February 2024 Newsletter
At the Chatham nursery
Baby room
The children have been baking and playing games, so they can learn about turn-taking, as part of their topic, Making friendships.
For pancake day, the children tried pancakes with different toppings on.
The children have also celebrated Chinese New Year, by decorating dragon templates and making lanterns.
Toddler room
The children were celebrating the Chinese New Year by making dragon masks, made lanterns. They were exploring the colours red and yellow and tried Noodles.
Valentine’s Day
The children made cards to someone important in their lives, used different resources to decorate the hearts, and used coloured rice as their messy play and were making heart shapes in the tuff tray.
The Toddler children will be learning about the colours, by having coloured rice, coloured water. They will also be making rainbow fingerprint pictures.
Pancake day
The children talked about what pancake day is and once the pancakes were made, they decorated them with different fruits to make a face.
Preschool
The children have made Chinese New Year Lanterns, using paper plates, tissue paper and ribbons. They have also tried noodles.
For Valentine’s Day, the children made cards, using heart stamps and heart cutters.
Pancake day
The children tried the pancakes with all different toppings and made pancakes out of play dough.
In preschool, the topic will be All About Me. The children will be drawing pictures of themselves and their families. Talk about where they live, house, flat or in a bungalow.
The children are also going to build houses from junk modelling for the animals and will be exploring positional language too.
Preschool staff would like to ask the parents to bring in buttons, corks, empty plastic bottles and lids.
At the Holborough nursery
Preschool was learning about internet safety on the 6th of February, the children were reading stories and looking at safe sites.
On 10th February the children were celebrating Chinese New Year and will be making Chinese lanterns for the Lantern Festival, on 24th February. They will be also making dragons out of junk modelling, exploring chopsticks and Chinese food, and painting with the colour red.
On 13th February they were making pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, having pancakes for tea, and trying different toppings.
On 14th February the children were making Valentine’s Day cards and were talking about special people in their lives and how they care for us. The children were also making heart decorations.
Toddler room
The children were making Valentine’s Day cards and were playing friendship activities to welcome new starters.
For Chinese New Year the children were exploring new textures in a tuff tray, like noodles, glitter and paint. They were making dragon masks. For storytelling week the children will be sharing their favourite stories.
On Hedgehog Day the children were making Hedgehog houses and were reading stories about them.
The children are also going to be talking about healthy eating and will be trying new foods and creating healthy eating pictures.
Baby room
The children were tasting Chinese food and exploring the Chinese New Year tuff tray, for Valentine’s Day the children were making pictures.
During the month the children are going to be playing and exploring different tuff tray ideas, such as looking at flowers and will be playing with the animals in mud.
We would like to encourage the children to start brushing their teeth as part of the Oral hygiene topic, so we are asking the parents to bring in toothbrushes for the children.
Upcoming term dates and events
29th March-12th April
27th May- 31st May
7th March, World Book Day, the children can come to the nursery dressed as their favourite book character.
Important notes
Measles cases in England are rising. It is an infection that spreads easily and for some it can cause some serious problems. There is no specific treatment for measles, so it is important to get vaccinated as it’s the best protection against becoming seriously unwell.
Symptoms
Measles usually starts with cold-like symptoms, followed by a rash a few days later. Some people may also get small spots in their mouth. You can find out more on the NHS website.
We are had a Forest school trial this week, on 16th February for some of the children at Holborough. We are hoping to extend this to the children at Chatham soon. It was a huge success and we will be looking at how we can progress this long term. The children got involved with bug hunts, making ‘5-minute fires’ and exploring the natural environment.
Polite reminders
Please ensure that the children have spare clothes in their bags and they are labelled.
Invoices need to be paid by the 7th of each month. Any enquiries regarding need to be made via email.
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