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The children made butterfly prints on paper. They chose the colours they wanted and squeezed the paint onto the paper. They folded the paper over and opened other paper to see the butterfly prints. The children also were busy with other activities.

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The children can stack the blocks on top of each other to build a tower. When the tower falls down, they can build another one.

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Look at the lovely marks the children have made with crayons. They are able to make circles and swirly shapes on the paper.

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The children look at the paper eggs and we talk about the different patterns and the children made their patterns on the paper.

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The children used wooden tongs to pick up the pompoms and put them in the pots. Squeezing the tongs helps to strengthen the grip of the hand.

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There is lots to explore in the farm shop. "I buy orange." "Money," "My turn" the children were using their words in there play.

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We made a farm shop for the children to explore. They chose some food on the shelves and put them in the baskets. They loved pressing the buttons on the tills and opening the drawers to put the money money in.

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Painting flowers

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The children are exploring the different flowers that are floating the water. Using large spoons they scoop the flowers and water and pour this into small bowls.

" smell it" said a child, " smells nice".

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The children use garden tools to dig in the mud. We found some wiggly worms in the mud. "Look" one of the children said... "It's long."

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Magic milk experiment

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The children are exploring the dinoaurs that have even frozen in ice.

The children talk about the ice " It's cold". " It's slippery". "It's freezing". They said.

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The children watch Jenna put skittles around the edge of a plate. Jenna pours warm water over the plate and the children watch the colours run off the skittles and make a rainbow.

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Skittles experiment.

We put the skittles around the edge of a plate, Jenna labelled the colours and then warm water was slowly poured onto the plate. The children watched as the colours mixed into the water and looked like a rainbow.

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Our story is The very Hungry Caterpillar.

The children are exploring the bugs on the display.

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We put some cooked spaghetti (worms) into a tray. The children are using wooden tongs and they are picking up the worms with the tongs by squeezing the tongs together.

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Tap tap tap went the hammers on the ice. The dinosaurs are frozen in ice. The children break the ice with their wooden hammers.

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We froze some dinosaurs and asked the children to break the ice to set the dinosaurs free.

The children are given wooden hammers and tapped on the ice. After a while the ice cracked and the dinosaurs were free.

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We made cheesy worms with the children for their snack. We cut the pastry into straps and the children pressed some grated cheese into the pastry. The cheese worms were put on a baking tray and cooked in the oven.

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Our story has been the very Hungry Caterpillar. The children have seen how the Caterpillar starts out as a tiny egg on a leaf and then turns into a tiny Caterpillar and then a big Caterpillar. It builds a cocoon around itself and then turns into a butterfly.

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Jenna is doing a colour fizz experiment. First she adds some bicarbonate of soda into the cupcake tray and then some food colouring. Orange, blue and yellow. Then Jenna pours some vinegar over the mixture and the ingredients start to fizz and the colours

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The children are exploring the props from the story.

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The children are using child safe scissors to make snips in the playdough. Using fine motor skills to open and close the scissors and thread the pipe cleaners into the colanders.

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The children are exploring the coloured water that is in the jugs. Using pipettes, they are able to see the water change colour. They then add the colours together whilst pouring the water into other pots and jugs.

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It's Amy's birthday, so she made cakes with the children.

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The children are making fairy cakes. They add flour, butter, sugar, milk eggs and vanilla essence. Amy helps the children to use the mixer to mix all the ingredients together. The children then put the cup cases onto the tray and they then use a small spoon to add the mixture into the cup cases. They ate their cakes at snack time.

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The children are using different sized paint brushes and explored mixing the colours together.

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We introduced the children to using large paint brushes and paint rollers in coloured paint. The children made their marks on the large easel outside in the garden. They have made a wonderful mural.

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The children are learning to use the child safe scissors to make snips in the playdough for our funky finger activity. The children held the scissors with both hands to make big snips in the dough.

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Making heart biscuits

The children take turns to add some flour butter and sugar into a bowl. They stir all the ingredients together until it formed into a dough. They rolled out the dough and used a heart shaped cutter to cut out the biscuit. The biscuits were then but on a baking tray and put in the oven to bake.

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Making marks in shaving foam.

The children explored the shaving foam. They put their hands in the shaving foam and made marks with their fingers or with brushes.

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Making our own sandwiches

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Wow Tuesday Activties.

The parents came along to make Valentines Day crafts with their children. They made cards, pasta bracelets and make playdough models.

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The children are exploring how the coloured paints change when they are mixed together.

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For art this week, we were using some large brushes in paint to see how the children could make their marks on the paper.

We saw the children use large and small brush strokes. The children were busy mixing the colours together.

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The children are making snack. They add some chocolate to a bowl and when it has melted, they pour some rice krispies into the bowl and mix the ingredients together. They scoop the mixture into cup cases. The tray of krispy cakes are then put in the fridge to cool.

