The Story Of The Nativity

Last week’s story of the nativity has made an impression on the children. As you can see, some of them have been recreating the story through role play and some are able to talk about it. Some of their ideas may not all be exactly how we told the story but you can see that they have understood much of the detail.

Brogan: baby Jesus slept in the hay. A queen came to see him.
Archie: well what happened was this … they couldn’t find a hotel so they had to go to a farm. A king came to see him.
Ava V.: there were wise old kings in the story.
Bethany: Jesus had a manger not a cot. Mary is his Mummy.
Sophie S.: Joseph was the Daddy. Mary was the Mum.
Zachary: Jesus was in the story and three wise men.
Riley: Jesus got born in the hay.
Freya: Jesus’ Mummy was Mary.
Simon: baby Jesus never found anywhere to sleep. He had to sleep in the hay.
Jayden: he slept in the hay ’cause there was no beds for him.
Amy-Leigh: baby Jesus was born on his birthday.

Family Fun Activity

We would like to remind you that Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has arranged activity sessions to make Christmas decorations with your Nursery child and younger siblings. In the past lots of parents and children have enjoyed doing this together and we are grateful to Eileen for providing the opportunity again this year.
You can join in the fun with glitter and glue on Friday 13th December and Monday 16th December. There are still some spaces left – just add your name to the list on the Family Learning board in the corridor.

Who’s Sleeping In Baby Bear’s Bed?

The corridors in Hecklegirth have come alive with some wonderful fairy tale displays recently and Nursery children worked well as a team to contribute to our chosen display of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. They chose a wide range of materials to make bright, textured shapes to form quilts for the beds and some made a very good job of painting the characters. As you can see, Goldilocks thought Baby Bear’s bed looked so cosy that she got in there before poor Baby Bear got the chance.
Please click on the photos to get a clearer view of the detail of the children’s work.



Christmas Crafts

Carmen’s Mum enjoyed seeing her busy with Christmas crafts:

“Carmen loved making the Christmas card. She said I’ve made it for you mummy. She loves doing crafts.”

Lots of children have been particularly enjoying the craft area this week. As well as cards and decorations, some in the Rainbow Room decided to make table decorations. We hope that those families are happy with the wonderful designs the children produced from a selection of boxes, beads, tubes and, of course, lots and lots of glitter. They may not have the style of some shop bought design but they are certainly original and made with love.

Christmas Fever

Christmas is officially the talk of Nursery as the children are beginning to get more excited with tales of trees going up at home, letters to Santa and visits to see him at various places.
We have talked about the story of the nativity this week and hopefully the children are beginning to realise that Christmas is not all about Santa. With our calendar orders now complete, lots of children are enjoying making Christmas cards and decorations and there seems to be a sparkling carpet of glitter everywhere we turn.

Christmas Chocolate

With the school Christmas Fayre on Thursday of this week, we have been making chocolate Christmas shapes to sell on our stall. Predicting what would happen when we put chocolate in the microwave then the fridge produced some thoughtful conversations. We also used numeracy skills to count the squares of chocolate and the number of moulds we had to fill, as well as reading the dial to set the microwave so there was a lot of learning going on as we prepared our chocolate shapes.
We hope that lots of Nursery children and their families will be able to come to the Christmas Fayre on Thursday (6.00 – 8.00). We can recommend the chocolate shapes to anyone who has a little money to spend – they were certainly made with lots of tender loving care.

Christmas Decorations

At the end of last week some of the children started making Christmas decorations from bread. They looked so impressive that they made a few extra to sell at the school Christmas Fayre on Thursday. Here you can see some of the team in action.

Special Birthday Present

We hope that you have all enjoyed your break. Sophie and her Mum have been having a look at the blog:

“Glad you liked our cakes! :-))”

“Sophie gave hers to her Auntie for her Birthday, she loved it!” (Kandinsky painting)

We all absolutely loved your “Children In Need” cakes Sophie and we’re sure that your auntie will want to keep your painting until you’re grown-up – what a special birthday present.

Calendars For Christmas

This week seems to have brought lots of orders to the calendar factory and the children have been working like busy little Christmas elves to make them. If your order is not yet complete, it may be that we are still waiting to get a group photo that you’ve ordered as we obviously can’t take it if some children in the group are absent. Sophie must have made a good job of her order as her Mum said,

“sophie.s enjoyed making her calendars we ordered 2 so she could give one to her nana and papa for there Christmas. they are lovely and well worth the 2.50”

Well done Sophie. We hope Nana and Papa love your calendar.

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