January
Happy New Year and welcome back to Nursery!
Throughout the month of January we will be exploring the exciting topic of Birds in Nursery. We will be learning to identify common garden birds, as well as talk about their body parts and learn more about them; what they like to eat and where they live. We will also be learning more about how we can look after birds in our gardens. We hope to have a visit from Oxford Island staff as part of our topic too! We will also be making our own binoculars and going bird watching around our school grounds!
We will also continue to explore the season of Winter through our play indoors and outdoors and our Community Time learning! We will put on our winter clothes to play outside each day. We will be trying hard to put on and take off our own coats independently and make attempts to zip and unzip our coats each day.
This month we will be focusing on the colours, grey and white, and the shape, semi-circle! Can you find any objects of these colours or shape around your home or outside to bring in to our shape and colour tables?
To celebrate the end of our ‘Bird’ topic, we made yummy chocolate nests!
We all enjoyed making yummy chocolate nests!
First, we talked about the ingredients together. We could name all of the ingredients.
We then talked about how we needed to break up and melt the hard chocolate to make it soft and runny. Ms McCreanor melted the chocolate in the microwave. We waited to hear the microwave ‘ping’! We then knew that the chocolate had melted and was ready.
Next, we then poured, mixed and stirred the mixture together. We used spoons to carefully put the mixture in to our buncases.
Finally, we put crushed mini eggs on top of our buns! Yummy!
We enjoyed a lovely visit from Jo Jingles! We sang songs and joined in with the actions!
Miss Polly Had a Dolly!
We enjoyed playing castanets with Jo Jingles!
We thought the birds could do with some food with all the cold weather we have been having recently. We had great fun making these bird feeders.
We fed the birds today with some left over snack. We used our binoculars to watch them eat.
We are learning through our play indoors!
We are enjoying learning through our play outdoors!
We are enjoying making our own binoculars to go birdwatching!
We enjoyed a visit from staff from Lough Neagh Discovery Centre as part of our Bird topic!
