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Chinese New Year Learning

Just like the Raindrop Room, those in the Rainbow Room have been learning about Chinese New Year and have enjoyed a range of activities. There has been a focus on developing fine motor control with the use of chopsticks to paint and write on paper and in glittery sand while the sand tray turned into a big noodle sensory experience. We have sequenced numbers and tried to copy the Chinese versions, discovered where China is on the globe and danced along with the dragons as we watched them on the big screen. Chinese New Year certainly provides lots of opportunities for learning.

Chinese New Year

With Chinese New Year being celebrated around the world this week, both Nursery rooms have experienced a range of activities as part of their learning about this special celebration. This little gallery shows the children in the Raindrop Room developing their fine motor skills through the use of tongs and chopsticks to pick up rice which was a fun and challenging activity. Some also made “lai see”, the lucky red envelopes, and attempted to copy some Chinese numbers. We will share photos of the children in the Rainbow Room soon as they too experienced a range of activities linked to Chinese New Year.

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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.

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.

Winter Is Here

The focus of discussion recently has been about Winter and how it affects our lives. Here are a few ideas from the Raindrop Room.

Fern: frost comes out at night – it’s crunchy.
Leah: the trees are bare.
Jasmin: there’s snow.
Louie: there’s frost on the grass.
Evan: we have to wear a hat and scarf.
Mason: you can blow away.
Charlotte: all the leaves are off the trees.
Archie: it’s cold. You need to wear a suit in the garden. You need gloves.
Imogen: the snow comes and it’s frosty.
Ellie: the ice makes the leaves go to frost.
Remy: the trees go icy.
Skye: we need to wear a hat.
Macaulay: the ice melts when it’s sunny.
Marnie: you need to wear a coat, hat and gloves.

We think that you are developing a good idea of what Winter is like. Great ideas everyone.

War Memorial

Just like many other groups of children and adults over the past week, we talked about why we have Poppy Day and the children have begun to understand what it is about. As part of our learning some of the children took a walk to the war memorial at the end of last week to see for themselves what their local community has to remember those who died.

Autumn Art

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?

Pine Cones And Acorns

Evelyn’s family has been looking at the photos of the children who have found signs of Autumn with their families.

“Evelyn was so happy to show everyone the pine cones and acorns she found on the way to nursery that day. She loves collecting them, I find them everywhere haha x”

Well done Evelyn! It sounds like you have been very busy.

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