What We’ve Been Up To!
Pre-schoolers mark Halloween, Diwali and Remembrance Day
The children particularly enjoyed Halloween, dressing up and making tasty spooky biscuits. To top it off we carved pumpkins and decorated the nursery with handmade bats and witches.
Pumpkin painting – a new art form!
As a mark of respect, the pre-schoolers made poppies for Remembrance Day and honoured the two-minute silence. They were very quiet and well behaved. Well done children you made us feel very proud.
Perfect Poppies
We also celebrated Diwali, the festival of light, by creating lots of colourful pictures of fireworks exploding across the night sky.
We are now in full swing getting ready for Christmas. As well as making Christmas crafts the children are practising their songs for the concert (they’re top secret though, so you’ll have to wait and see, well hear!).
Daily activities continue to include working on our letter sounds and formation, as well as sharing objects for the ‘show and tell’ sound of the week.
Toddlers celebrate Halloween and go on park visits
Creativity has been the word of the month for our toddlers. As well as getting involved with spooky crafts, pumpkin carving for Halloween and colour painting for Diwali, the toddlers have enjoyed visiting the park to collect leaves and pine cones for our sensory trays.
‘Spooky’ Sensory Time
The children also enjoyed dressing up for Children in Need, although wearing pyjamas and onesies did see a little more snoozing than usual!
Yell-ow! Our colourful Children in Need supporters
Older Babies and Younger Babies get excited about Christmas
Our clever babies have definitely picked up on that it’s an exciting time of year! Festive themed sensory play and colourful Christmas finger painting is creating a buzz of happy babbling in the baby room.
Our Frosty the Snowman
The older babies’ sparkly spider web art
We continue to practise mark-making, an important first step towards writing letters and numbers. The babies have also been enjoying regular music and movement sessions, where we group together and sing nursery rhymes along with actions. In our storytelling circle, we have started to focus on colourful Christmas books.
