Food, glorious food!

We are loving our topic of food. It has given us a chance to taste various meals.

Chinese New Year was a good opportunity to taste noodles and vegetable stir fry.

We also took the opportunity to open our very own Chinese Restaurant. First, we made some lanterns to hang in our restaurant.

We took telephone bookings as our restaurant was so busy.

We had a delicious menu to choose from.

And our waiters were eager to take orders to give to the chef.

Our chef cooks the finest noodles in Hainault!

And we even composed our own Chinese music to play to the customers in the restaurant.

We used Book Week to celebrate 200 years of Charles Dickens.

The children enjoyed finding out about Oliver Twist, who was an orphan who dared to ask for 'more' gruel.

We relived Oliver Twist's experience by lining up for a dollop of gruel!

We were not impressed with the gruel! Poor Oliver!

Oliver even paid us a visit during our dressing up day!

We're not scared!

One of our favourite books we read recently is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. The children were so keen to find their own bear that we decided to go on our very own 'Bear Hunt'. We set off out of the Nursery to see what we could find...

Happy New Year!

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We've had a great start to the year and welcomed some new members to our Nursery. We've also got a new climbing frame for our garden. This has been very popular with the children.







We began our new topic of 'Stories and Rhymes' by reading stories by the author, Pat Hutchins. Our favourite was 'Titch'. We found out that Titch was small, but will grow as he gets older. We created a large collage of Titch by using a range of materials and lots of glue!





We wanted to find out if we were 'taller' or 'shorter' than Titch, so we all measured ourselves. We found out who was the tallest and shortest in our Nursery.



We also used bears to identify different sizes.



We also read 'Rosie's Walk' by the same author. We hunted around the Nursery to find resources to recreate the setting of the story and used this to retell Rosie's walk. We used the book to remind us of the story and took it in turns to take the role of the characters.









Pat Hutchins also wrote 'Changes'. We used this book to help us create models for our own stories.



We are going to enjoy our topic this term. We can't wait for next week!

What an end to the term!

Christmas celebrations started in the Nursery. The celebrations began with the Foundation Stage Nativity.









Following our successful Nativity, Whoops-a-Daisy Angel, we held a Christmas party for the children.

We had fun with the parachute, learning to share and co-operate together.















Back inside our warm classroom we found that our children were great dancers. We danced away to our favourite Christmas songs. We learnt how to play 'Musical Statues' and lots of prizes were won. One of our favourite games was 'Pass the Parcel'.













After all that dancing we were ready to eat the party food that was kindly brought in by the children. We even got to wear our party hats that we made the day before.













A great end to the term.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We look forward to seeing you back in the Nursery on Thursday, 5th January 2012.

Superhero Day!

What a fantastic day we had, dressed as our favourite Superhero!



















We spent the whole day engaged in 'Superhero activities' with the Reception classes. In the Nursery classroom the children were able to print out Superhero logos using the screen printing kit.



We could write secret messages to our Superhero friends and build Superhero cities.



The children also enjoyed visiting the Reception classes for more Superhero activities. Supergirl, Mrs Grainger, was busy helping little Superheroes make themselves a Superhero mask.



Mrs Incredible, Miss Stockwell, helped the children create their very own Superhero puppet.



We finished the day by raising over £100 with our Superhero-Dance-a-thon.




Well done, Superheroes!