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A little fun in the sun - before it got too hot!

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A little fun in the sun - before it got too hot!

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World Cup Day - Football penalty shoot out

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World Cup Day - Football penalty shoot out

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We had a special visit from the ducklings at wow this week. The parents really enjoyed having cuddles with them.

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The children made ducklings with the playdough they asked if they could add feathers and sticks for the legs. They talked about what the ducklings looked like. Imani said " You need to make two balls, one for his head and his body."

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Today, we drew faces on our potatoes to make the character supertato. Liya,Nova, and Elijah were able to talk about what he needed, including his mask and his super belt. 

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The children have been using their upper body strength to hang and attempt to make it across the monkey bars. Bonnie said "look Claire I can hang for ages." this led to everyone wanting to see how long they could hang for. The children used their counting skills to count how long each person could last. Some children being able to do it for 20 seconds wow.

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The children used their fine motor skills to cut and chop potatoes. They then decided that they wanted to cook them for snack. Yummy said the children once they were ready.

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The children have been so gentle and caring with our ducklings. The have really enjoyed giving them lots of cuddles. Just hearing the conversations and giggles from the children has been magical.

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Today we put on our gloves and aprons and cleaned the ducklings out. The children helped from start to finish and happy top make a new bed for the ducklings to sleep on.

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During parliament time the children choose names for the ducklings that the children voted for. Our final names were Cinderella, Golden, sparkle and Nibbles because one duck likes to nibble on Millie's hair when she cuddles him. The ducklings were put onto the floor to see which name they would go too!. We had so much fun watching them run around the carpet.

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Its bath time for the ducklings. The children were so excited to see the ducklings splashing around in the water and were keen to dry them off with a towel and cuddles afterwards.

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The children wanted to know how the ducklings hatched out the eggs? So Sarah showed them a short video so they could see how it happens. The children were so excited when they hatched.

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Wow, what a real treat in Bluebell Class today. We got our first cuddles with the ducklings. The children were so gentle when touching and holding the ducklings. We talked about rules to make sure the ducklings are cared for.  Now we need to think of some names. What shall we call them? 

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The children discovered that we had some eggs that had hatched, but what came out of them? We had lots of suggestions like a chicken, a snake, dinosaur and even that they had been left from the Easter bunny.

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This was a clear favourite. The children were so excited when the props were revealed slowly to them. They were able to tell us that supertato was a superhero and evil pea was the bad guy (villain).

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We had great fun drawing and labelling the giant.. The children were keen to help draw all the features and clothes the paint had that he gave to the animals to help them.

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Today, we had lots of props for our new story. The children were able to talk about them, but we're unsure of what the story could be about? Some children were also able to hear some rhyming words like goat - boat and house - mouse. 

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Today, we explored making porridge for the bears and acting out the story. They used different voices for the three bears 🐻.  They repeated phrases from story that they had learnt.

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Clare read the story of Easter to the class. Lots of children were able to talk about the story.  Some children told us they go to church making links to the story.

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We teamed up again with Luton borough Council for the great spring clean-up. The children were provided with gloves and tongs to help tidy up our local community. 

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Today, we got to go to the local park for some physical fun. We had so much fun climbing the frames, swinging high on the swings and having a good run around.

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Bluebell Class have been working really hard on their perfect pencil grip in preparation for letter formation. They have been working on the sounds we have learnt so far in phonics and their name writing. Amazing job Bluebells.

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Today we had all the sounds we have learnt to date. The children had to find an item and place it next to the correct initial sound. The children were also asked to sign the sound to show their awareness.

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Bluebell Class took part in National Downs Syndrome Day, which was celebrated worldwide with wearing odd socks.

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The children were all keen to join in and help make Easter nest cakes for our Easter party.

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Today, the children made porridge that tasted just right...so they ate it all up. Inspired from our story of Goldilocks and the three bears.

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The children had the opportunity to take part in some butterfly printing with their families.

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We had such a lot of families that came into the nursery to take part in our Easter crafts.

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Some of our families came in to celebrate a mothers Day.

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Today, we celebrated Eid with our families. We had lots of activities for the children to explore and some food to taste.

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Bluebell class love to act our current stories. They have really enjoyed acting out Goldilocks and the three bears. They have been able to use all the phrases from the story to sequence what happens next.

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Today we had all the sounds we have learnt to date. The children had to find an item and place it next to the correct initial sound. The children were also asked to sign the sound to show their awareness.

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We love bubbles in Bluebell Class you can always find someone asking for the bubble machine to come especially in the garden. Today we had a go at experimenting with making giant bubbles. The children took turns to sit on the log and we used the hoop to make large bubbles.... Could we get it up and over the children. It was so exciting to watch what would happen next.

