Families, Fruit and Snow!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been engaging in many activities surrounding the focus of “Our families”. A group of children particularly enjoyed a play dough activity, firstly looking at pictures of their families on the family board in preschool and then moulding the dough in to shapes to form themselves and members of their families. Some chose to do mummies and daddies, whilst others chose siblings and some children even tried to mould their pets. The children also enjoyed drawing their own family portraits whilst others chose to use natural resources such as leaves, sticks and pine cones to design 3D families. 

A group of preschool children have enjoyed a trip to the local shops this week to purchase fruits to make some fruit kebabs. The children made their lists of favourite fruits before setting off to go to the shops and took their lists with them to be able to find the fruits they would like. Once they had gathered all of the ingredients and placed them in the basket, some of the children were very excited to scan the items through the till, with a couple of children discussing how much money they think they need to pay. Once back at nursery, all of the preschool children enjoyed making their own fruit kebab skewers, selecting the fruits they would like to try. 

Outside in the garden, the children fully embraced a snowy morning. Some of the children were so eager to get out in to the snow, they had a little run around in it before returning for their coats to be able to stay out and play in the snow. Some of the children stared up almost in amazement at the sky, letting the snow fall on to their faces, some even opening up their mouths to catch the snowflakes. A couple of the children agreed that it must now be Christmas time because it was snowing!