Halesfield Day Nursery

The babies have had lots of fun this morning splashing in the water with the sea animals 🐬🐸🦆🦀

This week we have been talking about the sea.🌊

We have been looking at what animals live in the sea the children talked about their favourite sea creatures, two particular came up which was jellyfish and starfish.

The children made jellyfish writing their names and matching the tentacles to each letter.✍️

They have also decorated starfish. ⭐️

It’s been a busy week in toddlers! 🥰
We have enjoyed playing with bath bombs and water outside where we got to splash about 💧
We have loved playing with our best friend Bertie the hamster 🐹
Doing lots of exercise with our daily mile 💪🏼
Painting with buds to work on our fine motor skills 🎨

Next week our topic is herbs, if you have any spare herbs at home please do bring them in as we have lots of amazing things planned for them 🌿

This week in the babies we’ve been following the theme “the sea”🦀🦑⛵️We’ve played with the sea creatures in the shaving foam , played in the sand with the shells and had a sensory tuff spot ! Great work babies 😃

Baking Buddies have made bread pudding today, great turn taking and excitement to try it later

After lunch, the Preschool children decided to have a reading club 📖
They spent time looking at the pictures, sharing with friends and trying to describe the story.
Well done Preschool 😊📚📖

We had a fab Forest school this morning. It was very wet and very muddy but that’s what made it so good. The children loved being back in the woods and enjoyed picking all the wild flowers and jumping in the puddles.

Preschool and toddlers enjoyed a group Coronation Picnic today 👑

Thank you Lucy for all the fab food ❤️

Happy Coronation Weekend 👑

The babies really enjoyed their picnic lunch this afternoon in celebration of the Kings coronation 👑🇬🇧. They’ve also had lots of fun dancing to music and playing with the instruments 🎶🥁

Well done preschool for helping plant up our special Coronation planter.. You all worked very hard and your design skills were brilliant.

Toddlers have been getting coronation party ready! We’ve made our crowns, decorated our throne and made our window sign from handprints crown 👑 🇬🇧

This week the theme has been all about “rainbows” so we’ve been doing lots of fun activities as well as making crowns for the Kings Coronation 👑🌈.Well done babies 😃

Our topic this week is rainbow’s 🌈
We have been talking about our feelings so following this we have been mixing all the colours from the colour monster story to explain how we have been feeling today. 🤗
The children talked about their feelings and how their actions can make others feels. They all showed great sharing and turn taking.
Well done Preschool!

Today Baking Buddies have iced biscuits in Union Jack colours to celebrate the Coronation. Lots of conversation about how they will be celebrating starting with our picnic tomorrow.

The children had the opportunity to jump inside a truck this afternoon. Very impromptu but good fun. We pretended we were off on a job before heading to the beach 🥳

Fabulous Forest school session this morning with our preschoolers.. we had a few children who hadn’t been before so it was lovely showing them round and seeing them get to know the area. Lots of archery, tree climbing, worm measuring, biscuit eating and tadpole spotting. We even found a random duck in the middle of the field.. well done preschool you were all great.

Apologies for the late post, but here are preschools Farm on Wheels pictures from last Friday!

It was a great start to our ‘Baby Animals’ topic which started this week! The children enjoyed holding, walking and feeding a variety of farm animals! Thank you Stella ❤️

Today Baking Buddies have made chocolate concrete for the whole nursery. Excellent team work was used by everyone well done again all

The babies have had a productive week so far looking at the topic of “baby animals”🐥🐑.Here are some of the activities that we have been up too!

We’ve had an amazing forest school adventure today. We picked up lots of litter on our way and looked at how much everything had grown. When there we ate our snack before exploring and setting up the archery target. We had a few newbie children today but they were great and had a go at everything. Before heading back we checked in on the tadpoles who have grown considerably since we last saw them a few weeks ago.

This morning the babies enjoyed seeing all the animals from the farm on wheels. We saw somebaby rabbits, chicks, a baby lamb and a goat. 🐥🐇🐐

Toddlers loved farm on wheels today! Stella brought along some different baby animals for us to cuddle! We met some baby bunny rabbits, baby chicks, lambs and a baby goat 🐥🐰🐐🐑
Our favourite part was giving the lamb his bottle of milk and then singing sleeping bunnies to the rabbits ❤️

We’ve had a busy week in the babies, lots of outdoor play, had fun in the water with the ducks and had a visit from Bertie the hamster🐹

Today a couple of toddlers went to the pet shop to get some essentials for Bertie! 🐹 we had lots of fun having a look at all the animals!
We then brought all of the things back to nursery to show our friends and Bertie, which included a brand new ball for which Bertie enjoyed using ❤️

Here are some photos from some of the moon activities that the Preschool have been doing this week.
This included painting planets, creating a rocket and making a moon masterpiece. 🌘

The babies have had a lovely couple days , had lots of fresh air doing the daily mile and out in the garden and we’ve been focussing on our topic of the week the “moon”. 🌙They have been busy making their own moons from paper plates and foil and mark making with the cutters in the play dough! Well done babies 😃🌎

Holiday club have been out and active again today. We did our long walk around Holmer lake again looking for more signs of Spring and our poorly duck friend. The children were great and had loads of fun. In the afternoon we made models out of clay, had a healthy snack and made some wonderful Lego houses for the play people. Well done everyone 😉

Some of our children have been busy today making a healthy rhubarb crumble. We got to sample it for our pudding today! It was delicious. ☺️

The holiday club children and some of their friends went out for a long nature walk this afternoon. It was a bit muddy but the children were amazing. They walked a long distance with so much positivity, we are so proud of them all. Well done everyone. Sorry for the muddy clothes parents 😬

Today in pre school we have had a pen disco. We made our pens dance slowly, fast, jump and twirl we even played the floor is lava. Lots of fun

Our topic this week is “seeds” Today we have been having a close look at lots of different types of them.....the black sunflower seeds were the biggest and the poppy seeds the smallest-they were very, very tiny! 😱😍🙂

The holiday club and a couple of preschool children have been out exploring today. They enjoyed a lovely walk to Holmer lake to look for signs of Spring. The children were so good and loved the long walk. Well done everyone 😉

This week in preschool we’re been creating caterpillars in different ways, exploring different media and materials. Well done preschool 🧑‍🎨🐛🦋

Toddlers are having a busy morning using their imagination. So far We’ve built train tracks, houses from bricks and made cups of tea in our water play. 😊

Following on from our topic this week the preschool have made some pasta caterpillars. Using their fine motor skills they have threaded pasta on to pipe cleaners and have painted them 🐛

Some of the preschool children have been busy planting up some new planters for outside nursery. We planted some lovely colourful primroses and pansies ready for Spring.

Baking Buddies have made pizza today. They tried all of the ingredients, enjoying the pineapple juice the most. They chopped, sprinkled and spread the ingredients on their bread base. When finished they will sell their pizza to the staff as well as taking our home for their tea. Well done again buddies