Developing fine motor control plays an important role in the children’s activities in Nursery so, as part of their focus on Chinese New Year, some of them tried out their skills at copying some Chinese writing and numbers using both paint and pens. They showed great enthusiasm and concentration, producing some super work.
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This group in the Raindrop Room recently developed their baking skills by making a Swiss roll. As you can see, a lot of care was required, for example when cracking eggs, weighing ingredients and using the food mixer, but they proved themselves to be ready for the challenge and produced a wonderful, tasty end product.
Just like those in the Rainbow Room, the children in the Raindrop Room were excited to find out about Chinese New Year and created their own Chinese dragons as part of their learning about the celebration. Here you can see them busy, indoors and out, working together in their dragon making.
Following on from their art work depicting winter weather, those in the Raindrop Room created their own clouds and rain as part of an experiment to help them understand where rain comes from. Using coloured water helped them to see the rain filling the clouds of shaving foam and making its way through to the beaker as if rain were falling.
As you can see, the children were very enthusiastic to participate in this experiment and showed some good understanding.
Ella: rain falls from the sky, from dark clouds. The dark clouds come and they pour rain over us. Light coloured clouds don’t have rain in them.
Violeta: rain comes from the sky. It feels like water.
Kyla: rain comes from the clouds.
Marnie: rain falls down the roof. Rain comes from clouds.
Lola: wear a jacket in the rain ’cause you’ll get wet.
Fern: rain comes from the clouds. It’s wet. Coats keep you dry and an umbrella.
Sophie E.: rain goes on your window. The other day it was pouring down so loud. It comes from the clouds. Some break apart and go little or big and some don’t have rain. In a thunderstorm it goes all crazy and crashes and bangs. When it’s too heavy and the cloud can’t hold the water, it starts to rain.
Kara: rain makes everything wet. It comes from the sky from the clouds. The rain falls to make plants grow. The water in the clouds comes from the sea.
Tilly: rain falls in storms. Some are a little drop and some are big squirts. It makes mud on the ground.
“Word of the Week” in the Rainbow Room will be ‘love’ while the Raindrop Room children are learning about ‘St. Valentine’.
Our Hecklegirth Nursery Peep group has been meeting for a few weeks now. We are following the Communication and Language learning together course. So far we have practised our listening skills, followed instructions to make play dough, had ‘puppet conversations’ and taken resources home to make our own puppets. Thank you to Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, for planning such fun activities.
Our Burns celebrations last week were a great success and this little group did a super job of helping with the preparations as they made shortbread for our Scottish snack. The children showed good counting and measuring skills as they prepared the ingredients and were involved in lots of discussion about what was happening as they were mixed and then put in the oven. Super work from these independent little learners!
As well as visitors playing bagpipes, we had a drummer in from a local pipe band to help us learn about Scottish culture. Summer’s Dad told us that he started playing the drums when he was just a little boy and that it takes a lot of practice to become good enough to join a pipe band. He was kind enough to allow the children to try out their skills on his drum which many enjoyed. I wonder if we might have some future pipe band members in our Nursery?
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No celebration of Burns Day is complete without the sound of the bagpipes so we were delighted when two of our senior pupils visited Nursery for a performance. Thank you very much to both these pupils for helping the children to have first hand experience of what bagpipes sound like.
Tilly’s family has been looking at our activities based around Burns Day:
“Tilly had a fantastic Burn’s Week in nursery, she has never stopped talking about it and tasting the ‘Spanish’ food apparently!!! She has been showing us and her nana and papa her highland dancing skills!!”
It’s great to hear that Tilly has been talking about her learning at home. Well done with the dancing Tilly!
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