Week beginning 1.12.25

This week the children in morning Nursery performed their first Sioe Nadolig on the stage, firstly for their peers on Monday and then for their families on Tuesday. They were SUPER STARS! Their singing and focus on the stage was excellent and we are all so proud of them! A great big thank you to parents for providing the fabulous costumes for the show. 

The children in morning Nursery have also been finding out about Advent in the Christian calendar and what each of the four candles on the advent wreath symbolise. 

The children in afternoon Nursery have enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree and finding out about the Nativity. 

Play is our work! What have we been learning this week?

Phonics rhyme of the week: The Weather

Weather, weather all around,

At times it hardly makes a sound,

Sunny.....sizzle,

Rainy....drizzle,

Lightning....flash!

Thunder....crash!

Windy....breeze,

Rustling....trees,

Snowy....white,

A cold, bright sight,

Weather, weather each season I see,

Changing weather all around me!

Homework:

Can you practise saying the rhyme and using the actions for the different types of weather?

Can you identify the rhyming words?

Parent-Choose a type of weather from the rhyme and say it to your child in sounds.

Eg. s-u-n, r-ai-n, w-i-n-d, s-n-ow. Your child then has to guess the word.

Week beginning 24.11.25

As well as practising for our Sioe Nadolig this week, the children have enjoyed playing collaboratively and creating towers using a variety of materials. This has led to discussion about size, height, shape, how many. Outdoors the children have been creating their own smoothies/potions in the water area, following their request last week whilst playing cafe in the role play. They have loved using shaving foam and cornflour in their creations!

Week beginning 17.11.25

This week the children in morning Nursery have began practising on the stage for their Christmas Show-Sioe Nadolig. We are all very excited! Please can you help us at home by practising the songs that I have posted on Dojo. It is great to see that so many of you are swapping and reusing costumes. The PTA also have a rail of Christmas costumes, so before you think about purchasing any, please take a look if you wish. 

During this week the children have also continued our No Outsiders theme-All different, all welcome! by comparing their physical features. The children have been working in small groups to look in mirrors to identify features of their face, and then to discuss similarirties and differences. Through this activity we have also been developing descriptive language, as well as confidence in oracy. 

Article 7 UNCRC-Children have the right to their own identity.

Afternoon Nursery have also enjoyed creating different faces using playdough and collage, and celebrating that we are all different. 

Week beginning 10.11.25

Another fun packed week in Dragonflies Nursery! As always, we began the week with Movement Monday. The children received a letter from the pumpkins saying they had escaped from our pumpkin shop and were hiding in the forest. The children enjoyed working as a class to locate the runaway pumpkins. Whilst doing so, another letter was found from the pumpkins. The pumpkins were asking the children if they could have some fun before returning to class.....They were desperate to have a go at rolling down a bank. The children throughly enjoyed themselves, taking it in turns to race the pumpkins down the bank. This was a great activity for developing gross motor skills and bodily awareness, especially when the pumpkins had to be rolled up the bank. 

This week was Anti-bullying Week and we began the week by wearing odd socks to celebrate difference. We also remembered our No Outsiders message-All different, all welcome! Throughout the week we have also discussed the importance of kindness and talked about ways of showing it through a Think Equal story called, Helping Hands. 

Article 19 UNCRC: Children have the right to be safe. 

Week beginning 3.11.25

This week the children have been enjoying pumpkins-disecting, playing shop and cooking in mud kitchen. Diolch yn fawr for the donations of pumpkins. The "pumpkin finale" will take place next Monday......photos to follow!

Weeks beginning 13 & 20.10.25

The children enjoyed dressing up for Shwmae Day and learning a "Shwmae" song. We also found out about symbols of Wales and learnt a new song from our Ffa la la Program. This week the children have been practising their hand-eye coordination and deveoping their creative skills through decorating pumpkins for our Halloween Disco. They have also engaged their senses whilst choosing which foliage they would like to put in the pumpkin. 

Week beginning 6.10.25

This week the children have enjoyed working in small groups and taking part in "hot seating" to share their family photos with their friends. They have been learning that there are lots of different ways to be a family, as part of our No Outsiders Program. On Friday we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Day by dressing up in something yellow and talking about how we can be healthy. 

Week beginning 29.9.25

The children enjoyed the addition of the parachute to our Movement Monday sessions. The parachute is an excellent activity for encouraging children to play collaboratively, as well as developing their bodily and spacial awareness. The children also practised identifying rhyming words through the parachute rhyme, Popcorn Pop.

Week beginning 22.9.25

The children are enjoying Squiggle-Dancing specific movements as a whole class and then working in small groups to replicate these movements on large sheets of paper, using chunky markers. Squiggle is our early years program for developing coordination and the movements and directions associated with handwriting. Our focus so far has been top to bottom and bottom to top.

During Movement Monday the children were introduced to working with a partner. Their challenge was to work with their partner to find the animals that had been hidden in the forest and then to pretend to be that animal by making it's noise. This activity was also part of our phonics program, focusing on identifying sounds in the environment. 

Week beginning 15.9.25

This week the children took part in their first Movement Monday session. We didn't let the weather stop us, and we even managed to catch some sunshine! We introduced our new phonics program during this session and the Dewi Dragon challenge was to listen to and identify sounds in our environment. The children enjoyed listening to the wind rustling through the trees, the rain pattering on the roof of the roundhouse, the different vehicles that passed by on the road, and the older children playing in the playground. They learnt a rhyme to help them focus on using their ears to listen:

Listen, listen to the sounds.

Listen to the sounds all around.

You can hear them, let's all try it.

You can hear them if you're quiet.

Week beginning 8.9.25

Our mud kitchen has re-opened this week. The children have enjoyed working together to make some very sloppy treats, as a result of the Autumn showers. A great big thank you to our parents for providing the wellies. If your child's wellies are now too small for them, you can hand them into Mrs Fox, who will offer them to other children if needed, as part of our recycling/re-using mission.