Drumming with Joy

We had our second week of drumming with Joy in the music room on Tuesday.  We all learned how to take care of the drums and how to play them properly with the palm of our hands.

We learned to say hello in a foreign language called Swahili – The word we learned was ‘Jambo’.

In one of the songs  we have to shout out our name and then everyone else shouts our name back . Joy wants us all to be able to do that for next week.

At the end of the session  Joy played a song and we got to dance. In that song we had to pretend that we were different African animals. We all had great fun moving to the music.

Joy says that by Easter we will all be able to play a tune together!

We were being lions
We were snakes in this picture
Everybody joined in the fun
We all got a big drum to play
We listened to Joy’s instructions

 

ICY ADVENTURES

Broken bits of ice
In a boggy part
The north wind was cold on our hands and faces
Fun on the see-saw
Footprints
We listened out for the scrunching sound when the ice broke
We broke the ice in the puddles

We went for a play over in Strom Park today. We thought of three different ways to play.

We showed good turn-taking on the see-saw and really enjoyed that.

Others played a chasing game on the ramp to the clubhouse door and the rest of us spent time breaking the ice in in the boggy puddles. We enjoyed listening to the scrunching sound as the ice broke, and noticed how water turns to ice then melts again.

We took great care walking there and chose the safest routes away from icy areas to reach our destination. We realised that the grass was the safest place to walk.  We had to go back to nursery when our hands and noses were freezing cold!

Todays activities

Getting ready to do some dancing.
We enjoyed playing musical statues
We enjoyed dancing to ‘Farmers in the den’
The farmer, wife and child
The farmer, wife, child, nurse, dog, bone
Carefully cutting the food out for their placemats

 

Today we enjoyed going to the gym hall to play some dancing games. We enjoyed playing musical statues, farmers in his den and The Hokey Pokey. Everyone enjoyed doing the different games and trying to be so still during musical statues.

We then came back into nursery and decorated some place mats for us to use at dinner time. Everyone tried so hard and had good cutting skills.

Happy New Year

Fun in the water tray
Trying so hard to pick up the bears with tongs
Drawing and practicing writing numbers
Colouring in Peppa Pig on the smart board
Helping each other to pick different sounds
Making a frozen jigsaw
Finished jigsaw, they were delighted with the outcome
Making pictures
Helping ourselves to lunch today to encourage independence.

Happy New Year Everyone. It was so good having everyone back in today. The children were very excited to tell us what they got from Santa. We had great fun in the nursery today, craft table , playing games, jigsaws, drawing with chalk and we went outside too.

We also introduced ‘serving yourself at snack and dinner’. The children enjoyed putting their own food on the plates and choosing how much food they wanted. There was good communication about passing plates of food and jugs of water. Great work everyone 🙂