22 Street Lane Nursery - March 2020 Newsletter

March Newsletter

Cygnets Room News

The Cygnets have enjoyed a busy and exciting February celebrating our Country of the Month, France, and lots of Valentines festivities, followed by a flower themed week! We enjoyed creating lots of beautiful crafts and gifts for our loved ones, including ‘puff paint’ (shaving foam, glue and paint), salt dough ornaments and shortbread biscuits. The Cygnets have exploring a variety of textures in the messy tray including making a ‘love potion’ by squeezing oranges, limes and lemons, then using our mortar and pestle to mix flower petals with the juices. We have enjoyed exploring colours, mixing two colours together to make a different colour, and together with cornflour we made orange gloop! The Cygnets explored new mark making techniques with flour, oats and sand on trays, using sticks and brushes to create shapes. Some of the Cygnets had a trip to the Florist to look at the variety of beautiful flowers and even brought some back to show their friends at nursery. We then used these flowers in our creative activities and tuff tray exploration including frozen flowers and flower paint printing. We have also been planting our own bulbs and will be watering them regularly waiting for them to grow into beautiful flowers! We have also been learning about the importance of washing our hands properly, also learning a new song called ‘Washing Your Hands’ which we have been singing before mealtimes! The Cygnets practiced washing their hands, rubbing them together and in in between their fingers. We washed the germs off the gloves which was great fun, pumping the soap and seeing all the germs washing away.

CYGNETS ROOM