St Patrick’s Day
Today we celebrated St Patrick’s Day! The children could wear something green if they wanted to and we learnt about St Patrick. We then joined in with some Irish dancing, collaged and painted Shamrocks and tried a piece of soda bread.
Read MoreOh no a gas leak :(
Unfortunately on Friday last week we had to close Nursery for the afternoon session as a gas leak was found. We turned off the gas and this meant there wasn’t any heating or hot water. We will carry on Red Nose Day celebrations for the afternoon chi...
Read MoreThe Big Red Barn!
Last week for our phonics group time we used the Big Red Barn! We said the rhyme and wrote in the initial sound of the animal we were hiding and a word that rhymed with it. The children listened carefully and identified lots of different animals that were...
Read MoreHelping Farmer Fred
Last week we had to help Farmer Fred! He had muddled up all the eggs on his farm so we asked the children if they would mind helping by counting them. The children were given a numbered egg and asked to use their careful counting to count out the same amo...
Read MoreDown on the farm!
This week we were lucky enough to visit Umberslade Farm. The children were able to see lots of animals and help complete jobs around the farm such as feeding the chickens, lambs and calves. After eating our yummy pack lunches in the big barn together we w...
Read MoreMaking butter!
On Monday we made butter! Firstly we had a look at a picture of butter to try and guess what we were going to be making. One child commented ‘It looks like cheese because it’s yellow.’ Once we had discovered that it was butter we looked ...
Read MoreEaster celebrations
We have had lots of fun this week getting ready for Easter! We made our families an Easter egg card, had an Easter bonnet parade and then our Easter party today! During the party we had a visit from the Easter bunny who hid our eggs and the only way to fi...
Read MoreMixing paint
This week we explored making different shades of green. The children were encouraged to discuss what they thought was in the tray. One child said ‘It looks like sand.’ Another child said ‘It looks like flour.’ We talked about it be...
Read MoreTracing letters, numbers and shapes!
This week we explored tracing over chalk numbers, letters and shapes. The children tried very hard to stick to the lines! O
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