How quickly did this year go? The children have had an amazing  year, learning lots of new things, making friends and going on lots of imaginative adventures throughout the nursery.  We want to wish all the blue group families an amazing summer break. We hope the children enjoy their adventures at home and look forward to their next chapters, back at nursery as pre-schoolers or moving on as primary 1 children.

My favourite thing at nursery this year…

Best of luck to all the blue group children going on to primary 1, we hope that all your dreams come true.

We have enjoyed practising  for sports day.  We can’t wait for you to come and see us, so we can show you all of the skills we have developed.

The children have been practising speaking out in group situations.  They  have enjoyed presenting their artwork, explaining their pictures and what materials they used to create them.

We hope that all our families have had a lovely Spring break and enjoyed some chilled time together over the holidays. The children were all very excited to be back at nursery and tell us about their adventures.

Since we have come back from Spring break the children have been learning how to look after a baby using our dolls in the house corner. They particularly enjoyed learning how to bath and dress a baby.

The children have been creating food out of salt dough and playdough for the house corner; they also made a television out of a cardboard box, as no house is complete without one. The children have also used a 3 minute egg timer developing their awareness of time. This provided a visual for the children helping them to understand the concept of 3 minutes.

During nurture time, we have been discussing spring time and exploring what flowers and plants need to grow. This was then continued through stay and play, where parents/carers were invited to help plant in the community garden.

At nurture time we have been practising identifying our names and counting the number of letters in our first and surname. We have been using our name boards and pens to practise writing our name as well.

Over the last month, we have been celebrating Chinese New Year 🐲 and Valentines Day ♥  through various experiences, such as making chocolate playdough, cutting out Chinese lanterns and tasting rice noodles and gyōza.

We have been continuing with our weaving in the sewing area using paper plates and the weaving board. Some of us also  had a go at knitting.

Nurture time each day provides the children with the opportunity to use different resources in a smaller group environment.

This month we celebrated World book day.  Some of the children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite storybook characters and were delighted to receive a new book to take home! We also had some parents and carers join us for the book fayre.

Money, Money, Money 💷

In the shop we have created, we have been exploring money through play. We have been matching coins and looking at their shape, size and any visible numbers on them.

During December, we were really busy creating some beautiful crafts for our Christmas markets!

Christmas Markets 🎄 🌟 🎅

Thank you to our families that came to the Christmas Markets and purchased their children’s crafts. We raised over £500 for our nursery fund. We hope you all had a great time and enjoyed our Carol singing. 🎶

We had lots of Christmas experiences throughout December. We enjoyed dressing up, arts and crafts, reading the story of Christmas and baking.

We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. Since the children came back in January, they have taken part in lots of exciting experiences…

The children have been busy helping to prepare some delicious snacks.  We began by making a soup recipe and wrote down all of the ingredients we would need. The children learned about washing their hands before preparing food and how to handle knives safely.  We also used knives to spread the butter onto our bread.

Here we are preparing some vegetable soup.

We decided to make some banana milkshake too!

We are also becoming very independent, selecting our own snack.

The children have been enjoying music sessions this month. They have explored egg shakers, rhythm sticks, spoons and bells, learning to play along to the beat.  We have been practicing making LOUD and quiet sounds with the instruments and have also been learning a few songs in French!

We had a visit from the police who told us about their job and how they help people.  We had fun trying on the police vests and hats; we even got to go inside the police van!

We had so much fun coming into nursery in our pyjamas to celebrate Children in Need.

October

Numeracy skills

In the art area the children have been making spiders for Halloween. They decided what colours they wanted the spiders and set to work to make them. The children practised their counting with corresponding coloured pegs for the spiders legs.

🔥 Fire and Rescue Visit 🔥 

The children were very excited to receive a visit from the local Fire and Rescue Service. The firefighters brought their fire engine with them and the children were given the chance to climb inside for a look. The children were also lucky enough to practise using the hose with support from a firefighter.

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 

The children have had a fantastic week celebrating Halloween and had great fun dressing up.

Wednesday 1st November

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