Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

We have had a lovely week in the Owl Room. The children have been practising their writing skills in sand and shaving foam, they have been practising scissor skills, making paper plate bears and dressing up with masks.

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued reading the story 'Dear Zoo'. We have continued with activities based around our story, such as making our own gloop and watching the animals make their footprints in the gloop. We have made animal biscuits, continued pretending to be the animals from the story by moving like them and making the sounds as well as making some handprint pictures for our loved ones on Sunday! Next week, we will start looking at our new core text, 'That's not my Bunny!' Wishing you all a lovely weekend

This week the Squirrels have been continuing following the story 'Dear Zoo' We made our own zoo enclosures using bricks, explored a messy sensory tray with shaving foam and animals and have been exploring patterns using LEGO. Next week we start our new core text 'That's not my bunny' and will be starting our Easter activities

The Owl children have had a lovely week celebrating world book day/week. It has been lovely to share your books from home during storytime some really wonderful book choices! The children had a go at making their own world book day books decorating them with stickers and writing in them. The artist we have been inspired by this week is Jackson Pollock, the children together made an amazing large scale painting based on one of his pieces of Art, they used cardboard tubes, bricks, corks and stickle bricks to create a beautiful masterpiece. We have also been matching patterns with the compare bears and continuing patterns.

Since returning from the February half term, Hedgehogs have had a very busy few weeks! We have started our new core text 'Dear Zoo' as well as celebrating World Book Day! We have been developing our sensory play in the tuff trays containing animals found in the story, created and painted our own animal masks using paintbrushes and forks, made our own sensory bags to help us with our colour recognition, placing corresponding coloured animals in here and also our older Hedgehogs have developed their fine motor skills through a variety of mark making activities, including tracing activities!

Happy World Book Day The past few weeks the Squirrels have started a new core text, Dear Zoo We have been creating our very own lions using paper plates, used our new water tray to clean our zoo animals and we have been enjoying the sunshine outside. During half term the Squirrels room got decorated and got a fresh coat of paint! The children have settled back in well with the new layout and have adjusted to this change amazingly

The children have had a lovely week in the Owl room. We started our new book "Goodnight moon". The children have been making some lovely Art work inspired by Jackson Pollock using pipettes painting and printing with tubes, duplo and stickle bricks. We have been constructing using wooden blocks ans the duplo the children have made some wonderful models. We made some moon dough by mixing flour and cooking oil, the children really enjoyed exploring this texture.

Happy Pancake Day!

Last week the Squirrels were very busy exploring the themes 'Valentines', and 'Chinese New year'. We explored noodles with paint, decorated valentine cards for our loved ones and made Chinese lanterns. This week is half term for those who are term time only. We will welcome back all of our children on Monday 23rd February.