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N-7 Mrs. O'Gara

- Welcome to Nursery!
  
  In our Nursery class at Saint Aidan, the students will experience learning in a safe, loving, child-centered environment, based on Catholic values. The program aims to develop readiness skills, social interaction, a love of learning, and compassion for others. The children will be introduced to parental separation, learning our class routines, songs, making friends, sharing, art projects, and listening to stories. Our day also includes music and movement, free play, prayer, and activities that develop both fine and gross motor skills. As the year progresses, the children will work on recognizing their printed name, letters, colors, shapes, and numbers. Catholic values are incorporated into our curriculum through books, daily prayer, celebration, and discussion of holidays.
- NURSERY NEWS
- Welcome to our class page!
  
  Nursery 7
  
  2022-2023
- Thursday, September 22, 2022
- We started our morning with manipulatives.
- Here is our special helper today holding the flag.
- Today we explored apples a bit more. We cut them open, and found a surprise on the inside. A flower shape filled with tiny apple seeds! We used our cut up apples to make apple prints at play time. It was so much fun to stamp the apple down HARD!
- We had a great week! The children are really learning the classroom routines quickly.
  Next week we will continue with our apple theme, we will talk about the new season, and begin work on the alphabet. I hope you all have a great weekend.
  I will see you on Tuesday!
- Tuesday, September 20, 2022
- Here is our special helper today collecting the name tags and holding the flag!
- We read the book "Apple Farmer Annie," and then sorted apples by color.
- We really love snacktime!
- Thursday, September 15, 2022
- We had a busy day playing outside,
- painting our crowns,
- and making new friends!
- Tuesday, September 13, 2022
- Nursery 7 had a great first day of school! There were some tears, but this will pass as the children become familiar with the routine and gain confidence.
  
  We read the book, "Seven Little Mice Go to School." The children enjoyed counting the little mice from our story basket and then using them as we retold the stoy. They were very interested in the snake too.
- Thursday, May 19, 2022
- This special helper was very excited to have his turn today!
  
  Here he is collecting the tags and counting the days on the calendar. It is hard to believe we only have a few more classes.
- We painted too! When our fish are dry we will add one sparkly scale just like Rainbow Fish had.
- Playtime fun together.
  
  We had so much fun with our parachute, singing and dancing. We gave the special helper a ride.
- We got a lot of energy out hitting balloons with fly swatters. It was hard to keep them up in the air!
- February 1st & February 3rd
- Here are our special helpers this week doing their jobs.
- We were so excited to get ice pops today! Can you guess the flavors we chose?
- Today we made our Groundhog puppets!
- One of our favorite activities is play-doh.
- Here we are painting the first part of our Chinese New Year dragon puppets.
- January 25th & January 27th
- Playing together in the morning is so much fun!
- Here are the special helpers this week doing their jobs:
- One of our favorite activities is making our bears. After they are all made and stuffed, we put them in the "lair" to hibernate for the winter. We will take them out when spring arrives. Aren't they cute?
- Some playtime fun and painting too.
- We had so much fun making our snowkids!
  We took great care in placing the arms just right. Some snowkids were dancing, some waving and some holding another's hand.
- Here are our finished snowkids all together!
- Lunchtime together with a lot of conversation and tons of laughing.
- A new puzzle to master.
- The number cans is a favorite afternoon game where the children all work together to count, stack and cheer one another on. It is loud, but fun!
- january 20th
- We had fun doing puzzles together today.
- at the tables....
- and on the rug...
- Music with Miss Reagan and Queso. We sang some of our favorite songs (Hello, My Name is Joe) and we played the bells for the very first time! We also heard a story about a cranky bear.
- Here we are at calendar time with our special helper doing his jobs.
- We have been talking about the seasons, winter, and all the things we associate with winter. Today the children organized picture cards into categories. It was a great way to introduce new vocabulary words and get the children talking.
- We read the book "Under My Hood" and painted some winter hats using liquid watercolors and sponges.
- A game of jenga was a great way to work on fine motor skills.
- January 18th
- Welcome 2022 and a new month in Nursery. The children were very excited to see their friends again! This is our circle time rug where we sing, dance, and read books. We began the new year talking about hibernation. We have been reading some wonderful winter stories about bears and other animals that take a long rest in the colder months. This log is where Snooze, our class bear, lives. The children made their own grizzly bears and next week they will be packing them away in a "lair" that we will leave closed until the spring. The children will mark the days off on a calendar. It is very exciting for them.
- Today we read the book, "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow." It is a rhebus book and so the children were able to read along using the pictures and the props. We watercolored our own jackets after reading the story.
- We had fun celebrating a birthday today!
- We are talking about the cold, wintery weather and so we are also working on paintings to decorate our classroom. Together, we used blue and white paints to create different shades of blue and then added some glitter to give it sparkle like the snow. The children especially love the paint mixing part of the activity!
- Some
  playtime
  fun.
- This class loves the challenge of a big floor puzzle. They enjoy working together and repetition. The children will do the same puzzle over and over until they can master the pieces without help. Right now they are working on our ocean puzzle.
- We are having tons of fun with our "monster feet". It takes balance, coordination and patience. There is also a lot of giggling.
- week of november 29 - december 3
- The children were so excited to see each other again this week. It was great to be back together and to get back into our routine. The children keep busy in the morning while we are unpacking and getting ready for the day. There was a lot to talk about at circle time.
- This week we talked about Advent and how it is the time we wait for Jesus' birthday. We made Advent wreathes too. Please light the second purple candle this Sunday. We also started making our angel ornaments.
- The children are very imaginative at playtime, and love making up their own games. Nursery 6 loves to play doctor's office, and they have even set up a waiting room in the back of the class. On this day, they were all bringing the babies in for check-ups!
- Here is some playtime fun:
- When you need rocks to fill up your dump truck and you improvise!
  
