Loy Kratong

Mayumi Is this week's star of the week! She has settled into Nursery happily and is already making new friends!!




This week we have been continuing our "family" theme and are beginning to catagorise relatives by gender. We began by dividng our class into groups of boys and girls and sticking our own sign in pictures underneath either the boys or girls icon. . Most of the class were very good at sorting some pictures of different people into groups of male and female and  a few of them even used language for family members (e.g mummy, daddy, sister, brother) spontaneously while we were doing this activity. 

Getting to use Miss Sarah's sticky Tac was a bonus!

 We used the dolls house to roleplay some family activities such as bed time, bathtime and dinnertime. The class used different doll to represent family members- some of the students had a bit of an animal menagerie! 

We then used geometric shapes to make our own house pictures.

We also did lots of building, free painting and made play dough cupcakes, all the while practising our social skills, like working together, sharing and turn taking.

The ladies are preparing dinner!

Anyone for tea?

Mel is very confident using the computer.

 And then there was Loy Kratong!! Thank you to everyone for dressing up, the whole class looked absolutely adorable!  And another thank you to all the parents who brought in flowers or came in to help make the kratongs. It was very meaningful to have you come in and do the craft together.- even if it was tiugh to say goodbye afterwards!

 Dont worry, We all cheered up pretty quickly with the help of "Let it Go"!

Germs!

Welcome back, I hope you all had a great half term holiday.

Thank you to everyone for coming in for consultations in the last week. We've had a very busy first half term and it was really great to be able to sit down with you and share the progress going on in the classroom.

We have been talking about how germs can make us sick and the importance of washing hands properly to stay healthy. I demonstrated how easily germs can spread by "sneezing" glitter germs all over the class.

Kana spots some germs on Ploen

We realised that the "germs' couldn't be removed with just water and to get things really clean we needed bubbles!

Later in the week the class discovered that were "germs" on other things around the classroom so, after hunting for the germy objects, the class decided we needed to wash those things too.  We are pretty good at washing dishes now if anyone wants to let us try at home!

We can even dry up too!

We used clothes pegs to pick up the germs to stick on our hand prints. coordinating our fingers to squeeze and release at the right times was tricky but most of us got the hang of it after a few tries. This is a great activity to try at home as it really strengthens little fingers and helps with hand eye co-ordinatination, plus you can use pegs or tongs to transfer any small objects such as bead, pebbles, pasta, small toys, etc

We learnt that germs are so tiny you cant see them so they could be any shape or colour. Using food colouring and straws we had fun making some blow art germs!

 Last week we were lucky enough to find a Lime Hawk Moth also known as a green army camouflage moth for its distinctive patterned wings. Nursery were fascinated by it and are some of the class were even brave enough to touch it! Our class are getting really interested in insects and bugs in the environment. We like to identify them and watch them as they build homes or look for food.

                We found a small spider and a big spider.

We explored different ways of making sound. from banging, tapping and clapping to shaking and blowing. After having fun with some different kinds of instruments, the children were inspired to make noises with things they could find around the classroom. Making shakers from bottles and dried beans was a great fine motor activity.

Here is a link to the song we sing as we walk in line to different areas of the school. I know some of the children enjoy singing it at home!

Down by the Station song

Apologies for the lateness of this post!