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The parents and children explore the different maths activities that are set out in the room. They explored the different sized animals and objects, they completed puzzles, sorting numbers and building towers with blocks.

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For our curriculum day, we have a maths workshop set up for the parents/carers to do with their children. The activities are what we do with the children while they are at nursery. they include numbers, patterns, size and shapes.

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The children have loved the 5 little speckled frogs number sack. They had great fun splashing frogs in the water, and counting how many frogs were left.

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Write dance

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The children are using child safe scissors to make their snips in the soft dough.

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Our funky finger activity is Hammer Tap Tap. The children have a wooden hammer and a cork board and wooden flat shapes (with a hole in the middle). We gave the children a small tac to push through the hole and they use their hammer to push the tac through the shape.

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Our story this week is 'owl babies'.

The children made clay owls in the wellness wood.

They added googly eyes and feathers onto the clay.

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We set out the soft play for the children to explore. They had lots of fun moving around on the equipment. Jumping on and off, rolling around, sliding and pulling themselves along.

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Kandinsky Art

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The children are making pizza for their snack. They squeeze the puree from the tube onto the muffin base and then spread the puree with the spoon. Then they sprinkle grated cheese on top. The pizzas are then warmed in the oven ready for snack.

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Its funky fingers Friday, we set out activities that strengthen the fine motor skills. The children are pushing pipe cleaners through the holes in the colanders.

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The children make their marks with the paint dabbers on the large paper. They explored different ways to explore the colours, making dots and lines and marks.

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We had a sensory activity in the creative area, shaving foam in a tray. The children explored the foam in different ways, some used spoons and brushes to move about and make marks in the foam and others used their hands to touch the foam.

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The children are making sandwiches for snack, they are learning how to hold their knife and to spread the butter and cheese spread on their piece of bread. They then fold the bread to make their sandwich.

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Our new afternoon children have had a busy first week in Poppy class. They have explored the painting area and playdough, the small world animals and cars, musical instruments and rhymes.

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Our new children have had a busy first week in Poppy class. They have been painting, playing with playdough, playing in the home corner and exploring the small world area.

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The children decorated a Christmas tree, They chose the decorations and added them to the branches on the tree. Using baubles, bells and tinsel, they made the tree look bright and colourful.

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The children are decorating the Christmas trees. The decorations can be moved around, (no glue needed). The children added pompoms, shells and tree decorations to make their tree look special.

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We made some "reindeer soup" with the children at nursery. The children pulled the sprouts off the stalk and peeled the leaves off adding them to a bowl. Then the children chopped up some carrots using child safe knives. We added the carrots to the bowl and then poured water and sprinkled glitter on top. The soup was then mixed together, ready for Santa's reindeer.

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We went to the shop to buy some Chrstmas wrapping paper and some biscuits.

We walked while holding hands with the grown ups. When we got the shop, we chose some wrapping paper and biscuits and gave the shop keeper the money.

When we walked back to nursery, we had a biscuit and drink for our snack.

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We held a talking box workshop for the parents and their children to explore some of the talking boxes that we have made to support the children with their language development. Here are some of the examples of our Talking boxes on display.

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The children were playing on the soft play eqiupment.

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The children really enjoyed exploring the different spices mixed with paints and water! They all took turns to smell the spices such as nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon and even started to do some finger painting too, they loved getting messy!

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The children are making tea in the home corner. Lots of filling and emptying of tea from the tea pot into cups and pots. They were curious to smell the different varieties of fruit tea. It smells nice they said.

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The children are making pizza for snack. They used bread for the pizza base and squeezed some tomato puree from the tube and used a knife to spread the puree over the bread. they then sprinkled grated cheese on top. The pizzas were warmed in the oven until ready.

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The children are making gingerbread biscuits for this weeks cooking activity. They take turns to add and mix the flour, sugar, butter, egg, syrup, ginger and cinnamon together. They roll out the dough and cut out a gingerbread shape with their cookie cutter. The cookies are then put in the oven to bake.

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The children are playing with the cars and trucks in class. They move their cars and trucks along the wooden roads. There are wooden people who want to cross the road and the children find a safe place for them to cross. We talked about road safety.

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The children are role playing in the home corner, pretending to be vets. There are lots of animals to care for. One child said "Oh no, he has a poorly head. It's cracked". The children put plasters and bandages on the animals to make them better.

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For our story this week we have the Dear Zoo story. The children take turns to lift the flap to reveal the animals that are hiding. They matched the animal with the animal on the carpet. They named the animal and made the animal noises.

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For group time, the children are watching an attention activity. For this we used some bicarbonate of soda, food colouring, and white vinegar. As soon as the vinegar was added to the bicarbonate of soda and food colouring, the ingredients fizzed and the colour filled the area. The children said "wow" "look big" "volcano" "red, yellow, green".

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We celebrated Diwali at nursery with different activities and invited the parents to come and join us. We tried some special foods. We made rangoli patterns with rice. We made special firework paintings and diva lamps to celebrate the festival of light.