This week in Nursery, we continued to get to know one another and thought about what each of us unique as we settle into our routines. We started to think about ourselves as a group to develop our sense of community. We are becoming more confident at joining in with our key worker group routines, which include welcome activities, snack times and tidy up times.

This week, we worked collaboratively to create our one body as we explored our school vision together – We are one body of many parts and together we love, learn and flourish. We started by drawing around one of our friends to create our body, who had to keep very still as the pencil traced around him!

We then cut out our body shape and put it onto our painting table. We thought about the colours we wanted to use and worked together to choose and pour each paint colour.

Then it was time to paint! We were all very eager to have a go and patiently waited for our turn. We all experimented with the paint and paintbrushes to add a variety of colourful marks onto the paper. We explored dabbing the brush and using different arm movements to create lines, swirls, circles and zig-zags with paint. Some of us explored what happened when we mixed different colours together and were very excited when new colours appeared! We also swirled different paint colours together on the paper to create new effects. We showed wonderful levels of engagement and concentration as we worked out what we could achieve with our paints and paintbrushes!

We talked about how we had all joined in to create our one body, looking at our painting and seeing it as the many parts. We developed our understanding of how we can work together to create beautiful things! When our painting was finished, we looked at it again and thought about how it represented each one of us as a part of our Nursery community. We are really proud of our finished masterpiece!

You could have a go a similar activity at home to help your child understand that they are part of a family community too. This could be a picture containing a drawing from everyone or making up a story where each family member tells part of it. We have also asked for family photographs to be shared on Tapestry, so that we can continue to get to know one another and share the special people in our lives. We will display these in our home corner to inspire the children to represent their own experiences in play.