October!

During the month of October the children having been exploring lots of exciting learning experiences. Here is a small snippet of what has been going on at Cross Arthurlie Nursery!

Let’s Bake!

The children have been busy baking lots of yummy treats, shortbread has been a firm favourite! They have been developing their numeracy skills whilst weighing and measuring out the ingredients in the recipe. Working on their fine motor skills, developing and strengthening the muscles in their hands when  mixing and rolling out the dough.

Ask your child if they can remember which 3 ingredients they used to make their shortbread.

Wormery 

The children have shown a keen interest in the insects and bugs that live in our nursery garden. We created a wormery  adding in soil, sand and some water to keep it moist. This is what the worms  like to live in.

   

DIWALI … Festival of light!

The children enjoyed a lovely creative sensory experience recreating  Rangoli  patterns for Diwali using coloured rice and glitter.

Autumn

As the seasons have changed to autumn the children have noticed the leaves are  changing colour and falling from the trees. They took part in a collaborative piece of art work outside, inspired by the changes during autumn. Using paint brushes, mashers and printing with the autumn leaves they created a beautiful piece of art work!

People Who Help Us

We have been having lots of discussions in nursery lately about ‘People who help us’ The children enjoyed a special visit from a Police Officer in the nursery. He was able to tell us all about his job and how he can help us and keep us safe. We also got to explore inside his police van, taking turns having shots in the ‘cell’ at the back.

 

 

Happy Hallowe’en!

The children enjoyed coming to nursery dressed as their favourite characters for Halloween.  They enjoyed taking part in some fun Hallowe’en activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to our Green Blog!

Here, you will find some photos and updates of what we have been getting up to each month during the children’s time in Nursery.

🎒 Settling In 🎒

Over August and September we have enjoyed welcoming our preschool children back to nursery and hearing all about what they got up to on their summer holidays.
We have also welcomed lots of new children to our nursery and these children have done an amazing job at adapting to their new routine and have begun to form relationships with new friends and staff.

🧑🏻‍🍳 Cooking 🧑🏻‍🍳

The children have been enjoying experimenting with food and practising their cutting skills. They are always so eager to have a go and willing to get involved with all the different recipes. Our nursery rhyme of the week was ‘Five current buns’ and the children enjoyed recreating the buns from the rhyme. They also enjoyed making fruit kebabs and practised using their fine motor skills whilst chopping their fruit.

Fine motor skills help the children perform important tasks such as feeding themselves, grasping objects, and writing. The ability to accomplish self-care and everyday tasks by using fine motor skills helps the  children’s self-esteem and confidence grow.

 

 

 

 

🟢 🟩 Shape 🟩 🟢

During  group time we have been practising listening each other and turn taking when telling stories. The children are learning to be respectful of each other as we are a rights respecting nursery.
We have been working hard on developing our knowledge of shape during group time through stories, 2D shape activities and card games.
Try and ask your child if they can spot any shapes around the house and test their knowledge!

😊 Stay and Play 😊

During September, we were able to have a stay and play event with the children’s families, allowing them to come in and visit our nursery and see how well the children are doing. Thank you to all the family members who managed in to visit us, the children loved showing you around all their favourite areas in nursery.

 

 

🎨 🧑🏼‍🎨 Getting Creative 🧑🏼‍🎨 🎨

 

The children had a great time getting creative in the art area throughout this month. Here they were having fun creating masterpieces with the colourful puffy paint.

Painting  helps the children’s creative development ans also supports mark making, it develops their language and imagination.