22 Street Lane Nursery - February 2019 Newsletter

February Newsletter Goslings This month the Goslings have developed very particular interests which we have been

expanding on and accommodating by creating variations of activities. The Goslings have really taken a interest in counting and categorising, using various materials such as stones and many heuristic items. We then developed this interest further by creating large patterns using the wooden shape sorters - this sparked some of the children’s curiosity as they played with them as stepping stones to hop, jump and skip over (we can jump really well but we are still learning how to hop and skip!) We then created opportunities to practice our hopping, skipping and jumping with indoor and outdoor activities including setting up mini obstacle courses. It has been very cold but that's not stopped the Goslings from wanting to play out: the children have enjoyed exploring the frost, brushing it away, and creating marks using a variety of tools. When exploring our touch senses, the Goslings have been describing what they feel, expanding their descriptive vocabulary using words such as ‘very cold’, ‘freezing’ & ‘melting’. Lastly, the Goslings have shown a huge interest in transport, especially buses - one of our children came to nursery on the bus and was very pleased with his bus ticket. We supported his interest by bringing in bus and train tickets for our role-play area. We talked about the buses and trains, and sung ‘The Wheels on The Bus’, which the children joined in with rhymes and actions.

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