Every day in nursery, the Special Helper in each group chops the fruit ready for our healthy snack and most recently, there has been a huge interest in picnics during role-play activities. As part of supporting the children’s next steps to learning, the children made their very own sandwich ready for our picnic at snack time. Each child selected a filling of their choice, from either cheese or jam sandwiches. Some of us decided to make a mixture of cheese and jam! The children then carefully spread their filling from the middle to the corners of their piece of bread before folding and cutting the slice of bread in half and then into two quarters, ready for our picnic outside. We are all very excited for our end of year celebration picnic with our families!
What an unexpected visitor we had in nursery! Hiding in a box in the garage was a toad! It was carefully carried inside where all the children had the chance to have a look…but you’ll never guess what happened next? It leapt out of the box and jumped around the conservatory!!! It then jumped around the koala room, and then the Penguin room!!! It was gently rescued, placed back in the box and put in a quiet place outside. Later on that morning we went to see if it was still there..but it had hopped off!!!!
Following on from sharing week last week in which some of our parents shared their careers with us we set up a hospital/doctors surgery. The children really enjoyed dressing their friends with bandages, checking their temperatures, listening to each other’s heart beats and administering medication to those who needed it. We also used our writing skills to fill out prescriptions for the Helen Gibson patients.
We also have been showing lots of interest in Volcano’s so we painted our very own volcano ready for an experiment next week! The children used lots of different colours to create the Volcano and making it look as real as possible.
We also recalled on our trip to the farm last week. We created a large scale drawing of our very own farm, talking about where the animals live, what animals there would be and any other things we may find at the farm. The children were very detailed with their drawings, recalling what their favourite part of the farm was and also adding in some animals or other parts of the farm that weren’t there such as a duck pond.
We also explored some mark making using our hands and smaller tools on a large shower curtain! No area was left uncovered and it was a great messy activity.
To celebrate Pride Week children came to nursery wearing their favourite colours. We talked about what made us individual and what makes us unique. We discussed our families and how each one can be very unique in who lives in our houses, what we like to do, what we eat and how we should celebrate this! Children brought in a stone as big as their hand and were able to decorate it with whichever colours we wanted.
We had so much fun this week. Our families came in to share their special talents and jobs with us. We learnt how to become a good artist, a scientist, a footballer and a nurse. Some of our families did arts and crafts with us and others came in to read stories. On Friday we learned about how important it is for us to get jobs when we are older from a Mam who works in a bank. This has been a very special week!
We had so much fun at Hall Hill Farm
We were able to stroke a huge rabbit. It was very heavy!
We also held a guinea pig. He was very soft.
We fed some of the animals with milk as they were just babies.
The animals tongues tickled our hands.
We even had a ride on a tractor.
We were exhausted by the time we went home and some of us even fell asleep!
We had a special chart to show us the types of mini beasts we might spot in our nursery garden.
We had a think about the equipment we might need then off we went to explore.
We checked under rocks, wooden tree trunk stumps and in the mud and were amazed at all the creatures we found!
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Please remember that nursery will be closed on Friday the 27th of May. We therefore break up on the 26th. All schools have been given an additional day holiday to celebrate the Jubilee.
