We had a fantastic amount of parents and even some younger siblings, who came to nursery to join us in a stay and play session.
Thank you to everyone who came along.
February 13, 2020
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February 5, 2020
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Marvellous Mark Making
The children have been using their creativity to explore the paints. They decided to use the table top to be creative and mark make using their fingers and hands.
We also used the chunky chalks outside to create some lovely art.
January 16, 2020
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Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
The children have been exploring the story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears, they have been using the story tuff tray to retell the story. They have also been using lots of props to recall parts of the story using the light box.
“Who’s been eating my porridge?” Maisie
“Who’s been sleeping in my bed?” Evie
#earlyliteracy #buildingforsuccess
December 19, 2019
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Christmas Party Fun
The children had great fun planning and making the food for our Christmas Parties. They also chose which games they wanted to play. Here are a few pictures of our fantastic parties and our special visitor.
December 11, 2019
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Christmas literacy
The children have been exploring a variety of literacy areas to develop their learning….
“ As I play and learn, I enjoy exploring interesting materials for writing and different ways of recording my experiences ”
The children have been developing their pencil control and handling and exploring mark making opportunities. They started to write their santa letters and posted them to the North Pole through the nursery post box!
The children have also been busy with arts and crafts to make christmas cards for their friends and loved ones and decorate crowns for our upcoming Christmas parties!
Each day the children open an “Advent Christmas Story” to read at story time. They enjoy reading the stories to one another too!
” I enjoy exploring and playing with the patterns and sounds of language and can use what I learn ”
December 11, 2019
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Christmas time is here!
What a wonderful time of year it is! The children have been so busy over the past couple of weeks getting ready for Christmas and enjoying all the festivities!
The girls and boys have been exploring the Nativity story and role playing with our stable and costumes!
“I’m a King” Jessica “I’m Mary and I’m having a baby” Maisie “I am a beautiful angel!” Grace Olivia “I am an angel too!”
We have been busy decorating the nursery and our trees to make them beautiful and sparkle!
Some of the children also wanted to made and add paper chains! They also were comparing one anothers lengths of chains and patterns…
“Mine is the biggest…1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11” Jessica
“I want to make a really long one. Mine is going to be the longest” Amelia
“I made blue and green!” Eva “Look I made a pattern!” Emma Leigh
“We need to add lights!” Eva
Kian “There are lots of decorations on the tree”
Some of the children wanted to make gifts to put under the tree too! So we set up a wrapping station. We assed labels so the children could write on their gift who it is for!
“I can wrap presents” Michael Jessica “I can cut the paper”
The children have been enjoying sewing to make christmas decorations for the nursery and to sell at the Christmas Fayre.
Ms Taylor brought in her sewing machine! The children showed great curiosity and were given opportunities to explore and use the sewing machine to make Christmas stockings!
We have been doing lots of yummy baking too! We made chocolate coconut truffles and melting snowmen which were also sold at the Christmas Fayre!
“These are so sticky!” Olivia “They look yummy” Gracie
Amelia “I can roll them in a ball. Then you roll them in the coconut”
“I want to eat them all” David
“My snowman is melted!” Kian “My snowman has two scarfs!” Emma Leigh
Amelia “Spread on the icing Eva” “Spreading the icing is hard. I like marshmallows” Hope
“My snowman’s scarf is green!” Lewis “Mines is red” Connor
November 29, 2019
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Road Safety Week
The children had a lovely week discussing road safety. Small groups of children went out each day on walks in and around Polbeth. They learned the importance of road safety and how to be safe!
For snack the children enjoyed making traffic lights from cheese, tomoto and cucumber to have with their crackers!
We made up a road safety tuff tray and the children had traffic lights in the garden to explore and use in their play!
November 27, 2019
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Block Play
Fantastic block play from the morning children this term!
Lucy explored measurement, balance and height as she built a magnificent tower! To begin with, her tower would tumble but through fantastic problem solving and thinking skills Lucy managed to over come initial hicuups and built a tower as tall as herself!
“I want it to be bigger than me”. “It is wobbly and falls!”.
“This is my tower and I am going to live in it!”.
Rosie build a wonderful castle using the large blocks.
Rosie has explored weight, shape, size, length, symmetry and pattern to create her structure. She added three tiers to the top and built a seat to sit at to look through the window!
Rosie invited her friends over to visit. They helped make seats outside so they could sit and chat through the window!
“I built a castle! This is my window and it has three chimneys!”
Callum has been very busy outside working hard with the bricks! He wanted to build a house and set to work on building walls!
“Its like mono blocking”. Callum also shared his knowledge on how to make cement – “you need sand and water”. He independently built his walls with skill and accuracy. Callum’s walls looked fantastic! As Callum used the bricks to build he is also exploring wider world concepts and is becoming aware of different kinds of jobs people can have. “I am a builder!”.
As the children explore and build they are developing their spatial awareness and risk assessing what works, how and why and assessing the safety of their structures. Great job!
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#MathematicalConcepts#Shape#Pattern#Measurement#IndependantProblemSolving
November 27, 2019
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Baby PEEP
Thank you to all the babies and parent who made it along to the final session of baby peep for this term!
We have had so much fun and learning this term and look forward to seeing you all again in the new year! Have a lovely Christmas and New Year!
October 22, 2019
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Rosebery Visit (21/10/19)
This morning some of the children enjoyed visiting the Rosebery group where they enjoyed playing bingo, singing songs and doing arts and crafts!
The children had to listen for animal noises and worked together to see if they had the animals on their board.
“I have a frog!” Emma Leigh
“I hear pigs! and a warewolf!” Kian
Bernard “Look Emma Leigh and Rosie we have an owl and a duck!”
“I have an elephant and a cat! The cat is my favourite!” Rosie
Betty “Are you ready David? Im ready!”
“Yes. Look I have a bee” David “Buzzzzzz”
Olivia “I heard a doggy, a wolf and a horse Neiiiigghhhhhh”
Katie won the bingo! Well done Katie!
The children enjoyed singing to the group. Olivia did a beautiful solo and sang the alphabet! Kian and David sang Incey Wincey Spider! Emma Leigh suggested 5 Green Bottles and the children took turns to be a bottle before finishing off dancing the Hokey Cokey!
The children enjoyed painting pictures and making cards. Emma Leigh and Bernard painted a gorgeous flower.
“Look! Its green!” Emma Leigh. “Your painting a flower. Do you want to stick it on the paper and paint the petals yellow?” Bernard. “Yes. I will get yellow paint!” Emma Leigh.
Rosie and Brenda painted a star picture! “I like doing this! I will put some stars on it. I like stars. Lets make it into a card!” Rosie. “It is so pretty. I really like the stars Rosie!” Brenda.
Kian and David made Halloween paintings. “I have a ghost, a pumpkin and a vampire. I have soooo many eyes and I need to add more stickers!” Kian. David “I am sticking down lots of stars on my ghost!”.
