A Week In Nursery
All the nursery children enjoyed a fun filled music session with Mrs Olden this week, as part of their weekly timetable. They warmed up to Staying Alive by the Bee Gees and ended the session playing the instruments, which were shaken and banged with gusto; fast, slow, loud, quietly.
In Dormice we have been emptying and filling. Miss Mary brought some loose lavender in for us to use. We have all been very chilled this week.
We got the paint and brushes out on the table to practise our gross motor skills and most of the paint stayed on the table.
Badgers and Hedgehogs have blown our socks off with the way in which they have embraced this week’s activities and how they have begun to help each other around the classroom.
When your child presents you with a painting at the end of the day, there are a considerable number of individual steps to success; so we thought we would share the process with you.
- First put on a painting apron, otherwise known as a ‘tummy coat’ because having learned how to put on their coats ‘the right way round’, they now need to remember that an apron goes on like a back-to-front coat!
- Then ask a friend to do up the Velcro fastener at the back of the neck so that it stays on.
- Next retrieve a sheet of art paper from the basket.
- Then hold the paper on the easel with one hand whilst you anchor it in place with two magnets, which need to be positioned near the top of the sheet so that they’re not in the way as you paint.
- Next create a masterpiece, remembering not to replace the paintbrushes into the wrong colour pot of paint, otherwise everything ends up ‘brown’.
- Ask an adult to add your name so your work doesn’t get mixed up with anyone else’s.
- Then remember not to peel off the apron before first asking a friend to hold up the drying rack for you.
- Negotiate removing the magnets and holding the now wet paper away from your body so that it doesn’t fold up on itself before you make it safely to the drying rack.
- Then make sure that when you position your masterpiece, it’s squarely on the rack shelf so that it doesn’t slip off or get accidentally knocked off by the next child.
- Next, take off the ‘tummy coat’ and hang it up on the hooks ready for the next artist.
- Finally, wash the paint off your hands so that you don’t spread paint all over the rest of the resources as you take your learning to the next station of your choice.
Phew!! A hearty well done to all our amazing preschoolers who are trying their hardest to access the easel with as little help from a strategically positioned, hovering adult, as possible.
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