Mrs. Irving has been looking at the photos of the children who went to the Friendship Club on Monday:
“I was so proud of our children bringing joy and happiness to the lives of the older people at the Friendship Club as they entertained and chatted! Well done to you all.”
The children were so well behaved and polite. They were certainly a credit to our Nursery.
The Old Parish Church hall was the venue on Monday of a visit by a group of our children to entertain the ladies and gentlemen of the Friendship Club. The children showed great maturity and confidence in an unfamiliar situation, individually introducing themselves on stage and performing a few favourite songs to a delighted audience. It was lovely to see our children chatting to everyone after their performance and to see two generations together. Thank you to everyone at the Friendship Club for your warm welcome, your kind applause and, of course, for the delicious snack of ice-cream and strawberries which was a lovely treat. This was a great opportunity for the children to perform to an audience and we appreciate your kind invitation. We hope to see you again in the future.
The children in the Raindrop Room were learning about the changing state of solids and liquids recently when they made jelly. As they had strawberry jelly, they decided to add some tasty strawberries to their little snack and, as you can see, the children who chopped them showed great concentration and super fine motor control when using the chopping knives. I wonder if we have any chefs of the future here?
Congratulations to last week’s award winners who thoroughly deserved their certificates. Very well done!
Tilly’s family has been looking at the photos of the children making cookies:
“Wow! This looks lots of fun and great to see such wonderful team work going on! Tilly LOVES to bake! I hope the cookies tasted as good as they looked!”
The children did work well together and were very patient when taking turns. The cookies certainly went down very well once cooked so everyone must have made a job of them.
Baking provides so many opportunities for learning and the children love taking part in it. Apart from turn-taking, sharing, good listening and working as a team, the children can develop their knowledge and skills in several other areas of the curriculum.
Counting and measuring, essential when following a recipe, are “Numeracy and Mathematics” skills while prediction, observation and discussion about the potential changes to their ingredients, as they are mixed and cooked, is an area of “Sciences”. The children are also developing their understanding in “Technologies” as they learn how to use a mixer and the cooker.
Here the children were making chocolate chip cookies and it was wonderful to see their excitement and enthusiasm as they went through the process and then enjoyed tasting what they had produced. Learning can be such fun!
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Just like the Raindrop Room, the children in the Rainbow Room have been enjoying Wednesday afternoon tennis sessions with Mike and have shown themselves to be good listeners who are certainly developing their skills.
Apart from being great fun, making jelly develops the children’s understanding of solids and liquids and the processes we go through for solids to become liquids then back to solids. Science activities provide the ‘hands on’ approach to help the children to remember what they have learned having seen it in front of their own eyes. Just to add to the excitement of the activity, the children then had jelly to enjoy as part of their snack in the afternoon and nothing tastes better to the children than a snack they have prepared themselves.
As well as it being a fun place to play, the children love taking responsibility for looking after their outdoor environment. Here you can see some great work being done recently to tidy up the garden and what a super job the children made of it too.
Here are the proud recipients of last week’s certificates. Very well done to both of you! Keep up the good work.
