Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

We have had a lovely week in the Owl room. The children have had lots of fun with the autumn theme playdough, they made pumpkin faces, hedgehogs and squirrels. We have been focusing on maths looking at numbers, recognising numbers, putting them in order and matching numbers to quantity. We also showed really good concentration skills whilst matching the mosaic shapes to the pictures.

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed participating in lots of sensory play, with some activities focused around Diwali and Halloween! We have created our own paintings, using bright colours to celebrate the festival of light! As well as making our own multicoloured rice to work on our colour/pattern developments, created our own sensory bags, read lots of Halloween stories as well as singing songs and enjoyed scooping out the inside of pumpkins and exploring with the seeds and flesh We have had a lovely week together and this brings us to the end of the first half term! We hope you all have a lovely week off if you're term time only, we look back to welcoming you all back on Monday 3rd November!

The last few weeks the Squirrels have been engaging in activities surrounding Autumn and Halloween We have made spooky spider handprints, printed ghosts using potatoes and have been counting conkers hidden in the jelly! This half term all of the Squirrels have settled amazingly and we are so proud of all our little ones. They have come on leaps and bounds Next week is half term. We welcome all children back on Monday 3rd November

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We have had a lovely week in the Owl room. Louise brought in some Quince fruit for the children to explore, we cut one open to see how it looked inside and sniffed to see what it smells like. We then dipped them in paint to print on paper. The children have been exploring pumpkins, scooping out the middle and collecting up the seeds. We had a lot of fun making bird feeders by spreading a sticky mix of lard and golden syrup onto cardboard tubes and rolling it in bird seeds.

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued exploring activities based around our core text 'We're going on a bear hunt!' At snack time, we created our very own teddy bears picnic in which the children had lots of fun feeding the teddy bears some snacks, as well as making the eating sounds as they did so! Hedgehogs have also enjoyed participating in lots of sensory/messy play, using resources such as rice crispies, weetabix and shaving foam to represent the different environments we encounter throughout the story

The Owl children have enjoyed lots of autumnal activities this week. We have been looking at the story "we're going on a leaf hunt" so the children have hunted for leaves in the garden, have been filling up the builders tray full of leaves and jumping in it. We have also had lots of fun with conkers, picking them up with tweezers, rolling them down tubes and counting them.

Hedgehogs this week have continued looking at and explore activities based around the story 'We're going on a bear hunt!' We have painted our own bear masks, focusing on the colours red and brown! Created our own cave as well as making our very own snow with the shaving foam and baking soda, watching the footprints made from our small world figures. We have also created our very own bear using plenty of edible resources which the Hedgehogs were very keen to get involved in! What another lovely week!

This week the Squirrels have been continuing to explore the theme Autumn We went on a leaf hunt linked to our core text 'We're Going on a Leaf Hunt' The children recited the words from the book and moved their bodies in different ways around the garden. We went up a mountain, crossed a lake, went around a waterfall and squelched through the forest! We have created many different autumnal pictures using corks, flowers, apples, glue and our hands! Today is World Mental Health day. This term we have been exploring emotions and have been explaining to our children that it is ok to feel all these big emotions. We have been supporting them to regulate and communicate their emotions in a healthy way. Our little people have made us so proud