Garden House Nursery Ipswich

We are a childcare setting with children aged from birth to five years, with experienced staff who a

Operating as usual

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 11/11/2022

โคIn honour of Remembrance Day, we watched a short animation about the event and decorated our own Poppiesโค

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 04/11/2022

We are ready for Bonfire night ๐Ÿ˜€
We set up a 'Food Stand' that sells all the traditional bonfire snacks, we have watched firework displays, built "bonfires", talked about bonfire safety, made edible "sparklers" for snack as well as lots more firework themed activities.๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿงจ๐ŸŽ‡

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/11/2022

The Daisies had lots of fun dressing up, making pumpkin shaped jam tarts and dancing to Halloween music for our Halloween party ๐ŸŽƒ

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A selection of Halloween activities that have been on offer for Sunflowers and our costumes - we also played party games like musical bumps and pass the parcel!๐ŸŽƒ

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The Daisies have had lots of fun mark making this week, we used sticks and rollers to paint and explored moving paint around in bubble wrap๐Ÿ–Œ๐ŸŽจ

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This week, the Poppies opened their very own role play coffee shop! We made staff badges and cups as well as using real coffee beans for sensory playโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธ

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The Sunflowers Room is ready for Halloween next week! ๐ŸŽƒ We have a Haunted House - Sunflowers' Doll House has turned into a Haunted Mansion! ๐Ÿ’€ Complete With:
- A Giant Pumpkin ๐ŸŽƒ
- Super Spooky Rugs ๐Ÿ„
- Slime Splattered Walls ๐Ÿ’š
- Pet Spiders ๐Ÿ•ท
- Sacred Skulls ๐Ÿ’€
- Bewitching Bunting ๐Ÿ”ฎ
- Fancy Dressed Dolls ๐Ÿฆ„
We have lots of fun and exciting activities ready for next week, we have set up a Halloween maths table, Halloween collaging and pumpkin seed trays

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 26/10/2022

๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸชThe Sunflowers have been enjoying a food week to celebrate World Food Day. We have taken part in a variety of food activities, we have explored different textures in the jelly play, flour play, custard play, cooked pasta malleable tray. We have also taken part in a variety of cooking activities, we made, Calzones, Gingerbread men, Shortbread biscuits and fruit kebabs for snack๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‡ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 20/10/2022

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš’๐Ÿš“๐Ÿš‘The Sunflowers celebrated '999 Day', we discussed different emergency services and how they help us, we also used the emergency vehicles and small world models to print and look at the different tyre tracks and footprints they made on their paper ๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿš’

A big THANK YOU to all of the Emergency services from everyone at GHN

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๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ‹๐ŸŽIt's been cooking week in Poppies! The children have been making lots of food using a variety of utensils to make pizza, cakes and fruit kebabs as well as having some fruity sensory water play and using real food for role play๐Ÿ๐Ÿซ•๐Ÿซ–๐ŸŒธ

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๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿข๐Ÿ„The Daisies have been celebrating World animal day exploring a malleable tray with couscous, lentils, flour and pasta pieces. They made some animal sounds while moving the animals through the different resources and listening to the pasta crunching as they stamped๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒผ

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๐ŸŒปProject Sandpit!๐ŸŒป

Sunflowers helped to empty out all of the sand from the sandpit ready for a new liner to be added!
They all grabbed a shovel, a ladle or even just got stuck in with their hands and worked hard to scoop up as much as they could!

Good job Sunflowers! ๐ŸŒป

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๐ŸŒผThis week the Daisies have been practicing their walking skills, becoming more confident and independent with every step! Well Done Daisies!! ๐ŸŒผ

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๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ•The Sunflowers have been pretending to make pizza in the role play area. We then made some real pizza, we made the pizza dough together and then kneaded it out and added on the toppings they wanted. The Sunflowers did really well with using spoons to spread and knives to cut their vegetables!๐Ÿ•๐ŸŒป

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The Poppies have been enjoying some builder's role play this week! Learning about using tools and safety

04/10/2022

๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿด๐Ÿ ๐ŸHappy World Animal Day from everyone at GHN!๐Ÿป๐Ÿง๐Ÿ‹๐ŸŠ

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๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒนThe Sunflowers and Poppies children enjoyed a visit from some Guinea Pigs "Honey" and "Matilda"! ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒป
We spoke before the visit about how we thought they would look, feel and sound like, we looked online at different types of Guinea Pigs and predicted together what colour we thought they would be and how their hair would look. The children were all very excited to have a turn holding and stoking them gently and feeding them some Dill and Spinach leaves๐Ÿน๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฑ

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๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers have been very interested in People Who Help Us recently, we took on many different occupations from Paramedics, Ambulance drivers, Doctors, Nurses, Vets, Refuse collectors, Sea animal ice rescuers, Fire fighters and Police officers. The children explored and enjoyed sharing different outfits that were shared from home from their parents professions too!๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš’๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ

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๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธThe Sunflowers have taken on the roles of Pirates this week, we have enjoyed constructing our own pirate ship while playing outside, we made and decorated our own flag as well as pretending to mend the ship and going on an adventure to "Big River Island๐Ÿ
We made our own pirate maps using coffee and tea to stain our paper then writing on our own directions to find the hidden treasure! ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ

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The Sunflowers Room enjoyed celebrating Roald Dahl day throughout the week! We took part in lots of Roald Dahl story inspired activities, we made Bruce's chocolate cake from Matilda, mixed and experimented with our own medicine making trays from George's Marvellous Medicine. We took part in a large floor painting activity illustrating our own stories.

