Let's Celebrate!

It has been a very busy few weeks in Nursery! We've been to the Giving Back Bazaar, sang for our Families at our Winter Open House and even had a visit from Santa Claus himself. 

Language Arts: 

The students of 2B came to visit us on Wednesday December 2nd. They performed musical concert for us and then read us stories! Thank you 2B for coming to see us! 

Singing songs

All ready for the show!

STORY TIME!

Giving Back Bazaar

December 4th, 2015

We met our big buddies for the first time during the Giving Back Bazaar. We created beautiful placemats to give to the refugee center for their Christmas lunch, drank yummy warm hot chocolate and then shopped til we dropped! 

A story: 12 regali per Babbo Natale

December 9th, 2015

Thank you to Elisabetta who came in and read us a story about the 12 days leading up to Christmas. She even brought us chocolate to eat!!! 

 

In the afternoon we made a Gingerbread House for our Open House: 




Nursery's Open House: 

Santa Claus came to Town!!! 

Merry Christmas From Us to You!!

  As  Autumn turns to Winter….

There’s a chill in the air.  The children are describing the weather now as ‘cloudy’ grigio, grey and cold, BRRRR.  We may have to wear mittens or gloves, a hat, boots, jacket or coat to go play outside in the garden. ..... 

.....  So, as well as learning all the names of winter clothing, with a song ‘Its, cold outside, it’s cold outside, it’s time to put on my…boots,   It’s cold outside…It’s time to put on my…scarf.. 

We are learning to take care of all these belongings  AND how to  put clothing on before we go to play in the garden.  

                                               

      LANGUAGE ARTS

We have watched the weather and recorded the daily changes over a period of 5 WEEKS.  Have a look when you bring your child to school.  Everyone participated in recording and marking what sort of weather we had. 

Ms. Jen read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and created a winterland where children could  make their own winter landscape and snowmen.    

Some other books we have read at story time are:  Hats and Mittens by Susan Burroughs and Windy Wednesday by Phyllis Root 

What has happened to our Autumn tree and cave?? The children entered the classroom and found that the leaves had fallen from the tree and  the  cave was now dark, ‘colder’.  We have made our room even more  Wintry with  blue colours added to the wall and cave  

Painting Wintery Trees with COLD colours.
    

Sweeping up leaves fallen from the tree

Who wants to come in the winter cave to keep warm?

MATHS:

Matching and sorting mittens.   The children had to sort through a number of hats, scarves and mittens to find what matched up just right.  They were also asked to find their own way of sorting…

 The children  are learning to recognize and trace number symbols  (remember  - start at the top..) using magnetic tracing numbers.  Some children, started to put the numbers in order on the table.

 SPECIAL EVENTS:

Nursery has made holiday cards for the 'Giving Back Bazaar'

a BIG school event on Friday, December 4th.

Nursery celebrated Thanksgiving in their classroom with a wonderful dinner.

Autumn is in full swing!

Although the weather tells a different story, in Nursery we are finding all kinds of things that are changing at this time of year! The children are noticing that leaves are changing color from green to yellow, brown and orange and are falling from the trees. 

Language Arts 

 The children in Nursery have become 'Wonderful Weather Observers!' We are learning weather words such as:

sunny, rainy, stormy, windy, cloudy

Also a few children have noticed that its getting cooler outside and that we are now wearing jackets and sweaters to school. 

By playing games, we extend our vocabulary and HAVE FUN!

We have been working together creating our deep dark forest painting and making the roots for our big tree! 

Math

We have a wonderful collection of autumn materials to look at and sort. 

Math can be introduced through guided activities, like working at a table

sorting nuts, acorns, pinecones.  The children find their own way to sort the materials.  It may not be the same way as a classmate is sorting.  They also count how many, and in some cases, count way beyond 10.

Can you build this tower as high as the trees in Villa Pamphili?

 Our trip to Villa Pamphili:

We went on our field trip and had a lovely morning exploring the deep dark forest, playing in the playground and of course eating lunch! The children were able to see how many things are changing at this time of year. We collected different leaves, acorns and pinecones to use back in class. 

OFF WE GO!

Snack time

"BROWN!"

"Ma Perche per terra e tutto rotto"??

Reflecting on our trip.. Recreating our day at the park.. Next time you come to school take a look!  

Special things happening in our classroom.... 

Warm color collage with Ms Maryanne



 We found out about shapes in this way. What shapes did the children want for the Jack 0'lantern's eyes and nose (circle, triangle, squares)