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Achievement Day Celebrations.

It was lovely to see so many parents join us for their child's Achievement Award. It was a day to celebrate all of the children's progress and their achievements over the past year. We are so proud of them.

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Our caterpillars 🦋

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Our story is called Handa's Surprise. The children explore the different fruits and the animals that are in the story.

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The children are using screwdrivers to fix the wooden cars. They were able to turn the screwdrivers to made the wheels go round.

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The children are using child safe scissors to cut and make snips in the playdough.

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The children are using wooden hammers. They tap the golf tees into the orange with the wooden hammers. We talked about using the hammers safely.

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Poppy and snowdrop classes joined together for a safety walk. We talked about keeping safe by holding hands and when it was time to cross over a road we stopped and looked both ways and listened for cars. We crossed over the road when it was safe to cross.

We talked about the Green Cross Code, stop look and listen.

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The children made banana cake for snack. They mashed a banana with a fork and put the mashed banana in a mixing bowl. They added eggs, flour, brown sugar and oil and mxed the ingredients together. The mixture was then put in a baking tin and cooked in the oven. It took 40 minutes to bake and when it was cooled down, we had banana cake to eat. "It is yummy" the children said.

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This is one of our garden areas where the children can run around and explore the environment.

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This is where the children play with mud, sticks, flowers, leaves, and water to make new creations every day.

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We have an area for waterplay, where the children can explore filling and emptying containers. The children can explore how to mix the colours.

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We have a table for playdough where the children can roll, press, cut and squeeze the dough.

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This is where the children can look at the books, play games, or have some quiet time.

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This is our home corner, where the children can explore the different activities that are set out daily.

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I have been busy exploring my new nursery class. I have played with the trains and cars and blocks. I have made marks in a salt tray and with paint.

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Making towers with the coloured pegs.

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The children are making pizza for their sack. They spead the tomato puree onto the pizza base and they sprinkled some cheese over the top.

The pizzas were then put in the oven to bake.

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The children are making marks using their fingers in the salt tray. They are making circles and lines.

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In the maths area, the children explore the frogs in the water tray.

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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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The children have loved the warmer weather and exploring lots of different activities in the garden. We have been very busy making potions in the garden, making food for baby bear to take to the moon and playing on the climbing frame and trampoline.

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Salad spinner art

The children selected the colours that they wanted to use and made their very own pictures using the salad spinner. Each child carefully squeezed the paint into the spinner and then used the handle to spin the spinner around to make their pattern. Just look at some of their amazing art work!

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The children have loved the warmer weather and exploring lots of different activities in the garden. We have been very busy making potions in the garden, making food for baby bear to take to the moon and playing on the climbing frame and trampoline.

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We went to visit the baby ducklings in Snowdrop class. The children looked at the ducklings and we talked about what they could see. The ducklings were still very small so we couldn't touch them.

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The children helped to make cheese sandwiches. Using their knife, they spread the butter onto the bread and then sprinkled the cheese on top. They added another slice of bread and then cut out a star shape with a pastry cutter. The children ate the star shaped sandwiches for snack.

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The children had lots of fun on the soft play. Moving about in different ways, through rolling, sliding and jumping. They built rocket towers and then had fun knocking them down.

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The story for this week is Whatever Next. The children can re-tell parts of the story and can label mummy, bear, rocket, water, moon.

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The children matched the pictures from the Whatever Next story. They labelled the different pictures learning the new vocabulary from the story.

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Our story this week is Whatever Next. The children can re-tell parts of the story and help move the props as we follow the pages in the book. They labelled Mummy, bear, moon, owl, rocket.

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The children joined in with the number sack 10 green bottles. They took it in turns to count how many bottles were left when one was taken away.

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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.