Halesfield Day Nursery

Busy afternoon in preschool attending a tea party, tracing our names and playing games

Talking about and colouring the lifecycle of a chicken

Baking buddies learning how we melt chocolate in the microwave and wearing their new hats and aprons

This morning the toddlers were delighted to find out that all 10 eggs have hatched. We have 5 girls and 5 boys 🐣🐥

This morning the babies enjoyed seeing the chicks that had hatched over night 🐣 and had a great time joining the toddlers for our music minors session 🎶🥁

We have had some chicks that have hatched overnight! Toddlers were so excited to come in and discover them 🐥🐣

We’ve had a busy week in the babies so far !😃We’ve been preparing for Mother’s Day ,had fun crawling through tunnels and outside in the sit and ride cars and today we’ve been mark making , drawing beetles ( our topic of the week )🪳Well done babies 😃

Toddlers are very excited for the arrival of the eggs!🐣🐥

Preschool were very excited to see our arrivals to nursery today 🥚

We spoke about what were inside the eggs, how we’ll look after the chicks after they’ve hatched and where they’ll live when they’re older (Emma’s house!)

We had a slightly different forest school today due to the high winds. We walked to Holmer lake and fed the ducks, geese and sea gulls!! Along the way we found lots of big deep puddles and some frogspawn. What a busy and fun outdoor session.

Lots of fun in preschool this morning

Preschool Snow Day ❄️

The toddlers have absolutely LOVED the snow today. They enjoyed making snowballs and having a snowball fight with Leanne and Becky.

And here is some of the preschool tucking into the chocolate nests they made this morning. Delicious 😋

In preschool we have worked together to make our pudding today.
We have used the microwave, learnt words such as melting, microwave, crumble. We have taken turns, shared and had fun together. We have learnt about germs and washed out hands lots!

SNOW ANNOUNCEMENT

We are remaining open at the moment however the roads are bad and seem to be getting worse by the hour. It might be advisable to collect your child if you can to minimise the risks of travelling later on.

We will assess the situation again shortly but now the schools are closing it is likely we may need to follow suit as staff leave to collect their own children

What a lovely week we are having so far in the babies !😃It’s all about “nests” and we’ve been collecting twigs outside to incorporate in our play dough and today we’ve used shredded wheat and chocolate to make nests🐣Well done babies !

Toddlers have been stick painting today, we painted birds and talked about where they live! We talked about their nests and how they make them 🌳
This afternoon we are going to build our own nest from sticks for the birds 🕊🦅🦉

We are looking at nests this week so we decided to make eggs using our play dough. We have learnt the shape name oval and counted how many we could make. We have also looked at eggs laid by different birds and had a vote for our favourite eggs, dippy eggs won not chocolate!

Busy first thing this morning

The green team have been busy building a bird box for our nature garden. They were very good at using the drill and screwdriver and working out how the pieces fit together. Well done green team. 😀

Today we had a special visit from one of our parents who is a hairdresser.
The children loved demonstrating how to use the curlers, looking at the sample colours and practicing their skills.
We learnt new vocabulary including ‘developing’ and spoke about mixing colours.
Thank you Heidi and well done Preschool. 💇‍♀️

Forest school was a blast today. We ran up into the woods keen and eager to get muddy and have our snack. We had a go at making a bird house using an electric drill and screwdriver. It was fun decorating and putting on the finishing touches. Paul will be putting the bird box up later this week.

The toddlers have had a fun few days. We’ve enjoyed dancing with our preschool friends as well and jumping around in our soft play today. Yesterday we had a visit from the ambulance service. We loved hearing the loud sirens! 🚑 Here are some photos of what we’ve been up to 😊

This morning in pre-school we were practicing our cutting skills and developing our fine and gross motor skills whilst exploring the play dough

This week has been all about “spring flowers”!The babies have had a lovely week investigating and exploring a variety of flowers with different media 💐Well done babies😃

Yesterday the Baking Buddies had a new member join them. They decided to make banana muffins for everyone’s pudding at nursery. They cracked eggs sang phonic songs and delivered them to the kitchen to be baked. They were enjoyed by all, well done buddies

We had a super special visitor to nursery today. Ben from the ambulance service (and one of our parents) brought an ambulance for us all to explore and talk about.
We asked lots of questions and talked about our own experiences, learnt lots of new things and even got to press the horn!
Thank you so much for coming in Ben, we loved every minute of it!!

Today we’ve had a visit from an Ambulance Technician (one of the nursery parents ! );The babies loved looking inside the ambulance and listening to the sirens and watching the flashing lights 🚑

This morning, Amy and Jackie took the ’Team HDN’ out to the field to play some games.
The children had to use their listening ears and listen for ”STOP”
Well done team ☺️

Green team were out and about again yesterday, litter picking and watching the big lorries going about their work. They also celebrated their plastic free award with a photo holding the plaque and talking about their hard work.

We had so much fun in preschool today making play dough. We talked about what happened when we mixed the dry and the wet ingredients and we used words such as “sticky”, “soft”, and ”tough” to describe it.
Super turn taking and super teamwork guys!!!

Farm on Wheels fun and games!! 🐰🐇🐑🐀

📚📖📚📖 Last week, some of the Preschool children drew pictures of their favourite Julia Donaldson characters. We also spoke about what questions we would ask her.
Amy has sent an email today to Julia including the questions and pictures. We hope we get a reply! 📚📖📚📖

We had a lovely forest school today.. the group got to grips with archery, tree climbing and our lovely new binoculars. We were able to see lots with our binoculars including the birds flying over, the details on leaves and even some mini beasts under the logs.

Thank you to Stella from the farm on wheels for another lovely visit.
Preschool had a wonderful time meeting all the animals and learning all about them. 🐏🐇🐀

Great morning had in pre school today, lots of working together

Half term fun in the baby room!😃We’ve enjoyed making jam tarts , had fun in the sunshine and today we’ve been eating yummy pancakes !

What a fun and muddy day we’ve had today in preschool!

We worked together, digging, mixing and filling to create mostly ‘cakes’ (the bestseller was birthday cake as we’ve got a few birthdays coming up!) but also potions! The children spoke about the similarities between our potions and the one in ‘Room on the Broom’- one of our favourite books ❤️

The babies have had a smashing week lots of creative and sensory play focussing on our topic of “worms” and had fun outside in the sunshine 🪱🪱☀️Well done babies 👍🏼