Just like the Rainbow Room, those in the Raindrop Room cared for their little caterpillars until they developed into butterflies and were delighted to release them in their garden. Keep a close eye out for them when you’re out and about in the summer holidays everyone.
After caring for their little butterflies, the children in the Rainbow Room finally released them after observing them so closely from being little caterpillars. Although they did not seem keen to leave us, Miss Kerr gave them a helping hand to settle on our plants in the outdoor area which gave everyone a chance to have a close look at our little butterflies before we waved them goodbye.
The snack area in Nursery helps the children to develop their social skills and learn about healthy eating as well as good hygiene procedures through hand washing and tooth brushing. They can independently prepare snack and here we see some of the children in the Raindrop Room developing their fine motor skills as they chop and prepare fruit kebabs which went down very well indeed.
As we begun our learning about growing and to talk about the changing seasons at the end of last term, the children in the Rainbow Room planted cress seeds. They showed great care with their seeds and many showed good knowledge of what they needed to do to make them grow. The good thing about cress is that it grows very quickly so we soon had a little box to taste with our snack and, of course, we all know that things you make yourself always taste better.
The children in the Rainbow Room looked at the healthy eating triangle to help them understand which foods help us grow and stay healthy and which foods are only to be eaten in moderation. The children were keen to discuss the type of foods they eat and showed an understanding of which foods are healthy.
Jackson: I like corn and carrots. I don’t like broccolis. I like oranges, apples and watermelon. Just a little cake to keep healthy.
Danielle: I like carrot and potato with gravy.
Tom: waffles go in the top triangle. You have a little bit. Your arms will grow up if you eat healthy. You have to keep exercising too. I’m like a cannonball.
Alex: it’s a peapod. The peas are inside it. I love fish chopped up. My Granny showed me how to make pasta. I would cook with a tomato. I’d make tomato sauce.
Aoife: the biscuit goes at the top with the cake. You just have a little. Bread and pasta is healthy. You can eat tomatoes, slice tomatoes and squeeze them to make juice.
Emily: it’s a triangle. You can have lots of strawberries and a little drop sweeties. I like strawberries. You can just have one lollipop.
Tiana-Rose: you must just have one cupcake.
Letti: toast is healthy. I like butter and jam on it.
Primrose: carrots are healthy. I like sweetcorn and bananas.
Nancy: you have to keep drinking and eating to keep your energy up.
Oscar: don’t eat all of the jam. It’s strawberries and sugar. Strawberries are healthy.
Safoora: bananas and oranges are healthy.
Zack: my favourite is apples. They make me stronger.
Arthur: if you eat too much sugar you get sick.
Jessica: I like water, strawberries and grapes.
The children have been talking about their experiences at the fire station. These were some of their comments when looking at our photos of the fire engine.
Parker: I was blowing the fire out with a hose. The fire engine is red. It’s big.
Freddie: the hose gets the fire away. They flush it away.
Alex W.: I went in the fire engine. I wore a helmet and used a hose. Water came out then Zack wanted a go.
Lewis: I had a turn of squirting the hose. I sitted on the fire truck.
Emilia H.: I was sitting in the back.
Euan: I went inside the fire engine. Water came out the hose to put the fire out.
Jessica: it’s hot fire.
Danielle: I’m watering the fire.
Emily M.: I went in the fire engine and sprayed the hose.
The children also talked about the road safety learning on our visit.
Letti: we learned to look about where the cars are and to walk on the pavement.
Nancy: I was a lollipop lady. I helped people to cross the road so Filip could ride his bike to school.
Arthur: the lollipop lady stops the cars to cross the road.
Tom: we were playing cars and bikes and buses. I played a lollipop man. Stopped the cars. Freddie was there. Stop, keep your eyes open, keep your ears open, think with your brains.
Jake: be safe. Look with the eyes. If cars coming stop, listen, cross at the man.
Tiana-Rose: I walk with Mum. Hold hands on the pavement. Wait before you cross. Cross at lollipop man.
Lewis: Stop! Cross at the lollipop man, look both ways and think. Hear with your ears.
It certainly sounds like lots of good listening has been happening on our visit.
Oscar and Letti’s family has been looking at the photos from Red Nose Day:
“What a great photo, happy faces all round!”
The children certainly had great fun coming to Nursery in their pyjamas and it was great that we could donate to such a good cause.
It is always important to have a nice environment to enjoy a meal and these children in the Rainbow Room certainly helped to make the snack area more attractive recently when they created some little floral displays for the snack tables. It was great to hear their discussion about which flowers they liked and which to put together in their vases. We think that their flower arranging skills are great and they made everyone’s visit to snack and lunch a much more pleasant experience.
Wear your pyjamas and/or crazy hair was the Hecklegirth challenge on Red Nose Day and the Nursery children took part with great enthusiasm. Thank you very much to everyone who made a donation – the Nursery children did so well to raise £51.18 out of a grand school total of £225 which we are sure will help a very worthy cause. We hope you enjoy these happy faces.
We would like to remind you that tomorrow, March 15th, is Red Nose Day and children can wear their pyjamas and/or crazy hair to raise money for Comic Relief.
