Corner House Nursery Astbury

Baby bakers 🧑🏻‍🍳🍪

”tap, mix & roll” The key words used as our littlest bakers made their own under the sea biscuit.

The activity provided opportunities to strengthen fine motor skills through mixing , rolling and shaping . They each helped mix the ingredients and took turns to scoop the mixture.

We hope they have as much fun tasting them as much as they did making them.

I wonder what tasty treats baby room will create during next weeks enrichment group.

Well done Baby room. 🤩🧑🏻‍🍳🍪

Today was a very special day for Astbury , as we launched our first daily mile in the local community.

We safely walked to our planned destination along the foot path and to the water tower, observing the world around us and talking about what we could see and hear.

The preschool children have a focus of shape and size this week , so each child had a shape finder to locate shapes in our environment. We spotted “circles” “squares” and rectangles. One child said “the water tower is a circle”

This lead us on to exploring the trees around us as the children had noticed fruits growing. We spoke about the weather and how that would help the trees as we then paused to have our own refreshments.

The children took great delight in finding 3 snails and could link the snails shell to a circle shape with spiral pattern.

We stopped to pause as the children discussed the colours of the flowers that they could see in our neighbours gardens.

We made our way back to nursery and then observed a bus which the children said was a rectangle shape. ‘It’s number 91’ said one child.

Well done team Astbury

Today we celebrated Dinosaur day 🦕 🦖

Our terrific toddler room enjoyed exploring the “dinosaur swamp “ and stamping dinosaur footprints through messy paint exploration.

New language introduced included “stomp” “fierce” and “swamp” with “roar” being the firm favourite.

🐝 “A bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it - so it goes on flying anyway” 🐝 - Mary Kay Ash

Preschool have had a BEE-autiful time learning all about bees to celebrate World Bee Day and recognise how important bees are for our planet 🐝💐🌏

We have been:
•on a bee hunt in the garden 🔎
•collaborating to create giant flowers 💐
•using our creativity to mark make honey jars 🍯
•creating our own bees 🐝
•making bee houses🏡
•exploring the parts of a flower & learning new words such as ‘pollination’ and ‘nectar’ 🌹
•using our senses to smell and taste different varieties of honey including vanilla, orange, cinnamon & salted caramel 🥄🍯

🌎🌸🐝 Happy World Bee Day 🐝🌸🌎

Sunny sensory days at Astbury. 🌞

This week the children have been learning all about the 5 primary senses.

The children have had so much fun discovering the world through our senses 👀👂🏻👃👅✋

Activities have included, Scented play-dough, sensory barefoot walks, potion making, colour mixing, listening to nature and food tasting.

It was wonderful to see their curiosity, language and confidence grow as they described what they experienced.

In a world of curiosity, I wonder where weeks adventure will lead us ? 🦶🌳🌎

Astbury

Following our children’s interests, this week Nursery have been exploring the topic …
🐑 🐄 🌳 On The Farm 🌳🐄 🐑

This week children have been using their imagination and creativity to help create a tractor - demonstrating their gross and fine motor skills as they stretch up high and crouch down low as they create their large scale artwork 🎨🖌️

The children then took turns to drive the tractor as we sang farm related nursery rhyme’s

🚜 🎶 The wheels on the tractor go round and round - all day long! 🎶 🚜

Some of our younger children had a wonderful time getting their hands dirty exploring the joy of planting. The children enjoyed covering the roots with soil and helping to give the plants a drink of water.🌱🌼💦

Well done Team Astbury🌟

Please all join me in congratulating Jacqui for achieving her 10 years service with us here at Astbury. Your dedication,passion and reliability make a huge impact every single day.

Jacqui you are heart of our nursery, we cannot thank you enough for everything you do for every staff member and child that crosses our doors. We are grateful for all the effort , dedication , love and care you bring to your role everyday.

This week at Astbury we are truly celebrating as we thank Jacqui for her hard work , leading to us achieving another 5 in our annual food hygiene inspection. A huge well done and thank you from us all !

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This week in Preschool we have had a
‘fin-tastic’ time learning all about …
🌊 🐟 ‘Under The Sea’. 🐟 🌊

We have been:
•magnet fishing 🎣
•bubble painting 🫧
•fork printing pufferfish 🐡
•creating mermaid tail paintings 🧜‍♀️
•making jellyfish 🪼
•exploring through water play💧

To support our understanding of the world, we have been on a sensory exploration under the sea. The art room was turned into a magical, sensory aquarium and the children used torches to find the hidden starfish ⭐️🏝️

The children then used sieves in a sensory tray to find real life FOSSILS & SHARK TEETH 🦈🦷

This opened up lots of opportunities to extend communication and language skills as we learned new words such as ‘ammonite’ and ‘fossil’. 🐚

Well done Preschool! 🌟

World book day 2026.📚🎨

We have had such a fantastic day here at Astbury.

Our children have enjoyed listening to Handas surprise then moving on to experiencing lots of new fruits.

Our learning extended further as we headed outside, where the children took inspiration from all the colours in Handas fruit basket .

I think you will all agree world book day is a very special day in Ealry years. 📚❤️☀️🎨

What have our Babies been upto today ?

This morning our Babies made the most of the garden, Our littlest learners have been busy building confidence outside as they practised early physical skills.

This afternoon brought new discovery as they took part in painting, encouraging self expression, curiosity & sensory play.



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