This week we have continued exploring the Christmas story and have used the costumes and our ‘stable’ to understand the characters and events in the story. We have also enjoyed sharing and talking about Christmas books.

We have been developing our understanding of numbers by ordering numbers and placing numbers on a number-line. We have been problem solving to create and experiment with the marble run and we have been using sticks to make triangular Christmas trees, which has developed our understanding of different shapes and their properties.

Christmas crafts and making snowman biscuits have been fun ways to develop our fine motor skills and we developed our creativity and problem solving skills when we used bricks of all shapes and sizes to build an obstacle course. We have also worked together to build Santa’s Grotto.

We have been playing with the Frozen  characters in our Small World area, which  has stimulated a lot of discussion about cold, ice and freezing.

We have also talked about why we are washing our hands regularly and covering our mouths when we cough, so that we don’t spread germs.

On Tuesday we celebrated Mrs Martin’s special birthday with a Birthday Breakfast at morning snack time. We all sang ‘Happy Birthday’ and had a lovely time celebrating together.

On Friday we had another firepit snack time, when we learned about campfire safety. We enjoyed having hot chocolate and marshmallows and singing Christmas songs.

Finally, just a wee reminder to please complete and return the Feedback sheet that came home with your child’s Interim Report and Wellbeing Flower. It would be much appreciated if these could be returned before the end of term on Thursday 23rd.

We have had a very creative week and have been experimenting with different ways to use paint. We collected twigs and small branches and used them to paint with and we have been using apples to print with to make baubles. Our Christmas role play area has been very popular and we have had lots of fun learning about the Christmas story and dressing up as angels, donkeys, kings, Mary and Joseph.

We have continued to develop our fine motor skills through mark making with pens, pencils and paintbrushes. We have also been using glue and scissors to make Reindeer antlers. We have developed our gross motor skills by experimenting with different containers to pour water.

We have had more fun sorting and matching colours and shapes this week and we are becoming confident at recognising the properties of shapes to compare and group them.

Finally, we have been practising our Christmas song, which we are looking forward to sharing with our families very soon.

We have had another busy week, which started with our St Andrews Day celebrations when we enjoyed dancing to Scottish music.

Our Christmas tree has arrived and we have worked together to decorate it beautifully. We have also been practising our fine motor skills to make paper chains to decorate the nursey and experimenting painting with different materials. We also enjoyed a winter walk to collect sticks to make Reindeer antlers.

We are continuing to learn more about shapes, through matching activities and using shapes to make pictures. A lot of us are also keen to complete  jigsaws as independently as possible, which is helping to develop  our observational skills and spatial awareness. We are also  developing our fine motor skills and pencil grip through mark making, with some children trying to write their name all by themselves.