  Our dinosaurs are very loved! Here the children are sorting them out
- It's finally time to paint the Christmas trees!
- We used the scooters this week to practice letter identification, and the children had so much fun cheering each other on.
- One of our special helpers this week.
- Next week we will be working on the letter G.
  We are practicing Christmas songs and the children are loving it.
  Our classroom is getting a Christmas makeover with the children's art. It is so cheerful!
  
  Have a wonderful weekend!
- Tuesday, November 9, 2021
- Mornings with our Nursery friends are busy!
  
  We made the best of this short week by having fun and learning both inside and outside.
- Our special helper of the day.
- We painted some beautiful fall leaves to decorate our classroom.
- We also made a cute little dog after talking about the letter D.
- Thank you for your very generous cookie donations! Next week we will be learning about the letter E, talking about Thanksgiving and continuing our fall themed songs and fingerplays.
- Thursday, November 4th
- Our special helper today!
- This week we read the book, "Fall Ball," and talked about all of the changes we see in autumn. We practiced raking and bagging some leaves up, and began painting our own leaves to decorate our painting board with.
  "The month is November, the leaves falling down. The colors are crimson, and golden, and brown," is the song we sing at circle time.
- It was a chilly week, but that did not stop us from having fun outside!
- It is always fun to be a little silly at the craft table. We made everyone laugh.
- Tuesday, November 2nd
- A super special helper to start the day. He was very excited that it was his turn!
- We celebrated our first birthday of the school year with decorations, "play" cakes, and special plates and napkins. We had so much fun singing, counting candles, cutting the cakes, and playing birthday parthy in the kitchen. We "took down a crown!"
- We began talking about the letter D today. We read the book "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs," by Byron Barton and then had a lot of fun with the play dinosaurs.
- Some playground fun!
- I will see everyone on Tuesday!
- October 26 & 28
- The mornings are for building, creating, and working together. As soon as they unpack, the children find what they are interested in, and friends to work with.
- The special helper has many jobs. The circle time ones - collecting the nametags and holding the flag are the first ones of the day.
- We celebrated a birthday this week. The children had so much fun making cakes in the play kitchen, and then delivering them to the birthday girl.
- Have a wonderful weekend!
- Time to build!
- We were very excited to celebrate the arrival of spring by waking up our bears from hibernation. We have been patiently waiting and crossing off the days on a calendar. The day has finally arrived!
- March 22-25
- Good Morning!
  It is circle time for Nursery 6
- These are the special helpers this week.
- Morning building time!
- Here we are painting the wings we will wear when we release our butterflies:
- We finally have butterflies and we are so excited!
- We talked about forsythia and how it is one of the first signs of spring. We then made our own. How pretty!
- Having fun at play time.
- These boys had such a good time together at playtime. Playing with the Superheroes, using their imagination, and talking up a storm. I finished a large roll of art paper and gave them the cardboard tube. They had so much fun with it.
- Here we are making our T is for tree project.
- May 3 - May 7
- The Playground!
- The children are really starting to learn our class routines! The morning is very busy. This week we started the letter A. We also spent a lot of time learning about apples. We read two apple books, cut apples open to see the seeds inside, and sorted apples by color and size. We painted apples too!
- Today, we read the book "Big Pumpkin" by Erica Silverman. The children loved the characters!
- One of the best, and most important parts of the Nursery day is free play. That is also the time when we work on a craft. The children are learning to engage with one another, take turns and explore different areas of the classroom. When they sit down to do a craft it is a chance for them to have one on one time with us. Free play is fun!
- Our week was shortened because of the snow, but on Tuesday the children were all in the Christmas spirit! Christmas hats and headbands helped a lot. They were very excited to talk about the snow.
- Monday, December 14, 2020
