Welcome to the Buzzy Bee class! The class is made up of 3 and 4 year olds. Our classroom is the first you come across from the entrance into the nursery garden. One side of the classroom is full of windows with a perfect view of the nursery garden for the children to look out upon as they play in the classroom. In the Buzzy Bee room we have a cookery area, equipped with child sized resources and outfits.
The position of our classroom means we have the furthest to walk to our Woodland Garden for woodland days – this makes the journey across the main nursery garden feel more like an adventure for the day! Although we might be the furthest from the Woodland Garden we are the closest to the library, this makes it easy for spontaneous quiet story times.
As with all the classrooms we have divided up the areas using shelving, so children have direct and easy access to the resources available to support their independent play. We tend to have many resources that stay the same, so that children can return to their activities over a period of time and revisit their favourite activities. However, we also add resources that may be of interest to the children, such as wedding outfits, or hairdressing equipment in the home corner.
All children have their own designated coat peg. Upon arrival we encourage children to find their peg and put all their belongings away.
Information for parents can be found in a variety of places including the parents notice board inside the classroom and on the whiteboard outside of the classroom door.
Who is in the Buzzybee Team?
- Katy - Class Teacher
- Caroline - Classroom Deputy / Classroom Senco
- Katie - Early Years Assistant
- Carly - Early Years Assistant
- Wendy - Centre Support Worker
- Sophie - Early Years Assistant
- Kelly - Early Years Assistant
- Louise - Early Years Assistant
Spring Term 2 - 2025
Our core story is ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ which the children have embraced since day one! They really got to grips with the story, and have enjoyed role playing and retelling the story, using story props including the characters to help them. We have painted, drawn and printed lots of bears using different shades of brown paint. The children have been playing with porridge oats and different sized bowls and spoons. We’ve eaten porridge for snack just like the story, and used oats to make flapjack, which was very popular at snack time!
The children have embraced our bear songs including ‘The Bear Went Over the Mountain’ and especially ‘When Goldilocks went to the House of the Bears’.
The children have been exploring the season of Spring. We have been talking about and looking for signs of Spring in the garden and have looked at some information books about the season. We have spoken about changes in the weather and that we do not always need to wear our coats as it starting to get warmer.
An adult demonstrated how to make a pancake on Shrove Tuesday and the children had a pancake for snack if they wanted to. Lots of the children enjoyed them and some had extras. We did some pancake and bear races in the garden.
Ellie Sandall came to visit us and she read one of her stories ‘Every Bunny Dance’. The children made bunny ears, did some dancing, played some instruments in a bunny band and Ellie drew some rabbits for the children to colour.
The children listened to some different stories during World Book Day and some choose to come to nursery dressed up as their favourite character. Thank you to all the family members that came and joined us in the classroom to share a story with their child.
Thank you for your continued support
Spring Term 1 - 2025
Hello from the Buzzy Bees! This half term just like the Butterflies we have been looking at and talking about our core story ‘Whatever Next!’ by Jill Murphy. The children are gaining in confidence with retelling this story and using the story props to help them. We have props which represent different elements and characters from the story, including the box, bear, green colander, yellow boots, picnic foods and owl. We have been representing rockets, and bears through different media be it painting, drawing and or 3D models. We have been making rockets using boxes, flat 2D shapes wooden blocks and bricks too. The children have embraced the astronaut space suits and helmets in the classroom, and on first arrival of the suits the children used them to play ‘binmen’ as they are a lovely bright orange! More recently however we have seen the children going for spacewalks and zooming to the moon in them.
The children have been singing lots of nursery rhymes and other songs including some favourites like ‘Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer’ and ‘Zoom zoom zoom’.
The children who have moved up from the Ladybirds, and those that are new to nursery since the end of last term are settling well in the Buzzy Bees, and are used to their new routines. We have adapted our morning groups so that the youngest children are grouped together and the children moving on to school in September are grouped together. This is working well, meaning that the learning and sessions are preparing those ready for their next stage.
