3 Bears Brownside

Recently, the boys and girls have participated in a variety of different baking experiences. The boys and girls have had the opportunity to use a variety of different weighing and measuring resources such as different types of scales and measuring spoons. We have been working on following simple instructions by listening to the ingredients list, we have also been working on our numeracy skills by counting out the ingredients on the instructions. The boys and girls have been working very well together and taking turns allowing all our friends to have a turn each. Our favourite part has been trying all our baking at the end! 👩‍🍳 🍽️👨‍🍳
Any suggestions on what to bake next would be very appreciated!
Next week we are doing lentil soup🥣😋

Today we made use of the many leaves that have fallen from the trees in our garden🍂🌿 the children helped collect, green, yellow and brown leaves in separate bowls where they then created patterns using these. The children developed their fine motor skills and hand to eye coordination when piercing the leaves onto the kebab sticks. The children created their own patterns using either 2 or 3 colours😁

Just a reminder that we have our nursery noticeboard at the entrance with lots of useful information regarding the nursery and your child's learning! Please have a look when you are dropping off or picking up your child 😊

This afternoon we made a delicious raspberry crumble 😋😋❤️ the children cut up the raspberries into small pieces and made the crumble by adding flour, brown sugar and butter, using their hands to mix it all together! We then baked this and served it up with some custard 😁

Today the children got creative painting on the clingfilm and tinfoil 🎨 the children used their creativity skills to create different paintings using different colours of their choice!

Last week, the children role played making pizzas in the home corner using cardboard and different colours of paper for the toppings of their choice. Today the children made pizzas for afternoon snack out of pitta breads, the children were independent, making their own pizza and selecting their own toppings🍕😋❤️

This week the children have been learning about different famous artists and their artwork. Today the children were exploring different pictures of stained window glass where they then participated in decorating one of our windows! The children cut up a variety of different coloured tissue paper into different shapes and sizes where they then stuck it onto the window. The children are so proud of their window display 😁😁

What a busy day we have had in the garden today! We are in the process of developing our garden area, the children have been suggesting things they would like to see in the garden and by consulting with them we have a new soil/digging area, a new sand area and new resources to find lots of different mini beasts as this is a big interest at the moment🪱🕷️🐞.
We have also developed our mud kitchen and added in a new real food play station to practice our independence skills🍽️
We would love to hear any suggestions from parents whilst we are in the process of this so if you have any ideas please let us know😊

Good morning everyone,

I am very sorry for the short notice but we will have a delayed start today. We are currently locked out the nursery and we are trying to find a solution. I apologise in advance for the inconvenience. (Issue with the snib inside we have keys)

Thanks,
Morgan

This morning we made smoothies for our "smoothie shop" in the garden. The children were independent when washing and cutting up the different fruits before adding them into a blender aswell as pineapple juice. We then took this out to the garden where the children role played a shop where they learned about money and what it's used for. The children used their pretend money to buy either a small or large smoothie 🍓🍌😊

This morning in the garden, we made use out of the many tyres we have! We made a large obstacle course using tyres and different garden resources. The children developed their gross motor skills when completing the obstacle course and balancing when walking along the balance beams. When the children became more confident they asked if we could add more tyres to make the balancing beams even higher! ☀️

Job description
We are looking to recruit a cleaner to work 7.5 hour per week, working 1.5 hours per day Mon-Fri, The hours can be negotiable however have to be either before 7.30am or after 5pm each day. Hourly rate is above NMW.

General cleaning of the nursery is required to ensure a clean and hygienic environment for children and staff. A daily and weekly cleaning schedule will be available.

Applicants will need to undertake PVG checks and references required. You will need to work on your own initiative and be a key holder. 😀

This morning we took a visit to the local fire station, we had so much fun! We had the opportunity to meet the fire fighters, look inside the fire engine and fire station and we also got to experience using the hose!! 💦💦 One of the firefighters were even kind enough to show us how they use the fire pole! The firefighters spoke to us about the different emergencies that they get called out for and what their resources are used for👩🏻‍🚒🧯👨🏻‍🚒🚒🔥💦

Today we said goodbye to our beautiful butterflies 🦋 over the last little while the children have watched as they have transitioned from little tiny caterpillars into bigger caterpillars then into their cocoons and now as beautiful butterflies! Today the children gave the butterflies some sugar water and fruit which helped to give them strength so that we could set them free. The children had the opportunity to hold the butterflies in their hands before watching them fly away into the sky🦋🐛🌞🌤️

Wow what a fun day we've had today filled with lots of Easter excitement 🐣🐰😁 we'd just like to say a huge thank you to Helen from the church for coming in again this morning with dinky the duck and her sock puppets 🦆🧦 and another huge thank you to the Easter bunny (aka Rosies mum Angela) for coming in this afternoon the children all had so much fun!

