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.
Harvey M’s family like the photo of him planting:
“Harvey said he had great fun planting his lavender in the big box. Happy to see him joining in.”
Looking after the new plants has been a great activity to bring all the children together. I’m glad that Harvey has been enjoying it.
Some of you have been enjoying the photos of the children planting in their newly decorated planter:
“This looks fun! Gardening is one of Olivia’s favourite things to do with her daddy! She told me she was digging a huge hole to put a plant in!”
“Its nice to see Harvey settling in and enjoying doing some planting 🙂”
The children are taking their responsibilities very seriously and are looking after the new plants with great care so far.
Two families have left comments on photos of the children looking busy in Nursery:
“Noah looks very busy with his graph!”
The children certainly took the graph seriously as they knew that this would help to decide what plants we bought. Good concentration in that photo Noah!
“Good girl Ameila, she learning how to clean.”
Lots of children worked hard and made a good job of preparing the wood for the fairy garden. Let’s hope that the fairies like their new home once it’s ready for them.
We would like to draw your attention to a visit tomorrow, Tuesday 20th September, from the “Play Talk Read” bus which will be in the John Bell car park from 1.00 to 5.00.
Activities will be available for all children aged 0-5 years so why not pop along and enjoy them with your child? Maybe he/she could bring a friend or a little brother or sister to have a fun time together?
