We hope you all have a great half-term holiday, if you're stuck for something to do next week why not follow the links to find out about some fun activities in the borough.
Southwark libraries
Activities in Southwark
Friday, 24 October 2014
Happy Diwali!
We have reached the end of this half-term, and have had an exciting week. This week the children learned all about the Hindu celebration Diwali.
Diwali is the festival of lights and Hindus light candles and fireworks as part of their celebrations. The children enjoyed making some firework paintings using paints, glitter and glue. Here some lovely examples.
The children have also enjoyed trying on saris and bindis to celebrate Diwali and in cooking made mango lassi drinks (mango blended with milk and yoghurt).
Here are some more photos of this week's learning.
Diwali is the festival of lights and Hindus light candles and fireworks as part of their celebrations. The children enjoyed making some firework paintings using paints, glitter and glue. Here some lovely examples.
The children have also enjoyed making rangoli patterns using coloured pegs.
Here are some more photos of this week's learning.
Collecting and sweeping leaves.
Floating scarves and parachutes in the wind.
Visiting year five's newly hatched chicks.
We have sent out a settling in sheet this week and would really like to hear how you feel your child has settled into their nursery class. Please write any comments on the sheet and hand them in after half-term, many thanks,
Coming up after half-term: Our new topic is Autumn & Winter, we will be doing lots of bonfire night activities and are looking forward to a visit from the Forest Hill fire fighters and the fire engine! Have a lovely break!
Trip to the park
This week we went on a trip to Dulwich park, unfortunately we were unable to take our afternoon children due to the strong winds but we hope to reschedule for after half-term.
The children were really well behaved and loved exploring the different areas of the park. Here we are playing in the squirrel garden.
We enjoyed some outdoor parachute games.
Collected some autumn leaves.
And went on an animal hunt; we saw dogs, squirrels, ducks...
... we even spotted an animal that wasn't on our tick sheet- a heron.
We had a lovely morning and hope to go again soon. Thank you to all the parents/carers who came along and helped, we hope you had a nice morning too!
The children were really well behaved and loved exploring the different areas of the park. Here we are playing in the squirrel garden.
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Road safety songs
Here are some fun road safety songs and videos to watch at home.
Transport for London road safety video.
British Council Website road safety song.
Road safety training and The Leopard's Drum
We have had another lovely week at Our Lady's Nursery. On Monday we had a visit from Vivienne (Southwark council), she taught the children all about how to stay safe when crossing the road. We went outside to practice on our road in the Nursery outdoor area. The children did really well and answered questions like 'Why do we need to be careful?' 'What are we looking for at the side of the road?' 'What vehicles are we listening for?'
The children decided to put all this into practice when they used road signs to stop bike traffic in the outdoor area.
The children have loved hearing the Asante tale The Leopard's Drum; Osebo the leopard has a fine drum, a huge drum, a magnificent drum. He won't share it with anyone, not even Nyame, the Sky-God. So Nyame offers a big reward to the animal that brings him the drum. All try but fail. But a very small tortoise succeeds and decides as a reward she would like a hard shell to protect her from careless animals treading on her- and that is how the tortoise got her shell.
To follow on the theme we set up a small world play area with African animals and books about Africa, the children have loved making their own drums by fillings cups with dried pasta, lentils and tapioca. We also made African inspired masks.
The children have been developing their fine motor skills whilst making jam or honey sandwiches.
This week we added the finishing touches to our outside builder's role play area, we have added construction site signs, building plans and more bricks & tools for our budding builders to use.
Coming up next week: The children will be learning about Diwali- the festival of light and we will be going on our first trip! Don't forget we break up for half-term on Thursday 23rd October (Friday 24th is a Staff INSET day and the school will be closed to children).
The children decided to put all this into practice when they used road signs to stop bike traffic in the outdoor area.
The children have loved hearing the Asante tale The Leopard's Drum; Osebo the leopard has a fine drum, a huge drum, a magnificent drum. He won't share it with anyone, not even Nyame, the Sky-God. So Nyame offers a big reward to the animal that brings him the drum. All try but fail. But a very small tortoise succeeds and decides as a reward she would like a hard shell to protect her from careless animals treading on her- and that is how the tortoise got her shell.
Source: Google Books.
To follow on the theme we set up a small world play area with African animals and books about Africa, the children have loved making their own drums by fillings cups with dried pasta, lentils and tapioca. We also made African inspired masks.
The children have been developing their fine motor skills whilst making jam or honey sandwiches.
This week we added the finishing touches to our outside builder's role play area, we have added construction site signs, building plans and more bricks & tools for our budding builders to use.
Coming up next week: The children will be learning about Diwali- the festival of light and we will be going on our first trip! Don't forget we break up for half-term on Thursday 23rd October (Friday 24th is a Staff INSET day and the school will be closed to children).
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