In January our topics were 'Winter' and ‘Cold Lands’. Our work centred around learning about life in the Arctic. We found out lots of information about Inuits, penguins, polar bears, snow and ice. We had an igloo in the Nursery room and we even built our own igloo. It was great fun dressing up as penguins and Inuits and pretending we lived in the Arctic. We even got a penguin egg to take home. It was so exciting! We looked after our egg really carefully and after a few days it hatched. Each day we told our teachers all about our egg and when the penguin hatched some of us brought in a photograph of our little penguin to show everyone.
We made lots of lovely things at our Art Table and painted at our easel. Our art work is on display all around the Nursery. The Canteen staff made us snowflake biscuits and we decorated these with white chocolate and sprinkles.
We had ice blocks in the water tray with lots of small toys frozen inside them. We worked hard to melt the ice and free the animals. We even had snow in our water tray! Outdoors we had a sled and we pretended we were husky dogs pulling our friends around in the sled. Our daffodils are starting to grow in the greenhouse and we can take them home soon.
During our Snack Time we take turns to be the 'Snack Helper'. We help set up for snack and wear a special apron. We tell our friends when it is their turn for snack and we help to tidy up when everyone has finished. We are enjoying the responsibility of helping our teachers. After snack we leave out some scraps of food for the birds on our bird table. We will continue to feed the birds each day during the Winter.
We learned lots of new songs about Winter, Jack Frost and penguins. We had lots of counting songs and rhymes during January. Our singing was so good we visited the Primary One classes and sang to the teachers and children. They loved it!!
On 16th January there was a lot of snow and we went outside to make snowballs. We practised our throwing skills by throwing these over the tall fence!
We started our Yoga classes every Friday with Laura and love taking part in all of the games, activities and yoga exercises. It is great fun.
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