This week and next in nursery we are celebrating Fairies! On Friday 18th it is the “International Fairy Tea Party” where countries all over the world have a fairy tea party and celebrate everything to do with fairies, so we thought it would be nice to join in! We have been planning with the children to find out what they would like to make and do over the next two weeks and what they know about fairies. Their ideas have been really inspring and our continuous provision reflects this. Ask your child to show you around the nursery next time you are in! We have fairy doors where we hope a fairy will pop through to visit, sparkles and glitter, flowers and nature, potions and wands . . . .. what more could we ask for!! it is going to be a magical 2 weeks!

This week we are making Fairy wands, creating a story about fairies in small groups and we have our tea party on Friday.

This week we are continuing the learning context “All about Me!”. We are looking at emotions, what these look like and what makes us feel this way. We are looking forward to the children’s interpretations and descriptions of feelings.

We are also continuing measuring the children’s heights. There is a height chart at the front door of the nursery which is going to be developed over the course of this week to show the heights of different animals to see which we are as tall as. Come and measure yourself and see which animal you are as tall as . . .

Please continue to complete the WOW cards as the children and staff are really enjoying sharing this news with the other children.

Please return any outstanding placemats so we can laminate them and  the children can start to use them at snacktime. The ones we have received so far are fantastic and we have enjoyed discussing the pictures and information on them with the children.

This week in nursery we are continuing “All about Me” as our learning context. The children are painting  large self portraits and over this week and next we will be taking heights to compare with their heights at the end of the year to see just how much they grow over the session! On Friday morning there is a parent/ carer Read and Play session (at 9.30am and 10.30am) with Lydia Simpson from Action for Children who we are working with on some Literacy Projects which was thoroughly enjoyable and well received last year. (The afternoon children will get the same opportunity later in the term).

Please continue to complete Wow cards/ notes for the board as we are really enjoying hearing what the children are getting up to outside of nursery, and the children have enjoyed so far sharing their exciting news at gather times.

Any outstanding personalised snack placemats can still be returned to be laminated. The placemats we have received so far are fantastic and we thank parents for putting so much time and effort into making these with their children – we have certainly enjoyed looking at them and discussing them with the children!

The library is running a competition where people of all ages can enter pictures of their pets (or favourite toy pet) looking like a book character. Take a photo or draw a picture and take it to the library by 26th September and you could win a prize. If you fancy having a go, contact the library for further information!

This week we are continuing to settle the children into nursery, reminding them of and introducing them to nursery rules and routines. Our learning contexts are “Settling in” and “All about Me”.

The children have a home activity to complete with parents or carers to make a placemat for the snack table. This is an A4 piece of card which can have anything put onto it; photos, drawings, stickers, glitter, writing, pictures cut from magazines etc. They will be laminated at nursery by staff and then used by the children at snack time, hopefully assisting with conversations amongst the children and providing a comforting link with home. Please return these when completed ensuring the child’s name is clearly noticeable on the place mat and the decorations are flat to allow them to be laminated. We are looking forward to seeing the finished products!

We have a few “Wow” cards/notes  on the “Wow wall” which is great. We love to hear of all their achievements and it is great for the children to be able to share these with others. We look forward to seeing this wall build up with evidence of success stories both in and out of nursery, and these will then be transferred to the children’s learning journeys.

Just a reminder, the nursery children will be having their individual photos taken by “Catchlites” tomorrow (Tuesday 25th August) in the nursery building.