This term we will be looking at different festivals, celebrating with our nursery families festivals of particular importance.
Divali: Hindu Festival of light, we will be looking at Rangoli and mendhi patterns, and clay divas learning about the story of Divali and its significance we will explore cultural dance and foods
Bonfire celebrations: Fireworks and bonfire events that the children may experience with their families
Spooky Family Event:- at nursery on Friday 1st November
Rememberance:– we will be learning about Remembering people an animals who have lost their lives in conflicts around the world and support the children to have an awareness and appropriate understanding of the importance of respecting Armistice day and Rememberance Sunday
Christmas:-We will be starting our Christmas crafts and preparations for our Christmas Nativity play, learning the Christmas story and our special songs to perform in church.
Las Posadas:- Mary and Joseph will start their symbolic journey around our nursery community visiting different nursery families in preparation for the Nativity.
Beach School-We will continue our adventures at the beach, learning about many aspects of our extended local environment. We will start with understanding about staying safe and the rules we have to follow whilst enjoying the freedom of the beach.
We learn about the objects, creatures, plants and wildlife. We will learn to understand about pollution, and re-cycling and how we can look after our planet, carrying out beach cleaning and discussions on the rubbish and pollution we find, how we can change our habits and re-use some items to make us less wasteful.
We will experiment with foraging edible plants and bring them to nursery to cook and taste.
Dance- Miss Mel joins us on a Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning for a half hour dance session, which involves many routines over the term, promotimg co-ordination, and control and balance listening skills and following instructions, and learning how to combine different movements and move to the music.
Mr Morrow- continues to visit us during the week, bringing incredible musical experiences, art projects and inventions. His sessions are exciting and creative and the children look forward to his visits, as we never know what to expect.
