Book Fair Visit
Tag: Successful Learners
What Type of Stories Do You Like?
With World Book Day in a couple of days time, we have been talking to the children about the type of books that they enjoy.
Chloe: I like Peppa. Mummy and Daddy read to me.
Leah P: my Nana reads to me. I like pirate books.
James: I like Peppa Pig.
George: I like dinosaur books.
Summer: my favourite books are princess ones. Daddy reads to me.
Tom: I like the Batman one.
Harris: I like books about water. My Mummy and Daddy buy me books.
Edward: I like Lightning McQueen books. He’s a racing car and he has eyes on. Mummy reads with me every day.
Danielle: I like Cinderella. Daddy reads to me.
Ava: I like unicorn books.
Alyssa: I like “Hungry Caterpillar”. Mummy reads to me.
Eli: Mummy and Daddy read to me. I like comic books like Batman.
Mason: I like Superman stories.
Sally: I like the caterpillar one.
Crue: I like monster books.
It sounds like those mummies and daddies are very busy telling stories and it’s great to hear about all the different types of books that the children like. I wonder what stories we will hear on our visit to the library on Thursday?
Award Winners
Congratulations to last week’s wonderful award winners. What lovely smiles.
Fingers, Forks and Chopsticks
For all the super resources we have which the children love to choose and explore, sometimes a sensory experience can be the best activity of all. The children have loved experimenting with the tray of spaghetti this week, producing some super vocabulary to describe it and developing their fine motor control as they explore it with their fingers, forks and chopsticks. We hope that you like these action shots of some of the morning children in spaghetti action.
Derek the Paramedic
As we begin to learn about our community and the jobs we can grow up to do there, the morning children had an exciting visit from ‘Derek the Paramedic’, also known as Harper’s Papa. The children enjoyed finding out about the equipment he uses in his job and Derek listened very patiently to stories of medical situations the children had experienced as we tried to work out when we need an ambulance. They were also excited to see all the equipment inside the ambulance which he kindly brought to Nursery and, of course, the blue light and siren were great highlights of the visit.
Thank you so much to Harper’s Papa for taking the time to talk to the children about his job and for showing them inside an ambulance which he hopes should make it less worrying for a child if they ever need to use one for a trip to the hospital.
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Lucky Red Envelopes
As part of our learning about Chinese New Year, some children chose to make special red ‘lai see’ envelopes which Chinese children receive at this time of year with a gift of money inside. It was tricky to work out how to make the envelopes stick together but the children showed good perseverance with this little problem and enjoyed decorating their envelopes. Hopefully the chocolate coins that were put inside made their way home.
Well Done
Well done to last week’s super award winner who was delighted with his certificate.
Toothtastic Tuesday Part Two
As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children enjoying the Toothtastic Tuesday activities. They listened well and hopefully learned about how to look after their teeth from avoiding sugary foods and drinks to the best way to clean their teeth and what happens at the dentist.
Thank you to all those parents who joined us for these activities and for your valuable feedback. Thank you also to Eileen, Jacqueline and Nikki for their time and effort to provide the children with fun and learning. You should all have an information pack for home in your child’s tray. We hope that this answers some of the questions that your feedback highlighted.
Dentists in Nursery
This week the children enjoyed some fun activities to help them learn about looking after their teeth, healthy diet and what happens when they go to the dentist. Toothtastic Tuesday was organised by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, Jacqueline and Nikki from Childsmile and the Nursery staff and it was lovely to have around 20 parents join us on the day to help the children as they moved round the different activities.
The dentist’s role play area was very popular, as you can see from the photos, and Jacqueline helped the children learn why the dentist uses different equipment. We really appreciated her bringing lots of masks and mirrors so that each child could try out the equipment and understand that everyone needs a new dental mirror and mask to avoid getting germs.
There were also puzzles, a drawing activity, an opportunity to use the big teeth models to learn how to brush properly and an activity to measure out the number of spoons of sugar in different foods and drinks. Hopefully the children have learned which drinks and food are healthier for their teeth.
Thank you very much to Eileen, Jacqueline and Nikki for all their help and equipment. Thanks also to those parents who joined us on Toothtastic Tuesday. We think that the children had a fun learning experience.
Here are some photos of the morning children busy at the various activities. We will post photos of the afternoon children in the next few days.
Toothtastic Tuesday
We are looking forward to Toothtastic Tuesday tomorrow at either 11.00 – 11.45 or 12.15 – 1.00. Childsmile staff Jacqueline and Nikki have worked with us and Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, to arrange some fun activities based on keeping our teeth healthy. Thank you to those parents who have returned the slip to say that they will be joining us. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
