Silly Soup

19th June 2023J Parker

At small group time, the children listened carefully for clues to which ingredients to add to make our silly soup.   The clues included a description of the nursery object.  For example, it has a stripy pattern.  Sometimes the children listened for the initial letter sound of the object, for example, this begins with a ‘c’ sound.   One by one, the children then helped to stir the silly soup ingredients as we sang the silly soup rhyme…

We’re making lots of silly soup

We’re making soup that’s silly

We’re going to put it in the fridge

To make it nice and chilly!

This is a fun letters and sounds game that you could play at home.

Chinese New Year Celebrations

9th February 2023J Parker

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year.  We listened to the story about the Chinese calendar, which involved a race between lots of creatures.  This year is the year of the rabbit.  We looked at similarities and differences between English and Chinese writing and copied some of the patterns.  We used chopsticks to sort multi-coloured pom-poms and different shapes.  We also used our hands to make hand prints, as we made a dragon, ready for our dragon dance.   We also tasted prawn crackers and some of us tried sweet and sour sauce and watched a dragon dance on the whiteboard!

Rainy Day

30th November 2022J Parker

We love rainy days. We got on our splash suits and wellies then headed outside to explore the rain! The children noticed rain collecting in one of our builders trays, they began to jump in and make very big splashes. We then decided to add some washing up liquid to see what would happen. The more we jumped and moved the more bubbles we got. Children then added lots of other things such as grass , leaves and stones and made some potions.

Jack Frost

30th November 2022J Parker

Jack Frost visited nursery and lots of our homes for the first time in a long time this week. The children discussed how cold it felt outside and how lots of grown ups needed to take ice off the cars before heading to nursery!

The children created their own role play using the animals and introduced more resources such as spoons to ”dig out the snow and free the animals”. Other children used the fake snow to make marks in with their fingers and also using tools such as paint brushes and lolly sticks.

Yoga

30th November 2022J Parker

This week we put on the interactive whiteboard and did some cosmic kid Christmas themed yoga. The children watched the lady on the screen and copied all of the moves she showed us.