This week we have learning all about Chinese New Year. and learning about new cultures and celebrations. We have listened to stories including Peppa Pig's Chinese New Year, went on a dragon hunt, made lanterns and enjoyed a Chinese banquet.
We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We cleaned ready for the new year, made lanterns, did some dragon dancing and set up our own Chinese restaurant. We even wrote our name in Chinese writing. What a super time we had!
We used play dough to practice different techniques we could use to model the clay with such as twisting, imprinting, rolling and shaping.
Nursery children have took part in RSPB Bird Watching Week. We have listened to lots of stories, sang 2 Little Dickie Birds. We made bird feeders to feed the birds in our nursery garden, practising threading skills placing Cheerios onto pipe cleaners. To observe the...
One of our nursery children was lucky enough to see a real rocket launch and shared it with us all on our online learning journal Tapestry. This inspired us to play all things rockets🚀 We listened to different stories including Roaring Rockets, Whatever Next...
We had a great time drawing our own cave art to create our calendars. We hope you like them as much as we loved making them for you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The nursery children all wore their Christmas jumpers to our Christmas crafts day. Parents / carers and grown ups all helped to make some very festive decorations with the children.
First we listened to the rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock, and discussed what happened. Then the children made a big clock for a mouse to run up. Everyone took turns spinning the wheel then joining in singing the rhyme it stopped on. We then made lots of little mice in the...
First we listened to the rhyme Jack and Jill and discussed what happened. Then the children performed first aid, dressing up as doctors and nurses to treat everyone with a broken crown. The rain finally stopped and we went up to the top of of the hill rolled down just...
We celebrating Diwali throughout the week by decorating our home corner with fireworks and Rangoli patterns. We also created Rangoli patterns with paint and in rice. We did some food tasking too.