We have been looking for different birds in the garden since ‘Bird Watching Week’. The children have been using binoculars, recording which birds they have spotted, listening carefully for the bird sounds, made a camouflage bird hide in the main garden to quietly watch the birds from and also made birds feeders which they hung in the garden to attract the birds.
To learn about Lunar New Year the children were busy making various ‘heads’ for the annual ‘Dragon Dance’ in the nursery garden which the children from the Ladybird class come to watch us and the Butterflies. This year Wendy and the children surpassed all expectations, and didn’t make just 1 Dragon head, but made a Dragon head, a Lion head, a Snake head (as it’s the year of the snake) and as the children were so into the experience they even made a Tiger head too! As part of learning about the Chinese culture and the Lunar New Year we decorated the classroom with lucky red and gold lanterns and decorations and tasted some Chinese foods at snack. The children learnt the simple song “Chinese Dragon” too.
Next half term our core story will be ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears'.
Thank you for your continued support
Autumn Term 2 - 2024
What a super half term it’s been already. The children have been really engaged with our story of the Gingerbread Man. They have engaged in role play within the home corner and the Butter Bees Bakery role play in the nursery garden. They are joining in with the phrases “Run, run as fast as you can you can't catch me I’m the Gingerbread man”. They are enjoying designing their own Gingerbread men on the mark marking table, often turning them into Superheroes! We have been making Gingerbread men in the playdough, and painting pictures of him, some of which you may see on one of our display boards in the classroom.
Nursery rhyme week was a great success, with the children enjoying the new song of ‘The Big Ship Sails’ and those more familiar to them. Each day they engaged in activities related to the various nursery rhymes, and have been revisiting the songs and props since.
Woodland days with Outdoor Ali are seeming to be popular, the children when in the Woodland garden enjoy the varied activities. We have done all sorts, from sweeping leaves, to treasure hunts, filling the new planter, to learning to create sparks using the ‘Dragon sneeze’. We have also started using a new turning compost bin, which the children helped set up and fill up, and then each day spin it lots to create compost quickly. This has been so popular we now have one for each classroom to really embrace the recycling and composting within the school. As the days are getting colder, and sometimes wetter, please remember a change of clothes, and warm coats, gloves, hats and scarves!
We have learnt about Bonfire Night, and the festival of light Diwali. We did art and crafts related to each of these, including making firework picture, clay Diva pots, and Rangoli patterns.
The children completed their ‘Pudsey Ramble’ around the whole of the Nursery as they looked for Pudsey Bears. The children found it rather exciting going into classrooms, and other areas of the school that we don’t usually go into, as well as spotting as many Pudsey’s as possible!
We are looking forward to Christmas, Christmas Sing-a-Longs and our Christmas party in the last week of this half term.
Thank you for your continued support
Autumn Term 1 - 2024
What a super start to the new academic year we have had! The children are settling really well, and it feels like they have always been part of the Buzzy Bees. The children are adapting well to the routines of the class. We have introduced group times at the beginning and end of the day where we sing songs, engage in conversation, read stories or maybe have a focus on a particular skill.
Our core story this half term is Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt. The children already know when to join in with shouting “THERES A SHARK IN THE PARK!” and are getting to know the repetitive refrains quickly. The children have been involved in many activities linked with the story, be it going on shark hunts in the garden, making telescopes, retelling the story using props, identifying various types of sharks and much more! The children are also enjoying the other Shark in the Park stories.
Outdoor Ali, has joined us in the nursery garden and helped us press some delicious apple juice which the children enjoyed with their snack - a truly great experience, where children were making connections with the carton of apple juice they have at home and how we were making it at nursery! Thank you for your donations of apples!
The weather has turned rather wet recently and we have all been enjoying lots of puddle play! We have enough suits for each child to wear one, however although their suits stop them from getting wet when its raining, it doesn’t always stop the water getting through to their clothes when they are puddle jumping on a large scale, so we ask you provide your child with at least one change of clothes so they can play in the water without worries.