It is lovely to see everyone back at Nursery as everyone has been raring to go!  We explored the soft play this week and experimented with different ways to move our bodies.  It was fun and the children thought of imaginative ways to use the equipment!  Red Group have been practicing their cutting skills this week with a bag full of different materials – some of them were very tricky to cut.  A favourite activity of Red Group’s is working with the Numicon.  Today they were using it like a jigsaw and trying to fit the pieces together on the board.

Chinese New Year

This week we carried out lots of different activities in celebration of Chinese New Year. We tried different foods like tasting prawn crackers and noodles with Chinese curry sauce. The children got to make their own mini dragons or dragon kites and did a dragon dance outside using the large dragon head and making music using the drums and shakers. We also explored trying to use chopsticks and sort coloured beans and tried marking some Chinese letters.

This week we have been practicing our writing using the markers and white boards.  We did a ‘Writing disco’ where the children moved their pens to the music and produced different patterns.  We have been learning about autumn and what happens at harvest time.  We found out that farmers use scarecrows to frighten the birds off their crops so me made two.  The children decided on the names – Mia and Frankie!

We have started off the new Nursery year very happily in Red Group!  Most of the new children have settled well and are enjoying our activities.  We have been talking about autumn this week and have been out looking for signs of it around our Forest School.  We collected leaves to make prints with them and discovered lots of mushrooms growing on logs and in the grass.  We had a safety talk before we went out into Forest School where we looked at pictures of the dangers such as mushrooms and nettles so the children knew that we never touch mushrooms outside – ‘Just from Morrisons!’

We’ve had an exciting week this week, as it has been Pancake Tuesday!  We all helped to make the pancakes on Tuesday and Mrs Stephenson fried and tossed them for us.  We chose our own toppings and they were delicious – we could not get enough! We read the story ‘The Enormous Pancake’ and had pancake races in the yard which were fun because nearly all of us dropped the pancakes! We celebrated World Book Day on Wednesday and the children came in with some fabulous costumes – well done parents!  We have read lots of stories this week , particularly traditional tales which the children have loved.