House colours day

Nursery have been talking about feelings this week. We read "No, David!" by David Shannon and enjoyed the funny pictures as we wagged our fingers and joined in with telling David off ! We looked Davids facial expressions and tried to tell how he was feeling as the story progressed and also talked about things that make us happy, sad or angry. The class were good at  recognising some of the emotions and showing us their happy faces!

Later in the week, we made our own funny faces with paper plates and different facial features and made some crazy expressions!

   We added a beach area to our giant map and really worked our muscles squeezing out the glue to stick sand and sea.

Some of the class are beginning to be interested in how the computer works and we've been practising our mouse control skills by playing simple games like curious buddies peek-a-boo and colouring activities which you can find on the Nick Jr website here http://www.nickjr.com/kids-games/

Lexie really focused and completed the big bear puzzle all by herself - great concentration Lexie!

 We all enjoyed a piece of Amariana's cake- Happy birthday Amariana!

A lot more co-operation and sharing is happening amongst the class members. We are encouraging everyone to use their words to ask for what they want by saying their friends name and "please share" or if they don't want to share yet " wait a minute please". We are trying to remind the class that all the toys are here for everyone to play with.

Something the whole class were engaged in for a long time was rescuing the baby dinosaurs from their ice eggs! We tried a variety of ways to get them. Digging and scraping with lollipop sticks and other tools around the classroom took a very long time as we realised how hard the ice was. We noticed that the ice melted if we squirted it with warm water  and took turns using the syringes and spray guns to unfreeze the dinosaurs. It was much harder than we thought! When we added salt the ice became rough and when we sprayed water it became smooth again.

SunLee finally managed to free a baby dinosaur!

                           In the reading corner....

House colours day was a big change from the usual routine and this is the first time that Nursery have participated in the activities. For some it was a little overwhelming with all the excitement but most of the class coped really well with the change and had a great time cheering and waving the flags they had made. We played sponge the teacher, beanbag toss and a water relay race. The water relay was very popular and the different teams worked well together to fill the buckets and of course we all got a bit wet! We also had fun icing cookies in our team colours, well some of us were putting icing on them, some were just chomping on them!

Icing our cookies

Soak those teachers!

 Great shot!

The class were so proud to earn house points for their team. 

We had a fab day!