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… 🙂