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This week we have been exploring Christmas alongside our theme of winter. The children have been exploring a range of different activities and textures, they enjoyed exploring the taste and texture of the edible candy cane whilst creating marks. They explored the sound of the bubbles wrap Christmas tree by popping them and moving the paint around to make marks. They hid and found the reindeers and gingerbread men in the wet sound and began to repeat. We explored the texture of Santa's frozen hand, we talked about how it was cold and the contents inside. Using our fingers we created our own representation of a Christmas tree. We used the wooden blocks to build our own representation of a Christmas tree and began to count the blocks. We dropped and counted the baubles as we posted them through the ball drop.The babies enjoyed exploring the Christmas sensory bottles and bags by shaking them to move the contents around. We also enjoyed creating our own salt dough decorations.

This week is also Hanukkah, to celebrate the children have been sticking stars and creating hand Print candles

We had so much fun dressing up for our Nativity visit from Farm on Wheels! We dressed up as Kings, Shepherds, Mary and The Angels. We met Racket the Donkey, Larry and Kate the sheep and Star the Rat. Thank you to Stella and all her animals for all our visits this year and we cant wait to welcome them back in the New Year!

We have been exploring colours, so we looked at all the colours of the rainbow. We enjoyed having a taste and exploring the texture of the edible rainbow on the tuff tray, we began to recognise the different colours and some of us started to repeat. We explored the texture of the rainbow oats and pointed them into the sieve, we shook the sieve to watch the oats fall out the bottom. We created marks in the flour over the rainbow coloured tuff tray to reveal the different colours and repeat. Using forks, we scooped up the rainbow gloop and explored the texture in our hands. Using different coloured and textured paper we stuck our own rainbow collage and created a rainbow fish hand Print. The children enjoyed making marks and exploring the texture of the coloured lotion On the table, using animals to create different marks too. We placed the coloured rings On the stacked and began counting them. In the sand pit we hid rainbow pictures and used paintbrushes to find them

On Wednesday we celebrated at Andrews day we explored the taste and texture of the edible Scottish flag, we also explored the Scottish themed sensory bags and used tissue paper to make a representation of the flag.

We are safely back at Newport nursery, we had a great day 😁

We have all arrived safely at Chester zoo, had our lunch and we are now off to see the animals 🙂

Choosing the perfect pumpkin is a serious matter...

We enjoyed meeting Stella and all the animals again this week! We got to meet a calf, a hen and her baby chicks and we had fun walking the sheep along! We enjoyed stroking the Guinea pigs and rabbits too. We can't wait to meet all the animals again next month!

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In preschool we have started a new topic Feelings & Emotions! This week's theme is Feeling Love & Friendship, and we have been discussing how we can show people our love and friendship. We've thought about how to be kind and helpful, and about what things we love about ourselves.
We've had loads of fun with messy play this week, playing in gloop, China seed gloop, sand play, water play, and play dough. In our STEM tray we've been exploring measurement and capacity, experimenting with different tools and objects.

🎉 Sending lots of smiles your way this Father's Day! 🎉

Across the nursery we have been taking parts in lots of activities to celebrate the Queens Jubilee.
We finished our fantastic day with a Tea party with lots of tasty nibbles.

We had a great time at Cosford Air Museum this week. We saw lots of different types of planes and learnt how the different ones fly with propellers or jet engines!
We loved having a go at sitting in the cockpit of the plane and pretending to fly! We finished off our trip with a play on the new park, where we climbed up on the pretend planes and slid down the slides!

On Monday the babies enjoyed celebrating Penguin day, we stuck down different sized black and white ovals to create our representation of a penguin. We explored the texture of the black and white paint whistling using our hands to paint on the penguin cut out. We also used our fingers to paint our own representation of a penguin. The babies also explored the texture of the ice as the staff talked about how it was cold and wet.

On Friday we celebrated dance day, we listen to lots of different songs and moves our body to the beat. We listened to the instructions within the action songs and we followed them.

Get ready for 1st April

Get ready for 1st April Don't leave it too late!

This week the babies have been exploring the difference between big and small, in the home corner we had different sized bowls, plate and cups when cooking dinner for our friends and the dolls. We enjoyed exploring the texture books whilst looking at the big and small items on the pages. We also lay on a large piece of paper and took it in turns to draw around each other, we then look at who was big and who was small. On Monday we celebrated polar bear day, we used different white resources to create our representation of a polar bear in a paper plate. In the home corner we explored the taste and texture of the white vegetables. We used rice crisps to make cakes into the shapes of polar bears.

Toddlers have enjoyed exploring growth. We planted some mushrooms and we have watched them grow over time. Talking about the growth process and how the mushrooms change in size and colour.
We have also talked about how we grow things to eat and how we can cook them.

This week in preschool we are looking at Julia Donaldson stories as part of our Book theme. The children chose Zog as the theme tray book this week, so we transformed our dinosaurs into Dragons for Madam Dragons school!
We've had lots of fun acting out our favourite stories, and we've also; made Zog wings, done Cave Baby cave painting, played a memory game, helped Superworm save the day,

Toddlers have enjoyed exploring their growth and changes theme. We have have been looking at flowers and the growth process. We have explored with dehydrated soil adding water to it and watching it expand, adding seeds and planting them into pots.
We have been looking at flower buds and comparing them to fully grown flower heads and the process it takes to become a open flower.
We have also got expressive and created our own drawings of our gardens practising our fine motor skills.

