Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. The children have been painting Daffodils and learning about the different parts of daffodils such as the stem and the petals. The children have been making Easter bunny collages and using felt pens to decorate them. We had playdough in our Easter tough tray with flowers, carrots and egg shaped biscuits cutters which the children made "Easter cake". The children have really enjoyed completing a selection of puzzles working together to help each other showing great collaboration. We also had fun playing basketball and balancing on the beams in the garden. We hope you have a lovely Easter holidays!

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed their last week of reading 'That's not my Bunny!' We have made some chocolate cornflake cakes, our own cotton wool bunnies, been on an Easter egg hunt in the garden as well as exploring in our sensory tuff tray filled with shredded paper, bunnies, Easter eggs and paint! As well as of course, lots of 'sleeping bunnies' singing and dancing! To those of our Hedgehogs who are term time only, wishing you all a lovely Easter break!

The Squirrels have had a busy few weeks! We have been exploring our core text ' That's not my Bunny', whilst incorporating lots of Easter crafts! This has included different types of matching games, fine motor activities, sensory trays, and lots of messy activities This term has been filled with bugs and germs, however our children have shown us how resilient they are. We are so proud of them all From all of us in the Squirrels Class, we wish you all a very fun filled Easter and we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 13th April 2026 For those who are in during the Easter holidays, we will see you next week for lots of Easter activities

We have had a very busy week in our Owl room. The children have been practicing their literacy skills recognising letters from the letter stones and attempted to copy the letters in sand. They have also been tracing numbers with wipe clean markers. On St Patrick's day the children made green play dough and added lots of gold glitter, they also made shamrock collages. The children have been following patterns and continuing patterns with the compare bears. We also made the "little toy house" from our text Goodnight moon, the children used shapes to arrange them into a house. We finished off the week dressing up in something red for Comic Relief.

This week, the Hedgehogs have started reading their new core text, 'That's not my bunny! The Hedgehogs thoroughly enjoy this story, turning the pages independently, being very keen to feel the variety of textures. We have all been exploring in our bunny sensory tray, developing our fine motor skills by mark making with our fingers and decorating our own wooden bunnies using a variety of resources. We spent time hopping like bunnies whilst singing 'sleeping bunnies'. Celebrating St Patrick's Day towards the start of the week! Whilst of course making the most of the sunshine in the garden using our gross motor skills completing many different obstacle courses

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.