Nursery activities

• • Vegetable growing.
  • Observing and watching the wildlife – and providing food and habitats for them.
  • Designing and constructing obstacle courses.
  • Climbing trees.
  • Using the tree house and tents and making dens.
  • Exploring the digging patch through making mud pies, planting and digging.
  • Playing with trollies, wheelbarrows, balls, balance bikes and hoops.
    
    
• • Reading books – in groups and one to one.
  • Mark making – drawing and early writing.
  • Cooking
  • Dance daily with staff – once weekly a dance session led by a professional dancer.
  • Music daily – and weekly a Da Capo Music teacher visits the big room.
  • Water play – discovering volume, capacity, pouring, sinking and floating, bubbles, temperature, etc.
  • Sand play – wet and dry, weights, moulding.
  • Playdough: making objects, pretend cooking, exploring differing textures, making the dough.
  • Sorting toys, jigsaws, board games – introducing numbers and sets, classifying.
  • Role play – home corner, dens, dolls house, animals and small world toys.
  • Art activities – painting, modelling, junk modelling, drawing, chalking – all on tables, the floor or outdoors.