Rainbow Class 2007 2008

 From Miss Gaskill 

I hope you are all enjoying the Easter break, I’m getting a bit fed up now and want to come back to school, I miss the children and the routines of the day!

I’m busy planning lots of lovely activities for next terms theme which is ‘The Olympics’ hopefully we will have a glorious Summer and the children can spend most of it outdoors.

We can have our own Olympic events, ‘Frizbee’ instead of discus,’ Cardboard tubes,’ instead of javelin, ‘bean bag’ throwing, instead of shotput,  we can have mini hurdles, egg and spoon races, tennis, with bats and balloons, relay races around the field, can’t wait!

First thing we will do is create Olympic torches out of rolled up silver paper, and the children can create the flames with red, orange and yellow handprints, and we will make lots of doves to re inact the opening ceremony.

The Olympics theme will be a lovely opportunity to introduce the children to global friendship and many multi cultural activities, it will be a great opportunity for the children to see how other children live in different parts of the world.

I’m really looking forward to the physical development opportunities the Olympic theme can bring as well as the teamwork element and gaining an awareness of other cultures I think the children will enjoy our new theme.

If you have any ideas or suggestions regarding our theme that you think your child might enjoy please dont hesistate to tell us!

Enjoy the rest of the holidays, see you all soon.

World Book Day

March 7th, 2008 by rainbowWhat a brilliant day, all of the Nursery children came dressed up as characters out of their favourite books.

We had lots of ‘Little Princesses,’ but they behaved much better than the one out of the books !

We had Superman who was a superhero all day as he helped to look after our younger children, our policeman and doctor had a quiet day as everyone really behaved themselves and nobody fell over!

Cinderella looked as pretty as a picture, and our pirate wasn’t called Roger but she was very jolly!

All the children made myself and the rest of the team very, very proud as they got up in front of the whole school with lots of parents and carers attending our special assembly, the children retold the story of ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ using Makaton signing and also sang, ‘Baa, Baa, Black sheep,’ and the story song, ‘When Goldilocks went to the house of the Bears,’ again with Makaton signing, what an achievement at their age, I still get very nervous getting up in front of everyone so I’m very, very proud of my little Rainbows, I hope you all enjoyed their performance.

It has been a brilliant week in Nursery we had a visit from Jack Frost and went on an exploration and investigation walk to find him.

This resulted in some lovely creativity back in the classroom, the children made wonderful frosty grass pictures, using a variety of media and glitter, salt and PVA glue, they will soon be up on display in the outside corridor board if you would like to take a look.