Monthly Archives: November 2016
Ladybirds
This week we have really enjoyed our winter themed week where we had lots of fun activites including tin foil painting using beautiful colours blue, purple and white. The babies also relished a special sensory tray using different blue fabrics and an array of textures!
Next week we will be focussing on animals and the noises they make. We will be looking forward to making animal handprints and having hay on our sensory table.
Butterflies
We have been making our new “Dinosaur in Underpants” display this week which has been a lot of fun! The children love the book! The Butterflies also got thoroughly engaged in creating our own beach with separate trays of water and sand to encourage exploration of different textures. We have also been developing and supporting the toddlers physical confidence this week by encouraging climbing and jumping with soft play.
Next week we will be making our big dinosaur collage to complete our display. We will also be beginning making our Christmas decorations – very exciting!
Bumblebees
This week in Bumblebees we have started creating our Christmas decorations, making pretty Christmas trees and fun snowmen. We have also had plenty of messy play activities including gooey gloop, fluffy cloud dough and slippery spaghetti play!
Next week we will be continuing with our Christmas crafts. We will also be focusing on looking at emotions as well as making noise with our musical instruments! The Bumblebees will also be getting lots of help, support and encouragement to develop independent dressing.
Dragonflies
We have been rehearsing our Christmas play this week with a small audience from Bumblebees and Butterflies. There has been lots of Christmas creative activities in Dragonflies this week, ready to decorate our room for the festive period! We have also enjoyed exploring the nativity story on our smartboard and cracking on with our Christmas cards and presents for parents.
Next week the letter is Hh and the number is 9. The focus colour is white and the shape will be square. We are looking forward to continuing our creative Christmas activities and getting in lots of time rehearsing for our Christmas play as the performances will be the week after!
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3rd December – Birdword Trip
7th December – Pre-school Christmas Production 10.30am – 11am
8th December – Pre-school Christmas Production 3pm – 3.30pm
12th December – Christmas Party and Christmas Jumper Day (includes a special visit!!)
16th December – Bumblebees Christmas Concert
16th December – Last day of term for term-time children
26th & 27th December – Nursery closed for Christmas bank holidays
Ladybirds
We have really enjoyed lots of painting using different tools this week. We used dabbers, different shaped rolling pins, pom poms and also free painting! It has been lovely to spend lots of time in the garden, exploring the outside and getting plenty of fresh air.
Next week we are looking forward to creating a lovely winter themed display including lovely sensory items like cotton wool and tissue paper. We will also be including tissue paper in our sensory play as well as enjoying some ice play!
Butterflies
This week we have been using the dabber paints to create Pudsey the Bear faces for Children in Need! We have also been seeing what we can make with sand using the moulds and our hands. We enjoyed lots of large group paintings, drawings and chalking (so much creative fun!)
We will be continuing to get creative next week and will be starting to get together our new winter board. There will also be lots of time outside playing on the equipment as well as sensory play.
Bumblebees
This week we have been threading pasta and cheerios with pipe cleaners as well as making and decorating pretty snowflakes. We have also enjoyed lots of bug hunting in the garden this week, it has been beautiful wintery weather!
We are really looking forward to starting our Christmas decorations next week, to have up in time for December. The Bumblebees will also be spending time learning how to put their coats on by themselves.
Dragonflies
We have consulted the children on our new letters and colour table and put their input into practice. Rehearsals for the Christmas play are well under way and taking shape and we invited other children from the other rooms to come and watch! We have also begun looking after Tommy Teddy who will start to enjoy his adventures as he goes home with a different child each weekend! Christmas is nearly here so we have also been getting creative and are starting to make our cards and presents for our parents.
Next week the focus letter is E and the number is 8. The shape is a star and the colour is black. We are excited about continuing with our Christmas preparations next week and creating decorations to transform the room! We will also be experimenting with different foods and liquids to see what happens when they are mixed together. We will continue our Christmas play practice and start dress rehearsals!
…and her adorable puppies were in charge of the Bumblebee room today! All in aid of Children in Need of course… wonderful effort girls!
…for BBC Children in Need!
Today, 17th November, come in wearing as many dots and spots as you can!! The staff are dressing up, with a special appearance from Cruella Deville in Bumblebees!! We will do our best to post a pic or two of our dotty team!
There is a Children in Need donation box on the reception desk so please feel free to make a contribution to this very worthy cause.
Ladybirds
We have focused a lot of our activities this week around commemorating Remembrance Day. We have enjoyed red sensory play, red leaf painting, poppy and wreath making and all the babies had so much fun!
Next week we will be focusing activities around Children in Need and can’t wait to dress up on Thursday! We will be creating polka dot pictures and using multi coloured materials during messy play.
Butterflies
This week we have been getting very creative and have made our own fruit and veg baskets for a role play area! We also made some lovely hand-print poppies for Remembrance Day and also really enjoyed some fork print painting.
We are looking forward to creating a natural area for the children’s sensory exploration next week! We will also be making pretty winter theme pictures to hang around the room.
Bumblebees
This week we finished making our poppies for Remembrance Day and used our hands to make some fantastic Autumn trees. We really enjoyed making spider webs to decorate our book corner by threading through paper plates and using our hands as spiders, all to coincide with our favourite book at the moment “Aargh spider!”
Next week we will be learning about emotions using puppets and looking in the mirror to see our expressions. We will also be concentrating on developing our fine motor skills by learning to use and experimenting with tweezers.
Dragonflies
We have really enjoyed a lot of sensory play this week including hay, rice crispies, shaving foam, corn flour and pasta. We are also making good progress with practicing our Christmas play for our mummies and daddies! As it was Remembrance Day this Friday we have also been busy making some poppies and talking about the significance of the day. As well as welcoming some new little faces to the room we have also been involved in maths activities on the smart board and exploring torches and stories under the fairy lights in our book corner (as it is now getting dark earlier)
Next week the letters are C/K and the number is 7. The shape of the week is circle and the colour is purple. We are looking forward to cracking on with some more creative activities and adding more to our Vets area by drawing our favourite animals. We will also fill out forms for pretend patients. As it is mid-November we will also start work on our Christmas cards and gifts as well as begin preparations for decorating our classroom and Santa’s grotto (exciting!!)