This has been a ‘super’ start to the year for our children in main nursery. We have been choosing and reading our own books, making new friends, working with each other, exploring new sensory textures and best of all….HAVING FUN!
We have welcomed back our returning children and lots of new friends too. It has been lovely to watch each of them settle and explore the environment. The children have quickly learnt the routine and are enjoying all aspects of lodge life. We re all excited to make lots of fun memories.
We had a beautiful day celebrating with our children who are leaving us to start their school journey. So many parents and carers came, it was amazing! Hope you all have a lovely summer, and we look forward to welcoming back our returners and excited to meet all of our new children in September.
Thank you to those parents who supported our Sharing Week, where the children had the opportunity to explore a police car, try on a uniform and press all the buttons in the car! The children also had a relaxing yoga class, and a cooking experience where the most delicious chocolate cookies were made, cooked…..then eaten!
The lodge children have discovered pirates. It all started with a tyre and some guttering. Freddie climbed aboard the tyre and announced to his friends “we are pirates, ahaarr.”
As the children joined they discussed what they would find, like monsters, sharks and treasure. Jaxxon chose a block and used it as binoculars to look for the treasure.
This led us to team building where the children created a pirate ship.
Which led to creating pirate patches to get into character.
We added pirate ships, canons and figures to the water trays.
And golden coins to the sand.
Inside we made our own pirate flags.
What a busy 2 weeks it has been.
Recently in the lodge we have been exploring sorting. to start with we sorted by color so the children could grasp what sorting meant. the children chose different objects and matched them to the same color on the parachute.
Next we moved onto some thing more tricky. I gave each of the children a bag of mixed natural objects and modeled how i would sort them. the children quickly understood and were able to match the objects into categories.
Last week some eggs were delivered to nursery. 7 of them hatched into chicks. we had to wait a few days for them to grow but once they were big enough we were able to hold them.
some of the children were a little unsure and liked to look at them from a distance. others were very keen to have them on their knee and to hold them and touch them.
We have been so busy in the run up to Christmas! From Santa’s Work shop where wrote letters to Santa to decorating Christmas Trees, painting with glitter and making cards and calendars for our families. We loved the Polar Express Day, the visits from Peep the Elf and practised hard for our Christmas Nativity. We are definitely on Santa’s Nice List! We made many memories and had lots of fun.
What an exciting evening we all had! We came to nursery in our pyjamas, we had hot chocolate and ginger bread biscuits as we watched Polar Express and
we’ve all had the reindeer dust, and the bell that you only hear ring if you truly believe.
Another exciting week in nursery! Here are some of the activities Koala group have enjoyed this week…..exploring light and colour on the lightbox, using hands and fingers to paint and mix colour, large scale mark making with chalk and exploring dry sand. Outside some children painted tiles, made bird feeders to hang in the trees to look after the birds at this time of year when food is less easy to find, got creative (and messy!) in our mud kitchen, created a bus by using the block trolley and putting on a show on our new outdoor stage. Hope next week is just as imaginative, inventive and exciting!
