Nursery - Autumn 2 - Week 4
Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 1:15pm
What a fun time we are having in Nursery!
Nursery have been practicing for their Christmas songs for their upcoming sing-a-long. They can’t wait to perform in front of their family and friends!
This week we have enjoyed our new celebrations theme, ‘Hanukkah’. The children listened to the story, ‘Eight nights, Eight lights’ by Natalie Barnes and we discussed how Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah. The children enjoyed acting out a 'Hanukkah' celebration in our role play area and small world area. Throughout the story we found out that candles were lit each day for eight days and were placed on a special candle holder called a ‘Menorah’. We then talked about some interesting facts about Hanukkah and the children used their thinking caps to recall any facts they had learnt. We found out that during the celebration, there are different foods that are enjoyed, such as doughnuts and latkes. We even got to taste some delicious home-made latkes. Delicious! Later in the week the children created some beautiful hand print ‘Menorah’ paintings. Well done Nursery!
We ended the week reading a story all about different celebrations across the world called ‘Little glow’ by Katie Sahota. The children identified similarities and differences between ‘Diwali’, ‘Hanukkah’ and ‘Bonfire Night’. The children noticed that all three celebrations involved different sources of light. We set up a light and dark area in the room to explore if light can travel through different materials.
Have a lovely weekend and see you all next week!
Best wishes,
Miss Dalley and the Nursery team.
Please can your child practice zipping up their coat and putting their shoes/trainers on themselves.
Talking homework: Relating to our theme 'celebrations', please can you have a conversation with your child about a celebration they have been to.
Reminders
Wednesday 30th November: Present room
Friday 2nd December – Team TSP Christmas Extravaganza
Thursday 8th December: Santa Dash- Children to wear appropriate footwear on this day.
Friday 9th December: Nursery Christmas sing-a-long/ Christmas Jumper day/ Christmas party
Monday 12th December: Christmas movie day
Wednesday 14th December – Christmas WOW 2pm@ St Peter’s Church
Friday 16th December- School finishes at 1pm