Having fun indoors!

As it was so cold last week, we had lots of fun playing indoors doing lots of craft activities.

Our Majors and Minors children enjoyed making pasta pictures using coloured glue to stick the pasta down.

We also brought the water tray indoors and spent lots of time playing with different toys and bottles in the water.

Frosty Weather

We made the most of the cold mornings last week by going out for a walk to look at the frosty grass and icy spiders webs.

We had left some tubs of water out overnight, and had lots of fun playing with the blocks of ice that had formed. We had frozen some objects inside them, and it was exciting waiting for the ice to thaw so that we could get them out.

We also enjoyed making snowman faces with paper plates and coloured card.

Patterns!

You might have noticed that your child came home with their nails painted last week - here's why!

We had been talking about patterns, and had coloured some pictures of winter scarves using repeating patterns of different colours.

Mrs Walker thought it would be fun to paint our nails using repeating patterns of different colours too!

Snow Day!

Here are some pictures of the children enjoying a walk in the snow. We got wrapped up in our warm clothes and went out to the front of Pre-School to see the snow. We looked at the snowy roofs and paths.

We also went into the school playground to look at the ice on the ground, and very carefully felt how slippery it was.

Afterwards, we went inside for hot chocolate and biscuits!

More winter activities

Well, we got our snow as requested - we could have done with a bit more though!

We have been talking about winter clothing and how we keep warm outside in the cold weather. We have also been doing some work on numbers this week. We linked the two together by doing colour by number pictures of winter clothes - matching up the correct colour to the numbers.

Winter

Our Majors children have started their new topic, which is Winter.

Some of our children went out for a walk to look at the trees. We talked about how the trees look in winter with no leaves, and the changes that happen in spring.

We made wintry tree pictures by blowing paint with a straw.

We also had lots of fun with shaving foam, pretending it was snow, making snowman and snowflake shapes in the foam.

Now all we need is some real snow! Fingers crossed!!

Happy New Year!

We would like to wish all our children and their families a very Happy New Year. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa was generous!

Over the Christmas holidays, Georgie got married and is now Mrs Georgina Packer. We are all delighted for her and wish her and her new husband well in their future together.

Here are some pictures of her on her special day: