Story time with Santa
Did you hear that Father Christmas came to visit today?
There was a lot of excitement in Nursery this morning when we heard a jingle and jangling of bells. We gathered in the Quiet Room and were very surprised to see Santa appear at the door!
We were very lucky; Santa had heard about how much we love to listen to stories in Nursery and so he had brought a Christmas book to read to us. Children sat very still as Santa told the story of a missing present and a special Christmas star. At the end of our story, Father Christmas very kindly gave all the children a present. Thank you Santa!
A special visitor
Early Years and KS1 were lucky enough to have a visit from Santa today. He read stories and handed out presents. We’re all feeling very Christmassy now!
A touch of frost
Brrrrrr! It was very chilly outside on the walk to Nursery today. Children came into Nursery talking about the frost that they had seen. We went for a walk in the garden but we had to be quite careful as it was very slippy! Miss Backhouse noticed that you couldn’t see very far into the distance because it was so foggy. Everybody found a leaf on the floor and we talked about the tiny little pieces of ice that covered them. We even found some frozen droplets of water underneath the lid of the water tray.
These were the first signs that we’ve seen of winter so far but we’re sure there’ll be many more when we return to Nursery in January.
Non-uniform
The last day of term, Friday 20 December, is a non-uniform day.
Party time!
We all had a great time at our Nursery Christmas party on Monday. First, we went into the hall to play some party games including pass the parcel and ‘pin the nose on Rudoph’!
After the games, we enjoyed sharing some party food. The pineapple and watermelon were popular, but maybe not quite as much as the Christmas cup cakes! Yum, yum.
We also enjoyed singing along to some of our favourite Christmas songs. You could join in at home with Jingle Bells or ‘When Santa got stuck up the chimney’.
Zipping up our coats!
Our outside area is open in all weathers and at the moment, there’s certainly no playing out without a coat. It’s just too cold and wet!
Please encourage your child to practise zipping up their coats independently. We’ll be looking out for children that can fasten their zips and we’ll give out challenge cubes to those who achieve it.
Golden Star
Well done to our most recent Golden Star.
Christmas reminders
Just one more week to go! Here are a few things to remember this week…
- Our Nursery Christmas party is on Monday afternoon. Please make sure you add your £1 contribution to our pot when you sign in. We are using your donations to buy the party food and treats. Thank you.
- Please send children to Nursery wearing their Christmas clothes.
- If your child doesn’t usually attend on Monday afternoons, you can bring them to Nursery at 1 pm and return to collect them at 2.30pm.
- If you are joining us for one of our ‘Stay and decorate‘ sessions on Wednesday or Thursday, please check the notice board for the date and time that you have selected.
- Have you returned your Story Time with Santa letter and payment? If you haven’t please send your £1.50 contribution to Nursery this week. Thank you.
- Finally, please take home all of your child’s belongings including their wellies on their last session and remember to check their going home folder for Christmas cards and pictures.
O Christmas tree…
In between our performances this week, we managed to make the most of some outdoor learning time. Children had great fun working together to create some giant artwork by decorating a Christmas tree. They loved adding the loose parts to the Christmas tree outline and were very pleased with their finished tree.
Here we go round the Christmas tree, the Christmas tree, the Christmas tree. Here we go round the Christmas tree, doesn’t it look lovely!
In our water tray this week, we removed the water and added some festive sparkle instead! Children loved the sensory experience of the shredded paper; exploring it’s texture, how it moved and scooping and pouring it. There were also some hidden presents to find. The presents were all different shapes which provided lots of opportunities to talk about the properties and names of basic 2D shapes (square, triangle, circle and rectangle). Please continue this learning at home. What shapes can you find on the presents under the tree? Can you see any shapes on the patterns on the wrapping paper?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…lunch!
We all enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch today prepared by our wonderful kitchen staff. The lunchtimes supervisors did a fantastic job (especially Mrs Pennock) decorating the hall too. Thank you!
