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Exploring Balls and Tubes In the garden 

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Exploring Balls and Tubes In the garden 

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Exploring

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Exploring Water  And Flowers In The Sensory Kitchen 

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Exploring Water  And Flowers In The Sensory Kitchen 

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Whatever Next ! Daisy class acted out the story at group time , It was fantastic ! We are so proud of you 

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Whatever Next ! Daisy class acted out the story at group time , It was fantastic ! We are so proud of you 

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WHATEVER NEXT ! Our actors for Story time

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WHATEVER NEXT ! Our actors for Story time

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The Tiger That Came To Tea Story time with Ruhee 🐅  🫖 

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The Tiger That Came To Tea Story time with Ruhee 🐅  🫖 

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Some children where feeling really brave and came up at group time to have a closure look some children even stroked the duck .

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We got to have a closer look at group time , Jodie held the duck and we had to use 1 finger to stroke them . We were very gentle and very quiet . " Soft " " Fluffy " " Quack Quack hello ducky "

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We were invited into Bluebells class to take a look at the eggs in the incubator , some of the ducks had hatched . We had to be very quiet whilst looking through the cage .

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we made a caterpillar for our spring wall display . The children used pipettes and food colouring on cotton pads and mixed the colours green and red to make the face and body of the very hungry caterpillar.

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We celebrated Eid , Ruhee told us a story all about Eid , we looked at some props like a special prayer matt , and learned that their special book is called the Quarn and it must not touch the floor , Ruhee showed us a special stand for the Quran that belonged to her mother . We also got to try some delicious food , Ruhee also shared and let us try on some special hats called a toupee .

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For our spring wall display we made something from our story the hungry caterpillar. We place dour hands into different coloured paint and printed them onto paper when it was dry we cut out the shape and they looked like wings of a butterfly !

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what a treat we walked over to the park , we went down little slides big slides climbed up ladders , sat on the swings and pushed the roundabout round and round we chased each other and played tag .

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The children made a Pancake mixture at group time , They really enjoyed using the whisk to mix the ingredient all together , The children then used a " already made " pancake and flipped it in a small frying pan 3 2 1 FFLIP the children tossed the pancake into the air . Then the best part We cooked the mixture and added topping it was delicious most children enjoyed the taste .

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We had so much fun role playing in the farm shop , the children loved looking at different food items and packaging putting the item in their baskets and carrying them around the room , some children enjoyed being the cashier and taking payments from the card machine or using gemstones as money to pay for items .

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We put a blanket outside and began to look at some stories we added some stories from each class . The children enjoyed sharing books with each other and with teachers , they labelled and pointed at pictures and could re tell some stories that we had previously read in nursery school .

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The children got a little bit wet whilst having the story " The pig in the pond " Vicky SPLASHED the pig in the pond and water went every where the children absoluty loved this fun farm story .

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At our end of term party we decided to make something special for loved ones to celebrate valentines day , we made jam tarts using read roll pastry we rolled it out flat cut a cut our of our pastry and placed it into a baking tray , then using a spoon we got some jam and placed it into our bowl like pastry circle then baked yummy .

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We turned our home corner into a Chinese restaurant , we added some real stir fry vegetables and used Chinese bowls , lanterns and chopsticks to decorate the home corner . We enjoyed listening to Chinese music too and making each other dinner .

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We explored shaving foam and corn flour for our story " bear hunt " we loved clapping our hands together to make a huge explosion with shaving foam going every where . The cornflour was interesting he children could scoop it up and it was A hard solution but then it would melt , the children where then pretending to shiver " cold snow "

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The children voted For their favourite Story , They had a choice between owl babies sign 4 feelings and we're going on a bear hunt , The children had a bear to vote with and everyone got one vote , they placed the bear on whichever book they wanted for story time , after every one voted the children counted how many votes each book had Bear hunt won ! both times morning and afternoon

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We found some worms in our mud tray , we added some magnifying glass's and had a look closure at this wonderful mini beast , we checked to see if it had eyes , legs fingers , toes we looked to see which one was the mummy and the daddy and why they don't have a house . The children looked at the worms and had wonderful conversations about them .

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We recreated al of the sensory scenes from our story and put them into a tray added some small world people , a bear some houses and the book , the children straight away started to sing the song 2 were going on a bear hunt " they moved the characters from one sensory tray to the next " long wavy grass swishy swashy " the children really enjoyed this activity and enjoyed feeling each part especially the mud .

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we played a game of hide and seek all around nursery , the teachers had to find the children then the children had to find the teachers , it was so much and the children really enjoyed counting and trying to find their friends . We incorporated mathematical language introducing is she under behind next to in front of the children began singing these new words they had learned when we took the game outside in the garden .

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we listening to the story read by the author , Michael Rosen, he sang along to the story and we played along to the beat hitting the claves together changing the tempo , position and height of the claves .

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After our story , We noticed the bear looked a little bit sad , we decided he needed "cheering up" " a high five " " a biscuit " " A CUDDLE !" we all gave the bear a cuddle so we took turns passing the bear around the circle giving him a big squeeze .

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Using the colour brown and some paint brushes the children looked at the pictures from the story and a teddy bear on the table a created their own paintings of the bear . They were fantastic .

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We made a teddy bear picnic on the floor with teddy bears and a blanket the children went to the home corner and collecting more and more food , plates cups and even real water for a drink this inspired our end of term party to have our own teddy bear picnic

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In our story Were going on a bear hunt the family run back to the house and into the bed get under covers , we added some blankets and cousins to our carpet and the children got all cosy and wanted to add books we discussed having bed time stories before going to sleep and who read the stories to us at home it was a lovely conversation .

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During our story We're going on a bear hunt the family say 2 we can't go under it we can't go over it " so we decided to really understand the prepositions of the story we need to climb under and over the children were very confident whilst climbing over the climbing frame

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Vicky read us the story of the first Christmas 

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Vicky read us the story of the first Christmas 

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celebrating the end of our story of the week "Brown brown bear what do you see "we had a teddy bear picnic

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In our story this week " Brown Bear , Brown Bear " each animal is a different colour . We have been exploring colour in the creative area , changing the colour of playdough , water and paint .

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Attention Activity - Two eggs were raw and one was a hard boiled egg ! We sang Humpty Dumpty sat on wall humpty dumpty had a great fall ... CRACK the egg was dropped and we were egg-cited to see what will happen , the children predicted what would happen. We were so excited when Vicky and Ruhee dropped the eggs , the children's attention skills were fantastic .

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This week we have been looking closely at the art work of Julie Mehretu , we used charcoal and pastels to re create some of Julie's most famous art work. The children made the colours on their paper first the smudged the pastels with the sponge , we then added squiggly lines using black charcoal .

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On Friday We got our funky fingers working with a " Dough Disco " we listened to " Baby shark " and manipulated the dough with our hands . We used our fingers to poke , we used our palms to roll we used our whole hands to squeeze and we used knuckles to press.