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Lexi signing Little Elves

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The children were playing in nursery today when the alarm sounded. The children acted very quickly and made a line at the door to exit the building. We all held hands and made our way to the grass verge outside the gate. Claire called the register to make sure we were all present. Once we were given the all clear we headed back into Nursery. When we were inside we talked about the fire drill and why it is important that we have to get outside quickly but carefully. The children were able to talk about what happens if there was a fire and who would come to help us.

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This little light of mine - a song with Grace

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This little light of mine - a song with Grace

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Bluebell and Daisy Class went on a visit to St Luke's Church. Grace greeted us at the door. We had a tour and Grace explained all the things in side the church. We listened to a story about the Nativity which we enjoyed in using actions. When we were back in the main part of the building we made Christingles with oranges, cocktail sticks, sweets and raisins. We placed a candle in to the middle and we all learnt a new song to sing 'This little light of mine'. We finished by singing our song 'Baby Jesus' to Grace before having a group photo outside.

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This little light of mine - a song with Grace

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This little light of mine - a song with Grace

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Bluebell and Daisy Class went on a visit to St Luke's Church. Grace greeted us at the door. We had a tour and Grace explained all the things in side the church. We listened to a story about the Nativity which we enjoyed in using actions. When we were back in the main part of the building we made Christingles with oranges, cocktail sticks, sweets and raisins. We placed a candle in to the middle and we all learnt a new song to sing 'This little light of mine'. We finished by singing our song 'Baby Jesus' to Grace before having a group photo outside.

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The children enjoyed having their Christmas lunch with the adults. We listened to Christmas music and had crackers to pull. When they pulled the cracker they found a funny pair of glasses and a hat to wear. We all told our jokes which made us laugh lots.

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The children sat at group time and talked about what they could see on the carpet. They were unsure of some of the items on the carpet. Safa said "look its a baby maybe baby Jesus from our song". The children were keen to know what was in the presents. We all got to sniff the bottles to see what they smelt like and predicted what they could be used for.

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Today the children listened to Polar bear polar they were able to identify initial sounds for the animals. They could make the noises for the animals and at the end we played a game with the animals from the story.

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In phonics the children have been working on rhyming words and listening to words that sound the same. The children looked at the picture cards on the floor and then looked for the matching pair. They were able to complete this activity really well we then thought of other words to rhyme.

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In the home corner we were writing letters to Santa. On the table there was different books, scissors, paper and glue for children to create their letter. We wrote our name on the bottom and then posted it into the letterbox.

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In bluebell class we had a fun activity of decorating our Christmas Tree. The children had lots of fun exploring the box of different decorations to put on the tree and were really engaged. The children placed different baubles, beads and tinsel on the tree.

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The afternoon children helped Amy make some yummy cupcakes for snack. We all looked at the recipe and told Amy how much of the ingredients we need. We all had a go at using Amy's electric whisk from home. We had them for parliament time and they were really tasty.

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The children in the morning helped make some yummy cupcakes today. They were able to tell Amy how much of the ingredients we needed and all had a good go at using Amy's electric whisk from home. We then tried them at parliament time and really enjoyed them.

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With the last few weeks before Christmas our children have been getting in the Christmas sprit!

Dressing up and playing the roles of Santa, Elves, Snowman and Rudolph the red nose reindeer.

Choosing presents of all shapes and sizes, wrapping presents using wrapping paper, tape and tags.

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The children had been talking a lot about our movie nights during session and wanted to have another.

To get into the Christmas sprit we voted for The Snowman.

The children sat beautifully and loved watching the snowman do funny things, to our amazement we even got to see him fly.

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Clare read the Christmas story to the children. As she read the children learnt some new signs. They were able to talk about the characters in the story and what the three presents were that the Wiseman gave to baby Jesus.

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The children doing an amazing job at drawing the characters from the story.

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Jodie and Catherine attached the swing seat to the monkey bars and the children loved it.

The children have been taking turns and counting so everyone gets the same amount of time on the swing.

The children needed a little bit of help at the start to make a line and wait their turn but after some support they got the hang of it now are confident to do it all by themselves.

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With the weather getting colder, the children and Catherine decided to leave a tray of water out over night to see what would happen! The next day we went outside to play and the water had frozen turning into ICE!

