Harris’ family likes the photo of him watching another little boy working with the hammer and chisel:
“Harris is thinking so that is how to do it. I will know what to do when it is my turn to make a fairy house.”
He is certainly paying lots of attention. The children really did show good concentration with that activity.
Harvey’s Granny is impressed with his skills with a hammer and chisel:
“Harvey is really concentrating helping to make the fairy garden looking forward to seeing it finished x”
He has certainly done lots of super work for the garden recently. Well done Harvey.
Two of our families have been looking at the photos of the children painting shells and stones for the fairy garden:
“Quinn doing what she does best painting herself as well as the shells. X”
“Lily is very excited about the fairy garden! She insisted that I come and have a look and said I had to be very quiet as that’s when the fairies come out! I also heard her telling her granny all about it!”
It’s good to hear that the children are excited about the fairy garden. Let’s hope that the fairies are excited too.
Lily’s family also enjoyed the woodworking photos where the children are using a hammer and chisel:
“Wow! Grandad will be impressed with this photo! He thinks he’s the only joiner in the family!😂”
I’m sure that Grandad will be impressed Lily because you worked so carefully with that hammer and he will be able to see your super concentration in the photo.
We posted some photos recently of the children washing logs and slabs of wood as a starting point for making fairy houses for outdoors. The next stage was to carry out some woodwork to make doors and windows so we helped the children to use a hammer and chisel to carve them out of the wood. The hammer was also useful for adding chimneys to the houses. Super listening and very careful work was evident and you can see the look of concentration on their faces as they carried out this tricky task. I wonder if we are seeing some joiners of the future here?
Ava’s family has been looking at the photos of the stones and shells that the children painted:
“All the Shells and stones look great. Ava said she enjoyed painting some of them.”
Ava and lots of other children did a great job. We think that they have brightened up the outdoor area and we hope that the fairies like them in their garden.
“Autumn Walk to School Week” will begin today, Monday 26th September, until Friday 30th September. The underlying intention of the initiative is to encourage children to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school and Nursery to promote the obvious health benefits that these activities bring. Our Junior Road Safety Officers will assist in recording the numbers taking part. Bikes or scooters brought to Nursery can be stored in the small shed nearest to the car park in our outdoor area. We hope that everyone enjoys this great health initiative.
As part of the children’s work on the outdoor environment, they decorated shells and stones to put in the fairy garden and around our sensory plants. There was lots of discussion about which colours and patterns to decorate them with and it is lovely to see what super ideas the children have had, creating a variety of designs. Once the stones and shells were decorated, some Maths skills had to be used as we needed to sort the blue ones into a separate pile to be used as part of the fairy garden’s little river. All the decorated stones and shells are now on display in the Nursery garden so we hope that you can find time to have a look at them with your children. We think that they have made a brilliant job of their artwork.
The afternoon children recently experienced a dance workshop called “Experts In Short Trousers”. They had to use good listening skills to follow instructions and, as you can see, they worked hard and had good fun making their bodies into lots of different shapes.
Unfortunately this company could not offer us a morning slot but we think that they are running workshops in the October holidays for local children so keep your eyes peeled in the local press if your child might be interested.
There was lots of learning happening recently when the children helped to make play dough. They were learning the importance of reading a recipe so that they know how much of each ingredient to use – there was good number recognition by some for this part of the task. Then they took turns to help count the number of spoons of each ingredient as they put it into the bowl and there was careful measuring to make sure we had just the right amount of water. As you can see, there was lots of super concentration and it was no surprise that the play dough turned out well. It’s true what they say that some things seem better when you make them yourselves and this play dough was certainly very popular so well done to the counters and mixers.
