We would like to remind you about our Story and Rhyme sessions starting back this Thursday 14th February from 9.15 – 10.00. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, is looking forward to meeting you in the Family Room every Thursday from this week. All parents/carers and younger siblings are welcome.
Category: 2018-2019
Frosty Football
Regardless of weather, most children love outdoor play and a recent frosty morning provided a small group with the opportunity to play football on the school field to keep warm. When football lost their interest, some decided that it was frosty enough to try making snow angels. A fun morning was certainly had by those happy to brave the cold.
Fun Food Tasting
As well as lots of great learning activities linked to Chinese New Year, the children in both our Nursery rooms had a taste of Chinese food as part of their experience. Noodles were tricky to manage but the children persevered and had good fun sampling the different foods they were offered.
Garden Paint Work
We may still be in the depths of Winter but our thoughts have begun to turn to warmer weather and some of the children in the Rainbow Room have been having a little tidy of the garden area in preparation for Spring. Great work those who helped – your boxes look a lot better now.
Congratulations
Huge congratulations go to these recent award winners. Very well done all of you! You thoroughly deserved your certificates.
Word Of The Week
“Graph” will be “Word of the Week” for the Rainbow Room this week as they develop their skills at recording data. The children have begun to record the weather recently on a chart and will now be looking at making graphs linked to snack choices. The Raindrop Room will be learning to use the word “lantern” as they continue to talk about Chinese New Year. I wonder if anyone will be able to make a lantern in the Raindrop Room?
Chinese New Year Learning
Just like the Raindrop Room, those in the Rainbow Room have been learning about Chinese New Year and have enjoyed a range of activities. There has been a focus on developing fine motor control with the use of chopsticks to paint and write on paper and in glittery sand while the sand tray turned into a big noodle sensory experience. We have sequenced numbers and tried to copy the Chinese versions, discovered where China is on the globe and danced along with the dragons as we watched them on the big screen. Chinese New Year certainly provides lots of opportunities for learning.
Which Animal Are You?
Jasmin’s family has told us about her discussions at home about Chinese Year.
“Jasmin really enjoyed asking all her family what animal represented their birth year according to Chinese tradition, google to the rescue!”
Well done Jasmin for talking about your learning at home. It’s certainly handy to have Google for tricky questions at times.
Chinese New Year
With Chinese New Year being celebrated around the world this week, both Nursery rooms have experienced a range of activities as part of their learning about this special celebration. This little gallery shows the children in the Raindrop Room developing their fine motor skills through the use of tongs and chopsticks to pick up rice which was a fun and challenging activity. Some also made “lai see”, the lucky red envelopes, and attempted to copy some Chinese numbers. We will share photos of the children in the Rainbow Room soon as they too experienced a range of activities linked to Chinese New Year.
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Well Done Evelyn
Evelyn’s family are impressed with her work based on Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”.
“Aw wow Evelyn did a good job. It looks awesome. She is definitely getting a lot better with her pictures x”
We agree that Evelyn has done a super job. Well done Evelyn!
