Reverend Nicky visits every Tuesday for a little story and songs
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A visit from the Bug lady got all the children excited and Lianne!!
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Bugs and Creepy Crawlies - Fun Fun Fun
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Glitter and Glue to create an amazing fireworks display
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SSSSSSS - salt dough made by the children to create spiders. Linking with the sound SSSS
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Inspired by pumpkin art we mix colours - learning that red and yellow create ORANGE
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Autumn natural finds create beautiful door wreaths
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Goggles, Hammer and Tees create great fine motor skills..... they loved this activity
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Who doesn't like cooking. We try to bake at least once a week and we make salt dough for sensory play every week.
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We join the school for Harvest Festival
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We love to go for walks in our community - to the Church, Park, Fields - we enjoy exploring every week
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We pick blackberries for Gruffalo Pie! There's No such think as a Gruffalo.......
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MMMmmmm
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We have used leaves and berries to create Beautiful story bags. Now we use our story bags to choose books from our Library to take home
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We love our new outdoor Mud Kitchen - supporting our social skills and working together.
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Imagination runs wild with block play and small world animals
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See Saw - we learn about weight and gravity
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Chinese New Year Dragon Dance Celebrating and learning about different cultures, religions and celebrations
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It's not always the adults that inspire the children but the children themselves. They inspire each other at the painting easel
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Balancing - Plenty to do in our beautiful garden
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To the local Park - we provide opportunities to go outside our preschool - teaming up with reception children
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Our new Forest School outfits - ready for our Hot Chocolate and Forest School Fire using the Kelly Kettle
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Making Mud Pies and Apple Stew in our amazing Mud Kitchen
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Simply climbing a gate gives the children confidence, builds core strength, Coordination and physical strength and self esteem
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Enjoying waffles that we made on Pancake Day! Yummy
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We learn about the dangers of electric fences when we go on walks to the great oak tree and meet sheep along the way
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FRIENDSHIP
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Imagination is ignited and encouraged
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Daily salt dough which the children make build the muscles in their little hands ready for mark making
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Forest School - Lighting the Kelly Kettle
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Our Summer Trip - Picnic on the grounds
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Our Summer Trip - A crocodile staying very still as the children watch
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Autumn Term 1 Week 1. We look at The Colour Monster and The Colour Monster goes to school to discuss emotions and feelings.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 2 - With the sad news of the Queens death we reflected on 'who is the queen' using a Peppa pig story.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 2 - the children started role playing the 3 little pigs whilst outdoors so here's the book
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Autumn Term 1 Week 3. We went blackberry picking in the farmers field and thought we saw a Gruffalo....
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Autumn Term 1 Week 4 -Sometimes we need a little help from Rabbit Foo Foo to understand the importance of making good choices.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 5 - Exploring vegetables during Autumn Harvest time with a great fun book
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Autumn Term 1 Week 6 - Following our walks and meeting the farmer plough the fields- Farmer Duck is a must.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 7 - Finishing the end of the first Autumn term with a lovely story about friendship - we also enjoyed making our own soup
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Autumn Term 2 - Week 1. Children are excited about watching the fire works and this story warms our hearts.
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Autumn Term 2 - Week 2. Fire works triggered the children's interest about the stars, moon and space so 'Whatever Next' is a classic story
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Autumn Term 2 - Week 3. Following the children's interest we dived deep on space and our solar system with this book and some great art work
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Autumn Term 2 - Week 4. We made Santa's post box and made some cards and used this great book to extend their interests
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Autumn 2 - week 5. The naughty little Elf has paid us a visit again - causing mischief and excitement. The children love this story
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Autumn 2 - Wk 6/7 . The Nativity Story is a simple story that children can start to understand and make connections creating lots of discussion
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Spring 1 - Wk 1&2. An alphabet story that the children love - lots of memory recall!!
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Spring 1 - Wk 3. A story to support our understanding of the celebrations of the Chinese new year
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Spring 1 - Wk 4. Spring is in the air and Little Rabbit Foo Foo has been spotted outside during our walks - children's favourite
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Spring 1 - Wk 5. With so much interest in numbers this term - this is a great book to test our knowledge. Great for colour recognition aswell
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Spring 1 - Wk 6. Valentine week and we talk about who we love and why they are special. A beautiful book that covers emotions x
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Spring 2 - Wk 1. A great book to support pancake day followed by delicious pancakes - yum!
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Spring 2 - Wk 2&3. On our muddy walks to the field triggered the 'Bear Hunt' Story - a firm favourite rhyming book
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Spring 2 - Wk 4. This is a lovely book to get the children thinking about all the special things mummy's do for us.
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Spring 2 - Wk 5. The children loved the rhyming of we're going on a bear hunt so this was a perfect book to share - lots of counting
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Spring 2 - Wk 5. The children enjoyed this new story about little Ed.
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Spring 2 - Wk 6. The children love these books - we have them all and this is short and simple which creates lots of laughing!
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Spring 2 - Wk 6. Another favourite author of the children - supertato to the rescue again - the evil pea is up to his old tricks !!
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Summer Term 1 - Wk 1 & 2. The children are loving learning all about life cycles of the butterfly
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Summer Term 1 - Wk 3. Using lots of photos as well we learnt about our great country and the Royal Family
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Summer Term 1 - Wk 4. Last week created lots of discussion about the UK, Union Jack and where we live - so we took a closer look at our Village
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Summer Term 1- Wk 5 & 6. After rescuing a tired Bee last week we took the opportunity to learn a little more about them.
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Summer term is here and the weather is beginning to get a little warmer and a lot more dryer. We begin the term looking at the life cycle of a butterfly which the children love - we use story sacks full of props to engage the children. We are learning a new song 'A tiny caterpillar on a leaf wiggle wiggle' and there has been a lot of discussion on healthy and unhealthy foods which will inform our planning in the weeks ahead. In week three we will be talking about the Kings coronation which I am sure will involve a little tea party.
Our routine remains as;
'Goodbye to parents and hello nursery'
Circle time the younger children not quite ready will be supported by another adult in the quiet corner unless they want to join us.
Snack time - this is an important social event where we learn manners. Children will support each other.
Play time with an adult led activity and outdoor play
Yoga song and poses
Lunch time
Play time - indoors and outdoors with an adult led activity continued
Snack time
Story time and goodbye song
Home time
We have a focused book each week which supports our interests and learning from previous weeks
I have finished my Forest School training which is really exciting, and Lianne is working hard to finish her Forest School Lead qualification. We continue to go on some lovely walks to the castle or around the farmers field, the village fields, the park or the village and enjoy the mud kitchen and our beautiful garden.
Plants and our two little fish bring an appreciation of the natural world and support children's understanding of how we need to care for living things. We will be growing our own tomatoes this term and our pumpkins ready for Autumn harvest.
We continue to use stories to support children's interests and help them to make connections and songs are always part of our daily routine.
We have been awarded the iCan accreditation which is an incredible achievement and highlights our commitment to children's speech and language in the early years.
We have been part of an exciting ten week project Take Art Music, where Lianne is our champion. We have have learnt so much about beat and rhythmn etc which has changed our practice. Music is so important in the early years so this extra training will make a huge difference to our practice and most importantly our children's development.