Feeding the Birds

This week Afternoon and All Day Nursery children enjoyed making kebabs for the birds during their Outdoor Adventure.  We used cheese, apple and sultanas, threaded onto a wire.  The children worked very well together and were able to take turns and support each other.  The teachers were very proud of how well the children persevered and worked together!  After making the 'kebabs' the children went together to choose where to hang them for the birds.

Do you think the birds will enjoy eating their snacks as much as we enjoyed making them?!

Bird watching and Outdoor Learning Fun!

Bird Watching and Outdoor Learning Fun!

In Nursery this half term we have really enjoyed learning about the birds we can see around us.  We are now able to identify the following birds: 

• Blackbirds
• Robins
• Crows
• Pigeons
• Magpies.  

We have enjoyed using binoculars and making our own from cardboard tubes.  We have been using clipboards and checking off the birds we can see.  

This week Morning and All Day Nursery children enjoyed making kebabs for the birds using cheese, apple and sultanas, threaded onto a wire.  The children worked very well together and were able to take turns and support each other.  The teachers were very proud of how well the children persevered and worked together!

We also had fun on Friday making and using a rope pulley.  We used our upper arm muscles to pull up and lower the bucket.  It was good to practise waiting for our turn too!

Some children used the things they could find outside to make up their own games and stories.  Some girls children were making a home for "Eggy".  I wonder if he will hatch soon?!

Fun learning times in Nursery this week

 

Nursery Learning 

This week in Nursery we enjoyed exploring the ice we found outside in the outdoor area on Monday.

Children enjoying searching for where the ice had formed.  They also enjoying touching, carrying and breaking it! 

We have started to learn about the celebration of Christmas and children enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree in the classroom.

Some children used cones in the outdoor area to make a tree of their own.

Forest School Thursday 2^nd December

This week was very exciting for the children: we had snow on the ground, sun in the air and a real fire in the log circle. It was very cold but most of the children coped well.

We played the Forest Fire game, as last week, to get the children moving and warm, they really enjoyed screaming as the ran across the field.

We then introduced the fire steel or Dragon Sneeze and showed the children the basic safety rules of being close to fire. They learned that they need to check that they do not have anything on them that may dangle into the fire and then how to sit in the Respect Position.  When we are close to fire, we use the Respect Position to ensure that we can stand up and back quickly, if we need to do so. It also ensures that we don’t put our heads or hands near the fire as we get up.

 

The fire steel is used to create a spark to light a fire, it can be a real challenge to strike so the children have to learn the life skills of persistence and resilience and keep trying lots of times.

We ended the session sitting round our fire; each child got the opportunity to roast their own vegan marshmallow. We focused on the language, finding words to describe the marshmallow and the fire such as flame, fuel, smoke, logs, delicious, sweet, and squashy.