22 Street Lane Nursery - January 2021 Newsletter

January Newsletter Goslings Room News

The Goslings have been extremely busy this month preparing for the festivities. Our month has consisted of many different Christmas-themed activities, inviting the children to explore how this time of year is celebrated in different cultures and countries. We started off the month by decorating our Christmas tree, working as a team to hang up the baubles and put on the tinsel. Throughout December, we incorporated ‘Christmas Around the World’ into our activities - we recreated Christmas gnomes from Sweden, we have been learning some Christmas phrases from China, such as ‘Sheng Dan Kuai Le’ meaning ‘Merry Christmas’ and we have loved dancing to the Spanish Christmas song ‘Feliz Navidad’. We also celebrated Hanukkah, giving the children the opportunity to bake potato latkes which were certainly a tasty treat at snack time. Other activities included creating our own interpretations of a Dreidel and exploring our messy play designs of a candelabra. Some of the children were able to count all nine candles. This month we have introduced the big garden to the Goslings, which has certainly made a positive impact on the children. We have observed that they take full advantage of having a large area of space to run around freely - using the hills, bridge, and tunnels to give them the further stimulation they require. We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing the children return next week.

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