The children watched lion dances and listened to books about Chinese New Year celebrations. They were really interested and especially enjoyed doing their own lion dance and trying fortune cookies. They also made lions with whiskers, using glue and by threading pipe cleaners. 

The children have been learning and watching  the song "Let it Go" while we all dance and act along to it. They have been roleplaying and dressing up, making Olaf pictures and building Elsa's castle. 

The children enjoy playing instruments to music and learning to stop and start and play quietly and loudly. 

This is the children's favourite song to play along to this week. 

This week, as part of the children's learning about winter, we have been exploring ice, printing snowflakes, drawing snowmen and making hot chocolate. 

After playing outside in the afternoon the children come in and have now started some focused activities before our home time routines. We have seen the children really enjoy concentrating and feeling calm as they try activities like building, lacing, sorting and matching which help with fine motor and maths skills. ​

The children did an amazing Christmas play to the parents and families. They sang and danced with enthusiasm on the stage and we were all really proud of them. 

Christmas has started in the nursery! All the areas have Christmas related resources to inspire creativity, use of language and to make links to the children's own experiences. 

The children have made wonderful snowmen pictures. These will be projected with other children's artwork  at Bicclescombe Park Winter Wonderland on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December 3pm-9pm. 

The children have continued to make models and pictures of hedgehogs using different materials and tools - with lots of concentration and some amazing results! 

The children have been making hedgehogs from sticks and play dough, listening to stories and playing in the hedgehog Hospital. We have been counting the spots on the dice to add prickles when we play the hedgehog game.