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SAFE, HAPPY, LEARNING, RESPECTFUL
We started off this fortnight by donning some blue gloves so we could go out and collect all of the litter on the path leading up to the nursery, we decided to do this after a few of the children had mentioned how messy it was getting.
...and so the litter picking begins...
"I think I can squash this in here"
"look what I found"
A successful job!
One last thing to do....."We've got to throw the rubbish in the big bin"
We have begun to explore Zoo animals over in the ocean room....
🐵🐯🦓🐼🐊🦁🐻🐍🐘🦍🦏
The children have expressed lots of interest in different animals that live in 'Enclosures' and we have begun to explore what kind, what size, what type, indoor or outdoor, hot or cold types of habitats that they live in.
We have created our own zoo within the room and have started adding aspects of different enclosures in this.....
We have been decorating our Holmie Zoo with our very own paintings of some zoo animals that we are familiar with. We were so impressed with the children's ability to explore and look at the zoo animals, their features and uniqueness and then reflect what they were seeing in their paintings.
Check out our wee picassos!
"A red snake"
"Look at my giraffe"
A beautiful penguin!
A tiger! "Raaawwwrr"
An artist at work
Our interest in planets is ongoing and we have been looking at books to find out the answers to some of our questions.
We wondered if the Sun is a planet......
.....and we found out from the book that it is actually a star.
look at this amazing playdough planet "It's Saturn, its got a ring round it"
Some children have brought in some space resources from home. These have been great.
Lots of space chatting and planet spotting! Children are getting to know the planet names really well.
All this jigsaw play has encouraged others to give it a go. Well done boys.
We are building our understanding of Planet Earth and where it sits in the Solar System. This is Earth complete with beaches and sea.
Our nursery resources support our learning, including making stars and planets of our own.
We love drawing pictures of the planets on BIG pieces of paper, today we worked out that we could add some stars by using the playdough cutter as a template.
Our drawings are showing more detail and we are excited when we can see our drawings getting even better. Mrs Webb was very interested in what we drew.
"These are great drawings, look at the great planet you have drawn and the sun and stars, well done!" Mrs Webb
The children thought Mrs Webb could help us with other questions we have about our Solar System.
"How many gas planets are there Mrs Webb?"
Let's find out on the computer . . .
. . . thanks Mrs Webb, we now know there are 4 and we know which ones they are.
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
Next week we will continue learning about space as the children want to make their own rocket! This will include some great opportunities for shape and colour learning, how to make a rocket, where we can fly to and of course, lots of fun and chatting while we are creative!
Can you help . . . ?
We would love any recycling you have so we can make our junk model rockets. Please bring any into nursery and we will find a place on our rocket building work shop to use them!
Many thanks in advance.
Thank you if you have returned your 'space learning feed back form'. We have loved seeing what your child is telling you at home and they will have a chance to share this in nursery too. They have impressed us all with their continuing interest and learning this term.
Still time for forms to come back.
Back in the Ocean and we have not only been including our animal play in our learning, but also at our together times....
We have read lots of animals stories, 'The tiger who came to tea', 'The pig in the pond', 'Giraffes can't dance', 'Monkey puzzle' and so many more....
One of our favourites is a story called 'Paper Dolls" in which we could spot animals like a crocodile and a tiger, we loved the crocodile's big snappy teeth, and thought the little girl's tiger slippers were pretty cool too.
Shortly after our story we carried on the animal fun. We played the game "Isn't it funny that a bear likes honey", where we take turns, communicate with each other, and learn to keep the secret of who is hiding the honey from the bear! (This part needs a bit of practice...)
We also extended our learning by exploring the SIZE of animals. We used books and Google to find out some animal average sizes and then measured to see if they were bigger or smaller than us!
We also had a vote as to which animals we thought were biggest and smallest!
One discussion led to us exploring wether a Giraffe or a T-rex is bigger?
🦒 vs 🦖
We discovered our answer ....... which do you think????
....doing our research.
We have some new accessories in our home corner.....
glasses!
(these are old glasses with the lenses removed)
and we have really enjoyed trying them on and using them as we play
then there is always the question of how many pairs of glasses can you wear at one time!
one pair.....
......two pairs......
......then three pairs!!!!
The children have been so engaged with these 'real' objects and we would really like to extend these opportunities for them, so, if you have any old pairs of glasses at home that you no longer need then it is fair to say that our children would definitely make full use of them.
We are also planning to create a 'Tinkering Station' where the children can further investigate and enjoy more 'real' experiences.
Therefore, any old items such as watches, clocks, laptops, radios, calculators, toasters, padlocks or really any items that you have at home and no longer use then we will gratefully accept them! Also any spare tools that you no longer need such as small spirit levels, screwdrivers and pliers would be a great addition to our station.
We will have a 'tinkering' donations box in the Jungle Room.
It's not just glasses in the home corner.....we have 'real' fruit and vegetables. Before we played with them we had a chat about what they were called, how they felt and in some cases how they tasted!
we all recognised the potato and some of us knew the sweet potato because it is a different shape. When we peeled both we spotted that they were different colours.
we also cut the lemon and lime in half to see what it looked like
the children thought there would be juice inside so we gave it a squeeze and out came the juice!
then we tasted the lemon with some mixed reactions as you can see from the faces!!!
then it was time to play!
Out in our great outdoors, We are always learning! We are lucky to have such amazing outdoor space which allows us to use and extend our imagination, climb, balance, be patient in line, control our body, build our equipment, play- spin- kick and balance a ball, gather sticks to build a tunnel, share, take turns and be friends!!!
We love being outdoors!
We have created a kindness jar which was completely empty when it arrived in the nursery, but is beginning to fill up with lots of kindness
Our amazing sign writer!
"there's nothing in it.....it's empty"
some of the things we can do so we can put a pompom in the jar...
..not even a week on and our jar is filling up nicely with kindness.
What's happening in the polytunnel?
A little bit of digging....
....as we continue to create bedding areas for plants
Preparing more boxes which we use as a base for the bedding area.....
.....but which are also good fun to play in before we squash them!
Mrs Christie had to use all of her puff to blow up the inflatable chair!
This is going to make a nice addition to our carpeted chill out area.
A wee bit of family fun for the diary... Miss Smith and Mrs Young are hosting the 'Holmie Hoedown' on Friday 14th March from 6pm-8pm in the school hall. It is set to be a night of fun and entertainment as we party cowboy style. Included in each ticket is our country quiz, some food and drink, some fun family games, and of course lots of singing and hilarity with our special guest hosts.
See Mrs Young or Miss Smith for tickets! Don't miss out on the fun, get your cowboy gear on and join us!
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