In PreSchool we are continuing our Book theme by looking at classic fairy tales! For our themed tuff tray the children chose the book "There Little Pigs" and have really enjoyed building houses out of the different materials and testing their durability. We've also been creating our own story boards, junk modelling castles and troll bridges, decorating gingerbread people, baking biscuits, letter magnets play, and doing lots of role play.
We've been doing lots of texture and maths play this week too, with different playdough ingredients, gloop, 3D shape modelling, and money play.

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This week in preschool we've started our new topic of Books by looking at our favourite books! We've being doing lots of reading and acting out stories, as well as getting creative making pictures of our favourite characters and junk modelling scenery like castles. We've also been enjoying a lot of letter play with water sponges, sand writing, and letter hunts.

During this topic we will be theming one of our tuff trays around a different book each week, and this week the children have chosen the book "We're Going On A Bear Hunt".

We've had a lot to celebrate this week, with Pancake Day and St David's Day on Tuesday, and World Book Day and Wildlife Day on Thursday!

Today we Celebrated Valentine's day with various activities. We made some raspberry heart biscuits and talked about the ingredients and how we needed to weigh it out. And how it is made into a dough, ready to roll out and shape.
We have been talking about our emotions and how we feel, and what makes us feel happy and loved. We also had a friendship dinner with placemats decorated with hearts.

Continuing with our spring theme in Toddlers, We have been experimenting with fresh herbs and how they grow.
We added them to some dough that we made together using our senses to smell the fresh mint, coriander and parsley.
We have also enjoyed playing in the farm yard tuff tray talking about lambs and lambing season and life on a farm.

This week we have been exploring spring and the changes in weather and how it changes our environment.
We have been looking at spring flowers and how the flowers and trees begin to grow and change in colour.
We have explored with various media and materials creating flower collages and painting trees.
We have also been looking at seeds in vegetables such as peppers and the their growing process.

In preschool we started our week by celebrating Valentine's Day! We had a self-love spa day; baking biscuits and relaxing to music with our handmade avocado face masks. We also enjoyed making playdough hearts, exploring red sensory sand, mixing love potions in the water tray, and making cards.
We've also been reviewing all the careers we've looked at during our Careers theme! We've been discussing our favourites, painting portraits of us as our chosen career, and doing lots of dress up and role play!

This week we continued with our theme of winter Olympics, we explored the little people in ice moving them in different ways to look like they are skiing and ice skating along the tuff tray. We used toilet roll tubes dipped in paint to create the Olympic rings, we held crayons using Palmer grasp and draw our own certificates. We enjoyed exploring the texture of the ice with our hands, we also used brushes dipped in paint to paint the ice. We also explored the edible tuff tray, having a taste of the cereal which had been dyed the colours of the Olympic rings.
On Monday we celebrated Valentine's day, we searched for the hearts on the textures tuff tray, we stacked the pink and red Duplo to make a tower. We also made some heart shaped biscuits and decorated them with icing.

The children at nursery are looking forward to celebrating Valentine's Day.
Each room have lots of different activities set up, from finding numbers in the sand to feeling lots of different red textures.
Each room will also be taking part in a cooking activity of making Valentine's cookies.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a lovely Valentine's day.

This week we have begun celebrating and exploring the winter Olympics we enjoyed making an Olympic torch using cardboard boxes and coloured paper. We also painted our own representation using red and yellow paint. We enjoyed using textures, paper to create a British flag and we also enjoyed exploring textures on the tuff tray in the shape of an England flag.
On Friday we celebrated Darwin Day, where we explored the edible monkey jungle, having a taste and feeling the different textures with their hands. We used paint and brushes to create our own representation of a monkey.

This week in preschool we are learning about Opticians as part of our Careers topic! We've had lots of fun testing our eyes with games like eye spy and colour mixing, as well as making our own glasses and painting eye portraits.
We've also been getting ready for Valentine's Day by talking about what we love about ourselves and how we can show the people who are special to us that we love them.

Lots of exciting activities happening 😊

❤️ Love is in the air...who's getting excited for Valentine's Day? ❤️

This week in preschool we've continued our Careers topic with the theme of Cleaners! We've had lots of fun washing babies, sweeping up leaves, making a car wash, painting and cleaning windows, and learning about how soap works to keep us healthy!
It as also number day on Friday, and we had lots of fun painting numbers, singing number songs, and doing a number hunt in the garden!

This week in baby room we have enjoyed exploring a range of activities based around our favourite stories. We made some chocolate cupcakes using our own knowledge of a bear, we used building blocks to create a house for the animals to live in. We used different textures materials to create a representation of a Gruffalo. We explored the texture of the animals in ice, watching as they melt and feeling the ice. On Tuesday we celebrated Chinese New year, we used orange and black paint to create a tiger, we also explored the texture and taste of the Chinese themed tuff tray. On Friday we also celebrated number day , the babies moved their hands through the sand trying to find the numbers hidden