- We worked on a manger Nativity craft and had to pay careful attention to directions. The children did a great job and were so proud. They have heard the Christmas story several times and love to tell it themselves.
- There are so many new things to experience. This week the children had a great time with the parachute and the blocks.
- Have a wonderful weekend and I will see everyone on Tuesday!
- It was wonderful to be back together again after the long winter break. We spent the week getting back into our routines, learning new songs and most importantly doing our special helper jobs. It is one of the children's favorite parts of the day.
- The children also painted Christmas trees on the easel. When they are dry, we will decorate them and put a star on the top. This is a favorite activity and makes a beautiful decoration for the classroom. This painter had an audience while they waited patiently for their turn.
- We had our belated Valentine celebration! It may have been delayed but it wasn't any less fun for us. The children enjoyed decorating their mailbags, but what they loved the most was delivering their Valentines!
- I will see everyone on Tuesday!
- The weather was beautiful, and so we were able to enjoy the playground.
- We learned about magnets this week. We learned how they work, and then we experimented to see all of the interesting things we can do with them. The children spent so much time on this activity. They were fascinated.
- This group loves play-doh time. They especially love to take out the trays when we are doing play-doh, and pretend that they are making food. They even clear out oven space for one another in the play kitchen. The cookie cutters are their favorite. We put on relaxing music and the time goes by so quickly. There is a lot of sweet conversation that takes place during play-doh time.
- Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday. We have a lot of birthdays coming up in March!
- The best part of being back together was playtime!
- Playtime fun!
- We cut a big pumpkin open to see what was on the inside. The children loved that there were so many seeds, but they were not impressed with the smelly and squishy inside! They decided to give it a frowny face, and then we put a light inside. It joined the jack-o-lantern from my N-2 class. Pumpkin friends!
- Finishing V is for Violets.
- May 10 - May 14
- Happy Halloween!
- May 17 - May 21
- Our morning table activities
- Our busy special helpers this week. Look at all the jobs we do:
- We are off to the book fair! Thank you to Mrs. Serrano and all of the moms who helped us shop. We had so much fun.
- We were all so excited to visit the pumpkin patch. The children enjoyed taking the time to pick out just the right pumpkin to take home.
- Here we are headed out to release our beautiful butterflies. We have watched them, and waited, and we are so happy to let them fly free!
- Playground fun
- A beautiful, warm, sunny day the - perfect kind of day for joyful children playing outside!
- Some morning fun in N-6.
- One of our special helpers doing her jobs this week:
- There is so much excitement over our butterflies. We had 10 emerge over the weekend!
- We had a beautiful day for our Walk-A-Thon! Thank you to all of the people who came to walk with us.
- We have been exploring plants this month. What makes something like a plant a living thing,the parts of a plant, and what they need to grow. We have also been looking at different types of seeds.
- We celebrated a birthday this week.
- Week of April 12-April 17
- We have been focusing on the spring and talking about the weather a lot. The April showers had us painting colorful umbrellas this week. They look beautiful hanging up outside the classroom.
- Welcome back to everyone! It was so exciting for the children to be back with their Nursery friends. We got right back into our routine and had a great week. Here are some pictures of the special helpers this week:
- We had a lot of fun building together this week!
- We celebrated two birthdays this week! So much fun.
- R was our letter of the week. We carefully colored in the Rainbow fish and then we got to pick our favorite color glitter and use it to make one of his shiny scales.
- The children really enjoyed writing letter R step by step and drawing together at circle time.
- We read to the children as soon as they are done with their lunch. Everybody gets a book of their choice, and they love it. On this day though, they did not want to wait for us and they read to each other.
- I will see everyone on Tuesday!
- The first week of Nursery was a success! A few tears that dried up as soon as we got to the classroom, and we were off and learning all the routines of our day.
  
