Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

This week in owls we have been continuing with our Colour monster theme. The children have been identifying colours by building with the mega blocks, they also had some coloured lollipop sticks to match to the different colour monsters. The children have had a lot of fun with the hair dressing box, taking turns to be hair stylist and the customer. Some of the children ended the week by chilling in the tyres in the garden, the even spotted an aeroplane flying over.

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed their final week of reading 'Hug!' We have made the most of exploring with the variety of animals, leaves and twigs in the story to represent the animals exploring in the forest. We have also been looking at emotions this week and have made our very own emotion handprints which we have been referencing back to throughout the sessions. This week has helped us all to develop our communication and language skills through many methods such as looking at stories, playing and dancing to nursery rhymes and using our emotion handprints. Well done Hedgehogs

This week the Squirrels have been continuing to explore the story ' The Colour Monster'. We have been discussing all of the different emotions and linking it to our daily lives e.g. what makes us happy, what makes us sad etc. As a class we have decided to incorporate The Colour Monster into our daily learning as the children have been engaging so well and have been expressing their emotions in healthy way. Next week we will be starting our new core text ' We Are Going on a Leaf Hunt'

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. We had lots of fun jumping in the puddles and running around in the rain. We have been using the chalk to mark make on the playground. The children have been using a large piece of cardboard as a car ramp and have been having races with the cars and also have been practicing taking turns at putting the cars down the ramp. We have been practicing our fine motor grip,using the tweezers to pick up compare bears, and we hid lots of the different colour monsters in some cornflakes and the children had to find them and recognise the colour and emotion to go with it.

It has been a busy first few weeks of term in the Squirrels room All the children have settled back fantastically after the summer break and we even welcomed some new friends into our class! Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the core text 'The Colour Monster'. We have been looking at activities based around the story, emotions and colours. . The children sit beautifully during story time and can identify which colours link to which emotions! We have made playdough monsters, giant Colour Monsters with glue and tissue paper and even mixed in different food colouring with lots of shaving foam for colour mixing! We are very proud of all of our Squirrels

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued looking at Hug! The children have enjoyed looking at the variety of animals in the story and during the week at group time, we have been making the noises of the animals! We also made our very own trail of leaves/twigs for them to explore in and we looked at the variation of leaves which had fallen on the ground. This week has also been some of our new starters first full week and they have adapted so well, we are so proud of you all! Here's to another fun filled week!

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We have had a lovely first full week back in the Owl room. All the children have settled back in beautifully. The children have been learning the story "The colour Monster" we have been looking at the different colours and feelings that go with it. We have been making some colour monsters to go up on our wall. The children have also enjoyed exploring our new smart board. We also had some brilliant sandcastle making going on.

Welcome back and welcome to our new Hedgehogs! This week has been our first full week of term in which has seen many settling in sessions and our other friends returning from their summer holidays. We have all had a lovely week together, settling back into routine and building relationships with our friends and practitioners. We have started looking at the book 'Hug' with the children and they have all been keen in pointing out the different animals as well as making their noises! We have also enjoyed making music this week with the instruments, participating in sensory play with the paint bags and scarves as well as making the most of the sunshine we have left! All of our new hedgehogs settling in sessions so far have been lovely and we are so proud of you all! What a lovely term ahead we have