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January 18,2019

Bird Watch

Next weekend we are taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch. In preparation – the children have been feeding the birds to encourage lots of visitors to our garden. We will keep you posted on our results. If you would like to take part in this just register on the RSPB website below. [&hellip

January 18,2019

Story Time

This week the older children have been very engaged with the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. There has been lots of role play and bridge building – some children demonstrating that they are competent engineers! We have also been chatting about characters and what happens in the story.

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

November 28,2018

Christmas fun

By Gillian Mustard
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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 15,2018

Squirrel fun

By Gillian Mustard
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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

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
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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 […]