We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs. Brenda Fleming of JDP Limited who kindly arranged for us to take delivery of a huge pipe to enhance our outdoor play area. The children were very excited to watch its delivery earlier this week and have begun to explore different ways to use it. We look forward to lots of fun times ahead enjoying our new resource so thank you very much to Mrs. Fleming and her company.
We hope that you have enjoyed looking through the children’s special books with them at home. We would like to remind you to please return them today, Wednesday 1st May, along with the comment sheet which has been added to your child’s book as part of our ongoing evaluation.
Thank you to those who have already taken the time to share their thoughts with us about their child’s progress. We greatly value your views.
Before the holidays the Raindrop Room planted sunflower seeds and learned about how to help them grow. The seeds seemed to germinate very quickly and have all gone home now in their little pots so we look forward to hearing about some super sunflowers or even seeing a photo once they begin to grow. Fingers crossed that they can be planted outdoors and turn into a lovely burst of sunshine in a corner of everyone’s garden.
We would like to share a little gallery of some the Spring artwork created by the children in the Raindrop Room at the end of last term. Click then click again on photos to see the name of the artist. We hope that you enjoy the children’s work.
“Word of the Week” this week will be ‘hatch’ in the Rainbow Room and ‘sport’ in the Raindrop Room.
We have some enthusiastic little scientists in our Nursery who are always keen to try out experiments, making predictions about what might happen and observing the results of their experiments.
Here some of the children were making plastic. They warmed milk in the microwave, added vinegar and stirred the ingredients until they started to clump together. The children then strained their material and used paper towels to press the liquid out and discovered that they had made plastic. This experiment caused great excitement and was tried out several times to check that it worked each time. The children even moulded the plastic into different shapes which successfully held together. As well as developing their understanding of science, the children developed their numeracy skills as they measured ingredients and read numbers to set the dial on the microwave. Everyone loved this fun learning experience.
It never ceases to amaze us how inventive our children can be in their play. This little group decided to use the planks from the balancing activity to turn them into a slide. They carefully positioned and repositioned the planks until they found the right position and angle to make it work and here is the end result – a great little slide. Good teamwork boys and girls!
Inspired by the interest of a group of children in the Rainbow Room in pirates, those playing in the outdoor area recently created a pirate ship using the materials they could find in the garden. This produced endless hours of imaginative fun and great teamwork to create their ship. As you can see, discussions around pirates also led some to creating their own parrot which look great.
We hope that everyone has enjoyed their holidays with their families. You will no doubt have lots of tales to tell us when you return.
Nursery starts back tomorrow (Tuesday, April 23rd) at our normal times. Please remember that those starting at 8.00 should all use the Rainbow Room entrance.
Details of upcoming events this term can be found on the “Dates for your Diary” link on the right under “Support Information”. As always, this will be updated as soon as any further dates are finalised.
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow especially our new children and their families.
We all know that most children love bubbles but to make your own is great fun too. These children in the Raindrop Room experimented with different quantities of materials to produce their own bubbles using warm water and a bar of soap which was grated. Once it was whizzed up by an adult and mixed by the children, their ingredients turned into thick foam full of bubbles which provided endless fun.
