Thorney Close Primary SchoolSaplings Class 2024-2025
Take a look below at our wonderful learning, visits and experiences.
Pictures will be added throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.
We’ve been really busy in nursery over the last few weeks learning our routines. We help with everything from washing our breakfast dishes to sharing out snacks. We’re also becoming really independent in choosing our own activities inside and out. We’ve listened to lots of stories too. One of our favourite stories has been 'Titch'.
The story, 'Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?' is still proving a very popular choice in our book area.
This week in music time with Jen we have continued to focus on our listening skills. We are really beginning to be able to listen and identify different sounds. We are getting so good at hearing the difference between a tambourine, a triangle, a cow bell and a maraca that Jen hid them under a blanket before she played them. Then she let some of us try too.
During music time this week we found out that everything makes a sound. We explored animals sounds, listened to everyday household sounds and began to find out about the sounds of some instruments, including tambourines, triangles and maracas. Jen also introduced us to The Musical World of Mr Zoink.
We have begun to use our beautiful, colourful parachute in nursery. Apart from being lots of fun it helps us to develop rhythm which is really important for our speech and language development. It mostly needs us to use the muscles in our upper body which we need to develop before we can begin to hold a pencil properly. Parachute play also encourages teamwork which helps to promote turn taking and build friendships too.
It was so lovely to welcome so many of our children back to nursery this morning. Together we explored to find the parts of nursery that were the same and those that were different. We were also treated to visit from Jen as this year we will be having our music time on a Thursday.