  Folders in the yellow basket, lunchbags on the blue shelf and activities at the tables. It is a busy morning.
  
  Along with routines, this week's theme was All About Me.
- This week we read the book, "Seven Little Mice Go to School". The mama mouse used yarn to make pretend train tracks to get her little mice to go to school. We acted out the story using our own little mice, and then marched around the room to the train song.
- We had a great time on the playground too!
  
  I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday!
- We talked about our birthdays, and what kinds of things we did when we were babies, and all of the new things that we can do now that we are in Nursery school. The children began painting the birthday crown that they get to wear when we celebrate their special day.
- We made a train of our own and marched around the room to our Train Song. We always get up, move, sing and dance after circle time!
  
  We were so lucky to have a music class with Miss Reagan as well. Everyone loved it.
- April 26 - April 30
- This week was all about the letter T. Our favorite new word was time-out!
- Here are our special helpers this week.
- Our caterpillars are making their cocoons! We used sponges last week to make our very own hungry caterpillars, and now that they are dry we have added the details.
- SNACKTIME !
- We spent the week talking about the letter J, positional words and hibernation. We have read several books about hibernation, and we have put our bears into their "lair" (which is on my desk). Snooze our friendly classroom mascot comes out of his log every day to sing with us. He makes everyone laugh!
- Here we are finishing our spotted snakes.
- We had so much fun on the playground!
- The special helper and a favorite job.
- Some parachute fun.
- Our mornings are busy and fun!
- We celebrated a birthday this week!
- We are finishing our snowmen and getting ready to add the details.
- PLAYTIME!
- Play-Doh time means baking pretend cookies!
- Mornings are for building together.
- Thursday, October 29, 2020
  Happy Halloween!
- What a nice day we had today! Here is our special helper collecting the name tags and holding the flag.
- Tuesday, November 3, 2020
- Happy New Year!
  2021
  
