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Watch and Listen to Catherine read Dear Zoo

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Watch and Listen to Debbie read Walking Through The Jungle🐒🦍🐘🐯🦁

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Watch and Listen to Natalie read We’re Going On A Bear Hunt🐻

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Sycamore Class

Take a look at our classroom

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During the session the children got to see a rainbow that had appeared over the nursery. We enjoyed looking at it and talking about how it got there. We then watched it disappear behind the clouds ☁️.

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Watch Rabia read the Gingerbread man

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Children have loved exploring the volcanic mess in sycamore Class

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Children loved watching the raisins fizz and dance about in the water.

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We have explored what will happen when we add water to skittles.
We made a rainbow!

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The children have really engaged with exploring and learning about Chinese New Year, The Year Of The Tiger 🐅

We have explored sensory rice tray with red and yellow rice.

We have created our own wooden canvases and lanterns.

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We celebrated Culture Day.

The children tried a variety of traditional food and wore their cultural clothing to nursery. We shared our own culture wheels with our peers and danced about to traditional cultural music.

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We watched Natalie make the cola explode from a distance.

Natalie added mentos to the cola and it exploded like a volcano 🌋

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The children have been getting their large motor skills going this week. There has been lots of pushing to get them legs moving.The children have really engaged with the bikes and scooters having races and going fast and slow. We have had so much fun!

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We have been exploring planting this week in Class and the children had no problem getting their hands messy. We have explored the soil and made sure once we had planted our bulb that it was covered and given water.

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On Monday our eggs arrived, on Wednesday Maple and Olive had hatched 20 chicks between them 🐣

The children have loved visiting the chicks in Maple and Olive.

It was such a lovely experience for them to see the chicks hatch and grow.

“Baby chick, tweet, tweet”

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Exploring our focus story this week, children have been talking about what might happen next and repeating words and phrases from the story.

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Children have really enjoyed mixing a variety of materials in the mud kitchen.

We have explored dried fruits, pasta, cornflour, water, flowers, grass, coffee, tea and herbal teas to see what we can make.

Children have used pretend play to make their peers tea, coffee and cupcakes 🧁 🫖 ☕️

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Learning about families, our similarities and differences.

Children have been looking at their families and our families this week. Talking about who they love, who they live with and who they spend time with.

We are one big family💛

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Painting the windows and mixing colours has been so much FUN! We have loved it and love getting messy. The children have chosen the colours and mixed them to create more colours. We created orange, green and tomorrow they want to make purple.

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Counting and ordering our flower pots before we see how many sandcastles we could make.

Lots of digging and counting is happening in Sycamore.

We have been learning our numbers and reciting them from 0-10.

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Children have really enjoyed watering the plants in the garden and watching the flowers blossom. Children have taken notice of the blossom in the tree that blows down in the wind. 

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Lots of rolling of the ball and counting how many we had knocked over. Children engaged with rolling the ball and then counting and reciting their numbers in order. We loved bowling 🎳 

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I’ll huff, I’ll puff and blow your house down

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I’ll huff, I’ll puff and blow your house down

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The children have been exploring the focus story this week.

Children have taken their story all over the class room and have enjoyed recalling and choosing their favourite characters to act out their parts. Repeating all the words and phrases to the story.

Most children’s favourite is “I’ll huff, I’ll puff and blow your house down” - Big Bad Wolf

We have been practicing our big bad wolf breath with trying to blow the bubbles away.

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The children have really enjoyed playing, exploring and listening to the three little pigs story.

They have used imaginative play in the construction area to build their own houses and used lots of positional language.

We have made pigs out of clay and recalled the story through using lego blocks and our story props.

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What have Sycamore Class been up too?

This week the children have explored and listened to our focus story Goldilocks and The Three Bears 🐻

Recalling the story also talking about size in a tray full of porridge oats.

Creating bears, houses and talking about families at the playdough table.

Outside the children have loved exploring the bugs 🐜 🐞🐛🦟🕷🪲🪳🐜

The children have loved observing and looking after the snails in the garden, feeding them apples and pears.

🐌🍎🍐

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Water, water and lots more WATER!

The children have really engaged with filling and pouring with different size bowls outside in the sun.

We used lots of mathematical language when filling and pouring the water.

"It's empty" "Too heavy" "More please"

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We borrowed 3-5s climbing frame to help us with our balancing and positional language.

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Welcome to the world of Dinosaurs!

This week in class we have gone Dino mad and the children have loved every minute of roaring and stomping around like dinosaurs 🦖

From sensory trays to mark making children have been exploring and learning about all the dinosaurs names, what they ate and where they lived.

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Exploring the world through natural objects.

Children have been making their own patterns, pictures and arrangements.

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We’re having a picnic 🧺

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Using our senses in the mud kitchen.

We used our nose to smell and our hands to touch.

It smelt so citrusy outside.

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Children loved making their own jam sandwiches for our teddy bears picnic 🧺

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Creating lots of patterns with a variety of natural objects.

We made smiley faces, butterflies, houses and lots of patterns.

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The Farm came to visit us at nursery the children had to be very quiet and use their kinds hands when touching the animals.

Some children were unsure so they sat and observed or looked closely with an adult near by.

We loved seeing the animals and want to thank ark farm for the visit.

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Talking about shapes, making houses.

Climbing to help develop our balancing skills.

Story dens so we can sit a read quietly and calmly.

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With the weather being so hot, we couldn’t resist a water play day.

We loved splashing about in the water and filling and pouring with the jugs.

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Step by step we carefully balanced and moved our way across the wooden climbing equipment.

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Practicing our yoga poses.

Today we done our animal poses, we jumped like a frog, moved like and elephant and went up into the trees like a monkey.

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Sorry about the mess but we’re learning here.

Lots of different ways to colour mix, the children have been squeezing food colouring into the corn flour to see what happens.

They made a lovely peach colour.

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Mixing herbs, Rice Krispie shapes, shampoo, conditioner, oranges and limes.

“I make breakfast”

“Yummy” “Yum, Yum”

Lots to different textures that the children explored.

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All aboard the pastures way train.

The children transferred the train hello song into the garden. Taking it in turns to be the driver.

Welcome to Platform 1, Your stop is Pastures Way 🚞🚉