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We explored writing with different items. Today was feather writing some children found this harder to do. While others still worked on their grip. Others simple enjoyed making marks on the paper.

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Bluebell Class have been working really hard on their perfect pencil grip in preparation for letter formation. They have been working on the sounds we have learnt so far in phonics and their name writing. Amazing job Bluebells.

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Splashing in puddles is so much fun... Bluebell class love to find a puddle.

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The children had said they wanted another movie in Bluebell Class. So we choose three Julia Donaldson films and the children took turns to vote for which film they would like to watch. After each child had voted we counted the corks to find out what we were going to watch. The children were able to tell me which was the biggest number. They then wanted to vote on what they were going to eat while watchin the movie.

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The children talked about their findings of mixing colours this time using food colouring.

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Experimenting with different colour water and flowers 

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Experimenting with different colour water and flowers 

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Bluebell Class have been exploring colour mixing using various items. Today they used their hands. they also made a poster to show when you mix two colours this is what you make. The children were confident to talk at parliament time about the colours they could make and what they needed.

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Today we did the skittle experiment before we started we talked about what items I had in front of me. We then talked about colour mixing. I then asked the children what they thought I needed to do before carrying out the experiment.

Millie knew what to do. She said " Claire lets put the sweets round the bowl and pour the water in the middle of the plate." I asked her what she thought might happen next?". She replied "magic". We then carried out the experiment like she said. Niamh shouted " I can see a rainbow happening." All the children gathered round to watch the colours from the skittles merge with the water.

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Bluebell Class had a wonderful time at our recent movie night. We watched the Gruffalo that the children had voted for. They ate pizza and relaxed on the pillow. Aryos said "This is the best movie ever". Saqib said " Claire look its a snake wow."

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During Science week we have been exploring the cause and effect form different experiments. The children have had many opportunities to make predictions on what they think will happen before carrying out the experiment. We had so much fun watching the what would happen when the mints were dropped into the cola. We had lots of screams of excitement when the lid was taken off the bottle. The children described as exploding like a volcano.

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Acting out Goldilocks and the three bears

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Acting out Goldilocks and the three bears

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Acting out Goldilocks and the three bears

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Acting out Goldilocks and the three bears

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We have had some fantastic acting of our current story of Goldilocks and the three bears. The children used a variety of different props to become the characters. The were very able to recall the story by using phrases from the book. The children used different voices to show which character they were from the story.

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Today we looked at another artist this time being Andy Goldsworthy. The children collected leaves from the garden first attempt them tried printing with the leaves to make their own patterns. The next time they decided to stick the leaves down and paint them using pastel colours.

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Today we looked at another artist this time being Andy Goldsworthy. The children collected leaves from the garden first attempt them tried printing with the leaves to make their own patterns. The next time they decided to stick the leaves down and paint them using pastel colours.

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The children have been looking at various artists today we looked at work from Kandinsky- the children described the patterns they said they could see circles. They choose to use a range of colours to recreate their own piece of work.

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The children have explored painting with flowers to see what different marks they make. They also talked about the colours they could make while mixing.

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Today we retold the story using props the children were so good at talking about the setting of our story, naming the characters and describing the objects from our story. The children were able to tell me what happened next in our story and they used different voices when acting like the different bears.

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This was our first book hook where the children were able to identify what the story was going to be from looking at the props. They were also able to talk about the characters. We then discussed the setting and the children were able to talk about a forest and they also used the word woods. Some children were also able to talk about stories that happen in the forest for example The Gruffalo.

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Voting at parliament time for a movie Night 

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Voting at parliament time for a movie Night 

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During parliament time the children voted for a movie. They had decided they wanted a movie night like we used to do. So we choose three options and each child individually voted for what they would like to see. We counted up the corks and wrote the numbers on the screen to see which one had the highest number. The Gruffalo won now to look forward to movie night.

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The children have been really good at identifying words that start with the initial sound i. They are able to follow the sequence and structure of the lesson. They have been working really hard on the letter formation too. Making sure they're using the correct pencil grip.

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From forks to fields... our little artists created golden wheat with the simplest tools. 🎨 

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The children loved creating their own little red hen. Exploring textures, strengthening fine motor skills, and bringing stories to life. 🐔 📖 

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The children cut elastic to size and then picked which coloured pasta they wanted to use.  They then threaded them onto elastic to make bracelets.

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The children had lots of fun learning how to make flapjacks. We read the recipe, checked our ingredients and worked together to add them to the bowl. We heated the butter and sugar and mixed them before pouring and spreading into a baking tray. We then cooked them and tasted when they had cooled down.