Many of the children had suggested that we should have pizzas for snack.  This week we made our own healthy pizzas using wholemeal muffins, tomato and basil sauce and a range of fresh, healthy ingredients.  They were such a success that we plan to have them every three weeks.

We continue to be very interested in water.  This week we have been developing our skills in carrying out simple experiments to determine whether an object floats or sinks.  We then tried to sort our objects into the correct floating or sinking baskets – this is a key numeracy skill we are developing.

We are going to build on this next week by trying to build our own boats.

We had great fun in the forest this week.  We all followed new forest rules to help keep ourselves safe and enjoyed exploring a new environment that was different from nursery.  Particular areas of interest was: bug hunting, den building, tree climbing and mud!

We are still looking for helpers for all nursery sessions next week.  Please let us know a.s.a.p. if you are able to help.

Some of us went on a walk with Mrs Ogilvie this week to find different signs around the playground and school perimeter.  We hope to develop this with other children too.  You can extend this at home by encouraging your child to look for signs when out and about.  They may wish to find certain letters from their name, numbers that they know on the signs or to try guessing what the sign might mean.

Many of us are very interested in different forces.  We have been exploring this in our water topic and are now exploring this in our transport topic.

These boys had great fun creating slides for the toy cars.  They worked collaboratively and discovered the steeper the slope the faster the car will go.  you can see how we plan to address this new interest in our planning folder.

We have started a transport mini topic this week.  Our water/space mini topics are continuing too!

This week Stanley suggested we should paint using different types of trucks and cars.  This was great fun and we all enjoyed experimenting with the different patterns different wheels created.  You can see this on our transport wall near the construction area inside the nursery classroom.  We have also been sharing books about transport and working hard to complete transport themed puzzles.

Forest sessions

A reminder that the green and yellow children will be visiting the forest on Tuesday 20^th and 27^th September.  Red and blue children will be visiting the forest on Wednesday 21^st and 28^th September.

Please ensure your child has the following items with them for the forest:

• A warm waterproof jacket
• A cosy fleece or jumper
• Waterproof trousers (not essential but recommended)
• Sturdy footwear – preferably not wellies unless it is very wet
• A small rucksack containing:
  • A filled water bottle – no juice please
  • Hats and gloves