Forgewood Family Learning Centre

Please note that Monday 21st November 2016 is NLC’s In-Service Day for staff training.

The nursery will be closed to all children.

Hope you all like our new flooring in the 2-3 room.

Could all children please change into indoor slippers/soft shoes before entering the playroom. This will help keep our carpets clean and stop cross-contamination and also aid in the comfort of your child during their session in the nursery

Thank you

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Children have been learning colour and counting recognition through songs, rhyme and play routines.

The Children have been learning through dance, ways to move slow, fast and spin, also language such as  fast, slow high and low.

The children in the toddler room enjoyed participating in some halloween sensory experiences, they helped to carve out the pumpkins and had fun looking for spiders and bugs in the bowl of slimy worms. They had the opportunity to listen to some halloween stories and songs.

Children have been recreating patterns as well as identifying patterns within their indoor and outdoor environment. They have been exploring the pegs and peg boards building towers using a variety of mathematical language such as tall, wide, long, small, big, bigger etc. Children have shown an interest in the story ” Owl Babies ” this has led them to role play the story sharing this with their friends.

Within all areas of the nursery the children have been developing their literacy and pre writing and writing skills creating plans within the construction area, shopping lists in the house corner, writing their names as well as using the patterns on the dice within the writing area to support their pre writing skills.

In the construction area the children have been using various resources to build and measure using mathematical language ie big, small, short, tall. They have also been identifying shape through their play,and developing their imagination while making their models.

Outdoors  the children have enjoyed listening to and retelling fairy tale stories, they have participated in a shape hunt,and have been exploring their senses investigating the herb garden  and digging area using their hands, spades, sticks to create mud pies etc.  The children have also been using their imagination and creativity to make patterns using chalk, water and paint brushes. Lots of den building experiences have been taking place which has supported the children’s problem solving skills in how to keep ourselves warm and dry.

The children have also taken part in the Halloween Party.  This was a great success as you can see from the pictures below.  Thank you again for all your support, the children had a fabulous party snack.

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The toddler room AM children were very interested in the centipede we found in nursery.

We used the bug catcher to look more closely at it.

We decided it had too many legs to count.

We let it go outside in the grass to find it friends.

The children in the toddler room have been visiting their surrounding environment to explore and investigate the changes in nature during Autumn.

We gathered lots of natural resources which we used in nursery in a variety of ways.

The children have enjoyed painting, printing, mark making, sorting and matching with the natural materials.

The Photographer will be visiting the nursery on Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th November.

Further information will follow shortly

The children have been learning about Autumn through their senses. They have been participating in different learning experiences within the playroom i.e. painting using brushes as well as their hands while also exploring natural resources while looking at the different autumnal colours. The children have also been taking part in environmental walks within their local community, collecting leaves while exploring there different textures and smells.  We have also been visiting local allotments where the children explored the different plants and vegetables that are being grown.