Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

We have had a lovely week in the Owl room. The children have enjoyed exploring the yellow rice pouring it into and filling containers using bottles and funnels. We have been creative with duplo and wooden blocks. We also had the light box available which the children arranged translucent shapes on. Our Christmas tree decorations have been started, these will be going on our tree in the local church in a couple of weeks.

The Squirrels have had a busy few weeks! We have been exploring different activities surround our core text ' Rosie's Walk'. We also celebrated and learnt about Guy Fawkes night, Remembrance Day and Children in Need! . This week we were very lucky to be outside when it started to snow! Today our children said their goodbyes to Summer as she starts a new exciting chapter. Summer has been at our nursery since the very start and we will miss her dearly Next week we start our new core text ' Dear Santa' for the last few weeks of term

This week, the Hedgehogs have been participating in lots of sensory play! We have created our own tuff trays, filled with objects referencing to our core text 'That's not my hedgehog!' The hedgehogs have enjoyed developing their language by using and listening to words such as spiky, soft, smooth and prickly over the past few weeks! We also made our own rice cripsy hedgehog cakes and painted our own hedgehogs using carrots as our paint brushes! As well as singing lots of songs and reading plenty of stories Next week, we will start looking at our Christmas activities, as well as starting our new core texts and of course, singing plenty of Christmas songs!

Hedgehogs have had a lovely couple of weeks back after the October half term! We have been exploring and participating in lots of celebrations, such as Bonfire night, Remembrance Day and Children in Need! We have made our own fireworks pictures, play dough, dyed our rice/pasta red, black ,green and yellow to match the celebration themes as well as colouring some pictures. Hedgehogs also enjoyed making their own Pudsey bear using a variety of resources and showed great respect when they all did super participating in their 2 minute silence on Tuesday!

This week in the owls room we have continued to learn about our talk for writing book 'Owl babies'. The children have got very good at memorising the story and reading along. They have also explored this throughout the activities in the room which has allowed them to practice skills such as cutting, painting, colouring, creating, counting and literacy. This week we have also had the pleasure to be able to celebrate two very important days, Remembrance day and Children in need. The children have learnt about why we recognise these days and the history around them as well as having the opportunities to engage in lots of fun activities associated with these. It was lovely to see children wearing Poppies for Remembrance Day and pyjamas/spotty/Pudsey attire for Children in need.

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. We started our new book "Owl babies" the children have enjoyed making owl pictures, pine cone owls, owl nests. We also have been looking at "The starry night" painting by Vincent Van Gogh and the children tried to create their own interpretations. Today we talked about rememberance day and made Poppy pictures by dipping apples in red paint.

The squirrels have had a lovely week! We have started a new core text called "Rosie's Walk", the squirrels have been sitting beautifully at group time, and have been laughing at the silly fox! We made our own Rosie the Hen using feathers, tissue paper and lots of glue! Our song of the week has been "Old MacDonald had a Farm", the children have been thinking lots about the different animals that live on a farm, and even made their own farm using duplo bricks and weetabix! The Squirrels also used the animals to paint footprints on their pictures for our display. We have talked about fireworks and made our own firework pictures using flowers and paint, the children all agreed that fireworks are very noisy!