  It was hard to come back and fall into routine after Christmas vacation. Once everyone was settled in however, it was so much fun to listen to the children talk about what they did while at home, what treats they left for Santa Claus and what he had left for them. It made for a very exciting circle time discussion.
  This week we will be talking about the letter I. Ice cream scoops and cones were added to the play kitchen.
  We will also be focusing on winter. Winter clothing, weather, and activities will all be part of the books we read, projects we make, and even the games we play. We are decorating our "art gallery" with snowmen. We begin by painting their bodies and then we will add all the details. They are as individual as the children.
  We will discuss hibernation and the children will make bears. They will put their bears into a "cave" ( a painted box with a door) and the bears will take a long sleep until the first day of spring. The children will mark off each day they are in the cave until we take them out. This is one of the special helper's jobs each morning.
- January 4th - January 8th
- The Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th. We took out our Nativity set one last time and talked about the Three Kins coming with gifts to see baby Jesus. We then made our own Three Kings craft.
- We read the book "Snowballs", and then built our own snowman!
- Our mornings are busy. After unpacking we begin our most important work - playing and socializing!
- Some playtime fun and bowling to end the day!
- The weather was nicer today. The sun was out, and the wind had died down, so we went outside to play.
- We talked about the new month and all the things we see as the weather gets colder. We talked about the squirrels collecting nuts and acorns and then made our own squirrel. We used paint to give him a bushy tail. The children loved helping mix the paint colors to make gray.
- Running,
  Running,
  Running,
  makes us so happy!
- Thursday, November 12, 2020
- Here is our special helper holding the flag.
- We began the day with manipulatives today. The children like to go to different tables and work with friends. It is sweet to watch them socialize
- One of our favorite times of the day is lunchtime. The children love helping to set the table- flowers, napkins, and tablecloth. The conversation is the best part.
- March 8-12
- Our mornings are so busy! We unpack and then it is on to puzzles, manipulatives, and our morning routine.
- At play time, we made a scarecrow and sang the song "I'm a Dingle Dangle Scarecrow". The children love picking out the hat decorations and deciding which direction to glue the eyes but, best part of the project was scrunching up the paper to stuff his head! Aren't they cute?
- The special helper has so many jobs. Everyone loves when their name is in the basket to be special helper.
- We played a matching game to work on letter recognition and the children really enjoyed it.
- We had so much fun learning about the letter O this week. We read books about the ocean and did ocean themed activities.
- We really enjoyed participating in Spirit Week! Here we are on Superhero Day.
- Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- AGGHH! The teacher is being chased by a shark!
- We were so happy to enjoy the beautiful weather on our little playground. Fun, fun, fun!
- We worked on puzzles this morning. It is wonderful to watch them help one another. They really are developing nice friendships.
- January 25th - January 29th
- We used different shades of blue to make an ocean scene. It was so much fun mixing and swirling the paint colors together. When the paint was dry we glued little fish to it. We loved squeezing the glue and drawing the happy faces!
- We also watercolored an octopus and glued on different shapes to match the ones that were on his tentacles. This was one of our favorite table activities.
- Nursery 6 just loves puzzles. This is a very social group and they have so much fun doing things together.
- Our morning circle time is always very lively. Prayers are said, the special helper chosen, we say the pledge, go over the calendar and weather and wrap it all up with a song or dance chosen by the special helper. Here are this week's special helpers:
- Playtime is busy! We have added some matchbox cars to our classroom and they are a big hit with everyone.
- The special helper was busy at work collecting the name tags, holding the flag and counting the days on our calendar.
- It was so cold this week that we had to have all of our fun indoors. Scooters, some balls and baskets made it exciting. Listening to directions, waiting our turn and cheering on our friends were all part of the fun.
- Here is the book we read today, "Elmer," by Davis McKee. We talked about how we are all different and special because we are uniquely created by God. They loved the book!
- These girls love the houses and the people and they never mind when a superhero comes to visit!
- After the children finish eating their lunch, they can come to the front and choose books to read. When everyone is done and cleaned up, Miss Karen and I read one book to every child that wants one. This is always everyone! There are some favorites that the children want us read over and over (Goodnight Gorilla and The Gingerbread Man) but on Thursday, they wanted to read to each other. It was the sweetest thing to listen to, and I am so happy to see them develop a love of books they share with their buddies.
- The children water colored their own unique Elmer the elephant. Painting is definitely a favorite activity in this class. The children take their time working and chatting while they paint and they are very complimentary of one another's work.
- Some more playground fun. We have been so lucky with the weather.
- The parachute is one of our favorite activities. The special helper always gets a ride at the end.
- A quiet afternoon building zoo enclosures for animals. Some unusual combinations, but so much fun.
- Our elephant craft!
- A lot of play time conversation here!
- Thursday, November 5, 2020
- We have finally finished our snowmen and are ready to paint the details.
- The special helper of the day was very busy!
- It is hard to believe that January is over. February will bring hearts, cards, and love! I will see everyone on Tuesday!
- Manipulatives to start the day today. Building things together is so much fun. Here are the children busy at work.
- A very beautiful morning for the playground today.
- Here we are having so much fun at play time!
- Our maple tree counting song.
- October 12, 2021
- The children are starting to work together more. They are moving from table to table to try new materials and engage with their classmates. It makes the morning fun!
- We started the day today with manipulatives. While the children are working, they are also busy unpacking, and becoming quite independent with this first job of the day.
- We learned a funny new song today. Our silly version of The Itsy Bitsy Spider. We practiced it a few times so that they could do it with family at home. Here are the words:
  The itsy bitsy spider crawled up on (name) head.
  It crawled all around and used it for a bed.
  It crawled down (his/her) back,
  and jumped onto the floor.
  Then the itsy bitsy spider
  crawled underneath the door.
- We had a great time playing toss the pumpkin. We had to get it into the ghost's mouth! We also gave a furry spider a ride on our parachute.
- We have been very busy painting our pumpkins. As soon as they are done, we will add Jack-o-Lantern faces and hang them up to decorate the classroom, Everyone got to choose whether they wanted to paint a tall or a fat pumpkin!
- We had a wonderful day! Here is the special helper collecting the name tags and holding the flag.
- It is very exciting to be chosen as the special helper. Here is our special helper of the day collecting the nametags during our morning circle time.
- Today at play time we also started our tissue paper pumpkins. The children loved squeezing the glue and spreading it around!
- Have a great day tomorrow and I will see everyone on Thursday!
- September 27 - October 1
- We have been very busy making Christmas decorations! Some are sent home, many are hanging in the classroom and some are a secret -lovingly made to bring home to you. The children are very excited to wrap them.
- We begin circle time with a prayer. The children are always excited to see who the special helper will be!
- We spend the beginning part of our day building and working on various skills while we unpack. This class loves puzzles!
- Week of Monday, December 7, 2020
- This week we learned about the letter H, reviewed our shapes, talked about the birth of Jesus, and sang a lot of songs with our jingle bells.
- We were able to enjoy some outdoor play this week!
- The spring weather gave us the perfect opportunity to play OUTSIDE!

