outdoors – Page 37 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Building Materials

Last week we took delivery of a huge pile of wood, thanks to Mr. Raymond Kerr of Kerr’s Sawmill. The children loved being in charge of these new building materials and helped to organise them in the Nursery garden. Almost immediately, several children showed great imagination and started to build their own dens, leading the way in the play and guiding others in good teamwork.
We would like to thank Mr. Kerr for his generous donation and look forward to many happy hours of problem-solving, construction and den building in the Nursery garden.

Rain, Rain, Come Back Another Day

Water play was available on a large scale at the end of last term. As the rain seemed to have forgotten to stop, a huge puddle kept growing and growing in our garden. Unlike most adults, of course, the children simply found this very exciting and were keen to play in it.
As you can see from the photos, a lot of learning can happen with a few ducks, some boats, guttering and water wheels. We even managed to make rainbow bubbles with a little touch of washing up liquid. The children certainly showed themselves to be successful learners and effective contributors as they worked together to solve lots of problems and talk about their findings. We hope that the rain does come back another day as it provided such a fun learning experience.

Outdoor Learning

Despite us turning the corner into Autumn, we have had some lovely days in the Nursery garden lately. Paint and water, sand and soil – we’ve mixed, measured, dug and had great fun learning outdoors. Here you can see us at work.

Get your outdoor painting done while it’s dry.

Always clean your brushes when you’re finished.

Springtime Fun

It’s been lovely to see everyone back in Nursery this week after our holidays and what a great week we’ve had. With the gorgeous weather, we have been spending lots of time outdoors. We had some new bubble makers to try out and we were learning how to do good throwing.