Blog Category: Nursery

Nursery - Traditional Tales - May 2022

We are loving our traditional tales!

Our retelling of stories has been amazing and there are lots of repeated refrains ringing out in nursery as the books are influencing the role play and small world play of the children.- 'who's that trip trapping over my bridge', 'Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the…

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Nursery - Jack and the Beanstalk

Three of our children built the Giant's castle that Jack visited when he climbed up the beanstalk that grew from the magic beans.

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Nursery - Traditional Tales

We are continuing to enjoy listening to and acting out different traditional tales. Goldilocks and The Three Bears was our primary book and we continued working on the concept and understanding of size.

This week we have made porridge and the children decided what toppings I needed to buy.

I…

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Nursery - Spring Summary

The children have enjoyed exploring the mud in the farm yard - luckily it didn't smell like a farm yard!

The children all enjoyed our Easter activities, especially our Easter egg hunt.

We had a visit from the fire service and had the opportunity to explore the fire engine and the equipment.…

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Nursery - Return from Half Term

The children have all come back happily and are enjoying Norman the Slug with the silly shell. . We have collaged Norman some new shells as well by rolling marbles through paint to get a different type of effect. The children moved the marbles around the paper that was on a plate, making sure that…

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Nursery - Outdoor Activities

Now that the weather is improving. we have been exploring outside a lot more.

We are becoming very proficient on the bicycles with one child now able to confidently ride a two-wheeler bike, congratulations!

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Nursery - Reading, Building and Paint

One child is the teacher and is reading Captain Duck to her friends. “I’m holding the book like this because I’m the teacher”. Duck in a Truck is a “thumbs up” story. “It’s stuck” he said pointing at the truck.

The children enjoyed listening to the book Duck in a Truck. Here they are making…

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Nursery - First Week Video Summary

Check out the video below showing some of the activities Nursery have done during the first week of 2022.

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Nursery - First Week Summary

Children tested their hand/eye coordination when placing the penguins onto the iceberg. They had to place them carefully so that they didn’t fall off and knock other penguins off.

We have made polar bear masks so that we can be the polar bear in the story Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Can You…

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Nursery - Reindeer Feed and Parties

In nursery we have made reindeer feed that can be put out on Christmas Eve to help keep all santas reindeers fully fuelled on their long and very busy night.

Our parties were a great success with balloons, games, tasty sweet treats and a visit from Father Christmas.

The Nursery team would…

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