N-7 Mrs. O'Gara

Welcome to Nursery!

NURSERY NEWS

Welcome to our class page!

Nursery 7

2022-2023

Thursday, September 22, 2022

We started our morning with manipulatives.

Here is our special helper today holding the flag.

Today we explored apples a bit more. We cut them open, and found a surprise on the inside. A flower shape filled with tiny apple seeds! We used our cut up apples to make apple prints at play time. It was so much fun to stamp the apple down HARD!

We had a great week! The children are really learning the classroom routines quickly. Next week we will continue with our apple theme, we will talk about the new season, and begin work on the alphabet. I hope you all have a great weekend. I will see you on Tuesday!

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Here is our special helper today collecting the name tags and holding the flag!

We read the book "Apple Farmer Annie," and then sorted apples by color.

We really love snacktime!

Thursday, September 15, 2022

We had a busy day playing outside,

painting our crowns,

and making new friends!

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Nursery 7 had a great first day of school! There were some tears, but this will pass as the children become familiar with the routine and gain confidence.

We read the book, "Seven Little Mice Go to School." The children enjoyed counting the little mice from our story basket and then using them as we retold the stoy. They were very interested in the snake too.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

This special helper was very excited to have his turn today!

Here he is collecting the tags and counting the days on the calendar. It is hard to believe we only have a few more classes.

We painted too! When our fish are dry we will add one sparkly scale just like Rainbow Fish had.

Playtime fun together.

We had so much fun with our parachute, singing and dancing. We gave the special helper a ride.

We got a lot of energy out hitting balloons with fly swatters. It was hard to keep them up in the air!

February 1st & February 3rd

One of our favorite activities is play-doh.

Here we are painting the first part of our Chinese New Year dragon puppets.

January 25th & January 27th

Playing together in the morning is so much fun!

Here are the special helpers this week doing their jobs:

One of our favorite activities is making our bears. After they are all made and stuffed, we put them in the "lair" to hibernate for the winter. We will take them out when spring arrives. Aren't they cute?

