Welcome to 2021!
Welcome back!
We hope you had a lovely Christmas, despite the very odd and unsettling times. The children have settled back into nursery life here at Horfield and we are so excited to show you what we have been up to!
Snapdragons Sports Week
“This is so amazing. Can I share it on Instagram?”
The children have kept warm in the icy weather this month by taking part in Snapdragons’ sports week. Physical activity has countless health benefits for children. Not only does it improve a child’s overall health and fitness but it also benefits our mental health and cognitive development too. Here, at Horfield all our children (from our Baby room, right up to Pre-school) have been getting involved in a wide range of physical activities throughout the week. We even participated in Joe Wicks’ PE challenge. Pre-school impressed everyone here at Snapdragons and EVEN IMPRESSED JO! That’s right! Jo Wicks saw our workout video on Twitter, retweeted and asked if he could tag us on Instagram! A huge well done to everyone involved.
Check out our workout video here. https://twitter.com/horfieldsnap/status/1350016587445710848
Pre-school awards ceremony
Following on from sports week, the Pre-school children attended an awards ceremony to collect their medals.
EYFS - Personal, Social, Emotional Development - Welcomes and values praise for what they have done
We are Problem Solvers!
The children in our Younger Toddler room have been demonstrating their curiosity by exploring shape and space in their environment. They used measuring tapes, rulers and pencils to investigate shape and size.
EYFS - Mathematics: Shape Space & Measure:
Showing a ‘can do’ attitude
The children in our Older Toddler room showed great confidence when using their own ideas to create different structures and arrangements. The children demonstrated a 'can do' attitude when using their imaginations and making houses for bugs.
Experimenting…
The Pre-school room have shown an interest in experiments, so following our discussion about icy weather and noticing the ice melt away in the garden, we decided to carry out a salt crystal experiment to observe the crystals growing. First we poured some water and salt into a cup and then mixed it together. Next we attached a piece of string to a stick so that the string was sitting in the water. Then we placed the cup in a warm environment and waited patiently for the magic to happen…the children were fascinated to see how the salt crystals had grown, they looked closely to observe the change.
We have been busy!
The children in our Baby room have enjoyed making pictures using various resources. It is important to provide young children with these opportunities so that they can learn, play and enjoy the physical and sensory experiences.
EYFS - Physical Development- Holds pen or crayon using a whole hand grasp and makes random marks with different strokes.
The children have also been interested in singing nursery rhymes. Signing and Makaton are great ways of supporting your baby’s communication and language, children can recognise important words and use the sign to ‘talk’ before using speech. The children have demonstrated their listening and understanding skills by joining in with the signs and actions at song time!
EYFS - Communication and Language- Enjoys rhymes and demonstrates listening by trying to join in with the actions or vocalisations.