Month: December 2018

On Wednesday the 19th of December, the children invited their parents and other members of their family to come along and join in with some festive fun.  The activity stations included making pomanders, gingerbread men decorating, mince pie making, creating baubles, preparing reindeer food and making Christmas cards. We were so busy joining in our festive activities!

On this day we were also very lucky to have a special visitor! He even told us that he parked his sleigh and reindeer on the roof of our nursery!

O “I’m going to put icing on my gingerbread”.

J “I’ve made reindeer food”.

D “I went to see Santa and got a present”.

On Friday we had yet another Christmas treat – our annual Christmas party! We played lots of games like Musical Bumps, Pass the Parcel and Christmas Corners. We also had a special Christmas snack with party food and lots and lots and LOTS of dancing afterwards! Everybody had so much fun!

J “This is the best party ever!”

L “I won this game!”

S “I like to have party food for snack.”

We also had our own very special version of Elf on the Shelf, well done Annemarie!

 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish Ania all the very best in her new job and also in her forthcoming marriage. A bright and rosy future for the new Mr and Mrs.

We would like to thank all of our parents and families for their continued support and for joining us on this special day.

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.  See you in January.

We would like to say a great big ‘Thank You’ to Jo Hall for bringing her friend JoJo Gnome to visit. We enjoyed hearing about Jojo’s experiences in Sound Town where he lives and also the fantastic poem about the Christmas Tree.  Jo kindly drew us some pictures of Jojo which have been put in both playrooms…See if you can find him!

G: “I liked Jojo”

A; “We need to shout to wake Jojo up”

J: “Catching bubbles”

Well… On Monday morning we were all very surprised to find a certain somebody in the nursery waiting on us to find him! …It was the Elf –  Santa’s helper, WOW! We all thought hard about what to call him and we decided to name him ‘Chippy’.  We learned that every night he travels back to the North Pole to tell Santa how busy we have all been at nursery.  Every morning we have to search all over the nursery to find Chippy’s hiding place – he is very good at finding new places to hide. But… We need to remember that we cannot touch Chippy or he may lose his magic, oh no, we wouldn’t want that to happen!

As it’s now December already we are all very excited for the festivities and have started to decorate our playrooms with lots of shiny, sparkly tinsel, baubles and other Christmas decorations.  Some of the boys and girls have even been creating their own Christmas keepsakes!  We also decorated our Christmas tree. Come and see for yourself how festive we have made our nursery!

 

 

 

 

We can be anything we want to be, so today we decided to be bakers! We turned one of our playrooms into our own wee bakery, which we named the Williamsburgh Bakery! Our speciality was delicious loaves of bread. You could spot us in our chefs hats, as we always remember how important keeping our hair away and our hands clean when baking or cooking is. We also didn’t forget our chef aprons, but that’s because we didn’t want our lovely clothes to get all dirty and floury ;). We worked very hard together (great teamwork!) to measure out all of the ingredients and we used our muscles to mix and knead the dough! We worked very hard to make sure the dough is nice and smooth! When it was all ready, we very carefully put the dough in the oven and… Voila! 20 minutes later, we had very delicious and still toasty warm bread to take home! And it smelled really delicious too!

J: “Teamwork makes the dream work!”
R: “We’re making bread and we get to take it home.”
B: “Actually, we’re making dough.”
SB: “I’m like a real baker because I’m making it really good.”
J: “That’s the ingredients we need.”
N: “This is like making play dough.”
O: “I haven’t cooked bread before!”
S: “It smells like pizza!”