The children have made the most of the freezing temperatures by making ice ornaments for the birds. They added a variety of ingredients like lemon, lime, cranberries to water- left them overnight outside, to freeze and then hung the ice ornaments from the trees for the birds.
The children also made the most of the frost to mark make! They all had a ‘brillllllllllliant’ time! 🥶💛

This week, as part of our celebrations leading up to the Chinese New Year, we have been cooking a variety of dishes including spring rolls, curry puffs and sweet corn fritters! The nursery has been smelling amazing whilst they have all been cooking and of course the best bit has been eating them all,up! 😍

Today we have made Chinese drums and we have taken our sewing further – by designing a teddy,  cutting out the pattern and next we will be using the sewing machine to stitch them together.

A huge thank you for all the ribbon that was donated – we have been able to continue to weave and sew.
We have also been role,playing – people who help us – sharing our thoughts and ideas.

Following the children’s interests we have been learning about people who help us – particularly fire fighters. Today in our gym session we sang fires safety songs, we had a bucket race to put the fire out – we also did countdowns to go to a fire exit when the  ‘alarm’ went off! We then played ‘smoke, smoke, fire and all shouted 999!Do ask the children to show you the ‘Stop, drop and roll” and be sure to ask them why they do this!

We used a different loon today but the weaving was still wonderful! We have also started to sew using wool and binca!

We have been busy weaving today using fabulous hand and eye coordination and fine motor skills.

We have though run out of ribbon! Do you have any spare ribbon in the house, that you could donate,  to allow us to complete the loom? Thanking you in advance. 💛

Some more coding photos from yesterday. The children went on to,design their own maps using familiar stories and then programmed the. Beebots to reach the different destinations.

Mearns Masters for this term is  ‘Coding’. The children have been programming the Beebots to move forward, backwards, left and right and used mats to programme them to reach a destination.
We have also been sewing; painting amongst lots of other learning.