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Head of school message
It has been another busy and happy week at Muriel Green, with lots of wonderful learning happening across the nursery. A particular highlight this week was our Nursery School children taking their learning beyond the nursery gates and visiting the local market to buy bread as part of their work around The Little Red Hen. It was a lovely opportunity for the children to bring their story learning to life, experience their local community and, of course, choose some bread to bring back and enjoy together!
These simple, real-life experiences are such an important part of learning at Muriel Green, helping children to make connections between the stories we share, the world around them and their own experiences. We are already looking forward to seeing where our learning takes us next!
A Big thank you to everyone we smashed our target for Macmillan this years.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone.
Additional Sessions are available in our Day Care
We now have extra daycare sessions available each week, offered on an ad-hoc basis with no weekly commitment required. Availability may vary, and the table below details next week’s available sessions.
To book or enquire, please email admin@murielgreen.herts.sch.uk
Conker Room
Book & Rhyme of the week
Next week, the children will look at the simple and engaging story Dear Zoo, by Rod Campbell. They will discover different animals and their characteristics, sounds and sizes. This will enhance their understanding of the World and their Communication and Language development as they will learn/reinforce new words.
Our Keywords are enormous, fierce, perfect
Our Rhyme this week is Round and Round the Garden
Home Learning: Pick/Pinch skills.
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Ask your child to pick dry pasta shapes with their thumb, index and middle fingers, and drop them in a bottle.
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Put sticky tapes pieces on a table and ask your child to pull them off.
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Acorn Room
Book & Rhyme of the week
Next week, we will be reading I Love Little One. This story helps children explore feelings of love, kindness, and caring relationships. Through the book, the children will enjoy talking about the special people in their lives and taking part in activities that support early communication, language, and personal, social, and emotional development.
Our Rhyme this week is If You're Happy and You Know It.
Home Learning:
This week we will be focusing on teaching the children to copy simple gestures such as pointing, waving and clapping. Emphasising this at home as well as at nursery will support them to learn these skills quicker
Willow Room
Book & Rhyme of the week
Next week, we will continue reading The Colour Monster. The children will further explore different emotions and learn to recognise and talk about their feelings through stories and discussions. This will support their communication and language skills, as well as their personal, social, and emotional development. We look forward to helping the children build confidence in understanding and expressing their emotions.
Our Keywords are Feel, Comfort, Understand
Our rhyme of the week is Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Home Learning: Counting
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Can you help your child to find 10 objects around the house for example, toys, shoes, pants socks and count them by touching each one when counting.
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Can you add more?
Nursery School/birch room
Book & Rhyme of the week
Next week, we will continue reading The Little Red Hen. The children will build on their understanding of the story, exploring the importance of helping others, teamwork, and perseverance. Through a range of fun activities, they will develop their communication and language skills, creativity, and understanding of the world around them.
Our Keywords are Pant, Grind, Bake, Carry, Ready
Our rhyme of the week is Five Aliens in a Flying Saucer
Home Learning:
Have a go at baking some bread like the Little Red Hen. This is the very simple recipe we used in Nursery to make a delicious soda bread:
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Mix dry ingredients 350g plain white flour, 1 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
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Mix wet ingredients 200ml milk (dairy or dairy free alternative) and 1 tbsp lemon juice
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Combine dry and wet ingredients until they come together as dough
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Shape dough into a ball and place on a floured baking sheet
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Cut a deep cross into the dough
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Bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven 180C/ 160C fan/ gas mark 4
You may also like to visit a local mill Home - Redbournbury Mill
Success Story of the Week!
This week in Conker Room, we have been focusing on activities that support the development of early writing skills, particularly shoulder stability, which is an important foundation for fine motor development. Strong shoulder muscles help children hold their arms steady while moving their wrists, hands, and fingers independently, making future mark-making and writing tasks easier.
To make learning fun and engaging, we transformed our writing area by moving it underneath the table! The children enjoyed exploring this new environment and were excited to make marks while lying on the floor. An adult led the activity using The Wheels on the Bus song, encouraging children to make marks up and down, side to side, and round and round to match the actions in the song. The children eagerly joined in, copied the movements, sang along, and took turns choosing different parts of the song.
This activity supported several areas of learning within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), including Physical Development through strengthening shoulder and arm muscles, Communication and Language through singing and sharing ideas, Literacy through early mark-making experiences, Expressive Arts and Design through creative exploration, and Personal, Social and Emotional Development as children took turns and worked alongside their friends. The children also developed their spatial awareness as they carefully moved around the space. It was a wonderful example of how meaningful learning can happen through play and exploration while the children simply saw it as fun!
sign of the Week
All absences must be reported to the school either by leaving an absence message or emailing admin@murielgreen.herts.sch.uk, We politely ask that if you plan to take your child out during school time, you notify the Nursery office. For appointments, we ask where possible that these are not during the school day. If this is not avoidable, please kindly share the relevant information for this appointment in order for us to be able to authorise this. Regular attendance at Nursery is very important, as it helps children build the foundational knowledge and skills they will need as they move through school. Establishing good attendance habits now supports a smoother transition into primary school and helps ensure children develop positive routines that will benefit them throughout their educational journey. Thank you for your continued support in helping your child attend regularly and on time.
