A musical week in the nursery!

There have been two main interests of the children this week in the nursery as you will see from the photos below. The Walrus in Orkney was very topical at the beginning of the week leading to a lot of talk about the sea, singing ocean related songs and reading stories about different creatures of the sea.  The children have also taken a big interest in music this week leading us to creating a more interesting music area that now includes a staged performing area with space set up for an audience!

We started off the week by setting up our new music area with new drums and xylophones to play which attracted lots of interest then the teachers brought in some of their instruments from home so we have had great fun trying out a clarinet, saxophone, bodhran and rainstick.  We were all so proud of ourselves when we managed to make some nice sounds from the instruments! 

We were looking at music books and writing some of our own music and we realised that it is super easy to play jingle bells on the recorder!

Mrs Whitford even came in and had a go at the clarinet!  We loved hearing the adults playing the instruments and requested many many tunes!

We caught Mr Jones on his way home and asked if he would play a tune for us.  We loved hearing Postman Pat on the trumpet and a few of us decided that we are going to play the trumpet when we are bigger!

As we have loved performing with the instruments this week, we asked Mr Cursiter to bring the staging in for us and set up our own performance area.  Check out how much fun we have been having on the stage!!

We were so good at our performances that we created an audience area and decided that we needed to sell tickets for our shows.

Music is not all that has been happening in the nursery though. We discovered that we had a globe in the nursery and there have been many questions about where we live and where certain places are.  As the globe was too small to find some of the places we are going to have a look at some different maps next week.  We were a bit concerned as to why there were no roads on the globe!

 

We noticed that our house was in need of some repair so we called out one of the best repair men for the job.  He had our kitchen handles fixed back on in no time!

We have been developing our fine motor skills and learning about our initial letters as we played and explored playdough. 

We created some giant necklaces using the threading beads. 

We had a lovely surprise when Tom Muir came to join our session and told us a fantastic story all about Jack and the Princess.  We thought that this was the most hilarious story that we have ever heard and couldn't stop laughing when Jack was carrying the donkey past the castle!  We loved having Tom act this part of the story out for us. 

We are starting to build up our loose material store and we have been very creative with hose pipes and tyres this week. 

Finally after such a busy week it was time for some of us just to relax and look at the pictures in the clouds!

I wonder what excitement next week may bring!