Our boys and girls are super grateful and want to say a big thank you to George S Munn Funeral Directors for donating Easter eggs to all the children. They are excited to take these home to enjoy 😁🐰🥚🍫

We'd just like to say a massive thank you to our wonderful parents who came along to this mornings stay and play 😁 We hope you all had as much fun as we did!! Ps our banana bread turned out great and the children had fun decorating it with icing sugar and banana chips after it had baked! 🍞🍌😋

Happy St Patrick's day everyone 🍀💚🌈 over the last week the children have participated in a variety of different St patricks day themed activities where they've developed their knowledge on what this day is and why we celebrate it!

This morning we've had so much fun out in the garden 😁😁 We've enjoyed exploring the different areas of the garden and especially going on a bug hunt!! We looked under different garden resources and areas we thought we would spot bugs where we were able to tick off what we found on our sheets! We were able to work well as part of a team, including everyone along the way 🐛🦋🕷️🐜🐝🐞

Today, the children participated in different activities for burns day🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the children have developed their knowledge on who Robert burns was and what he was famous for. The children also had the opportunity to try some haggis, neeps and tatties at snack time😁

The boys and girls have enjoyed being creative with junk modelling. The children have demonstrated great imagination and creativity skills when making themselves out of empty toilet roll tubes and a robot out of a used cereal box! The children have worked great as part of a team to do this 😁🤖🌟

Here at brownside we are starting to get into the Christmas spirit 😊🎄🎅 weve been enjoying taking part in different Christmas activities and developing our Christmas knowkedge. We also had a visit from sparkle the elf today and were looking forward to seeing what she gets upto the rest of the days leading upto Christmas!!! 😁😁

This morning we put up our Christmas tree🎄🎅❤️ We were all so excited when doing this we shared with each other what weve asked santa for and listened to Christmas songs😁

Today, Helen from the church and her husband Tony came to visit us aswell as dinky the duck and her sock puppets. Helen introduced us to dinky the duck where he told us all a funny story and some jokes. Helen then showed us her wonderful sock puppets that were handmade where the children had the opportunity to perform the wheels on the bus and 5 little ducks nursery rhymes with the sock puppets Infront of their friends😁😁❤️

Today the children created their own tartan patterns by rolling cars into different colours of paint and then creating different lines using these by rolling them onto their paper. We spoke about what tartan is and where we would see tartan. One of the children were able to tell us that St Andrews day is approaching and that's why we're creating tartan patterns. Some of the other children were able to identify that this was a type of pattern with different lines and colours😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The children used their imagination in the construction area in the garden to make a "house". The children worked as part of a team to do this and together they carried crates over to where they wanted to build and began building the house using the crates.

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Today the boys and girls helped set up our new resources for our mud kitchen. They had lots of fun following the simple recipes and collecting the natural resources around the garden. 🧑🏻‍🍳🪵🍂🥧

Today the boys and girls explored some vegetables to create their own potato/carrot people! They developed their hand-eye coordination as they carefully placed the cocktail sticks into the different veg to assemble their creations.

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We want to politely remind parents that here at 3 Bears, we do not use the words 'bad' 'naughty' or 'cheeky' to describe children's behaviour, therefore we are asking that parents be mindful of this when discussing other children and please discourage your child from using these terms too where appropriate.

Thank you so much. :)

Today the boys and girls enjoyed doing some obstacle races with our new resources. Children developed their physical and listening skills. We finished off the race by dancing to our favourite kids bop songs with colourful ribbons.

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The children have been exploring our newly introduced loose parts materials this week. The children had complete freedom to create and explore whatever they wanted. Some children used their imagination to create funny pizzas and birthday cakes!

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Yesterday the children practiced good hand washing skills before enjoying some lunch in the garden with their friends.

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We are all SUCCESSFUL learners and RESPONSIBLE citizens here at Brownside!

Today our children took part in risk assessing our garden to make sure it was safe for play. All children then had the opportunity to help plant peas, carrots and beetroot.

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“I am helping to grow plants and can name their basic parts. I can talk about how they grow and what I need to do to look after them.”

Today the children took part in helping the ladies plant some different vegetables and flowers while in the garden. Most children understood that plants need the sun and water to grow. Children discussed some of the fruit and vegetables they like and dislike 🍅🌶🌺

Today the children took part in the opportunity to recreate some famous paintings. The children used descriptive language to explain their thoughts and feelings about the paintings. Some of our preschool children used a calculator to see how many years ago some of the paintings were created.

We have some mini artists in the making here at 3 Bears 🧑🏻‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏿‍🎨

Happy St Andrews day to all our wonderful families and friends here at 3 Bears 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 This morning the children have taken part in a sensory rice play activity made into the shape of a Scotland flag. They have also had lots of fun developing their baking skills by making some homemade shortbread.

Over the last week the boys and girls have been greatly interested in the story book Mixed by Arree Chung. This book explains the importance of accepting and loving others regardless of what we may look like! The children have taken part in lots of different activities to further develop their understanding of the story book, in particular a lot of mixing colours together to create new ones 👨🏻‍🎨🌈🎨❤️

Today for snack the children took part in making some pizza! The children learned our hygiene policies and wore PPE when handling food. The children got to enjoy tasting the pizzas as a group! 😀🍕