We are learning the story of The Gingerbread Man in the 2’s Room. Here we are listening to the story at group time. We are also participating in a range of activities related to story.

We had our first stay and play of the session. These are held the last Wednesday of each month. This gives parents and carers the opportunity to see what your child has been learning in nursery, have fun and talk to the nursery staff. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

We have been learning all about how actions are used to communicate with people who are hearing impaired. We have learnt that these actions are called Makaton. During group time we have been learning how to sign the song “Three little Monkeys”. The following pictures are the signs used in the song. It would be great if you could ask your child about signing (actions) and encourage them to practise with you at home.

Over the past two weeks the children in nursery have been learning all about experimenting. Our first experiment saw the children learn all about mixing colours using coloured water and pipets. The children created purple, orange and brown!!! Some even used the colours on paper to create beautiful water colour prints. Our second experiment saw us creating exploding volcanoes of colour using bicarbonate soda, vinegar and colouring. The children loved watch the colour explode on the tray as it hit the bicarbonate but they weren’t to keen on the smell of vinegar!!

Today nursery am and pm visited the lovely school library for the first time. We looked at a range of different books and the children each chose a book to take home for a week.😀

We are happy to be back at nursery, meeting friends old and new. We are learning to explore the environment independently, and we know the ladies are there to help us, and give us reassuring cuddles when we need it.

We are creating golden rules to keep ourselves and each other safe and happy in the nursery environment. We firstly had to learn about the word rule and what it meant. “We have to be nice” and “We can’t run in nursery” were some of the children’s suggestions. We will keep you posted with our completed rules.