Welcome to our March blog

The children have had an exciting and fun filled time during the month of March.  We received a visit from our local Fire and Rescue Service and learned about the ways they help us.  They showed us some of their equipment and we even got a shot of spraying the hose!

We had fun dressing up as our favourite story book characters and enjoyed sharing books and stories to celebrate World Book Day.  The children were all gifted their own book for world book day. They had the choice of four books and made their choice by casting a vote for the book they would like. The book fayre also arrived which the children enjoyed visiting with their families.

At Nurture Time we had a visit from the Mandarin teacher, Yijie Xu. She taught us how to say hello and count to 3 in Mandarin.

We look forward to seeing you back here next month with more updates.

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!

This month we introduced travelling tales.  The children  in the blue group have enjoyed choosing books on a Monday to take home and share with their families for the week.  Inside the bag there is a book review if your child wishes to draw their favourite part of the story.  If your child is not in on a Monday they can choose their book on another day.