In the nursery we have been continuing our traditional tales journey and explored the world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears! We recreated the story using our small world characters, made porridge in the Bears house, washed up after we had eaten the porridge and counted our giant bear steps. The children also explored the outdoor area and went on a winter walk to see what changes they could see outside.

Last week the children came in to find a castle and beanstalk had appeared over the weekend and we read the story of Jack, the beanstalk and the giant. We found Giant footprints and measured them with the maths cubes, counting them to find out how big they are! None of us had feet quite that big! We tried to build our own beanstalk as tall as the castle in the clouds, designed our own Giants using the popoids, dressed up for our castle banquet and wrote “wanted” posters for the giant to put around the nursery! The children enjoyed looking after the magic hen and counted how many magic beans we had in the nursery! There were quite a few! Looking forward to more traditional tales fun this week!

This week the children have been really engrossed in activities around our book of the week which is The Gingerbread Man! We have been busy using ginger cloud dough, re-enacting the story using small world characters, gingerbread man dot to dot using bingo dabblers, building a house for the gingerbread man and friends using waffle bricks, role play using character masks, re-telling the story using story stones and sorting the gingerbread man’s shape buttons!

At the slightest inkling that the rain has stopped, we are back out in the playground and this week, the children have enjoyed using some new equipment! We love these exciting new bikes and the children are learning quickly how to use them!

Since returning to nursery after the Christmas break, the children have enjoyed making an array of hot drinks in our winter coffee shop! Order your hot chocolate at the window and choose from the delicious selection of cakes to complement your drink! Pay with real pennies and you can even take away or eat in to  carry on working on your laptop!

Last week the nursery class took part in their first Write Dance session. A beautiful collaboration of music, song and mark marking! The children listened to a piece of music, created actions and transferred their movements into marks on paper with an exciting outcome!

On this chilly January day, a little Christmas memory of when the big guy in red came to visit! The children really enjoyed meeting Santa and his visit definitely brought a little bit of magic to the nursery!

What a lovely festive way to begin Christmas ! The children enjoyed performing for their special grown ups, singing favourite songs.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Over the past few weeks, the nursery children have been getting into the Christmas spirit by enjoying getting stuck into lots of exciting activities in the classroom! We have been dressing up as elves and wrapping presents in the grotto, making salt dough tree decorations and cards to bring home,painting and decorating Santa’s sleigh, making paper chains and pegging up our Christmas stockings on the elves washing line to name but a few of the fun things we have been getting up to! This week the children have also been absolute superstars when practising and performing our songs around the Christmas tree! They all looked amazing in their costumes and did brilliantly when it was their turn to get on stage! Well done everybody!

This week, the children have been learning about people who help us, playing ‘vets’ in the role play area and learning how to care for sick animals, building a house as a team, learning body parts and making their own X-Ray skeletons as doctors in the creative area, using toothbrushes to clean the giant teeth and putting out fires in the garden with their water hoses and firefighters hats! Well done to all our helpers this week!