What a surprise when we noticed it had been snowing outside! We put on our wellies, our warm hats and coats and off we went to have some fun. We made snow balls, we made tracks in the snow and we sledged down the hill. We hope the snow stays, so we can have more fun tomorrow!
This term we are exploring traditional tales.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is our first story.
In Purple Group we have been playing Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have dressed up as the characters in the story. We have made huge pans of porridge collecting the ingredients from the garden. We have had great fun chasing Goldilocks. “The naughty girl!”
Literacy reading – Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories
Expressive arts – Uses available resources to create props to support role play
Communication and language – Uses language and recreate roles and experiences in play situations
We are very lucky to have Dr Brendan Renwick for the next five weeks to deliver his musical discoveries programme.
This week we had an opportunity to explore instruments and the sounds that they make. We enjoyed singing and dancing with Brendan. It also gives us the opportunity to become more confident towards unfamiliar people and in a different social situation.
Christmas has arrived at Oxclose Community Nursery School!
Nursery has been transformed into a winter wonderland with lots of interactive Christmas displays, Christmas books to read, We even have our very own Santa’s grotto where the children have been wrapping presents and printing their very own wrapping paper.
Our lovely Christmas trees were delivered by Elm tree farm and nurseries, the children have been enjoying decorating them throughout the week. We have also been practicing songs ready for the Nativity performance.
The parachute is a great way to develop children’s language. Purple Group have been learning lots of new vocabulary such as ‘fast’ and ‘slow’, ‘up’ and ‘down’, ‘high’ and ‘low’, They have had great fun playing parachute games and then making a special tent to sing their favourite nursery rhymes.
Halloween is a fun time of year for all the children. We have celebrated this festival with crafts, cooking and dressing up.
Pumpkins have been used in activities. The children have helped practitioners to carve images and pull out the seeds using different tools. The inside is a great resource for exploring and using all the senses as well as learn about the vegetable.
Halloween is a lovely opportunity to be imaginative by painting and listening to stories. We even made our own ‘monster play dough’.
The children were invited to come into Nursery wearing spots and Pudsey related items of clothing. They all looked fantastic and your generous donations have gone to a great cause. Thank you for your continued support!
Green Group have now completed their five week programme at Herrington Woods and we can honestly say they have enjoyed every minute from leaving nursery in the mini bus to building camps, bug hunting and making their very own camp fire to make toast on. We have had such a fabulous outdoor learning experience over the past five weeks and would like to thank Washington 3rd scouts group for the use of their mini bus.
Red Group children will be next to take part in the programme beginning March 2019. Letters and more information will be sent out next term.
The children in Blue Group have been listening to ‘Dear Zoo’ and ‘Oh Dear’ by Rod Campbell. They love to join in with the familiar phrases and are now choosing the stories independently. They look at the pictures and use them to retell the story in their own words.
Some of the children have been building houses in the construction area for the animals out of the stories. They’ve even made their ‘dinner’ in the home area!
The children in Nursery have been using natural materials as printing tools. We experimented using different sized leaves and mixed different shades of green, yellow and brown to make lots of different patterns with our leaves. We have also used fruit and vegetables as printing tools, the children enjoyed printing with apples, oranges, potatoes and pears.
