The Rainbow Room’s “Word of the Week” this week will be ‘bulb’, as they talk about how things grow, and the focus in the Raindrop Room will be ‘Autumn’ as we begin to see the signs of the changing season.
Category: 2019 – 2020
Award Winners
Here are the proud recipients of last week’s certificates. Very well done to both of you! Keep up the good work.
Outdoor Play
Seth’s family enjoyed seeing photos of him developing his tennis skills in the school playground:
“Seth will have loved playing outdoors it’s great to see what he gets up to at nursery”
He certainly seems to love all outdoor activities and everyone had great fun at the tennis. He will be getting another tennis session next week so that’s something to look forward to for everyone.
Problem Solving
Sometimes it can be the simplest of activities that are the most effective and this area produced lots of enthusiasm from the children to try something new. As you can see, the children’s focus and concentration was impressive as they developed their fine motor skills by using tongs to select a pompom and place it on the golf tee.
Although most of the children had predicted that the bigger pompoms would be easier to use, they discovered that the smaller ones balanced more easily on the tees and they then preferred to practise with them. Great problem solving and fine motor skills boys and girls!
Tennis Time
Wednesday afternoons have provided the opportunity to develop the children’s skills with Mike, the tennis coach, who has organised lots of fun activities to help the children begin to learn control of a tennis ball. Each room will have two sessions in the school playground with Mike this term and the children have shown great enthusiasm for all his activities, listening well and showing good concentration. I wonder if we have a budding tennis star in our Nursery?
We would like to share a gallery of the Raindrop Room’s first tennis session last week.
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Tracks Big And Small
The Rainbow room took art outdoors recently as they used various vehicles to experiment in making patterns. Trucks, bikes, diggers and scooters all made different tracks on the card and the children loved trying out the various wheels. Some preferred the little vehicles on the table while others liked to “drive” along or walk on the card to make their pattern. The children were certainly proud of their finished work and showed themselves to be responsible and independent by cleaning up all the materials at the end of their artwork. What a great day’s work!
Busy Children
Sophie E.’s family has been looking at the photos of her busy at play:
“Lovely to see what tasks Sophie has been doing.”
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Young Engineers
To help with counting skills outdoors, some of the children have been busy using the resources they could find in Nursery to make their own counting string. Making holes in the bottle tops was tricky but was a great activity to help develop the children’s fine motor skills as was the threading of them on to string. We think that this little group has shown themselves to be great little engineers and love the counting line that now hangs in the outdoor area for everyone to play with.
Rainbow Fire
Last week brought the first fire of the new year in the Rainbow Room garden and, just like those in the Raindrop Room, the children listened very well to ensure their safety. Marshmallows were on the menu for this little picnic and they went down very well once toasted on our fire. The children love to chat round the fire and even the process of putting the fire out brings lots of discussion. We hope that you enjoy our photos.
Word Of The Week
“Word of the Week” will be ‘healthy’ in the Raindrop Room while the Rainbow Room children will be learning about what the word ‘germs’ means.
