We hope you had a lovely relaxing time off. Here is what we have been up to the first week back….

Children have been exploring their fine motor skills as they create their own masks using paper, wool and scissors. They only needed a little support to attach the wool and hold the paper still as they cut.

Children have been exploring weight outside as they looked at items that were heavier than others. Children have also been threading outside using straws and seeing how they can create different lengths.

Children have been exploring mark making and attempting to copy words that they need for their everyday play. They then independently used a ruler to explore how long their pictures were.

Using bottles and a range of other resources, children made their own music shakers. They then developed these using their own creative ideas by adding colours and tape to make them unique.

Children are beginning to explore Diwali and look at how others celebrate as they made their own henna designs on a hand print they drew and cut out. The children were able to discuss their own experiences with Diwali as they said about seeing something on television about it. “That’s the festival of light, they light candles and dance to music and do hand designs”.

 

Children have been working together to look after the nursery resources independently. Luke and Florence noticed sand in the home corner and swept it up together. “I can be the bin man” says Luke.

Children are continuing to show an interest in our learning wall topic “People who help up” as they ask to read a story about the police. From this, Rosie shared that she learned all about finger prints and how they are put on the computer to catch the bad guys. Innes showed an interest in looking at all the different sections of the book.

This week a group of children asked to make play dough. Leo asked for blue play dough as he was going to make Sonic. Through a group discussion and problem solving we decided to add blue powder paint to the play dough to create the blue colour. The group of children explored making models of numbers, shapes and animals. This led to a discussion about what animals eat and where they come from. “Giraffes eat leaves.” “We get leaves from trees” “trees grow in the ground.” This then led how to care for plants by giving them water and sunlight.

This week a group of children participated in making a “special” tray for the story sharing a shell. We worked together to create a mind map and gather ideas from the story to see what we could incorporate. Innes enjoyed looking through the story to see if we were missing any resources. Jackson, flora and Rosie enjoyed helping create the rock pool. “This is where they live” “yeah but they live in a shell”. They got creative and used instruments and a torch to create thunder and lightening in the storm. “This is the storm” Rosie and Flora enjoyed retelling the storm part or the story using the instruments and flashing of the torch. They confidently spoke about their favourite parts of the story and retold them.

This week Rosie and Sehrish demonstrated their skills to listen to a set of instructions that described size, such as tallest, smallest, medium sized then selected the correct picture.

Children have been sharing their kind and caring sides with one another as they help others around the room. Children helps others by fixing their clothing or fixing resources they noticed were broken. “It’s broken I need to fix it!”. “There you go I’ll do your cardigan for you”.

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens and hand sanitiser available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• There is learning at home sheets available in the nursery to share your child’s learning and experiences you do at home.
• Forest is on Tuesday where we meet at Waterstone crook car park from 9:00-9:15. Can we also just make you aware that with the hot and humid weather that tics may be around in the forest area so encourage you to check your child after every forest session incase any have made their way home on your child!

  💭Any changes to your child’s Diet or Medication? Please speak with one of the Team who can support you.

  Loose Parts

  We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

The Nursery Team 