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This week the Daisies celebrated Roald Dahl week collaging (James and the giant peach), painting (the enormous crocodile), dipping bananas in chocolate, making marks in playdough that had sequins in (Charlie and the chocolate factory), making their own medicines (George's marvellous medicine) and scooping up spaghetti using various utensils (The Twits).

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 30/08/2022

To celebrate Edinburgh fringe festival the Daisies decorated a kilt with the tartan patterned paper.

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 24/08/2022

๐ŸŒป๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽ‰To celebrate the Nottinghill Carnival, Sunflowers have enjoyed making a tropical fruit salad, we spoke about how the fruits look, smell and felt on the outside and then we predicted what we thought they would be like inside๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ
โคThe Sunflowers enjoyed sharing this with the other rooms in the nursery for tea and tasting all of the different yummy fruits they had cut up all by themselvesโค

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 15/08/2022

โ˜€๐Ÿ’งThe Sunflowers and Poppies enjoyed cooling down in the sprinkler pool last week, they took it in turns to go in and feel the cool water on their skin, they all helped each other to get in and out and gave each other lots of support and encourage me throughout cheering each other along, they held the hands of their peers who were a little unsure at first โคโ˜€

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 12/08/2022

The daisies have enjoyed making marks in the coloured powder paint using various brushes and spoons to scoop up the powder to put into the buckets.๐ŸŽจ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 09/08/2022

๐ŸŒปTo celebrate the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week the Sunflowers have enjoyed doing some large chalk drawing and water painting while outside on the pavements, they've explored the chalks and using their hands to blend the colours together as well as making hand prints on the pavements, we spoke about how the sun was drying up the water while we were painting๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ‘
The Sunflowers then wanted to explore movements so we made a hop scotch outside using the chalky and took it in turns to take part jumping on one foot then onto two๐ŸŒป

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๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ‡The Sunflowers room have been interested in looking at how our vegetables and herbs have been growing outside and were very keen to help pick and harvest the beans and basil that were ready.
They developed their fine motor skills to pop and peel open the bean pods, finding them inside, they were very surprised to see they were pink!
We are going to enjoy having these cooked in our lunch and really enjoyed the Basil today, even Bonsai the rabbit had some to nibble on! ๐Ÿ‡๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒป

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The Poppies have enjoyed doing some gymnastics this week, learning how to forward roll

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 22/07/2022

๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers have enjoyed using the colours from the flag of Ethiopia to celebrate Haile Selassie's birthday. We have explored colour mixing and patterns that we have made using brushes and rollers.
The Sunflowers have been exploring the Chickpea malleable tray, mashing crunching , popping and squashing the chickpeas with mashers, knives, whisks and bowls ๐ŸŒป

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๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers room have been discussing different feelings and emotions this week, we used some clingfilm around the tables and different coloured paints to draw self-portraits and portraits of our peers and adding different emotions on to them discussing how they feel and what might of made them feel that way, we have spoken about being happy, sad, frustrated, excited, ecstatic, afraid, worried, nervous and anxious๐ŸŒป

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The Daisies have been taking turns enjoying mixing the ingredients together to make banana and Yoghurt muffins. They were happy to take them home to show their parents and eat them.๐Ÿ˜‹๐Ÿฐ

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๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ”The Sunflowers have been interested in science and experiments this week, the children saw a video of lava lamps and wanted to try making some of their own, we used coloured water, oil, glitter and sequins. The children used the funnels and spoons to add the oil and glitter. He sunflowers poured the coloured water into the bottles using the funnels ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 04/07/2022

The Poppies celebrated Independence Day by doing some red,white and blue weaving and learning to line dance ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 04/07/2022

๐ŸŒป๐Ÿด๐Ÿˆ๐ŸThe Sunflowers have enjoyed taking part in some fruit and vegetable cutting today using different tools, they've used knives, forks and scissors to try cutting and to improve our cutlery skills. We spoke about how the different fruits and vegetables feel, look and smell. We also discussed the different ways they looked when cut in different directions๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ‹ ๐Ÿด๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 01/07/2022

The Daisies enjoyed paint week this week, making marks on the white board, painting their own hands and feet, free paiting and using utensils to watch the effects made on the cling film with paint underneath it.

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๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers have shown lots of interest in flowers and plants recently, we made a florist roleplay where they took it in turns to take on the roles and occupations of a shop keeper, florist and customer. They used money to buy their flowers, they picked which flowers they wanted in their bouquet, they then made them for their peers to buy๐ŸŒป

๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒนโœThe children then placed all of the flowers into a "vase" and laid down some material to sit on an look at, smell and feel the different flowers. We found some paper and pencils and started a Still Life Art session drawing what we could seeโœ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒธ

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๐ŸŒผThe Daisies have been enjoying their new and improved sensory den, we've been exploring the different lights, textures and sounds ๐ŸŒผ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 09/06/2022

The Poppies have been exploring magnetic play and practicing number recognition by playing a number fishing game ๐ŸŽฃ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 08/06/2022

๐Ÿš—๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‘๐Ÿš’The Sunflowers have expressed a lot of interest in Transport today, we made some traffic survey's and headed out to see what transport we could spot, we tallied up how many we had seen on our charts. We were very excited when some of the drivers waved at us as they went past ๐Ÿš›๐ŸšŒ๐Ÿš“๐Ÿš•

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 06/06/2022

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ”ดโšช๐Ÿ”ตWe have enjoyed doing lots of activities to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee, we have made our own crowns, made crown shaped biscuits, painted the Union Jack Flags, decorated the front garden ready for our afternoon tea street party where we even had a visit from the Queen!! We asked her lors of different questions to get to know her better ๐Ÿ”ดโšช๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿ‘‘ A big THANK YOU to Hopsters Ipswich FOR letting us borrow their benches for our party so we could enjoy the sunshine outside.

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Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
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