Purple Poppies
This week the Poppies explored identifying Feelings and Emotions - what they can look like on our faces and what they might look like on someone else.
Week Ending Friday 13th February 2026
Each half term, we teach the children a new poem. By the end of their time in Early Years, the children will know and be able to perform 12 poems!
We use repetition, visual, props and actions to help the children to remember and perform the poem. We regularly revisit the poems that we have learned throughout the year.
Here is the Zebra groups performance of the poem that we learned this week - Popcorn.
Week Ending Friday 6th February 2026 - Purple Poppies
This week, we focused on Nursery Rhymes as part of National Story Telling Week. Each day we learnt a different Nursery Rhyme and took part in lots of fun activities to help with our gross motor, fine motor, creative, literacy and maths skills.
Week Ending Friday 6th February 2026
What a busy week!!
This week was National Story Telling Week and we decided to focus on Traditional Tales. Everyday a "Magic Basket" delivered a different Traditional Tale. We read each story together, acted it out and completed lots of fun activities connected to each book. Some of our activities included, planting "Magic Beans" when we read Jack and the Beanstalk. Making Rice Cake Bears, when we read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Exploring sensory bags, when we read The Gingerbread Man and in the creative area, we used different materials to represent The Three Pigs houses.
Week Ending Friday 30th January 2026 - Purple Poppies
This week, the Poppies explored colour - using colour naming language, colour collections, matching and sorting games and lots of colouful art.
Week Ending Friday 30th January 2026
This week we have celebrated an important Birthday!
Our class bear, Fraser Bear; turned 4!
This led to lots of fabulous opportunities for the children to talk about their own birthdays and their own experiences of parties and presents.
There was lots of mathematical opportunities as we looked at numerals on Birthday cards, counted out candles on playdough cakes and compared the size, shape and weight of birthday presents.
Mark making featured as the children made cards, presents and invitations.
At the end of the week, the children enjoyed decorating cakes and hosting a range of singing and dancing party games!
Week Ending Friday 23rd January 2026 - Purple Poppies
This week week have been reading The Three Little Pigs. We read the story and used the story sack to retell the story ourselves.
We have also been working very hard on our gross and fine motor skills. Some activities have involved using scarves to make big movements and then transferring this onto paper to make our "Piggy Squiggles." To work on our fines motor skills, we used tweezers to pick the piggy tails out of the "pigsty" and match them by colour to the matching piggy's bottom.
Well done Purple Poppies!!
Week Ending Friday 23rd January 2026
This week we have been learning about Birds. We are so lucky at Emmaville, we get to see lots of different birds in our little forest and surrounding trees. The children's knowledge of different birds has been brilliant and they have enjoyed learning even more about some of their favourites.
Some activities this week have been, making bird feeders, bird spotting with our very own binoculars, learning interesting facts about UK birds, learning the Nursery Rhyme, 2 Little Dickie Birds with our very own "Peter and Paul" and much more.
Well done Crawcrook you have superstars!
Week Ending Friday 16th January 2026
This week, we welcomed lots of new friends into nursery.
We were so pleased with how quickly they seem to be settling in, but also so proud of our existing children for showing them the ropes!
Week Ending Friday 9th January 2026
Welcome Back Nursery - we have heard lots of lovely stories about how the children spent their Christmas holidays.
This week we are focusing on going back to routines and lots of Personal, Social and Emotional support through focused activities and play.