December 2020

Merry Christmas Everyone!

What a lovely month we have had getting festive and having lots of fun across the nursery. We enjoyed an amazing Christmas lunch made by Carey and Nick on Wednesday. Our pre-school children have also been busy putting together a Christmas production - Angel Express.

Our stories this month were The Gruffalo’s Child and the Elves and the Shoemaker. The children have loved decorating Christmas trees, singing Christmas songs and making treasures to take home.

Our lovely Ella, who is currently on maternity leave, will be back with us in January and bringing her baby Edie to the baby room. For those of you who don’t know Ella she is our head of Early Years Practice, Deputy Manager and SENDCO. Hannah has done a great job covering Ella and will be taking on her own new role in the New Year as Unit Co-ordinator overseeing the current baby room and the new one due to open in the New Year.

The work is nearly completed on our additional Baby space and we look forward to sharing pictures with you all soon.

We will reopen on Monday 4th January as normal. Please remember that our hand washing stations will be in place and we ask you to continue to adhere to wearing masks and socially distancing at collection and drop off times.

Babies

Babies have had a lovely month. They made play dough and used natural resources like the forest in The Gruffalo’s child story. Babies love exploring natural materials and the different textures between their fingers. We also created a snow tuff tray and a candy cane shaving foam scene too! We made mince pies to take home too and they were very tasty!

Decorating our Christmas Tree in the room

Merry Christmas from our smallest residents at nursery x

Dragonflies

We have spent quite a bit of time in the garden this month as the children in this group love nothing more than jumping and exploring the outdoors especially the muddy puddles! We have added colours to the puddles which the children loved exploring.

We have also been getting festive, making cards to take home, creating salt dough decorations to hang on trees and making chalk snowmen pictures. We love dancing so have enjoyed having little parties and playing games in the sensory room.

Putting the star on top of our Christmas Tree.

Making our photo keepsakes for parents.

Butterflies

Butterflies have been getting very creative this month and have loved decorating the rooms with all their artwork. They made salt dough shapes to hang on the Christmas tree, reindeer baskets and we made our own snow which we then built a train track in to create a Winter scene.

Pre School

Beetles and Grasshoppers have been busy creating the Angel Express production. This will be emailed out to parents shortly.

Beetles also this month have been interested in exploring different shapes. They developed this interest when they created Christmas tree pictures using shapes they cut out. They also made snowmen from shaving foam and made light pictures using their finger prints.

Grasshoppers went on a walk and collected leaves to make wreaths for their windows. We also have had a present wrapping station in the role play that the children have been busy using as a Santa’s workshop.

What a busy, strange year 2020 has been, I don’t think we ever could have expected this year!

We just wanted to say thank you to all our lovely families and for all the support during this difficult time. The staff have worked so hard to ensure the nursery is still the same place where the children have been able to laugh and grow. They have tried to keep things as normal as possible for the children. I know we have not escaped positive cases but we have managed to contain them as best we can! I am so proud of them all and how hard they have worked this year in particular.

So from all the team here at Snapdragons, Keynsham we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2021!