22 Street Lane Nursery - January 2020 Newsletter

January Newsletter

Swans Room News

The Swans have been very busy throughout December and have enjoyed learning about lots of exciting things! We started the month by learning about Arctic animals, as the children had been expressing interests in animals that live in cold climates. The children enjoyed using the world map to find the different places that certain species live, creating their own arctic animals’ images and exploring a tuff tray, sorting animals into the correct categories of cold climate or hot climate. We then began celebrating Christmas and the Swans have been super busy throughout the month creating lots of lovely Christmas crafts to take home! The Home Corner has also been transformed into a Santa’s Workshop, and the children have been enjoying role playing making an array of gifts, whilst also writing lots of letters to Santa and posting them into our special post box straight to the North Pole! We then began learning about Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Light, with the Swans designing their own Menorah pictures (a 9 candlestick holder lit every night during Hanukkah), learning how to play the dreidel game, and making their very own potato latkes (a potato dish traditionally made using oil at Hanukkah). The children have really enjoyed learning about Hanukkah, but also the story of the Nativity, learning about different cultures and comparing similarities and differences of how people in different countries celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah. Finally, as always, we have been participating in lots of other phonics and maths activities, including threading, practising writing names, matching objects to numeral cards and many more. The Swans have had a fantastic and very busy month and are looking forward to lots more fun next month as we start the new year!

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