Welcome back to our returning 3 Year Old Nursery children and a huge welcome to our new children and their families! We have had a very busy start to the term as we have got to know one another, settled into our Nursery routines and had lots of fun exploring everything on offer to us. What have we been doing during our first two weeks together?

Getting to know one another and working together!

We have been getting to the adults at Nursery; Mrs Clay, Mrs Connelly, Miss Bramham, Miss Spence and Mrs Bakhtari. As we settled in, we were introduced to our key worker groups by sitting together in colour groups for snack time. We have enjoyed working together and forming friendships whilst exploring our indoor and outdoor provision. We also enjoyed sitting as a group at lunchtimes as we eat together.

Doing lots of activities to support our physical development!

Many of us have enjoyed spending time in our outdoor area, where we have had a go at different activities to support our physical development. Here we are practising our climbing, balancing and large-scale mark-making skills as we had lots of fun outside! Being outdoors provides us with many exciting opportunities to develop our motor skills.

We were all spotted developing our physical skills whilst discovering our indoor provision this week! We are beginning to think about ourselves and what makes each of us unique, as we settle into our Nursery group and ACE community. This week, we were invited to create our own pen self-portraits. We used mirrors to look closely at ourselves and then used pens to carefully create lines and shapes to represent our features. We are very proud of our finished works of art!

At lunchtime, we have been developing our fine-motor skills by practising eating with a knife, fork and spoon. We were very impressed with the perseverance shown by the children as they used their cutlery independently!

Developing and exploring our own interests!

We have enjoyed using loose parts and open-ended resources to create interesting arrangements. We showed high levels of concentration as we thoughtfully selected and carefully placed each item within our arrangements. We will continue to develop this interest at Nursery by exploring new resources and using talk to share our own ideas as we play.

Many of us have enjoyed developing our sense of shape, space and measure when busy in provision. Water play, both indoors and out, is proving a firm favourite within our Nursery group and we have enjoyed filling, pouring and transporting water with a variety of different resources. We explored space on both on both a small-world and whole body scale!

We were all very interested in the rainy weather this week! We enjoyed standing under the canopy to watch the torrential rain and water pathways on the ground, whilst listening to the sound of the rain dripping onto the canopy and ground. We jumped up and down in excitement as we watched the wondrous weather!

What a fantastic first two weeks we have had in 3 Year Old Nursery! Welcome and welcome back!