The nursery children have been having great fun exploring the blocks taking their building skills to new heights and lengths. They have been developing their stacking, bridging and enclosing skills as well as building structures with patterns, balance and symmetry. The block building has also encouraged the children to develop their spatial awareness and problem solving skills as well as their social skills by working together with their peers to design and construct their creative structures.

Over the past 3 weeks the children in the nursery have been looking after some chicken’s eggs in an incubator. Every day they have had to check the temperature on the thermometer and the humidity on the hygrometer to make sure the conditions were right for the eggs to hatch. The eggs had to be turned 180 degrees very carefully using gentle hands 4-5 times every day. It has been a very exciting wait for the children and on Monday night our first egg hatched! We now have a little fluffy feathered friend in the nursery that the children have called “Cheep”. It was very easy to name her because even before she hatched out of her egg we could hear her very clearly cheep cheeping from inside. We would like to say a huge thank you to Annavale Poultry for giving us the chickens eggs to make this exciting experience possible. The children have learned so much about the life cycle of a chicken and Im sure it will be an experience they talk about and remember for a long time.

This week in nursery we have really enjoyed creating and playing in our Hairdressers role play area. We have been learning how to take appointments, look after our clients and how to wash and style hair using a variety of different resources.