A fun week making pet aliens and using alien speak. Colette and Michelle are in the process of creating an alien wall based on the the story ‘Aliens love underpants’. The children even designed their own underpants to hang on our washing line.
Click here to listen to the story.
Have you got any stories at home about aliens? If you have bring them in next week and we will read them! We love a good story!!
We have also been redesigning our outdoor area. Everyone has been thinking about what they would like to see and do in the garden. We have already started by creating a big building site using a mixture of BIG waffle bricks, house bricks and boulders ( rubber of course), large tins and buckets, wooden discs and large chopping boards. We have even put up work site sigs in the builders yard.
Some children wanted to make a cosy reading den. We cleaned out the small shed and put lots of squishy mats inside along with some of our favourtie stories! We have ordered a new storage shed for all our baskets of enhancement resources.
I have even ordered some surprise for the children, shhhhh!
We will continue our revamp next week.
Key Person Blog
Once again the children have amazed us with their learning! This week aliens have landed in nursery! The children used their prior shape knowledge to create aliens and some of us have painted them too! Some alien pets may have made their way home already, if yours has – please take good care of them! I wonder if you will hear any alien speak whilst they settle in? Have you read Aliens Love Underpants?
We have worked on our fundamental movement skills in the hall and can see lots of ’concentrate’ Cooper Crabs with our hopping, jumping and throwing! We are working in smaller groups and taking turns in the hall to really hone our skills. The alternative activity was a wellbeing and relaxation session – we did slow and controlled rainbow breathing above our heads and then led down where we focused on large breaths to move our bodies. Why don’t you have a go at home, click here.
We also had tried BREATHING BUDDIES
Purpose: Calm, Relaxation, Mindfulness of Body
Best for: Ages 4+, groups or one-on-one
What you need: Comfortable clothes, ample floor space (or another place to lie down), a favorite stuffed toy.
1. To practice tummy-breathing, ask your child to lie comfortably and place his hands on their tummy (if they use a stuffed animal, they can hold it on top of their tummy when they lie down).
2. As you count to three, ask the child to inhale deeply through their nose.
Tell them to fill their tummy with air as they inhale; they should feel it get bigger and bigger and bigger throughout the count to three. If the stuffed toy sits atop the tummy, they might see it rise as the tummy “fills with air”.
3. Ask them to exhale to a slow count to four. They might see the teddy fall as the feels the tummy shrinks and shrinks throughout the count to four.
Do five to ten rounds of tummy-breathing to get started.
When ready, ask your child how it felt.
Is there a difference in how they feels now?
What did they notice about the stuffed animal as they inhaled and exhaled?
How did it feel when they released the breath?
Repeat the process as many times as you want.
Enjoy!
The den building has been fantastic this week. We have also been strengthening our finger muscles by manipulating the clay. This helps us develop the muscles needed to be confident writers. We have had so much fun with mixed resources and our creations have been built on a good bout of teamwork!
Don’t forget we have been thinking about things that begin with ‘p’. We could name loads of words! See what you can find at home?
Colette, Michelle, Hannah, Justine and Frances.
Worship
This weeks session required the children to move around and explore the movements their bodies can make by taking part in a story where Freddy Teddy and Mollie the Cat take a morning walk. It helped us realise how wonderful our unique, God-given bodies are.
Click on the button below to read the story and join in the actions.
As always it has been an extremely busy week at nursery and we have noticed that everyone is getting tired. Only two more weeks then we can have a big rest!
Have the most splendid weekend and we will see you all on Monday. I hope you enjoy doing the home challenges we have sent home this week…don’t forget to send us some photos, we love to share the children’s learning.
Barbara