We have some interesting words as a focus this week. The Rainbow Room has chosen “semi-circle” as their “Word of the Week” as the children have been showing an interest in naming shapes in their play. The Raindrop Room staff will be focussing on the children learning what a “bug hotel” is. I wonder if you can guess what they have planned for the outdoor area this week?
Come And Play
We love it when our families come in to Nursery to play with the children and we are delighted that some parents and grandparents have already taken the opportunity to take part in a session. You are all welcome to come in as often as you wish for as short or long a visit as you would like: even if you want to pop in for half an hour, the children would love you to be part of our sessions. As you can see, the children love a visitor to chat to and play with, especially if it’s someone from their own family. Simply add your name to the grid on top of the children’s trays and have fun.
Tartan
As part of their learning about Scotland and Robert Burns, we have been looking at tartan in the art area where the children have been creating patterns with paint and different sizes of rollers so we thought that we would share this little gallery from the Rainbow Room with you. I wonder if anyone can spot their own tartan?
Big Garden Birdwatch
The Big Garden Birdwatch was a focus for some of the children last week as part of their outdoor play. They used observation skills and discussion to match the birds they saw to those on their chart and used tally marks to help count them. Some children then showed great patience to make bird feeders which they hung around the garden. We hope that you are all looking after the birds at home in this cold weather.
Award Winners
Very well done to the award winners from last week. We are very proud of you both. Keep up the good work!
Outdoor Fun
Just like the children in the Rainbow Room, those in the Raindrop Room enjoy outdoor play on a daily basis and take the opportunity to develop their skills and imagination in lots of different ways.
Vegetable Art
The children in the Rainbow Room have been experimenting with lots of different tools to paint lately and learning that you don’t need a paintbrush to produce a work of art. Carrots, peppers, onions and potatoes provided opportunities to experiment in the art area last week and the children seemed surprised to find them effective at producing interesting pieces of artwork.
Imagination And Creativity
Outdoor play provides such great opportunities to develop so many skills in many areas of the curriculum and some children simply relish those opportunities every day. As you can see from this recent snapshot of one day in the Rainbow Room outdoor area, they show great imagination and creativity in the range of resources they discover in their play.
Snowmen
Some of the children in the Raindrop Room decided to draw snowmen recently inspired by all their discussions about the weather and seasons. We think that they showed good control in their drawings and would like to share this little gallery to give you a taste of their work.
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Jack Frost
As part of their discussions about Winter, the children in the Rainbow Room read a book about Jack Frost and shared some of their ideas of what he is like.
Oscar: he’s blue. He puts things on the windows.
Aoife: he freezes and makes ice and snow. He lives in the North Pole.
Jacob: he looks like ice. He’s a spiky iceberg.
Arthur: He looks like a cloud. He eats grass.
Letti: he draws on the windows.
Freddie: he’s cold.
Lewis: he’s white with spikes on him like a leaf.
Alex W.: Jack Frost eats carrots.
Isla: he eats ice-cream. He melts by water.
Tiana-Rose: Jack Frost eats soup.
Ava: Jack Frost looks like snow, so sparkly and white.
Emily: he has a hat, gloves, coat and some boots.
What wonderful ideas boys and girls. Jack Frost has certainly been very busy lately.
