Chinese New Year

All pupils were told about the upcoming Birdwatch project this week.  We have encouraged anyone who can, to take part by watching and logging the bird activity in your garden for 30 minutes this weekend. It's simple to upload the data using a smartphone or tablet on the following website:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/

The website has fantastic resources with instructions for making bird feeders and bird identification sheets.

We would love to see any work completed in response to this project: photos, writing, artwork and so on. Every child who takes part will receive a special certificate in our award assembly.

All of the evidence we receive will be made into a hall display along with the maths work we complete in class.

The pupils seemed very excited about this! We look forward to seeing the results.

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We have had a great two weeks looking at 'Winter', amongst all of the rain we were lucky enough to have a very frosty and crispy morning. We marked the register and went straight out - it was great and the children used some very good adjectives when describing what they could feel and see.

Next week, we will be starting our Chinese New Year celebrations. A letter with information about our Dragon Dance will be sent out tonight.

Activities next week will include:

• Preparing a dragon dance
• Chinese tracings
• Writing the name of the animal that represents the year the children were born in
• Choosing a design on a red envelope and recreating it
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• Adding up sets of objects relating to Chinese New Year
• Partitioning the same number of objects differently (making 5 in different ways)
• Making stir fry 
• Playing in the role play area, which will be a Chinese restaurant
• Using the 2simple programme to create a dragon on the computer
• Using the book corner appropriately
• Making bird food at Forest School

The children will also be introduced to the vet role play area so that they are able to use it independently when we start our work on animals.

If anyone has any small toy animals to go into the boxes in the vets we would appreciate them. Please do not send any precious animals in as they get well used. 

The children are thoroughly enjoying Forest School, however in this wet weather, even though they are wearing wellies and a wet suit they are often coming back muddy. Please feel free to put spare socks in your child's bag on a Thursday. 

There is a revised PE timetable on the window at the entrance of the nursery. Please have a look at it.

If anyone has any spare craft equipment we would welcome it - pasta, rice, buttons, ribbon, sequins etc - many thanks

Have a good weekend :)