Project Teddy Bear

Since August the children have been collaborating on a project… making their very own Yellow group teddy bear.

Children have all taken a role, either big or small, whatever they have been interested in doing.

Some children have decorated a patch of the teddy bears material, some have stitched these patches together, some stuffed the teddy bear and some children have even used the sewing machine to make bags and pillows for the teddy.

This has instilled a feeling of accomplishment and ownership in the children as they have thoroughly enjoyed creating and playing with all four of the groups bears.

We are now in the process of voting for our bear…

I wonder if little bear will be named

Buttercup, Goldie or Sunny? 🐻🧸

 

All the other bears in our nursery are loved and taken very good care of too. 🥰

COOKING AND BAKING

Over the past few weeks the children have been developing their skills in the baking area. They have learnt simple food preparation techniques such as mixing, chopping and rolling. They have tasted familiar and unfamiliar foods and learned how to be safe while preparing  the ingredients. The children have also followed some recipes and even made their own recipe book.

Our firm favourites were , smoothies, potato scones and banana pancakes.

We had great fun picking vegetables from the nursery garden and prepared our own soup from scratch, which was absolutely delicious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

We have been learning some new gross motor skills in the gym, our firm favourite was the warm up to paw patrol, have a try at home if you wish.

We were really lucky to have a visit from Mr Dillon at Little Tiger Cubs who showed us some super cool Taekwondo  moves!

Welcome to September’s blog, here is a snap shot of what we have been up to this month…

Travelling Tales Library 

Wednesday is our day for the Travelling Tales library.  The children were delighted to choose their book and take it home for a week in their special blue bag!  Inside their blue bag is a review sheet where they can mark whether they enjoyed the story.  This opened up much excited discussion amongst the children when they returned  their books the following week with one child eagerly retelling his story word for word! 

We all chose a book so quickly on our first visit we had time to read one of them together. 

 

Please don’t worry if your child isn’t in on a Wednesday, they will have an opportunity to choose a book on another day. 😁

Stay and Play

It was wonderful to see so many of our families at our first Play and Stay days this month.  Here are a few snap shots we managed to get, (and some when you weren’t looking 😉).  There are more Stay and Play opportunities to come if you weren’t able to make these ones.  

During nurture time we explored our new calendar and discussed what the weather was like.  We decided that it had been Summer and that it was nearly  Autumn as the leaves are beginning to fall off the trees. 

We worked out what day it was by singing our days of the week song, which the Yellow Group are particularly good at 🥰.   Ask your child if they can sing it to you and I guarantee you will be singing it yourself in no time (even in your head 😉).

 

 Toothbrushing 🦷

The children love toothbrushing and are excellent at ensuring each tooth gets brushed.  We are learning the names of our teeth and what jobs they do; incisors are at the front and bite and cut our food; canines next to them help tear our food; and our molars at the back grind and crush our food.

Each child has taken ownership of their toothbrush which has a different picture on the handle to help identify them  – see if they can tell you what is on theirs.

See you in October!

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller

xx

A huge welcome back to all our returning yellow group children. Another huge welcome to our new children and of course all our families.

It has been amazing to see how much the children have changed even over a short period of time (although it may seem like it was a long summer holiday!) Our returners have quickly settled back into their nursery life, sharing their news with us and reconnecting with friends, old and new.

Our new yellow members are all settling in well and already confidently moving around the playroom with some lovely friendships beginning to emerge.

We look forward to sharing what they get up to during their very busy days at nursery.

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller xx