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Cubs
Welcome to the Cubs Class Page
In the Nursery/Cubs the class teacher is Mrs Smith. Mrs Harris, Miss Booth and Miss Pawley are the assistant teachers/keyworkers and Mrs Clegg is an assistant teacher.
We all enjoy learning through play and spending time together, both indoors and outdoors, as well as learning in keyworker groups:
Mrs Smith and Mrs Harris work with the Lion Cubs
Miss Booth works with the Bear Cubs
Miss Pawley works with the Panda Cubs
We are looking forward to sharing our learning journey with you.
Granby Guarantee - Nursery
Our Communication Friendly Environment
May 2023
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We all enjoyed a teddy bears picnic at the park. A great time was had by all.
April 2023
Understanding the World
We all enjoyed a trip to Aylestone Meadows, hunting for mini beasts. We found worms, spiders, snails, centipedes, earwigs and slugs.
March 2023
Understanding the World/Expressive Art and Design
We all enjoyed a busy morning working with our families, making Easter crafts. Lots of fun had by all. Happy Easter everyone.
March 2023
Understanding of the World
We have been learning all about London, our capital city. We had a great time enjoying a British tea party.
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March 2023
Literacy - Reading
Here we all are enjoying World Book Day.
We enjoyed sharing the traditional tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and practised a poem to perform on World Book Day.
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February 2023
Physical Development - fine motor skills and healthy eating
We all enjoyed sharing the story 'Handa's Surprise' and learnt all about healthy eating and foods.
We chose 3 healthy fruits and cut them up, practising to use a knife, then we froze them and all enjoyed healthy ice lollies.
January 2023
Understanding the World
We all enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year this week. We practised our fine motor skills, particularly our cutting skills by decorating and making Chinese Lanterns. We had a great time dragon dancing and using the drums to keep the beat.
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December 2022
Understanding the World
We all enjoyed joining in with decoration morning, thinking about the way different communities celebrate Christmas.
December 2022
Understanding the World
Here we are enjoying our Christmas Service to learn about how Christians celebrate Christmas.
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November 2022
Expressive Arts and Design
A sneak preview of a couple of our Christmas nativity songs....
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November 2022
Fine Motor Development
We all enjoyed sharing our key text of the week ‘Goodnight Spaceman’. During the afternoon we read a second story ‘Aliens in Underpants’ and as part of our fine motor development we made play dough aliens and drew underpants for them.
November 2022
Key-worker Maths Group
Here we are practising our careful counting using the five frames. Learning that zero means “nothing there.”
November 2022
Understanding the World
Here we are making poppies for Remembrance Day, learning about the world around us.
October 2022
Child Initiated Play
Here we are busy learning through play. We choose where we want to play, both indoors and outdoors.
October 2022
Key-worker Guided Learning Time
Here we are busy learning in our key groups with our key adults: Mrs Smith/Mrs Harris, Miss Booth and Miss Pawley.
Maths: learning how to make alternate patterns
Fine motor development: making teeth for the crocodile using play dough, whilst developing hand strength and tripod grip ready for writing.
Fine motor development: learning how to hold a pencil correctly, during crocodile teeth.
Phonics: learning how to keep a beat using the claves.
October 2022
Nursery Lunchtime
Here we all are enjoying our lunch together in the classroom. The lunchtime teachers help us at lunchtimes.
