Nursery – Day Five

The girls weren’t as excited about going to nursery today as they were yesterday, but I kind of expected that.

After the weekend break they woke up refreshed and feeling happy and ready for nursery yesterday. I predicted that as the week progresses the girls would get less and less keen about nursery. Mainly because they’ll soon realise that they’re going every day so the novelty will wear off.

This morning they didn’t seem too bothered about going, but when the time came to put their shoes and coats on that’s when they both started to get a bit quiet and teary.

They both said they didn’t want to go, but I have found that distraction techniques seem to work well. We talked a lot about the weather and also about their friend whose second day it is today. We also strapped their toys into their car seats so that they could wait for the girls to return.

When we got to the nursery we were around 10 minutes early, but the girls enjoyed watching the older children in one of the other playgrounds.

When their teacher opened up the doors, they went in with me, hung up their bags and coats and then I took them into the main room. I gave them a kiss and cuddle before they wandered over to their teacher. They didn’t even look back at me!

I looked back a few times as I left the room to make sure they were ok and they seemed pretty content.

When I picked them up, R had a rather blue face! She’d obviously been drawing with chalk! They both seemed a little quiet and almost somber when they came out. They had a few pieces of paper each with their drawings on.

When we got home they both lay on the sofa under a blanket and watched TV. They were so quiet. I asked them questions about nursery, but they weren’t very forthcoming. I put it down to tiredness, but I rang the nursery for a bit of reassurance to make sure they’d been ok today.

The teacher said they’d been good, they did lots of drawings and were settling in well so that was good to hear.

Yesterday the nursery gave us some ‘homework’ to do so I thought today would be a good day to do that as it’ll be a nice distraction in the morning to encourage them to go.

They’re creating a display board about Goldilocks and the Three Bears so each child was given a cardboard square and asked to decorate it.

I raided our craft box and found some buttons, feathers, foam shapes and tissue paper.

I also gave R some blue paint and M some red paint.

They painted their squares and then we set them aside to dry.

Whilst they were drying I drew Goldilocks and the Three Bears for the girls to colour in. They decided to give Goldilocks some googly eyes!

They then painted on some PVA glue to their painted cardboard squares and stuck on some of the crafty bits I’d found.

They both really enjoyed doing this activity and I think they did a really good job for their first piece of homework!