The Nursery children have celebrated Eid by looking at the sun and moon. We talked about when they can see the sun and moon in the sky, when do they eat their breakfast and talked about how some people in the world were celebrating today because they could see the moon was a special shape tonight. The children have been drawing pictures of the sun and moon with chalk outside, drawing with their fingers in sand, chalking onto paper and creating lovely pictures by sticking shapes together.  

We have had such a fun day in Nursery celebrating the festival of Holi by exploring colours.
The children have used paint, rainbow dancing ribbons, chalk, paint pens, coloured water and even foam with silly string in!

Nursery have had a fun couple of weeks exploring and learning shapes. We have printed with them, hunted for them in the jungle, made towers with them, played with them in foam and water, we have chalked them on the floor and made pictures from them. 
Lots of us can now confidently name some 2D shapes. 

We have loved exploring our frozen world! We have melted, played with and even painted with ice, our hands did get a bit cold! We have tried to free trapped toys and animals from ice and we have made some lovely art by painting on foil sheets. We have dressed up as Frozen characters, built ice castles and played with cotton wool snowballs!

The children have had such fun learning the story of 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. They have made binoculars, been on bear hunts through the jungle, solved bear puzzles, made cakes for a hungry bear and drawn pictures of bears. We have also drawn maps of the journey the children in the story took adding key words we remembered from the story. Splish, splash! Squelch Squelch!, Swishy Swoshy!  

The children have really enjoyed learning about the Chinese New Year dragon dance. We watched videos, made paper dragons, threaded dragons with pipe cleaners and even danced as a dragon ourselves. We also enjoyed tasting fortune cookies and finding the surprise inside each one. 

The children have been using their balancing and scooting skills. They have had lots of fun exploring the nursery playground in different ways. 

​The children enjoyed learning about our class insect and exploring colours. 

​The nursery children have had a great time in the pool. 

​The children had a brilliant time planting sunflower seeds in week 1 and already we have saplings!