Thank you to all of the families who joined us for our reading cafe today. At ACE we place huge value on reading and sharing books together. It was wonderful to experience this with our families and also share hints and tips on supporting early reading skills at Nursery.

This week, we have been reading the story Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We have used this texts to help us to explore the language of size. We began by matching the bears to their different bowls, chairs and beds before placing them in order from largest to smallest. We also had lots of messy fun in our mud kitchen making porridge and matching the bowls to the correct sized bears before acting out the story with our friends.

The prolonged burst of cold weather last week enabled us to have fun creating some beautiful ice decorations. As we explored we learnt about freezing and melting.

After being stuck inside for most of this week due to the ice, today we enjoyed some fresh air with an outdoor storytime followed by some warm milk for snack.

Today we enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner with all of the trimmings. Thank you to our kitchen staff for preparing this feast for us to share together.

We are very proud of all of the children this week following their fabulous singing and dancing during our sing a long performances. Thank you to all the families who were able to attend.

This week we have had fun baking mince pies in preparation for our families joining us for the Christmas sing a long.

This week we have been practising our clever counting using festive objects!

This week we have been learning all about the number 2 and how it can be represented in different ways.

This week we have really felt the cold and in Nursery, we have spent lots of time talking about what we need to wear in the cold weather to keep warm. The children were eager to explore the ice set up in the mud kitchen this week, making comments on how it felt, what it looked like and where it came from.