22 Street Lane Nursery - April 2019 Newsletter

April Newsletter

Swans The Swans have been very busy throughout March and have had lots of fun celebrating a number of different festivals! We started by looking at our country of the month which was Wales, making our own Welsh cakes, and using a variety of media and materials to design our own welsh flags. After this we then celebrated St Patrick’s Day and Comic Relief, all in one busy but fun filled day. The children really enjoyed designing their own collage shamrocks, printing their own Irish flags using sponges, and drawing their own self-portraits wearing red noses using markers and colouring pencils! We also celebrated World Book Day, and the children came to Nursery in some fantastic outfits from some of their favourite stories, including Mary Poppins, Mona the Vampire and Willy Wonka. We then celebrated Holi, the festival of colour, and the Swans really enjoyed mark making in brightly coloured sand trays, using their fingers, paintbrushes and various other tools. As well as this, all the children were invited to come to Nursery dressed in blue and orange, and everyone made a fantastic effort. As baking has been another big part of our month this month, we even made our very own Mango Lassi for the celebration, and the children really enjoyed looking at the different ingredients we needed, measuring out the items carefully and then having this for their afternoon snack. We have also been focusing on Phonics again throughout this month, looking over all the sounds we have learnt and trying to blend and segment sounds, starting to read and write simple words. We have continued this learning through lots of sensory trays with different materials such as: pasta, noodles, shaving foam, salt and even coloured sand, challenging the Swans to write their names and other shapes or letters independently.

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