Good Morning everyone,

How are you all feeling today? I have thumbs up!

I am really excited as we have lots of fun things to celebrate over the next week.

We have Chinese New Year and this year is the year of the OX!

There are 12 animals in the Chinese Calendar one for each year. I wonder which animal you are?

You and your family can find out here.

Here is the story of how the years were named.

 

We also get to celebrate  Valentines Day (14th February) and Pancake Day (16th February)!

Here are the boys and girls from the nursery assembly last year to tell you all about them.

Remember that we have no school/nursery until the 18th of February as it is our half term holiday.

Please enjoy all your celebrations and stay safe.

 

Today I have some activities to share with you from our friends.

1. Painting on snow

What you need

Squeezy bottle

Food Colouring

Water

Instructions

Fill bottle with water and add food colouring.

Put on top and give a good shake

Open lid and squirt the snow with your coloured water.

2. Snow Volcano!

What you need

Vinegar

Bicarbonate of soda

Food colouring

Instructions

Make a volcano out of snow

Pour Bicarbonate of soda into your volcano

Add some food colouring

Pour vinegar into volcano

Stand back and watch your Volcano erupt!

3. Chinese Lantern

What you need

Coloured paper

Sparkles or pens to decorate

Scissors

Pencil

ruler

glue

Instructions

Take a piece of paper and fold in 1/2 lengthwise. Draw lines from fold (do not go to the end).

Take scissors and cut along the line – stop before you get to the end (about 1 1/2 inches)

Decorate the outside of your lantern

Make a circular shape by matching short ends together and glue them.

Use glue and attach some coloured streamers to the bottom of your lantern and a handle on the top.

Congratulations you have made a Chinese Lantern.

 

If you make any of these activities please share your photos.

Thank you

Have you all been enjoying yourselves in the snow? I wonder how many of you have made a snowman?

Today we have a recipe for making Melted Snowmen Biscuits

What you will Need  – Ingredients

Round biscuit or cookie

Icing sugar

Variety of sweets – e.g. marshmallow, smarties etc.

Writing Icing

Water

 

What you need to do – Method

1. Place your biscuits on the counter.
2. Put some icing sugar in a bowl and add in a little water and mix. It should be thick but runny.
3. Place sweets on top to make your melted snowman.
4. Use writing icing to add details such as scarfs, nose etc.
5. Let the icing harden, then eat and enjoy.

If you make any melting snowmen please share your photos on your ILD. We would love to see them.

Here is a dance for you to join in while waiting for your biscuits.

Have great day

Hello Everyone,

How are you all feeling? I am really excited as the snow has finally arrived.

Today I have a list of fun things you can do in the snow!

1. Go sledging
2. Build a snowman, or snow sculpture
3. Make footprints
4. Build a snow fort, igloo or cave!
5. Have a snowball fight (careful not to throw them at faces though)
6. Look for animal prints
7. Make a snow angel
8. Make snow castles
9. Help to shovel and clear the path
10. Run about, jump and just have lots of fun!

How many of these can you do?

Please send us your photos to us so we can see all the fantastic things you have done.

Remember to wrap up warm to keep cosy outdoors. Also when you get back inside why not make and enjoy some cosy milk or hot chocolate!

Please stay safe and have fun!

Our Pupils of the Week are

Morning

Sonny – for his fabulous drawings

and Afternoon

Grace – for her excellent baking skills

Well done!

Happy Friday Everyone!

How many of you like Nutella?

Today is World Nutella Day! It has been celebrated since 2007 – that is a long time ago!

Can you work out how many years that is?

Hint: count on from 7 until you get to 21  (answer: 14 years!)

Maybe you can spread some Nutella on toast or

Nutella and Banana Sushi.

 

What You Will Need:  

2 tbsps Nutella

1 flour tortilla wrap

1 Banana

Instructions:

Spread Nutella over the tortilla

Place Banana on tortilla and roll up

Using a knife cut into slices

Enjoy!

Remember to share your photos with us on your ILD!

Stay Safe and have a fun weekend

Hi everyone

This week its Children’s mental health week.

The focus is for  children to express themselves. It’s important at the moment as children are struggling with lockdown and not being able to see family and friends. It’s a lot for children to understand at the moment. This is a great opportunity for children to express how they are feeling. Talking with your child daily throughout the day finding out how they are feeling. Children can talk about good or not so good feelings.

Drawing Challenge

I thought it would be good fun to do a drawing activity. You can draw something that makes you happy. It could be your favourite toy, pet, food, activity indoors or outdoors.

You will need: Paper, Pens and pencils

Remember to upload your beautiful pictures onto your ILD.

Story

This story is one of my favourite stories and it always makes me smile `The tiger who came to tea’. I wonder if the tiger came to your house what would you feed him? I would feed the tiger banana muffins, grapes and a big glass of milk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1_lnmdyR1s

Hope you enjoyed the story and stay safe

The children in both nurseries have been really busy. They have been learning lots of new skills and taking part in the challenges they have been given.

Well done to you all.

We would like to give a huge thank you to the parents for sharing what their children have been doing.

Our Pupils of the Week are

Morning

Kian for fantastic writing of his name.

and Afternoon

Zara for her enthusiasm at our Google Meets.

Well done!

Hello everyone?

What have you been learning this week? Have you shared it with us on your ILD or school twitter page @abbotswell. We do love seeing all the fabulous things you have been doing while you are not at nursery.

Today is International Puzzle Day.

Do you have any puzzles at home?

Here is the puzzle I got for my Christmas it had 1000 pieces!

What is the biggest size of puzzle you can do by yourself?

Please ask your grown ups to upload a picture of you doing your puzzle on to ILD or on the school twitter @abbotswell.

Stay safe