Using the vegetables they had grown (and some shop bought vegetables) the children made soup for their snack. The children were practicing peeling and chopping skills, being careful not to cut their fingers!
They peeled and chopped potatoes and they chopped carrots leeks and onions for the soup.
The soup was delicious, the children ate the soup for snack and had bread to dip in, yummy!
The children are settling into nursery well after the summer.
Our Vegetable patch had continued to grow during the summer and we have been harvesting the vegetables.
The children have been talking about how the vegetables need to be washed and cooked before we can eat them.
We put some of the vegetables into the house and the children have been pretend cooking with them. Next week we plan on making real vegetable soup with the children using our nursery grown vegetables.
Some of the children were using their imagination to pretend large rocks were dinosaur eggs. They knew they were really rocks as when the hit them with sticks they did not break.
This pretend play was extended in the story corner with some children telling and listening to stories about dinosaurs.
The children then made a small dinosaur world in a tyre.
There was lots of teamwork happening all week, please check out the gallery below.
Yes it really is that time already! A small reminder that Nursery Graduations take place tomorrow; Thursday the 22nd of June.
Morning children’s graduations at 10:00 a.m.
Afternoon Children’s graduations at 2:30 p.m.
All welcome to attend, we hope to see you there.
This week we had some exciting visitors in nursery. Mrs Alexander brought in her pet stick insects and her leopard gecko.
Please check out this term’s Nursery sway for more details and photos.
Today in Nursery the children had lots of fun developing their gross motor skills, coordination and balance when attempting our sponsored obstacle course.
They started by weaving in and out of cones.
Next they had to crawl though a tunnel.
Then use their balance to walk along a beam.
Then step along the ‘stepping stone’ block.
Then weave in and out cones with a small hoop on their head.
Place a hoop over their head.
Lastly bounce three times on a spacehopper before starting all over again!
Please enjoy our gallery of photos below.
Money raise is being used to help pay for our nursery summer trip. We have asked for any money raised to be handed in by the 9th of June or as soon as possible.
Thank you for your continued support.
This week the children in the nursery have been thinking about rhyming words. They have also been enjoying lots of mark making outside. The children have been listening to stories and singing songs in our new story corner. Furhermore the children have been busy looking after our vegetables and seeing how well they are growing. The children, on friday morning, chose to plant radishes in the last available section of our vegetable patch.
Please enjoy our photo gallery below.
Please remember you can keep upto date with the learning in the nursery through our Sway.
This week Mrs Alexander has been very busy setting up our new outdoor storytelling area, it looks fabulous. Mrs Alexander started by digging the holes for the logs to be place in and then secured them with postcrete. Next she inserted willow into the ground, for the frames of the chairs, and then weaved the willow around the base. To finish off our bespoke storytelling area Mrs Alexander created one large storyteller’s chair and added screening to the fence, to create the perfect storytelling setting for feeding young imaginations.
Some of the children helped a little by putting on gardening gloves and packing the willow chairs with wood chips and cuttings.
We are excited by the story area’s potential to help develop the children’s communication and literacy skills, as well as promoting creativity.
We have already started to witness the benefits it will bring with the children already using the area to share and listen to each other’s imaginative stories.
Please feel free to thank Mrs Alexander, in the comment section, for all her hard work in creating our fabulous bespoke storytelling corner.
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have two extra helpers, we were joined by a granny of one of our morning children and a mum for the afternoon. We’d like to thank them for their support. If any other parents, grandparents or carers wish to come in and help please speak to a member of staff.
Our afternoon mum helped the children to plant onions which was one of their chosen vegetables for our vegetable patch.
On Wednesday our morning children presented an assembly on healthy eating to the school and parents. They were amazing, sharing their favourite healthy food and singing in front of everyone. Well done!
Just a little reminder that in the nursery we are asking for donations of small sunhats/baseball hats. Donations can be handed in at the office or nursery.
You can now start to follow this term’s Nursery Learning Journey on our new sway.
