this week we learnt 'If your happy and you know it' and 

created our own version of the song. 

     

This week in Maths we looked at natural resources and what shapes we 

can make using them and create a model. We also used recycled materials 

to create a rocket. 

    

    

  

Hugasaurs 

This weeks book was 'Hugasaurs'.

We have explored our new bath tub with different reading resources 

and materials. Experimenting outside with different root 

vegetables, exploring the home corner and autumn tuff tray. 

        

   

Our adult led activities this week involved going on a dinosaur hunt, 

looking at our reflections and drawing how we feel and looking 

at different real life emotion pictures. 

    

          

Our maths this week, we looked at shapes and the difference between 

big and small shapes. 

    

The Ugly Duckling 

Our book this week was 'The Ugly Duckling'.

We have explored building with mobilo, counting cubes, decorating bread with 

different colours to enjoy for snack. We spent time in garden practising our

cutting skills. 

           

    

During our adult led activities we read the book, we made duck food which 

we took on our trip to Mote Park to feed the ducks. Also we listened 

to 'The Ugly Duckling' song and created our own music. 

        

      

    

    

Our maths this week, we went on a button hunt to see how many we 

could find, which buttons did we have more of or less than. 

    

      

 

That's not my dinosaur 

This week we have been looking at 'That's not my dinosaur'. 

We have explored mirror drawing, exploring different blocks, tipping and pouring

and walking along balanced beams. 

    

      

During our adult led activity we looked at scissor control. We went to the sand 

pit and became Paleontologist and we also looked at other textured books. 

        

 

    

Our maths this week we looked at collections of natural resources 

and how many more or fewer we had in our collections. 

    

 

Hug 

This week we have been looking at the book 'Hug'. 

We have investigated using water play with natural resources, train tracks with different 

ramps and tunnels and explored a variety of books. 

          

In our adult led activities this week we have looked at our emotions and 

how we feel. We made colour emotion jars to show our feelings

in colour. Also we looked at animal habits and where they come from. 

Furthermore, we looked at the letters in the word ''Hug" and 

the word format. 

            

 

    

 

    

    

 

"Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

This week we have been focusing on the song head, shoulders, knees and toes.

We have had lots of sticking, cutting and glueing during children interacted learning 

time. The children have enjoyed being creative using different

resources. 

         

In our adult led activities this week, we have been creative through dancing and singing. 

We have also had a go at singing "Head, shoulders, knees and toes" in Polish with

the help from Mrs M. We counted our body parts and we went on 

a body hunt around the garden in groups. 

    

    

 

Second week- Settling in

Another week of settling in with new friends and meeting new families.  

The children have enjoyed exploring all the setting and our shared garden area. 

 

                      

During our adult led activities, we looked at how tall and small each child was to create

a height tree, we found different ways to make numbers to form 

a number line, we found different leaves from outside to create our own 

season leaves and we looked at our families and drew family portraits. 

         

First week - Settling in 

This week we have welcomed our new friends and families to Greenfields. We have been getting to 

know everyones likes, interests and things they enjoy.

We have explored the rooms and outside area 

finding all of the new exciting resources. 

                 

                           

     

As part of our adult led activity we got to know each other, explored books and used musical instruments.