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W/B 5th January 2026

This week our concept in nursery was ‘feelings/emotions’ with a focus on the language:

Happy, sad, scared, upset, angry, hot and cold. Our new language this term is excited, calm and surprised.

We have shared the stories The Colour Monster, Hospital Dog and Feelings along with lots of other books related to feelings and emotions. Our songs related to this have been Miss Polly had a Dolly and If You’re Happy and You Know It.

Some of our provision has included using mirrors to look at their faces, explore colours related to how they feel using paints etc, create chalk faces in hoops, bubble play, vet role play, ice play and warm water play.

We have been thinking about numbers to 5 by counting forwards and backwards to 5 in games and within provision in Maths and will sing lots of counting songs such as 5 Speckled Frogs, 5 Little Ducks and 5 Monkeys on the Bed.

W/B 29th September 2025

This week our concept in the nursery has been size and weight. The concept language we have covered for this was:

Level 1: heavy, little

Level 2: empty, full, small, big

Level 3: large, light, bigger

Level 4: heavier, lighter

The stories we shared are The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Too Heavy, Too Light and Have You Filled Your Bucket Today?. Bumblebees have also been learning the songs I Have a Tiny Turtle and Roly Poly Big and Small.

This week in the nursery some of our provision has included:

Small world role play of our stories, tower building, Duplo and wooden blocks, playing with different sized objects, exploring sizes and weights of natural objects, mud play and water play.

Also in the nursery this week:

Maths has been linked to exploring size and weight using scales to investigate weights of various objects and Phonics has been listening games.

What a fun week we’ve had exploring sizes and weights in Bumblebees!

W/B 22nd September 2025

This week, our concept in nursery has been ‘colour’. The concept language that Bumblebees focussed on within the classroom provision was:

Level 1: red, green, blue

Level 2: yellow

Level 3: orange, pink and purple.

The books we have shared are Pete the Cat and his White Shoes, Mixed and Mix it Up, which the children have really enjoyed. Within the classroom provision, Bumblebees have been colour detectives in their play, they have also played with colourful scarves and enjoyed getting messy with paints in the outside area whilst exploring colour mixing with their hands!

As always, we have sung lots of songs this week.

We’ve had so much fun learning the language around colours in Bumblebees!