An Exciting Year in the Nurture Room

It been another busy and fun-filled year in the nurture room. We have welcomed new friends and celebrated birthdays. We’ve had great fun preparing for festive occasions. It has been a wonderful and exciting year. We began the year by updating our nurture tree and completing our “fit together” jigsaw. This helped us realise we all fit together even though we have different talents and interests. We began yoga and meditation and the virtual runs were a particular favourite.

In the autumn, we planted apple seeds, acorns and hazelnuts. We also planted some daffodils hoping for spring flowers. The boys worked hard taking care of their plants and making sure they were watered. We also discovered that marshmallows and fruit are an excellent combination.Weused strawberries, grapes, blueberries to make fruit and marshmallow kebabs. The boys also made pizza using wraps, pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Preparing for Halloween was great fun. The boys really enjoyed creating Halloween lanterns. We also baked bat and pumpkin shaped chocolate chip cookies. Halloween was barely over when we began preparing for Christmas. We baked some crispy apples using marshmallows, rice crispies, butter and red food colouring. We used chocolate finger for the stem and fizzy belts as leaves. We made star decorations from paper bags and we made chains from red and green card. We the decorated the Christmas tree and put up some lights. Our Christmas baking consisted of delicious brownies and flavoursome gingerbread cookies. We also had a visit from Fr, Dwayne Gavin from the Bon Secour Community Initiative Fund. Fr, Gavin provided funding for the Nurture Room for which we are incredibly