Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

In the Hedgehog room this week, the children have been engaged in a variety of activities, based around 'That's not my hedgehog...', Remembrance Day and Children in need! Continuing with a focus and linking the activities to their next steps, we have been exploring with the coloured rice, mark making with the Lego blocks, colouring in our Pudsey pictures as well as developing our fine motor skills with a range of equipment, such as tweezers, paintbrushes, crayons and mini scoops! This week also, we have seen some of our children's gross motor skills develop a great deal! Some of our children are now able to stand and walk independently! 🦔

The Squirrels have had a lovely week, full of fun 🐿 Today the children came in dressed in their pyjamas, spotty clothes and Pudsey jumpers to celebrate children in need 💛 We done lots of Pudsey activities including painting Pudsey's spots, colouring and making Pudsey masks 🎭 On Wednesday the Squirrels took part in a 2 minute silence for Remembrance Day and they done super well 👏🏼 We are all very proud of each and every one of them

What a lovely week it has been in our Owl room. The children have been doing lots of Poppy related activities for remembrance day. The children observed the 2 minutes silence at 11am which they did brilliantly! We have also been engaging in lots of Pudsey bear activities for BBC children in need. It was lovely to see so many children in their Pyjamas, and Pudsey tops.

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What a lovely week we have had in our Owl room. The children have been focusing on our fine motor skills, using the pincer grip to pinch pegs and hang out the washing in the role play area. We have been using child safety knives to practice cutting up snack. The children also made fireworks picture with cardboard tubes and cotton buds. Outside the children have been practicing their gross motor skills and strength pulling each other around the garden on the body boards.

We have had a lovely first week back in the Hedgehog room after October half term! We have started reading our new core text 'That's not my hedgehog...' as well as looking at and talking about bonfire night and Diwali! This week, we have been developing our fine and gross motor skills, exploring in the sensory tuff trays which have been filled with a variety of resources such as pasta, rice and musical instruments. We created our own firework pictures and used the ribbons to create a variety of movements whilst performing some lovely dance moves🦔

This week we welcomed back our Squirrels after our half term break 🐿 We've had some new children start with us and it has been amazing to see how settled they are already The core text this week is 'Rosie's walk' and we have been looking at all activities surrounding the farm. 🐐 🐮 🐴.

What a super busy week we have had in the Owl room. The children baked Halloween cookies which they had fun mixing the ingredients together and discussing what ingredients they needed next. We explored how tall some of the children are using our height chart and a measuring tape. The children also had some ribbon to compare sizes with and have a go at measuring on the meter ruler. The children discovered lots of wiggly worms underneath a pallet in the garden which turned into a worm rescue effort where the worms were safely put in the vegetable garden. This afternoon was full of puddle jumping and finding all the places that had filled up with rain water!. We also made spooky cauldron pictures by dipping cardboard tubes into bubbly paint.

What a lovely last week before half term we have had in Hedgehogs! Most of the children have enjoyed engaging in many Halloween themed activities as well as keeping on theme also with our core text, but the Halloween version of 'We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt' The children have been exploring in the spiders web tuff tray, creating their own cauldron pictures using toilet rolls and pipettes, trying to free the pumpkin seeds from the frozen jelly using the tweezers as well as reading many Halloween stories and dressing up in a variety of costumes Wishing those of you who are term time only a lovely week and we welcome you back on Monday 2nd November!🦔