Welcome to our February blog ♥️

The children have been looking at fiction books about famous artists.  They were inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ and discussed what they thought of it. The children went on to explore and use swirls of paint on tinfoil to create their own Starry Night pictures.

“I like the circles and I love the castle”.

“I like the yellow moon.”

“I like the blue and the black.”

“I like it because the moons up there and I don’t like it because the castles black.”

During the month of February, we celebrated Chinese New Year.  The children enjoyed listening to the Chinese New Year story, ‘The Animal Race.’  They had turns of holding the puppet props and used them to retell parts of the story.

The children have enjoyed imaginary role play in the Chinese Restaurant where they have been learning about different foods and how to use chopsticks. They have been developing lots of skills such as reading menus, using money in their play to buy food and sorting and matching coins.  The children have also been developing their mark making and writing skills while writing down orders from the menu.

This year is the year of the snake and we had great fun exploring length with our nursery snakes. We were able to put the snakes in order from shortest to longest and used non-standard units to measure their length.

The children enjoyed tasting noodles and prawn crackers at snack!