Joshua H’s family likes the photo of him making toast on the fire:
“Joshua loves experimenting with & making food & doing different activities. He’s concentrating so much in this photo, he would of been in his element.”
You are right. Joshua does look as if he is concentrating well. You can’t beat making your own snack outdoors – I’ve not seen the children so enthusiastic about toast for a while.
Don’t forget that the school book fair is on in the school library all week and parents can call in every day between 3.00 and 3.30. Nursery children will also go together for a look at the books on offer on Wednesday.
Quinn’s family has been enjoying her recent mentions on the blog. They are understandably proud of her recent well deserved certificate for super problem solving:
“Quinn was so excited to get this. Almost as excited as her mam and dad. Well done Quinn keep up the excellent work. Xx”
They are right Quinn – it was excellent work. They are also pleased that Quinn is able to share her ideas when we have group discussions. This time is was about who we love and why.
“Nice to read that Quinn takes part in these conversations. X”
It’s lovely to see, as the year progresses, how much more confident the children are to share their thoughts and ideas with others.
The afternoon boys and girls have been asking for a little while if we could have another fire but the weather seems to have been against us each time we have planned to do it so we decided last week to experiment with a fire under our outdoor canopy. As you can see, this was a great success and it was lovely to make toast on the fire while the rain trickled down on the canopy roof. It’s amazing how many pieces of toast were made that day and the thick slathering of jam seemed to make it particularly tasty.
Congratulations to last week’s wonderful award winners. What lovely smiles.
For all the super resources we have which the children love to choose and explore, sometimes a sensory experience can be the best activity of all. The children have loved experimenting with the tray of spaghetti this week, producing some super vocabulary to describe it and developing their fine motor control as they explore it with their fingers, forks and chopsticks. We hope that you like these action shots of some of the morning children in spaghetti action.
Georgia’s family likes the photo of her with her certificate:
“Aww my girl so proud”
She certainly looks pleased with her achievement. Well done!
As we begin to learn about our community and the jobs we can grow up to do there, the morning children had an exciting visit from ‘Derek the Paramedic’, also known as Harper’s Papa. The children enjoyed finding out about the equipment he uses in his job and Derek listened very patiently to stories of medical situations the children had experienced as we tried to work out when we need an ambulance. They were also excited to see all the equipment inside the ambulance which he kindly brought to Nursery and, of course, the blue light and siren were great highlights of the visit.
Thank you so much to Harper’s Papa for taking the time to talk to the children about his job and for showing them inside an ambulance which he hopes should make it less worrying for a child if they ever need to use one for a trip to the hospital.
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Joshua’s family has been looking at all the photos from Toothtastic Tuesday when he tried out all the different activities.
“Joshua loved dressing up as a dentist and he loved inspecting teeth. He just got stuck straight in.😊 ”
“Joshua loved brushing the teeth that day. He concentrated so hard & done his very best. Well done Joshua! Lovely picture here of him & Bethany.☺”
“Joshua sat just like he would visiting the dentist. Mummy & Daddy are very proud of him.😊”
He does look very busy in these photos – great concentration Joshua! It was lovely that your Mummy was able to join in with you at the activities too.
I wonder if anyone has noticed a recent change in our outdoor area? Some of the morning children were very busy recently, creating a new style of den that we had not seen before, using the fence as part of their construction. What great teamwork and perseverance they showed to create a really super den where they enjoyed great imaginative play. The children decided to leave some of the wooden planks round the corner of the fencing so we will wait to see what might develop there next.
