The festive season is well under way in our art area and the children have been very busy creating their own Christmas cards for their families. Just look at the concentration on those little faces!
Tilly’s family has been looking at our firework art:
“Olivia thinks her little sister’s firework picture is fabulous and really cool!”
It’s lovely to hear that Olivia is looking at our blog. We love the firework art too. Well done Tilly.
Leading on from our discussions about Bonfire Night and then Diwali, the children have had the opportunity, in the art and craft area, to contribute to a display featuring fireworks which are central to both celebrations. No doubt it won’t be the first time this term that we have glitter everywhere but we think that the children have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with various sparkles and stars to create their own bonfires.
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Robin’s Mummy has been looking at our photos of art based on tearing paper:
“Love this. Robin has been showing me and his daddy at home how to correctly tear paper!”
Well done Robin! It’s good to hear that you are passing on your skills. I wonder if your Mummy and Daddy will be able to make pictures as good as yours?
The art area is a place for the children to experiment with a range of materials and express their ideas when they create their works of art. Tearing paper has benefits in helping to develop the children’s muscles and fine motor control but, above all, it allows everyone the opportunity for success and to experiment with colour, shape and size to create their unique piece of art. We hope that you all enjoy this wonderful gallery of their individual pieces of artwork.
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It wouldn’t be Hallowe’en without investigating a pumpkin and some of the children had a busy time last week emptying the flesh and seeds from their pumpkin. Both morning and afternoon children had a great experience investigating what they found inside their pumpkin, discussing safety around sharp knives, counting seeds and talking about how to describe what they could see and feel. Great fun was then had decorating their empty lanterns. It’s amazing the learning you can have from one simple pumpkin.
I wonder how many of you have tried out those little tester pots of paint at home and spent ages comparing different shades? These children had great fun recently, mixing paint and experimenting with colours to paint outdoors. As with most art at this stage, it was the process of experimentation, rather than the end result of lots of wood painted in various colours, that was the most creative and exciting part of the activity. They mixed, measured, poured and did lots of talking about their findings as part of the process. Great teamwork boys and girls!
As part of our recent learning about the changing seasons, a group of children visited the nature area to look for signs of Autumn and were very good detectives, collecting lots of leaves to help them produce some super works of art. They kindly shared their finds with the rest of the children and lots of fun was had creating prints of the Autumn leaves. I wonder if anyone has tried this out at home in the holidays?
Tucked away in a sheltered part of the garden is our performance area where the children can experiment with music using a range of instruments. They love to work together to create music and then step on the stage for their performance either as a band or individually. Here is a little snapshot of some of their experiences in our outdoor music area.
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We hope that today’s meeting about the new Nursery meal menu and taster session was helpful. Thank you to those who attended, providing an audience for the children who had been learning some Autumn songs. We really appreciate your support and we hope that you enjoyed their performance as much as they seemed to. One of our aims is to develop ‘confident individuals’ and many of our children showed themselves to be exactly that in performing in front of a large audience. Well done girls and boys!
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