Eid Mubarak, everyone!
We hope your Eid is full of smiles, giggles, and yummy treats! May your days be filled with fun, happiness, and special moments with family and friends.
We can’t wait to hear all about the Eid celebrations and happy stories when you’re back at nursery!
On the 26th of March, pupils and staff are invited to dress up in something that represents their culture or religion.
This week, we have been focusing on the classic story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have really enjoyed engaging with the story in a variety of ways, especially bringing the characters to life by using different voices—a deep, low voice for Daddy Bear, a gentle, calm voice for Mummy Bear, and a high, squeaky voice for Baby Bear.
They have also shown great enthusiasm when exploring the illustrations, carefully looking at the pictures and talking about what they can see. The children have been encouraged to share their ideas and make predictions about what might happen next, helping to develop their imagination, language skills, and confidence in expressing their thoughts.
The Bear's Porridge Tuff Tray
On our tuff tray, the children have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a fun, hands-on activity where they fed stuffed toy bears with porridge oats, linking beautifully to our story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They have spent a long time exploring the oats, using different tools to fill, scoop, and pour, carefully creating their own “perfect” bowls of porridge.
This activity has encouraged lots of imaginative play, as well as supporting the development of fine motor skills and coordination. The children have also been engaged in conversations about what they were doing, describing textures and quantities, and showing great concentration as they experimented with different ways to handle and move the oats.
We have been fortunate to receive two new balance bikes, along with helmets for the children to use during their practice. The children have been very excited and eager to have a go, helping to mark out a little track and taking turns riding around it.
They have been developing their balancing, stopping, and turning skills, showing increasing confidence with each attempt. It has been wonderful to see their determination and perseverance as they practise. Impressively, the children have demonstrated excellent turn-taking throughout the activity, showing kindness and consideration by ensuring that everyone who wanted a turn had the opportunity to join in.
Thank you for your generous donations of junk modelling materials—these have been greatly appreciated and well used by the children. They have thoroughly enjoyed exploring different ways to paint, build, and create using a variety of resources.
In our outdoor area, the children had lots of fun painting the junk modelling wall, experimenting with different colours and enjoying the sensory experience of feeling a range of textures. Indoors, they have been busy designing and making chairs for the bears, linking their creations to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. There has been a particular focus on creating a new chair for Baby Bear after his was broken, with the children showing great imagination, problem-solving skills, and creativity as they built their designs.
In our construction and finger gym areas, the children have been highly engaged in a range of hands-on activities. They have loved designing and building their own tracks for cars, as well as constructing towers of different shapes and sizes, showing creativity and developing their understanding of how things fit and balance together.
In the finger gym area, the children have been strengthening their fine motor skills by using their pincer grip to pick up pieces of pasta with tongs. This activity has supported their hand–eye coordination and control, while also encouraging concentration and perseverance as they carefully grasped and moved each piece.
We were lucky to have plenty of wind this week, which made kite flying a particularly exciting and enjoyable activity. The children had great fun running across the outdoor area with their kites, watching with delight as they lifted and soared through the air.
This activity encouraged lots of physical movement and coordination, as well as a sense of excitement and curiosity about how the wind helped their kites to fly. The children showed great enthusiasm, laughing and cheering as they experimented with running faster or changing direction to keep their kites up in the air.
Thank you,
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