Learning Journey

Autumn learning 

Settling in

During our first few weeks at Mount Pleasant Nursery, we have explored our classroom, school and the outside areas, including forest school. We've have taken part in lots of different activities and learnt some new routines. 

Fun Day

We enjoyed a fun day on the inflatables at the end of our summer term as a treat! 

Summer Learning 

This half term we've enjoyed fruit tasting, as part of our learning based on the story of Handa's Surprise. We've also completed an indoor sports day, baking and watching England in the World Cup! 

Minibeasts

Our topic focus this half term has been Minibeasts. We have been observing the changes that occur in a butterfly’s lifecycle, learning all about Minibeasts and their features and we had a visit from ZooLab. The children had the opportunity to hold a Corn Snake, Giant African Millipede and Giant African Snake.

Number

This half term we’ve been learning about number, each week we focused on a different number (0-5). We completed number hunts around the round, counted objects, matched numeral and quantity and used Numberblocks to support our learning.

Road Safety

In May, we had our Road Safety week. We talked about always holding an adult’s hand when walking near or crossing a road and practised practically on our playground. The children enjoyed completed lots of different activities within the continuous provision.

Celebrations 

This half term we’ve celebrated lots of different celebrations, including Mother’s Day, Eid ul-fitr and Easter. We planted bulbs and decorated plant pots a part of our mother day gifts. For Eid, Mrs Rehman shared her experiences, along with tasting some traditional food and the children practised the pencil control to make Mehndi patterns. For Easter we’ve made Easter egg nests, Easter cards and enjoyed an Easter disco!

Stories we've been reading 

We’ve been reading lots of lovely stories and based our learning around them. On world book day we enjoyed traditional stories such as Goldilocks and the three bears, The 3 little pigs and decorated a gingerbread person, from the story of The Gingerbread man. We’ve also enjoyed reading stories such as ‘What the ladybird heard’, ‘Giraffe’s can’t Dance’ and ‘Shark in the park’.

Shape 

This half term we’ve been learning about 2D shape. We’ve enjoyed drawing, creating art and spotting these shapes around the classroom.

Lost and Found 

One of our story focuses this half term has been Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. We’ve enjoyed retelling the story along with learning about Antarctica, and Penguins through our continuous provision activities.  

Winter

This half term we’ve been learning about the season of winter. We’ve created art, explored ice, been on a Winter Walk and thought about the clothes we need to wear, to keep warm.