fun – First adventures nursery

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
Turret towers
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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

October 26,2018

Special visitor

This week the older boys and girls had a special visitor. Our friend, Lily the park ranger, came to tell us all about the animals in Autumn. We learned about frogs and hedgehogs who hibernate. The squirrels who have naps then wake up to snack on the food they have stored and the birds that […

October 19,2018

Fun with leaves

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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The children on the second floor had a walk to the peel this week. They have been watching the changes to the trees and wondered how much they had changed since they had last looked, which wasn’t a lot. Some of the trees still has lots of leaves on them even although they were all […]

October 18,2018

Autumn Fun

By Gillian Mustard
Teddy Bear house
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The children at Teddy Bear House have been taking advantage of the nice Autumn weather and have enjoyed playing with loose parts in the garden and collecting leaves, twigs and pine cones. The children have been expressing themselves with autumn coloured paint and using the leaves that we collected i

October 17,2018

3 little pigs

The children in the Tweenie Room have been interested in the Three little Pigs this week. They were especially interested in the houses and how they were built. We have had lots of discussion about the different types of houses that the pigs built and about the type of houses that we stay in. The [&

October 10,2018

Apple Juice

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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Today we did some apple pressing with Corinne, the nursery gardener. The children took turns to wash the apples for Corinne to chop up into smaller pieces. We then had a turn at turning the handle to squeeze the juice out of the apples. Everyone had a taste of some delicious fresh apple juice. It [&

October 03,2018

Baking Fun

The Tweenie children would like to thank one of our grandparents, Granny Lou Lou, for coming into nursery today to do some baking with the children. She helped the children to make some yummy fruit rock cakes. The children helped to weigh out, measure and count out the ingredients. Then the children