A mixed bag weather-wise this week. Nonetheless, we kicked off the week with Messy Monday and oh my goodness did we make a mess!
In the morning we mixed colours (the children’s request) using paint and shaving foam. We made handprints and drew pictures and letter sounds in the foam. Sorry only two photos would upload.
The afternoon got even messier. We mixed our own dough using flour, water and our hands. It was very sticky.
Worship
The children have been spotting crosses everywhere. On Tuesday the children (and Frances) made a huge collage cross which is now proudly hanging on the nursery door. It is so beautiful, take a look.
Michelle’s blog
Hello everyone,
We have had a very busy and happy week at nursery. We have had a discussion about our feelings using our feelings jars. The children had to choose a colour which corresponds with a feeling, e.g. pink is loved and yellow is happy. We discussed how its ok to feel sad or scared and we thought of ways to cheer up our friends if they were sad “Give them a cuddle”.
We have explored the Easter Story and have learnt lots of new words, such as disciple, Gethsemane, hosanna and Judas. We have continued our work making and decorating crosses and have made a ginormous collaged cross. We will have to find a ginormous space on the wall to display it.
We have spent some time this week playing games together. We have enjoyed playing the shopping game and this led to a discussion about healthy eating and our favourite foods. Sausages are very popular!
We ended the week with great teamwork. The children were very keen to help at tidy up time and worked as a team to carry the black builders tray but we couldn’t fit it through the door. The children had a good think and worked out that they had to tip it on its side to fit through the door. Great work team!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Michelle
Steph’s blog
Hello everyone
We started the week with Messy Monday! The children have been asking to do our shaving foam colouring mixing activity again and they loved it! We used our fingers to mix the paint around to make new colours. We also made sticky dough with flour and water. It was so fun getting messy!
The children have continued to enjoy singing our ‘Walk in the Light’ song this week as we have continued reading the Easter story. We decided to make a stage and the children loved performing for their friends. It is so lovely to see how their confidence has grown since coming to nursery and how they all support each other and cheer each other on.
The children have been asking every day if we can learn new sounds and numbers – they love it! We watched Numberblock 9 this week, click here to watch. The children have found so many ways to make 9 with our cubes – 5 and 4, 6 and 3. Someone even said 2, 2, 3 and 2! We have realised that the bigger the number the more ways we can find. We can even make more shapes and arrangements with the cubes – we made the 9 look like steps.
Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week.
Steph
Colette’s blog
Hello everyone.
It was great to catch up with some of you on Wednesday for our parents evening and I look forward to seeing the rest of you next Wednesday.
It has been a bit of a messy week at Nursery! We have been dabbling in a bit of messy play which you may have noticed by just looking at your children’s clothes when they came home (sorry about that!) but it was a lot of fun! We mixed colours using shaving foam and paint and our ‘mixing finger’ and we made some fantastic colours…some I had never seen before!! Later in the day we made our own playdough. There was a lot of discussions about measuring and mixing and rolling and we were really careful to make sure that we shared out the dough equally!
We have been a bit giddy about Numberblocks again, we just can’t help it! Some of us know how to make numbers beyond 10 with the Number link cubes, the children’s learning seems to be going from strength to strength!
Not only have numbers continued to excite us but our phonic knowledge appears to be picking up momentum too. We are spotting sounds everywhere and we are starting to write some sounds as well. There is no stopping these wonderful children.
I hope that you have a lovely weekend together.
Colette
…and as always a few more from Justine!
The 100 board!
On Friday the children wanted to find out how many gems we had. We thought using the 100 board may help us find out.
We did find out…181 gems. It took us ages to find our the answer to our question but we didn’t give up.
We found out that number go on, and on, and on, and on…………
Click on the button below for number 9 activity! Can you help frog hop on to the number 9 or sets of 9!
Sponsor money and Lenten boxes
As you are aware we completed our sponsored walk last week. If you have already collected your sponsor money you are welcome to send it in now, or, you can send it back when you return the Lenten Boxes. The last day for returns will be Wednesday 5th April.
As always we are so grateful for your support. You are all wonderful!
In addition to the sponsored events, the student council have decided to bring back an old, Our Lady tradition - THE EGG DECORATING COMPETITON. For £1 entry fee, the children need to bring in a boiled, decorated egg for the competition. Let your imagination go wild. Could the egg be a character in a scene? Or have a specific pattern? Think creatively. The student council will be judging the winners from their paired class. There may even be a large chocolatey prize for the winners.
Play, Explore and Learn
Click here for lots of ideas to help little minds learn! There are lots of activities to keep you busy! Enjoy!
Finally, as I write this blog the sun is shining and it it getting warmer. At last! I can hear all the children having fun in the garden…I’m jealous, so I am going to sign off and go and join them. Have a fabulous weekend and see you on Monday.
God Bless
Barbara