Red Group

Red Group have been busy again this week!  On Wednesday we learned how to thread special pens with string and make patterns on the boards, which helps to develop the muscles in our hands for writing.  We had a fab time at Forest School making kites out of carrier bags!  It was a windy day, so we took them outside and had kite races.  It was great fun, but it wore us out! We had to have hot chocolate and chocolate pancakes to perk us up again!

The highlight of Red Group’s week has been the Easter Stay and Play day!   All of the children and adults enjoyed the activities on offer.  Lots of us made Easter cards and Spring paintings, and yummy Easter nest cakes.  Outside, Forest School was open and Miss Pollard had the camp fire on with marshmallows to toast.  A good time was had by all!

This week at Nursery, Red Group have been learning about Chinese New Year.  We have also explored chinese writing and some chinese food – using chopsticks is very tricky! We tried noodles and prawn crackers with dips for snack, and they were tasty!  We did a fun dragon dance and some of us played the instruments very loudly!   We also had an important talk about road safety which prompted Max to bring in his safety helmet to show everyone.

Click here to see some of the children doing a dragon dance this week

We had a very exciting Forest School walk down beside the river Don this week. Some grown up’s were able to join us on our expedition to the trees and nature trail.  The children found trees to climb and we had a look around for signs of winter and spring.  We were having such a good time that the robin decided to join us too!

Red Group have been very excited to use the laptops this week!  The children are learning how to use the paint section of the ‘2simple’ program and are doing very well although it is tricky using keys instead of a touch screen!  We also have also been working as a team to building structures in the block area.  The morning children chose to build an aeroplane and took turns to be the pilot.  The afternoon children decided on a space rocket and went off to the moon!

The children have enjoyed exploring Numicon this week.  They matched up the shapes on the board and the number line and we did lots of counting together. We are learning how to count 2 groups together – it’s tricky!  Red Group love working with the Numicon so much that they have asked for it again next week!  Following on from last week, the children have also been doing lots of work with letters. We have been having a fun game of ‘Find Your Letter’ at planning time.

We have had a lot of fun this week exploring colour.  A lot of Red Group children investigated the cornflour mixture at worktime, and were thrilled when they discovered new colours when they mixed in the powder paint.  We have introduced new laptops to the children and hope to have a computer area up and running soon.  Letters and sounds have become a big interest in our group so we base a lot of activities around this. This week, we have encouraged the children to think about the initial letter of their name and other familiar letters, and have planned fun games to promote this.

It’s getting so close to Christmas!  The children have been busy making calendars and cards for their grown up’s this week. We have also been rehearsing our ‘Wiggly Nativity’ nearly every day!