A Snowy Welcome Back!
Happy New Year and welcome back to all of our families! The children have been very excited to see their friends throughout the week after the Christmas break, with some children even running over to give their friends cuddles when seeing them walk through in to preschool. There have been many conversations with different groups of children, discussing what presents Father Christmas brought to them as well as talking about what their Christmas plans were. The children were very excited to return to nursery to see an ice filled garden, some even believing that the snow had set. When venturing outside to the garden to explore, a group of children collected some wooden beams and small blocks and were pretending to go ice skating. There was lots of fun and laughter going on whilst the children were trying to keep their own balance on the ice and also holding on to friends hands to help them keep balanced. Whilst playing in the tree house, some children were decorating it with blocks and rocks and discussing how they needed to decorate the tree house in Christmas decorations so that Father Christmas would know where to go to next year.
Whilst some children explored the wintery weather in the garden, some other children enjoyed some winter themed creative work inside, exploring play dough with nature objects such as leaves and cones, and painting some trees for the winter display board in preschool. Some children have been building habitats for various types of animals and working together to make a warm home for them, placing some grass on top of the blocks to make a roof. The children have also continued engaging in jolly phonics sessions at group times this week learning the ‘ck’ sounds and have been able to identify various words and objects that contain the sound ‘ck’. Whilst in the garden, one of the children called out, “I can hear some ducks and that’s ck, duck, ck!”
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
In the lead up to the Christmas break, the children have been very busy celebrating with festive parties and Christmas dinners ! On this last week of the nursery year, we would like to let the pictures speak for themselves!
As a reminder: the nursery will be closed on Tuesday 23rd December and will reopen on Friday 2nd January.
We’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a well-earned restful break!
Christmas Concert!
The preschool children have been very excited on the build up to their Christmas performance of Stick Man, and have been counting down the days until their mummies and daddies would be coming to watch them. The children have been doing group practices, helping each other with their lines and singing the songs together. A group of children set themselves up a stage in the garden using the wooden platforms and were putting on performances to each other, cheering at the end of each song. Many of the children have also been practicing their lines and songs at home. During a lunch time, a group of children were discussing which characters they were going to be in the play and were very excited to tell each other about their costumes for the big day. The day before the performance, the children were very excited to do a dress rehearsal for the toddler room children. Once their audience went back to the toddler room, the preschool children were excitedly having discussions between themselves about how the toddlers enjoyed their practice and that their mummies and daddies will be so happy and proud.
On the day of the performance, the children were very eager for it to be time for the play and were keen throughout the day to know how many minutes and hours it was until it was time for the show! Once in their seats and ready for the big moment, the children were very excited to welcome their parents with a big wave and a smile. The children put all of their hard work from their practice in to action and put on a lovely Stick man performance. The children confidently stood up in their groups to say their words, some children stepped in to say each other lines and some even choosing to narrate the play alongside Joe. Thank you all for a lovely turn out and well done to all of the preschool children for their fantastic show!
