This month we had an amazing Christmas party, we showed off our dancing skills and watched magic tricks, and Santa came to see us! We had a great time at our stay and play we had peppermint playdough, biscuit decorating, reindeer food and lots of Christmas crafts to create. During December we have had lots…
Happy Halloween! This month we have been exploring all things Halloween. We have shown lots of interest in pumpkins. We first explored the inside, feeling the texture of the slimy seeds. We counted how many seeds we could see and talked about their size too. We talked about how pumpkins grow and created our own…
This month we have been exploring and understanding the world. We have discovered different natural materials such as leaves, flowers, twigs, that were in our nature garden. We used the materials we found to create amazing nature pictures. We also found insects that were hiding in the garden, we remembered to be careful when touching…
This month we have shown lots of interest in activities that strengthen our fine and gross motor skills.We took part in lots of creative mark making activities, exploring textures such as paint, ice, cotton wool and more. We made a dabbing motion using the cotton wool to create our Easter eggs. We used lots of…
This month we have taken part in an Easter egg letter hunt in the garden. We found letters inside the eggs and said the letter sounds. We have listened to Easter stories at story time. We have also explored ice with Easter chicks in, we talked about melting and used words freeing, icy, cold.
This month we have been celebrating our love of books and stories! We celebrated world book day by dressing up as our favourite book characters and sharing our favourite stories with our friends. We went on a trip to the local library where we listened to a story and looked at all the different books….
This month we have been decorating the classroom for Christmas, we helped to put the tree up too!We wrote letters to Santa practising forming some letters then posted them in the nursery post box.We have listened to lots of Christmas stories and sang some Christmas songs.We practised our cutting skills with the scissors cutting Santa’s…
This month in the classroom we have begun prepping our Pre-Schoolers ready for their transition to big school! This is a big change for our children, so to make it easier we have been looking at pictures of our new schools on the computer, discussing our school visits with each other, reading stories about going…
February in the Classroom has seen us welcoming some warmer weather. We have been enjoying the sunny days in the garden and have been engaging in lots of imaginative role play outside based around our children’s developing interests. This month we have celebrated Valentine’s Day, with lots of Valentine’s and love-themed activities such as making…
We explored Valentine’s Day. We decorated some yummy pink and red biscuits, showing good hand eye coordination when spooning and transferring the icing. We even managed to get a taste, it was so yummy 😋. Auntie also made a red and pink themed tray, it contained various textures for us to explore !! This month…