Monthly Archives: January 2018
To all our fantastic families,
As you are aware we hold an Inset Day once a year so staff are able to update and complete important further training. This is a requirement now been put in place by Ofsted and just to remind you our next INSET day will be on Wednesday 14th February. The nursery will need to be CLOSED for this day.
Any queries, please come and have a chat with Clare, Annie or Sophie.
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation,
The Bell House Team x
Ladybirds
This week we have been enjoying our religious and cultural themed week. The little Ladybirds have made salt dough candle holders which we will be decorating next week. We also loved tissue paper play to celebrate Holi Festival of Colours as well as getting stuck into some fruit messy play!
Next week we are really looking forward to our colourful theme week! We will be making rainbows, having colourful messy play, creating a vibrant new display and having lots of multi-coloured fun!
Butterflies
This week we have had lots of fun making various animals with lots of different materials. The Butterflies have made crabs with their handprints, jellyfish with glue and tissue paper and also some cotton bud painting to make fish. We have also been exploring our natural objects by making a Gruffalo tray and looking at materials we would find in the woods.
Next week we are looking at jungle animals! Raaaaah!
Bumblebees
This week has been so much fun in Bumblebees, we have had a dinosaur week! During our dinotastic week we loved dinosaur painting, dino ice play and created and played with a dinosaur mud land! We have also been looking at our numbers by singing different number songs.
Next week we will be having an under the sea theme and will have different sea related activities every day.
Dragonflies
The letter of the week was Jj and the number 19, the colour was red and shape was hexagon.
We are almost up to 20 in our numbers and the children are really getting to grips with counting that far. We made some scrumptious cookies this week and welcomed Amy to the room – she has been amazing!
Next week we will be making some yummy shortbread and changing our role play into something very fun for Chinese New Year – watch this space!
Could we please remind all parents to regularly look at their child’s online learning books. It would be wonderful if you could make comments and upload pictures of what your little ones have been up to at home as this gives us an overall picture of what your child’s interests are and what they have been up to over the weekends and at home.
Thank you!
The Bell House Team
Ladybirds
This week we have had lots of fun exploring sensory activities with all kind of different resources including moon dough, pasta, lentils and scented playdough. The end of this week marked World Religion Day and we incorporated this into our activities making tissue paper stain glass windows, baking bread, making salt dough candle holders and lantern making.
Butterflies
This week we have been enjoying activities related to our animal theme. The Butterflies have been concentrating on underwater animals including playing and experimenting with water and making different animals for our underwater display. We have also been mixing different sensory materials together to see what happens and to help promote their fine motor skills.
Next week we will be exploring lots more sensory resources and linking it our animal theme, it should be fun!
Bumblebees
We have had a tremendous week in Bumblebees! We have finished our new display which looks great and we are going to be thinking about what we’d like to include on our Valentines board all ready for February! Feeling very organised. We have also got some lovely new role-play resources which we are very excited about and will be exploring next week.
Dragonflies
The letter was B and the number 18, the colour bronze and the shape triangle.
This week we have been concentrating on our theme of recycling – reduce, reuse and recycle! The children have taken to it really well! In particular we have been looking at where paper cups come from. We have also been exploring where we live and talking about what type of house we live in. We had fun making cheese straws as well this week – they were yummy! The Dragonflies also enjoyed a bit of focus time on using scissors and cutting out different shapes.
Ladybirds
This week our theme of the week has been music! The Ladybirds have made music with pots and pans and also have had Jo’s Music Mayhem and a lot more exciting musical things. We have also enjoyed painting with animals and making the sounds of animals.
Next week is theme will be SENSORY and we are looking forward to tissue sensory play, table top painting and a lot more fun things that explore and help us to discover our senses.
Butterflies
This week we have been continuing with our wonderful animal theme which the children have really enjoyed. We have made animal masks, played with animal coloured playdough and now we are starting to look at animals that live under the sea and making some new pictures for our display which we will carry on into next week.
Bumblebees
This week we have had lots of fun focussing on different stories and creating artwork for our story displays including The Hungry Caterpillar and The Crayons That Quit. Also this week we have been working on our colours by using different resources that chosen by the children.
Next week we are going to have a family themed week, we will be talking about our families and looking through our lovely family book.
Dragonflies
The focus letter is F, number 17 and colour silver.
This week we have had a great week welcoming Vicky back and getting into the rhythm of things again. We have a new theme – recycling! Any recycling related show and tell’s are encouraged! Music and French are back for the New Year and the children are really enjoying both!
Next week we will be doing some recycling art work, making some yummy cheese straws and planning on a lot more play in our Estate Agents role play area, lots of buying and selling houses!
We loved a recent post from The Imagination Tree on books that explore kindness and thought it very worthwhile to share with you all. Visit the suggestion list for books that are,
“Absolutely perfect for teaching the most important lessons in life about values, character development and showing empathy towards others…”
View the full post here and happy reading!
