Blocks are such an important part of our nursery play. Building with blocks strengthens our gross motor and fine motor development, as well as giving us a platform to link to things that we experience in the real world. We have blocks indoors and outdoors so there is no limit to what they can do with them. Ferries are very popular just now, and Amelia even glitzed her ferry up with a bit of bling. Outside Joe was making sure his bridge would be very safe by putting ‘grit’ on top of it so people didn’t slide and fall off, while Hazel was very busy building her Chinese shop so she could sell noodles.

Speaking of grit, we were so excited last week when we got a bit of snowy weather we could go out and play in. We had great fun looking for big bits of ice, we found some massive bits! We also made snow castles and icy potions too. The boys were making sure everybody was safe by making a gritter, and they were very excited to get real grit to put in their gritter. They did a great job making sure the paths were all gritted.

There wasn’t just ice outside, when we came into nursery last Friday there were huge blocks of ice in the water tray with animals frozen inside them! We had to problem solve on how we were going to get them out, Tommy suggested hammers which worked really well for a little bit until the ice got too small to hammer. Joe then suggested water and Hazel realised it would have to be hot water so it melted! They safely got all the animals out then Maggie and Tommy had great fun cleaning the water tray afterwards.

The teachers also froze some paint for us to paint pictures with. It was very cool to paint with.

We have also been very busy this week decorating the Christmas tree and making a beautiful cosy Christmas house. Christian had great fun playing inside the Christmas tree box! The tree is looking wonderful and everyone helped to make the fireplace for our cosy house.

We have also had great fun putting on some Christmas dressing up today. We are definitely all in the festive mood now!

We are also really busy practising on the stage for our Christmas concert. We can’t wait to sing for everybody!

Lastly here are some photos that the bairns have taken themselves on the ipad. They like nothing better than using the ipad to capture what they are up to, and staff love seeing the photos from the bairns point of view. There are some posers among us… 🙂

We have had a busy couple of weeks in nursery.

Lots of play has been happening inside with our shop and the blocks, and we have been doing lots of painting!

We have also been very busy outside and we even found a very strange insect with a lot of legs!

On Tuesday we went for a walk to the shop to get wir errands. We made wir list before we went and knew exactly what we were looking for. Catherine also showed wiz some of the things that they use in the shop.

This week Miss Stewart went on an emerging literacy pre-handwriting course and she got us to draw under a table! This is very good for wir gross motor development and we had great fun doing it!

She also showed us some symbols that we can practice drawing. These are important symbols for pre-handwriting, once we can do them we will be able to start wrting letters and numbers.

Cutting skills are also very important for pre-handwriting to strengthen up the muscles in our hands.

Today is Children In Need so we all came to nursery wearing wir pyjamas and we took in some donations. We made some very colourful Pudsey pictures too.

We have had such a busy first week back after the October holidays. We got straight back into playing both inside and outside!

On Thursday it was Halloween so we came to nursery in our costumes. The nursery has a spooky house for us to play in.

We have been gifted a shopping trolley but we were a bit fed up that we didn’t have a shop for us to use it at, so the teachers made us one! We have had a great day buying things and getting to be the shop keeper too. Some of the boys even made a house with a fridge in it to put their shopping in.

We are really happy to be back at nursery playing with our friends and are looking forward to see what the rest of the term brings.