Once we had enjoyed our Hallowe’en celebrations, we had to decide what to do with our pumpkins. The children helped to prepare them for outdoors as we thought that the birds and insects might like to have a little feast on them. It was quite hard work but an enthusiastic little group were great helpers preparing the pumpkins and placing them in various positions in the outdoor area. We hope that the visitors to our garden enjoyed their picnic.
As promised, here are some of the children in the afternoon enjoying trying out some sparklers at the start of the week.
Sparklers are a great way to learn about staying safe on Bonfire Night and the children listened well to all our instructions when we enjoyed them in the Nursery garden on Monday. We talked about how to behave, who is allowed to light fireworks and all learned about putting the sparkler in water once it was finished.
Some were more cautious than others but everyone was happy to hold a sparkler so well done boys and girls for being confident to try out something that was new to many. Here is a gallery of some of the morning children busy with their sparklers. We will post some of the afternoon children soon.
We would like to share these photos from the end of last term. There seemed to be so much happening at the end of term that we didn’t manage to post these at the time but we thought that you would like this little gallery of marshmallow toasting with the afternoon children.
It wouldn’t be Hallowe’en without investigating a pumpkin and some of the children had a busy time last week emptying the flesh and seeds from their pumpkin. Both morning and afternoon children had a great experience investigating what they found inside their pumpkin, discussing safety around sharp knives, counting seeds and talking about how to describe what they could see and feel. Great fun was then had decorating their empty lanterns. It’s amazing the learning you can have from one simple pumpkin.
Witches, skeletons and a few superheroes arrived in Nursery yesterday for Hallowe’en. Thank you to all those who helped their children play the part – here are some photos we managed to capture of some of their super outfits. Watch out for photos in the local press too.
With all the wonderful outfits arriving in Nursery for Hallowe’en we thought that we should have a special snack so some of the children got busy, icing biscuits to turn them into tasty ghosts. They certainly seemed to go down a treat with everyone so well done those busy little bakers in the kitchen.
Congratulations go to our award winners from the end of last term. We are all very proud of your achievements.
In the last week of term some of the children enjoyed a session with tennis coach Mike who provided a range of fun activities to help the children learn control of a tennis ball. There are classes for Nursery age children at our local tennis courts so we hope that these children have enjoyed their experience and may want to take part in these classes in the future. They certainly showed great enthusiasm for all the activities.
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The digging area is very popular, with lots of great imaginary play taking place there every day, and the children often want to transport the soil around the garden so we have created a little path for them within the digging area. This has provided opportunities to fill their barrows and wheel them along the path to tip the soil from one area to another which the children have loved. Here is a little team busy at work in this area.
