Space Week, Tuff Tray, Team building

Space Week

This week in Barn Owls we are celebrating space week

We started this morning with a lovely grouptime, where the children firstly shared everything they already know about space!

‘Astronauts go round the moon in their rockets’ D said

‘Red rockets go to space’ W told us!

H told us all about his space books at home and ‘Jupiter is a planet’

R knows ‘the sun is big and hot!’

‘There’s lots of planets’ D said

And S recalled ‘when it’s dark at our house we can see the moon!’

We then spoke to the children about earth, the moon and the sun and we used replicas to demonstrate to the children how the sun and moon move around the earth giving us day and night!

Barn Owls will extend this later by learning our favourite space song!

Great job Barn Owls!

Team Building Day!

Wow ! Inspiring ! Professional development ! Staff dedication !

These are some of the words I would use to describe todays fantastic little owls professional development and team building day

Today our staff teams had the opportunity to came together to attend some fabulous workshops including:

:Attachment theory in practice

:Communication and vocabulary

:Enriching environments and the brain

These inspiring workshops were disseminated by our amazing management teams

Huge thanks go to everyone who gave up their Saturday mornings to attend today and to the hard work from the management teams that has gone on behind the scenes in the preparation and delivery of this training

Our staff teams are so dedicated in their work at nursery and ensuring that our Little owls receive the best possible care and education each and every day

Thank you to everyone

Tuff Tray

Today in Snowy Owls we explored the space Tuff tray. We had the spaceships and aliens props in with blue glittery rice for the sky.

We sang 5 flying men in a flying saucer. Counting from 1-5. We talked about what else we are in the sky at night, lots of the children said “stars” and “moon”.

The children also spotted the star sequins hiding in the rice, that prompted them to sing twinkle twinkle little star.

The children also liked to explore the rice, using their fingers to move the rice around making marks practitioner asked “can you make circles” “can you make a line” modelling and the children copied.

Well done snowy owls