During Into Faith week Nursery have been finding out about different places of worship.
On Friday we wore our celebration clothes and our parents joined us for some craft activities.
A huge thank you to all the parents, carers and family members who have helped the nursery children with their family projects.
The project was to make a model of an alien, inspired by our reading of Aliens in Underpants.
We have really enjoyed looking at everyone’s models and we are very impressed with how fantastic they look. Well done to everyone who took part.
Today we added items of red, white and blue to our uniforms to celebrate the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan.
We talked about the Royal Family and found out where they are going to get married. We also talked about why we were wearing red, white and blue. We then made our own flags.
We also found out that Meghan’s favourite flowers are peonies so we made our own.
Finally we made wedding cards.
Look at all the Maths that we have been learning through our play 🙂
This week in Forest School all of the children learned how to use a bow saw. They listened carefully to the tools talk so that they knew how to use the saw safely. They then worked with me to cut a slice from a large branch. Some children then decorated their slice of wood.
I taught the Year 5 children how to bend willow branches into a circle. Some of the children made them in to crowns.
The Year 4 children wanted to learn how to make bracelets. I taught them a method that takes lots of concentration. You need 4 strands of wool with sticks tied on the end. You have to throw the sticks to your partner and be ready to catch theirs. The children worked really well together and made some lovely bracelets.
This week the role play area became a restaurant. Orders were taken on notepads, food was prepared and served, telephone calls were taken, reservations were made, food was paid for and change given.
What fabulous learning through our play 🙂
We have had two really busy sessions this week.
Using potato peelers to peel the bark off willow sticks.
This week we have been reading the story Aliens Love Underpants, singing a song about men in a flying saucer and we introduced our ‘Create an Alien’ family project.
We have already had two family projects in and we are looking forward to seeing the more in a few weeks time.
We have also welcomed some new children to our Nursery. The children already here have been trying hard to help them settle and make new friends.
This week two new groups of children have started Forest School sessions.
We took some time to get to know the area, the rules and the resources available.
The children had great fun exploring the area whilst looking for insects.
There was also some great team work during den building.
This week was the last Forest School session for the current groups. Finally the weather was suitable for toasting marshmallows 🙂
The children were very good at remembering the fire safety rules.
Everyone enjoyed themselves, some children discovered that burnt marshmallows are not very tasty!
When toasting marshmallows it is important to kneel in the ‘respect position’ with one knee down and one knee up. This is a stable position and it is easy to get out of the way quickly and safely if necessary.
After the marshmallow is toasted it is still very hot so we needed to blow it 20 times before we ate it!
Finally we poured water over the ashes to make sure the fire was completely out. As we did this we made a wish.