Kirkley Nursery& Centre of Excellence

The Owl children have had a wonderful week. We have been enjoying exploring our Autumn resources- counting leaves and conkers and matching numbers. We have also been making paper plate foxes, pinecone painting and decorating biscuits. The children have again been having lots of fun as role play hair stylists, pretending to do each others hair. Today the children spent a long time constructing a train track and setting up a little village around it.

This week, Hedgehogs have started reading and looking at activities based around the story 'We're going on a bear hunt!'. We have enjoyed participating in lots of messy play activities, such as creating our own edible mud to explore in as well as creating some sensory bags filled with grass, twigs and shaving foam. Hedgehogs have also enjoyed watching the storybook on the tablet so they can listen to the sounds and watch a variety of the actions!

This week the Squirrels have been exploring the theme ' Space' linked to 'World Space Week'. We have decorated different planets, made alien masks and discussed the different planets in the solar system This week we also started our new core text ' We're Going on a Leaf Hunt'

This week in owls we have been continuing with our Colour monster theme. The children have been identifying colours by building with the mega blocks, they also had some coloured lollipop sticks to match to the different colour monsters. The children have had a lot of fun with the hair dressing box, taking turns to be hair stylist and the customer. Some of the children ended the week by chilling in the tyres in the garden, the even spotted an aeroplane flying over.

This week, the Hedgehogs have enjoyed their final week of reading 'Hug!' We have made the most of exploring with the variety of animals, leaves and twigs in the story to represent the animals exploring in the forest. We have also been looking at emotions this week and have made our very own emotion handprints which we have been referencing back to throughout the sessions. This week has helped us all to develop our communication and language skills through many methods such as looking at stories, playing and dancing to nursery rhymes and using our emotion handprints. Well done Hedgehogs

This week the Squirrels have been continuing to explore the story ' The Colour Monster'. We have been discussing all of the different emotions and linking it to our daily lives e.g. what makes us happy, what makes us sad etc. As a class we have decided to incorporate The Colour Monster into our daily learning as the children have been engaging so well and have been expressing their emotions in healthy way. Next week we will be starting our new core text ' We Are Going on a Leaf Hunt'

We have had a lovely week in our Owl room. We had lots of fun jumping in the puddles and running around in the rain. We have been using the chalk to mark make on the playground. The children have been using a large piece of cardboard as a car ramp and have been having races with the cars and also have been practicing taking turns at putting the cars down the ramp. We have been practicing our fine motor grip,using the tweezers to pick up compare bears, and we hid lots of the different colour monsters in some cornflakes and the children had to find them and recognise the colour and emotion to go with it.

It has been a busy first few weeks of term in the Squirrels room All the children have settled back fantastically after the summer break and we even welcomed some new friends into our class! Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the core text 'The Colour Monster'. We have been looking at activities based around the story, emotions and colours. . The children sit beautifully during story time and can identify which colours link to which emotions! We have made playdough monsters, giant Colour Monsters with glue and tissue paper and even mixed in different food colouring with lots of shaving foam for colour mixing! We are very proud of all of our Squirrels

This week, the Hedgehogs have continued looking at Hug! The children have enjoyed looking at the variety of animals in the story and during the week at group time, we have been making the noises of the animals! We also made our very own trail of leaves/twigs for them to explore in and we looked at the variation of leaves which had fallen on the ground. This week has also been some of our new starters first full week and they have adapted so well, we are so proud of you all! Here's to another fun filled week!