Nursery - The Elephants: Blog items

Street Sounds, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 2:06pm

In Nursery today, we have listened to street sounds and have done a super job at identifying the correct street sounds, the emergency services sounds were the star of the show, as we jumped up ready for action!🚨😊

Funky Fingers Challenge, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 2:03pm

At Nursery, we have enjoyed doing the Funky Fingers Challenge 🌈😊 This helps develop fine motor skills, hand and finger strength, and hand-eye coordination. These are essential foundational skills for everyday tasks and early writing. Good work Elephants 🐘 

 

People Who Help Us Equipment Sorting Activity, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 5th Feb 2026 @ 1:01pm

At Nursery, we have enjoyed doing our People Who Help Us equipment sorting activity- promoting problem solving skills. Super job Elephants 🐘😊

Dear Zoo Tuff Tray & Crafts, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 3rd Feb 2026 @ 4:32pm

In Nursery, we have shown lots of interest in the story Dear Zoo, so we created our very own Dear Zoo Tuff Tray. We have had great fun creating our very own story scenes.

We have even created our very own Elephant Tribe crafts using paper plates. Well done Elephants 🐘😊

Snack and Chat, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 2:07pm

Snack and Chat at Nursery is our favourite 😊

Brain Break Dance, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 1:44pm

At Nursery, we had so much fun doing our Brain Break Dance Freeze- improving focus and attention and enhancing memory and information retention- Super job Elephants Class 😊

Junk Modelling- Fire Trucks, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 28th Jan 2026 @ 3:37pm

Today at Nursery, we have been Junk Modelling and made our very own Fire Trucks. Good job Elephants 😊

Outdoors, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 28th Jan 2026 @ 3:35pm

We love exploring the outdoors at Nursery 😊

People Who Help Us, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 27th Jan 2026 @ 1:36pm

Our next topic in Nursery is People Who Help Us, we are having great fun looking at all the different services that help us in our community, we have set up a Doctors Surgery, a Fire Station and a Post Office 😊

Threading, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 26th Jan 2026 @ 3:41pm

At Nursery we love to use our Funky Fingers. Today we have enjoyed Threading. Developing our fine motor skills. Well done Elephants 😊

Pizza Faces, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 12:00pm

Continuing with our class topic All About Me & Ourselves, we have enjoyed making Pizza Faces 😊

Phonics, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 22nd Jan 2026 @ 12:02pm

Today at Nursery, we have been Phonics Superstars 😊 

Paper Plate Faces, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 21st Jan 2026 @ 12:13pm

Today at Nursery, we have enjoyed making faces using paper plates, we have used scissors developing our fine motor skills and we have looked at all the different shapes on our faces 😊

Water and Sand, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 20th Jan 2026 @ 8:06am

Today at Nursery, we have enjoyed bathing the babies in the water and acting out The Colour Monster in the sand 😊

All About Me and Ourselves, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 12:12pm

Nursery’s class topic is All About Me and Ourselves. We have enjoyed learning all about our bodies, we have looked at the skeleton and have talked about the bones in our body, we have also enjoyed doing the skeleton dance. We have put our cutting skills to the test and created a wonderful display board on what we have learnt. Good job Elephants. 😊

Play-Dough, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 9:18am

Today at nursery, we have made play-dough! And we have enjoyed doing some dough disco 😊

First Week At Nursery, by Miss Farnworth

Date: 15th Jan 2026 @ 4:01pm

We have settled into nursery life brilliantly, we have enjoyed doing lots of team games, getting to know each other in our first week and making new friendships 😊