First adventures nursery

December 14,2018

Loose Parts

The children at Teddy Bear House have been exploring different ways to play with loose parts. The older babies made winter playdough, measuring, pouring and mixing to make a nice white and blue colour, they then used different tools to make prints in the playdough. The younger babies have been decor

December 06,2018

Twinkle arrives

The boys and girls had a lovely surprise this week when they arrived at nursery to find ‘Twinkle’ the cheeky elf sitting on the Christmas tree. Every morning we have arrived to find some mischief in the playroom, he made a train with all the children’s slippers, put pants on the Christmas tree

November 28,2018

Christmas fun

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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The children in the Tweenie room were excited to let everyone know about their weekend watching the Christmas lights being switched on and seeing Santa and the reindeer. We followed their interest this week and decorated the room with lots of Christmas decorations and lights. We have started Christm

November 23,2018

More Building news

We are still very interested in the building site across the road. The children had noticed that there was a second digger that was much smaller. We popped across to see Graeme for a chat. He told us that the big digger was shaking the building next door and the lady’s pictures were falling off [&

November 23,2018

nursery rocks

Unfortunately our stone has been moved and we can’t find it! We are going to suspend ‘Nursery rocks’ for the winter months and take a poll in the spring to see if everyone is still interested in playing.

November 16,2018

Building site

This week the children on the second floor have been very interested in the building site across the road. we have had a fabulous vantage point to see all the changes. The huge mound of rubble is being taken away and the ground is almost flat. We decided to chat to the builders and ask […]

November 15,2018

Squirrel fun

By Gillian Mustard
Teddy Bear house
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The children at Teddy Bear House have been taking part in a squirrel hunt to raise money for Children in Need. The cheeky squirrels have been hiding in the messy play activities. We have found them in the sand, flour, shaving foam and cloud dough. We have had a bake sale and enjoyed choosing yummy [

November 14,2018

Campfire fun

The Tweenie children enjoyed exploring in the wild woods this week. Chloe and Bethan made a campfire and we had a chat about how to stay safe around the fire. Chloe cooked some hotdogs for us to taste and we toasted some marshmallows, it was very yummy. We had lots of fun

November 01,2018

Pumpkin fun

This week the children at Teddy Bear House have been exploring their senses. We have used different coloured sawdust with pumpkins, we have made pumpkin prints, we pretended to make pumpkin soup in the water tray. We extended this by using apples and peppers to make prints as well.

October 31,2018

Pumpkins

By Gillian Mustard
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Some of the Tweenie children have been sharing experiences from home about carving pumpkins. We decided to visit Tesco and buy some pumpkins for the room. The children explored the pumpkins in the water tray, scooping them out and looking at the seeds, we spoke about the colours and texture. We prac