Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

What a busy week we have had in our Owl room. The children have enjoyed loose parts play being imaginative arranging the corks, acorns and stacking stones. We have been doing some really good turn taking with the rocket game, waiting our turn and then counting who had the most loops. We have also been making patterns with peg boards arranging the colours using our fine motor skills. The children have been talking about shapes and matching shapes to their pictures.

What another lovely week in the Hedgehog room! We have continued reading 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' as well as also having a strong focus on our nursery rhymes and incorporating these in to our play. This week, we have been mark making using potatoes as footprint stamps, developing our fine motor skills using the pens to help with our colour recognition, created our own sensory bags/tray as well as having a teddy bears picnic!🦔

We have had a lovely week in Owls. We have been doing lots of counting and number matching with our conkers, pine cones and leaves. We made our own autumn tree with branches and cotton wool pads which the children used coloured water to drip on the pads.

This week in Hedgehogs, we have started looking at our new core text 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt!' The children have enjoyed looking at and exploring in different activities linked to the story, in particular the different environments. The children have had great enjoyment exploring in the 'muddy' cornflakes and shaving foam, splashing in the water trays and feeling the different textures of the grass. We have created our own obstacle course in the garden also, allowing the children to go on their own bear hunt! Such as climbing over the blocks and crawling through the tunnels🦔

This week the Squirrels have been continuing to explore our core text 'The Colour Monster' Whilst reading the story, the children have been identifying and linking the feelings to the colour e.g. yellow is happy, blue is sad etc. Alongside this, we have been discussing what makes us happy and what makes us sad!. It has been amazing to see how quickly they have been able to identify these different feelings and watching them integrate this into their play e.g. baby is feeling happy now she's had food', ' baby doesn't like loud noises, it makes her sad'. This week we have also been exploring topics such as teeth brushing and using the potty! 🦷 🪥 🚽 Next week we start our new core text ' We're going on a leaf hunt' 🍁 🍂.

Last week the Squirrels continued our core text ' The Colour Monster'. 🎨 During each activity, they chose what they wanted to do throughout their session. A lot of the Squirrels decided they wanted to paint, which started off on the paper, but ended with them painting their hands, arms and faces 🤣 All of our new starters have settled and it has been so lovely to see them exploring and happy

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued with our core text 'Hug' The children have now become familiar with the animals seen in the story and are eager to point and name or make the animal sounds as we turn the pages We have continued exploring with their interests of nursery rhymes also, by creating sensory tuff trays filled with rice, shaving foam, water, hay and grass to go alongside the ones they're particularly loving to sing/act, such as Incy Wincy Spider and OldMacDonald🦔

This week our Owl children have been enjoying our autumnal resources. They have been counting conkers, pumpkins and squash, comparing their sizes, talking about if they feel rough or smooth, and using tubes to roll the conkers down.

What another fun filled week we have had in the Hedgehog room! This week, we have continued looking at our story 'Hug', with the children showing a strong interest in the animals! We have been completing animal puzzles, focusing on our number and language development with the animal pop up stories and puppets, feeding some of the animals seen in our story cereals and singing Old MacDonald many times! 🦔