Red Nose Day 2017

We have had lots of fun today celebrating Red Nose Day in Nursery.  We held a big party with balloon games, lots of dancing, colouring and cutting out nose pictures, decorating gingerbread men and topped off by some yummy party food.  We also learnt about Haja and her family who live in Sierra Leone – she is 3 years old and used to live on a rubbish dump but thanks to money raised on Red Nose Day she now has a home and somewhere safe to play.  We talked about the importance of helping others less fortunate than ourselves and thought about some of the ways the money we raised today might help other people.

Underwater world

Over Half Term the Nursery role play area was transformed into a lovely underwater world complete with fish, nets, waves and seaweed …

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Last week we were learning all about fish and other sea creatures.  This week we have been focusing on The Rainbow Fish and what it is like to be a good friend.  We have had lots of discussions about emotions and feelings, sharing, being kind and helping our friends.  We have re-told the story using lovely story stones …

We have made sea creatures and seaweed using our sparkly blue/green playdough and have played a fishing game where we used magnetic fishing rods to attract our little numbered fish.  We have also been creative and made our very own rainbow fish …

However, we did not forget pancake day on Tuesday …. we made pancakes to eat for snack and even held our own pancake races in the school hall!

Busy busy term!

We have had a very busy, exciting time this half term in Nursery.  Here are just a few of the things we have been doing …

We started the term by thinking about Winter and how to keep warm which involved lovely walks outside, followed by hot chocolate and yummy marshmallows.  We played and explored with ice, looked at differences and similarities, identified patterns, made snowmen using shaped resources, danced and expressed ourselves to winter themed music and made some fantastic foil winter pictures.  We also did lots of finger gym and even had a go at childrens’ yoga ….

Birdwatch was our next activity when we learnt how to identify some birds and birdsounds.  We went on a listening walk, identified some animal tracks, used our fine motor skills to pick up “worms” (pipecleaners!!), made some owl biscuits to eat and some bird kebabs to put in the garden for the birds.

We completed the term by learning all out China and the Chinese New Year festival.  We looked at China on the map and looked at pictures of the Great Wall of China.  We then made our own walls using large and small construction resources.  We made our very own dragon out of craft materials and then used it to do some dragon dancing in the hall (see pics below).  We had to work together to make the dragon move and dance.  We played with lots of red/gold resources in the sensory tuffspot and made some beautiful collages using red/gold craft materials.  Our fine motor skills were strengthened when we had a go at using chopsticks to pick up noodles and we even had a chinese food tasting session.  Using our scissor skills we made our own chinese lanterns and we used instruments to create our own chinese music.  We have been very busy and have had lots of fun.  Watch this space to find out what we are learning about next …