The Den:

We have had a super busy first week back- with lots of new children transitioning from The Nest to us this week. It has been lovely to welcome all the children back from Easter half term, we are so pleased with how fantastically they have settled back to nursery.

This week, we have been focusing on bugs after spotting lots of insects in the garden

Characteristics of effective learning:

Understating the world:

With the weather warming, we have been outside as much as possible. The children have spotted lots of insects like spiders and bees whilst exploring the garden space. This prompted us to explore insects further this week. We added some plastic bugs to our small world area which the children loved! We spoke about the names of the bugs and their different characteristics- like how many legs they have, antennas and wings. To extend this more, we used them with paint to explore mark making opportunities. The children enjoyed dipping the different bugs into paint, then dabbing them onto the paper. I spoke about the different marks that were left behind as they dabbed them onto the paper.

We have also been looking at ocean animals this week too! We have been focusing on the book ‘in the ocean’ and added some blue voil and aquatic animals to our story area. During group time, we added the animals to the voil and asked the children to hold onto a section of it. We added the animals on top and encouraged them to move it up and down like a parachute. As the voil moved, the animals flew into the air! The children absolutely loved this!

Parents as partners:

Ensuring our children’s safety when asleep is paramount to us at Bensham Grove. We follow statutory Government guidelines around safe sleeping and we wanted to share this handy guide with parents.

Reminder:

Can you please provide an unopened factor 50 sun cream and sun hat to stay at nursery please