The children in the Raindrop Room were learning about the changing state of solids and liquids recently when they made jelly. As they had strawberry jelly, they decided to add some tasty strawberries to their little snack and, as you can see, the children who chopped them showed great concentration and super fine motor control when using the chopping knives. I wonder if we have any chefs of the future here?
Congratulations to last week’s award winners who thoroughly deserved their certificates. Very well done!
Tilly’s family has been looking at the photos of the children making cookies:
“Wow! This looks lots of fun and great to see such wonderful team work going on! Tilly LOVES to bake! I hope the cookies tasted as good as they looked!”
The children did work well together and were very patient when taking turns. The cookies certainly went down very well once cooked so everyone must have made a job of them.
During the course of last year our weather watching equipment slowly felt the effects of lots of use and was no longer suitable for the children to observe weather changes so we decided to make new equipment ourselves. Here you can see a group in the Rainbow Room garden carefully using the tools to make their own rain gauge. They tested it out with bowls and scoops to make sure that the rain would travel down the tubes and were pleased with their work so we now have a super new rain catcher in the Rainbow Room garden. Why not have a look at their work on your way to or from Nursery?
Lola’s family has been having a look at our recent posts. They liked the tennis photos, “Looks like lots of fun lola love mammy and daddy” as well as photos from the hall activities, “Lola has just told us she was a princess here” and a photo of her in the craft area, “Great cutting out lola. Lola has told us she loves her new nursery”.
It’s great to hear that you’re enjoying Nursery Lola. Well done for trying out lots of different activities and thank you to your family for taking the time to leave us a comment. We hope that all our families are enjoying getting a taste of Nursery on our blog.
Baking provides so many opportunities for learning and the children love taking part in it. Apart from turn-taking, sharing, good listening and working as a team, the children can develop their knowledge and skills in several other areas of the curriculum.
Counting and measuring, essential when following a recipe, are “Numeracy and Mathematics” skills while prediction, observation and discussion about the potential changes to their ingredients, as they are mixed and cooked, is an area of “Sciences”. The children are also developing their understanding in “Technologies” as they learn how to use a mixer and the cooker.
Here the children were making chocolate chip cookies and it was wonderful to see their excitement and enthusiasm as they went through the process and then enjoyed tasting what they had produced. Learning can be such fun!
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Just like the Raindrop Room, the children in the Rainbow Room have been enjoying Wednesday afternoon tennis sessions with Mike and have shown themselves to be good listeners who are certainly developing their skills.
Apart from being great fun, making jelly develops the children’s understanding of solids and liquids and the processes we go through for solids to become liquids then back to solids. Science activities provide the ‘hands on’ approach to help the children to remember what they have learned having seen it in front of their own eyes. Just to add to the excitement of the activity, the children then had jelly to enjoy as part of their snack in the afternoon and nothing tastes better to the children than a snack they have prepared themselves.
When the children in the Raindrop Room asked for babies in the role play area they gave us lots of ideas of what else we needed to provide to look after their babies. Once we introduced their suggestions, this was a very popular area to play in and the children showed good understanding of how to look after babies in their conversations and imaginative play.
Marnie: babies like stories. At bedtime they get baths with their big sisters to keep them safe. Lift big things away from baby sisters that might fall on top of them.
Ella: first the babies cry and then we give them the dummy. Babies cry when they don’t like the toys they have. We change babies’ nappies, some people call them diapers. After you’ve fed the baby you put the spit cloth on your shoulder. Put the baby on your shoulder and pat them.
Luca: sing babies “One, Two, Three, Four, Five Once I Caught a Fish Alive”.
Tilly: mummies look after babies so they don’t cry.
Joely: babies need milk from the kitchen. They drink it in a bottle. Cuddle babies.
Mason: rock babies to sleep.
Noah: babies cry. Cuddle them. They like baby toys. Babies have teddies. Wash babies with a sponge.
Skye D.: we need to be careful when we hold a baby. When we wash a baby we need to be gentle.
Robin: we sing lullabies to babies. We cuddle them. They are cute and small.
Kara: babies sleep in a cot. We feed them fruit. Be careful holding a baby. They like a dummy if they’re crying.
Fern: mummies look after babies. Babies like carrots. They get fed with milk at bedtime. Babies wear baby clothes. You can rock babies to make them sleep in your arms. At bedtime they get bedtime stories. Fire things keep babies safe from the fire.
Sophie E.: I look after baby Harry and play with him and love him. I feed him his bottle when it’s time for bed. We like looking at each other.
Anthony: be careful – don’t break babies. Babies like trains. They drink baby milk. They cry if they want baby milk. Babies wear nappies. Mummies feed babies. They sleep in a baby bed.
Summer: babies like milk in a bottle. A baby sleeps in a cot.
As well as it being a fun place to play, the children love taking responsibility for looking after their outdoor environment. Here you can see some great work being done recently to tidy up the garden and what a super job the children made of it too.
