What a fabulous first week back! We loved seeing your holiday photographs and finding out about your adventures to parks, playgrounds and Piglets Adventure Farm.
This week, we have certainly made the most of the beautiful, sunny weather. In our outside area, we noticed lots of catkins had fallen off the tree. Children loved gathering them together and mixing them with sticks, petals and leaves. We had lots of different recipes and creations to try, ranging from vegetable soup to chocolate cake and ice-cream. Yum yum!
We also listened to lots of stories with our friends, created our own music, had a picnic and played football.
Our obstacle course was very popular; you’ll see lots of engaged and happy faces in the photographs.
Physical Development is one of the Prime areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage so we’re always looking for different ways to allow children to challenge themselves and develop their balancing, climbing and movement skills. There was lots of team work, with children waiting for their turn and encouraging each other as they moved around the course. It was lovely to hear some children proudly shout, “Look at me!” as they managed to balance on one leg independently or walk over the wobble board without falling off.
As we were outside so much, lots of children spotted different flowers that had grown in the garden. We looked at the different coloured tulips and tried to guess the colour of the petals what were yet to open from their buds. As well as flowers, there was a lot of interest in all of the bugs that seemed to be out and about this week! Miss Backhouse found a green caterpillar, Mrs Long found a beetle and Mrs Beesley spotted lots of insects flying around on Thursday.
Over the next few weeks, we will learn all about different minibeasts, starting with one of our favourite stories, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We’re sure you’ll be familiar with this one, but if you don’t have a copy to read, here’s a link to listen at home.
Reminders
- Please ensure that your child’s water bottle has their name on.
- If your child has a packed lunch, please make sure that you follow our ‘Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches‘ and save chocolate bars and sweets for home.
Sunny days
Your child will need a NAMED sun hat in school everyday. On sunny days, sun cream should be applied before children come to Nursery. If your child’s sun cream requires it to be re-applied after lunch, please put a NAMED bottle of sun cream in their group’s water bottle basket on the days that you would like it to be re-applied.
Finally, congratulations to Miss Whitaker, who got married during the holidays. Mrs Crompton enjoyed telling children all about her wedding day and even brought in her dress and flowers for us to see!