Hecklegirth Nursery

Thank You Joe

We had a lovely surprise this week when Joe W’s family brought us in lots of apples from their tree so we decided to make crumble. The children were able to develop their learning in lots of areas – learning about the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, fine motor control, counting and chopping skills, using the technology of a microwave and the effect of heat on the apples.
Hopefully you can see the children demonstrating some of their new skills in our photos. Mrs. Alexander was certainly pleased with the crumble we took her as a surprise and we hope that the children enjoyed theirs too. Thank you very much to Joe’s family for bringing in the apples – you provided us with a great opportunity for fun learning.
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Great Fun

Henley’s Mum has been looking at some of our photos outdoors:

“Looks like Henley is having great fun.”

It’s true that the children all seem to love outdoor play. We have been lucky with the weather lately but the children enjoy outdoors in the sunshine, wind or rain and no doubt they will love snow too when it comes.

Vegetable Harvest

For those who were involved in last year’s growing project, we thought that you might like to see the vegetables that were lifted from the raised beds this week. Despite a hot summer holiday when the beds were not able to be watered, there still was a selection of vegetables to harvest. The children had great fun pulling them out and some spent a long time searching for the smallest carrot which was quite a competition.

Family Comments

Two more of our families have left a comment to say that they enjoyed the Family Learning activity last week:

“I enjoyed this as much as Summer and she was really surprised that mummy was there!”

“What a lovely picture Emma. Looks like you had great fun with daddy and Chloe making your pictures. Hope mummy can make it next time.”

Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. We want to hear from as many of our families as possible and hope that the blog provides an insight into Nursery life.

Family Learning

Lewis’ Mum left a comment to say that her family enjoyed the craft activity:

“Thank you for inviting us to the Family Learning session – we all had a lovely time!”

We are glad that so many families took part and hope that more will enjoy these sessions in the future. Thank you for your kind comment.

Family Wall Hanging

We thought we’d share some of the work that the children and their families produced at the Family Learning activity last week. As you can see, there were lots of different ideas from everyone to decorate their squares. The Family Room will look great with your new wall hanging. Thank you to all those who took part.

Messy and Creative

Joe H’s Mum has been talking about what he enjoys in Nursery:

“Joe’s favourite activity at nursery is outdoor play. He enjoys getting messy and creative in the garden. Joe says he can’t wait to play in the snow!!!!!!!!”

The outdoors area is great fun and Joe loves it. I can imagine how you’re feeling about the snow Joe but I’m not sure we want it just yet. I wonder what other children enjoy best in Nursery?

Family Learning

Thursday saw our first Family Learning event of the year and we are delighted that a good number of children and their families took part.
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, provided materials for the children to design and decorate canvas squares which she will put together to make a wall hanging for the Family Room. Well done to everyone who helped to add to the hanging – you will see it on display whenever you go to the Family Room. Thank you also to Eileen for organising this activity for everyone. Here are some of the busy artists at work with their families.
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Counting, Counting Everywhere

Outdoor play has involved a lot of counting skills this week. We have been busy counting shells, counting the stones on our mud pies and counting the number of balls we can roll down a pipe.
Setting the pipes up so that the balls would roll successfully down the pipe was another challenge in itself but the children are beginning to work well together in a team and they solved this problem for themselves.

Growing Success

Remember the lovely photo of Sophie’s sunflower that she planted last year in Nursery? Her Mum has sent us a message:

“Thanks for putting the photo up, she looks so proud! I must say to Eileen too that the corn seed she gave us to plant has grown out the roof of my Dads greenhouse and had actually got a corn on the cob on it we are just wondering when it will be ready to pick and eat!!
Its all been very exciting! such a nice idea so thanks to you all!”

We will pass the message on to Eileen thank you. Family Learning is starting again for Nursery parents tomorrow, September 4th, so we hope that everyone this year enjoys Eileen’s activities as much as our parents from last year.