Charlie’s Mum has left a lovely comment:
“So so so proud of Charlie at nursery. Tonight he listed all of his friends and it’s fantastic to hear he’s getting on so well. We do numbers at night time now and he’s very enthusiastic about getting it right. He loves to talk about his day and I love hearing about it. Thank you so much for bringing out his creative side xxx”
It’s great to hear that Charlie’s settling in so well. We hope that he continues to have lots of fun in Nursery.
Both Ava and Bethany have impressed their families with their Arcimboldo work:
“wow what a fantastic picture Ava, very creative!”
We agree – this was a brilliant effort from Ava.
“Well done to all involved in the excellent Arcimboldo Project. It certainly held Bethany’s attention. Cara, her dog, also found her painting of special interest. She sniffed around the sweets until she was moved on! Keep up the good work.”
We’re glad that Cara appreciated Bethany’s work. Maybe you should display your picture up high on the wall Bethany just in case Cara fancies another look at it?
As promised, we thought we’d share the portraits that the children decided to make with different foods that they suggested – cream, yoghurt, bread and various fruit and vegetables. Obviously these choices of food could not really be glued very easily so the children each took their own photo of their work. We hope that you agree that they’ve done a very good job with their art work and photography.
It’s great to hear that you have been enjoying our artwork. We have had three comments on our Arcimboldo photos:
“We have enjoyed hearing all about Arcimboldo. Freya has really enjoyed topic and portraits.”
“I was very impressed that Sophie remembered the artists name, i thought i had heard her wrong when she told me why she had been given a sticker! Anyway we looked on the internet together and i discovered who it was and recognised his work so it’s nice us Mummy’s get to learn new things too!!
Love all the Children’s work, fantastic idea, especially the ice cream cones!!”
“Fantastic picture Bethany! Well done!:-) Auntie Sarah”
Thank you all for taking time to post a comment. The children certainly seem to have enjoyed learning about an artist and made a super job of their portraits. We will put some different ones up soon as some of the children decided they would like to move on to foods that couldn’t be so easily glued – squishy cream and yoghurt portraits will follow.
As part of our learning about Autumn we have looked at some of the work of the artist Arcimboldo. We looked closely at his “Autumn” portrait to see how he used food to depict the seasons as faces then we used food to make our own portraits. Here are some our comments on Arcimboldo’s painting of “Autumn”:
Reagyn: that’s awesome. I can see leaves and they’ve got berries joined on – it’s like tadpole eggs.
Logan: it’s a funny face ’cause it’s got fruit.
Roxy: there’s leaves and it’s like they’re falling off the tree like Autumn.
Lexi: he’s got an apple face
Rebecca: I think it’s funny ’cause he did it all himself.
Darcy: there’s a pumpkin on his face.
The children were very enthusiastic to make their own Arcimboldo style portraits. We hope that you enjoy our Arcimboldo gallery.
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Den making is becoming popular with the children in the Nursery garden. They are showing good problem solving skills and are working well in teams to make their dens.
Here you can see some children from the Rainbow Room who decided to make a house for the three little pigs so that they could hide from the big bad wolf. As you can see, they had to work as a team to make their frame then persevered well to position the tarpaulin to make their den. When a group of children from the Sunshine Room came to play in the den they turned it into a home for the three bears which is the story they have been focussing on in their room last week.
Problem-solving, teamwork and imaginative play were all developed from a tarpaulin and some wooden poles which just goes to show how enterprising and creative our children are. Well done boys and girls!
Sophie’s Mum has been looking at the super Star Award winners with their certificates:
“Well done to all kids for receiving Star Awards this week. Very proud of my little girl – Sophie ;-)”
It’s good to know that our families are enjoying visiting our blog. Teigan was pleased to see her photo with her favourite teddy:
“I love pinky, Ive had her since I was born”.
We loved meeting Pinky too so thanks for bringing her to Nursery Teigan.
Carmen has also been talking to her Mum about our new furniture:
“Carmen told me the nursery got table and chairs and a bed. I asked her what was her favourite she replied the table and chairs. I asked her why? She replied because they have coloured seats and my favourite is the red one.”
We are all very pleased with our new furniture too. We think that the children made a very good decision on how to spend their donation.
The children have had some big decisions to make recently as we had the wonderful problem of deciding what to buy with a very generous donation from a kind grandparent.
They were given three choices of how to spend the money and, after a discussion about each, all the children voted for their favourite. As you can see from the photos, each child added their vote to the graph and watched carefully to see which option came out the winner. Although it was a close vote, the winning choice was for a bed, table and chairs for the role play area. There was great excitement when the parcels arrived and some of the children did a super job of helping us put our new furniture together. As you can see, they are all delighted with their choice and experienced lots of valuable learning along the way.
Children and staff are extremely grateful for this donation from a very kind and generous grandparent. The children are already having great fun with the additions to our role play area and will continue to do so for many years to come.
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Rebecca’s Mum has made a comment on her photo:
“Well done to our Rebecca, we are glad that she has made friends”
We hope that you are proud of your certificate Rebecca because you certainly deserved it for being a super friend.
Our Health and Wellbeing focus last week was on friendships and Mrs. MacIntyre was delighted to visit Nursery on Monday to present four children with Star Awards for showing particular kindness and consideration towards their friends. Well done all of you. You are fantastic friends.
