Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

Hedgehogs have had a lovely couple of weeks back after the October half term! We have been exploring and participating in lots of celebrations, such as Bonfire night, Remembrance Day and Children in Need! We have made our own fireworks pictures, play dough, dyed our rice/pasta red, black ,green and yellow to match the celebration themes as well as colouring some pictures. Hedgehogs also enjoyed making their own Pudsey bear using a variety of resources and showed great respect when they all did super participating in their 2 minute silence on Tuesday!

This week in the owls room we have continued to learn about our talk for writing book 'Owl babies'. The children have got very good at memorising the story and reading along. They have also explored this throughout the activities in the room which has allowed them to practice skills such as cutting, painting, colouring, creating, counting and literacy. This week we have also had the pleasure to be able to celebrate two very important days, Remembrance day and Children in need. The children have learnt about why we recognise these days and the history around them as well as having the opportunities to engage in lots of fun activities associated with these. It was lovely to see children wearing Poppies for Remembrance Day and pyjamas/spotty/Pudsey attire for Children in need.

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. We started our new book "Owl babies" the children have enjoyed making owl pictures, pine cone owls, owl nests. We also have been looking at "The starry night" painting by Vincent Van Gogh and the children tried to create their own interpretations. Today we talked about rememberance day and made Poppy pictures by dipping apples in red paint.

The squirrels have had a lovely week! We have started a new core text called "Rosie's Walk", the squirrels have been sitting beautifully at group time, and have been laughing at the silly fox! We made our own Rosie the Hen using feathers, tissue paper and lots of glue! Our song of the week has been "Old MacDonald had a Farm", the children have been thinking lots about the different animals that live on a farm, and even made their own farm using duplo bricks and weetabix! The Squirrels also used the animals to paint footprints on their pictures for our display. We have talked about fireworks and made our own firework pictures using flowers and paint, the children all agreed that fireworks are very noisy!

We have had a lovely week in the Owl room. The children have had lots of fun with the autumn theme playdough, they made pumpkin faces, hedgehogs and squirrels. We have been focusing on maths looking at numbers, recognising numbers, putting them in order and matching numbers to quantity. We also showed really good concentration skills whilst matching the mosaic shapes to the pictures.

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed participating in lots of sensory play, with some activities focused around Diwali and Halloween! We have created our own paintings, using bright colours to celebrate the festival of light! As well as making our own multicoloured rice to work on our colour/pattern developments, created our own sensory bags, read lots of Halloween stories as well as singing songs and enjoyed scooping out the inside of pumpkins and exploring with the seeds and flesh We have had a lovely week together and this brings us to the end of the first half term! We hope you all have a lovely week off if you're term time only, we look back to welcoming you all back on Monday 3rd November!