Some playtime fun and painting too.

We had so much fun making our snowkids! We took great care in placing the arms just right. Some snowkids were dancing, some waving and some holding another's hand.

Here are our finished snowkids all together!

Lunchtime together with a lot of conversation and tons of laughing.

A new puzzle to master.

The number cans is a favorite afternoon game where the children all work together to count, stack and cheer one another on. It is loud, but fun!

january 20th

We had fun doing puzzles together today.

at the tables....

and on the rug...

Music with Miss Reagan and Queso. We sang some of our favorite songs (Hello, My Name is Joe) and we played the bells for the very first time! We also heard a story about a cranky bear.

Here we are at calendar time with our special helper doing his jobs.

We have been talking about the seasons, winter, and all the things we associate with winter. Today the children organized picture cards into categories. It was a great way to introduce new vocabulary words and get the children talking.

We read the book "Under My Hood" and painted some winter hats using liquid watercolors and sponges.

A game of jenga was a great way to work on fine motor skills.

January 18th

We had fun celebrating a birthday today!

Some playtime fun.

This class loves the challenge of a big floor puzzle. They enjoy working together and repetition. The children will do the same puzzle over and over until they can master the pieces without help. Right now they are working on our ocean puzzle.

We are having tons of fun with our "monster feet". It takes balance, coordination and patience. There is also a lot of giggling.

week of november 29 - december 3

The children were so excited to see each other again this week. It was great to be back together and to get back into our routine. The children keep busy in the morning while we are unpacking and getting ready for the day. There was a lot to talk about at circle time.

This week we talked about Advent and how it is the time we wait for Jesus' birthday. We made Advent wreathes too. Please light the second purple candle this Sunday. We also started making our angel ornaments.

The children are very imaginative at playtime, and love making up their own games. Nursery 6 loves to play doctor's office, and they have even set up a waiting room in the back of the class. On this day, they were all bringing the babies in for check-ups!

Here is some playtime fun:

When you need rocks to fill up your dump truck and you improvise! Our dinosaurs are very loved! Here the children are sorting them out

It's finally time to paint the Christmas trees!

We used the scooters this week to practice letter identification, and the children had so much fun cheering each other on.

One of our special helpers this week.

Next week we will be working on the letter G. We are practicing Christmas songs and the children are loving it. Our classroom is getting a Christmas makeover with the children's art. It is so cheerful! Have a wonderful weekend!

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Mornings with our Nursery friends are busy!

We made the best of this short week by having fun and learning both inside and outside.

Our special helper of the day.

We painted some beautiful fall leaves to decorate our classroom.

We also made a cute little dog after talking about the letter D.

Thank you for your very generous cookie donations! Next week we will be learning about the letter E, talking about Thanksgiving and continuing our fall themed songs and fingerplays.

Thursday, November 4th

Our special helper today!

It was a chilly week, but that did not stop us from having fun outside!

It is always fun to be a little silly at the craft table. We made everyone laugh.

Tuesday, November 2nd

A super special helper to start the day. He was very excited that it was his turn!

We celebrated our first birthday of the school year with decorations, "play" cakes, and special plates and napkins. We had so much fun singing, counting candles, cutting the cakes, and playing birthday parthy in the kitchen. We "took down a crown!"

We had a great week! The children are really learning the classroom routines quickly.
Next week we will continue with our apple theme, we will talk about the new season, and begin work on the alphabet. I hope you all have a great weekend.
I will see you on Tuesday!

We had so much fun making our snowkids!
We took great care in placing the arms just right. Some snowkids were dancing, some waving and some holding another's hand.

Some
playtime
fun.

When you need rocks to fill up your dump truck and you improvise!

Our dinosaurs are very loved! Here the children are sorting them out

Next week we will be working on the letter G.
We are practicing Christmas songs and the children are loving it.
Our classroom is getting a Christmas makeover with the children's art. It is so cheerful!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday, October 29, 2020
Happy Halloween!

Happy New Year!
2021