Liam’s Mum enjoyed seeing the photos of our counting activity with Callum the Cat:
“Aw, look at Liam engrossed 🙂 So, that’s where he’s learning counting? Well done nursery. Liam loves it”
Callum the Cat seemed quite popular and the children were very keen to help him.
Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. MacIntyre have been very busy lately presenting certificates to the Nursery Star Award winners. Well done to you all – you showed very good listening skills.
Callum the Cat came to visit Nursery recently as he needed help to count his fish. It was just as well that the boys and girls were good at counting because he had lots of fish to sort into his number buckets. Everyone had to check that we had got it right and we did thumbs up or down to say if we thought the correct number of fish was in each bucket. Keep on practising your counting everyone in case Callum needs more important work done.
Carmen enjoyed seeing her photo in the den in the Nursery garden. Her Mum left a comment:
“I showed Carmen the picture of her and her friends. She said they were hiding. She laughed and sayed look at Reagyn he’s trying to cuddle me. She loves playing outside she says she has lots of fun”
It’s been great to watch the children grow in confidence to build their dens and develop their imaginative play outdoors.
Den making remains popular in the Nursery garden but the children continue to think of new ways to create their dens as they grow in confidence. Last week some of them wanted to paint the posts different colours and they decided to use planks of wood rather than a tarpaulin to make walls and a roof. As you can see, they are working well together and producing some fantastic results.
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Charlie’s Mum has left a lovely comment:
“So so so proud of Charlie at nursery. Tonight he listed all of his friends and it’s fantastic to hear he’s getting on so well. We do numbers at night time now and he’s very enthusiastic about getting it right. He loves to talk about his day and I love hearing about it. Thank you so much for bringing out his creative side xxx”
It’s great to hear that Charlie’s settling in so well. We hope that he continues to have lots of fun in Nursery.
Both Ava and Bethany have impressed their families with their Arcimboldo work:
“wow what a fantastic picture Ava, very creative!”
We agree – this was a brilliant effort from Ava.
“Well done to all involved in the excellent Arcimboldo Project. It certainly held Bethany’s attention. Cara, her dog, also found her painting of special interest. She sniffed around the sweets until she was moved on! Keep up the good work.”
We’re glad that Cara appreciated Bethany’s work. Maybe you should display your picture up high on the wall Bethany just in case Cara fancies another look at it?
As promised, we thought we’d share the portraits that the children decided to make with different foods that they suggested – cream, yoghurt, bread and various fruit and vegetables. Obviously these choices of food could not really be glued very easily so the children each took their own photo of their work. We hope that you agree that they’ve done a very good job with their art work and photography.
It’s great to hear that you have been enjoying our artwork. We have had three comments on our Arcimboldo photos:
“We have enjoyed hearing all about Arcimboldo. Freya has really enjoyed topic and portraits.”
“I was very impressed that Sophie remembered the artists name, i thought i had heard her wrong when she told me why she had been given a sticker! Anyway we looked on the internet together and i discovered who it was and recognised his work so it’s nice us Mummy’s get to learn new things too!!
Love all the Children’s work, fantastic idea, especially the ice cream cones!!”
“Fantastic picture Bethany! Well done!:-) Auntie Sarah”
Thank you all for taking time to post a comment. The children certainly seem to have enjoyed learning about an artist and made a super job of their portraits. We will put some different ones up soon as some of the children decided they would like to move on to foods that couldn’t be so easily glued – squishy cream and yoghurt portraits will follow.
As part of our learning about Autumn we have looked at some of the work of the artist Arcimboldo. We looked closely at his “Autumn” portrait to see how he used food to depict the seasons as faces then we used food to make our own portraits. Here are some our comments on Arcimboldo’s painting of “Autumn”:
Reagyn: that’s awesome. I can see leaves and they’ve got berries joined on – it’s like tadpole eggs.
Logan: it’s a funny face ’cause it’s got fruit.
Roxy: there’s leaves and it’s like they’re falling off the tree like Autumn.
Lexi: he’s got an apple face
Rebecca: I think it’s funny ’cause he did it all himself.
Darcy: there’s a pumpkin on his face.
The children were very enthusiastic to make their own Arcimboldo style portraits. We hope that you enjoy our Arcimboldo gallery.
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Den making is becoming popular with the children in the Nursery garden. They are showing good problem solving skills and are working well in teams to make their dens.
Here you can see some children from the Rainbow Room who decided to make a house for the three little pigs so that they could hide from the big bad wolf. As you can see, they had to work as a team to make their frame then persevered well to position the tarpaulin to make their den. When a group of children from the Sunshine Room came to play in the den they turned it into a home for the three bears which is the story they have been focussing on in their room last week.
Problem-solving, teamwork and imaginative play were all developed from a tarpaulin and some wooden poles which just goes to show how enterprising and creative our children are. Well done boys and girls!