Fatima said "We need a hammer to break it"

Matei said "cold"

Isabella said "its stuck"

Annabelle said "its frozen cause its very cold"

Claire then found a massive piece of ice and held it in her hands, the ice started to melt as Claire's hands were warm.

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Our first Curriculum day was all about Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

The children had many fun activities to do and we think our favourites was feelings balloons and pizza faces.

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Over the last few weeks we have introduced our Christmas rhymes. Getting prepared for our Christmas concert in a few weeks time its all go in Bluebell Class.

The children have really taken well to remembering all the words and signing to the songs.

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This week following our PSED curriculum day, Bluebell class made some pizza faces for snack! The children remembered how to hold their knife correctly so they could chop up some ingredients we needed which were; mushrooms, tomatoes and peppers! The children were able to carefully spread their tomato paste onto their pizza base and then chose from their selection of toppings what they wanted on their very own pizza!! Kaiyan chose to make a happy face and made sure he had 2 eyes, a nose and a slice of pepper as his smile! After adding the toppings, Franik was Haneefah's superstar helper and ensured the pizza faces went into the oven at the right temperature and helped in checking in on them to make sure they did not burn!!

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Characters drawings - The children drew their own dinosaurs. Some had spikes, spots, stripes and sharp teeth.

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During parliament time the children wanted a another movie night so we narrowed it down to 3 short movies that they wanted to watch. Children then were given a cork to place their vote.

After everyone had voted the children estimated how many chose each film. Claire counted the corks on each film and the children told Claire which one was bigger number of votes.

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Today as a class we created our very own helicopter story. Kaiyan said "we need a beginning, middle and end", Maysa said "you need characters" and Safa said "you then act it out".

Our first story and acting out was a success and the children then gave it a go for themselves during their play.

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Our story is 'Dinosaurs Love Underpants' the children looked at the front and back cover, labelled objects and learnt key words.

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Making dinosaurs with different materials, Playdough and pipe cleaners. Oliver added pipe cleaners to make his dinosaurs spikes, Queenette used her fingers to poke holes to make a face and Roberto used the rolling pin to flatten the dough and then pressed the end of the rolling pin in to created circles.

Children created their own dinosaurs and copied adult language.

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Learning about safety this week we had a very special visitor or should we say visitors...

PC Daniel, Omar and Junaid came to visit and talk about the police and what they do also how they can help us.

The children sat beautifully while the police spoke about their jobs and gave us a demonstration of crossing the road and wearing a seat belt.

After our talk and questions we got to go outside and look in the police van, one child then got chosen to sit in the front and turn on the lights.

PC Daniel told us that it is important to know our names and where we live to help us if we ever got lost.

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The children had a lovely walk in the wintery weather alongside their parents and carers, Catherine, Jodie and Lisa.

We remembered our rules and held our adults hands, when we arrived at a road we remembered our road safety we had to stop, look left and look right and use our listening ears to hear, when it was clear and no cars were driving we were safe to cross.

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Wow Tuesday this week we went on a road safety walk. All the children engaged using their listen ears, magnet eyes and remembering to stop and holding their adults hands at all times.

We crossed many roads safely and had a lovely walk in the wintery weather because we had a little bit of snow.

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Talking boxes

Is an intervention to support EAL children and those children who would benefit from speech and language support.

Our talking box groups are led by Claire and Vicky.

We have been doing talking boxes at nursery for several years and the format has proved successful these groups aim to support children to learn English in a planned and progressive way.

The groups are held twice a week with a maximum of six children in each group. We are very lucky to complete this intervention with Daisy class. The sessions run for five weeks each half term.

During this group we sing a Hello song, introduce activities, introduce book and character, have an attention activity, read the story and have another activity (related to key words), reward sticker and say Goodbye.

The program is the same for both age groups, the books and activities are simple as we are teaching the children the basic words.

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Vicky led the afternoon session to our families. They were able to see the whole intervention and we talked through all our resources. The children were so engaged and joined in really well.

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A massive thank you for all your donations and to all of you that gave your support to raising money with us.

The cakes and cupcakes that were made were amazing and the children loved helping make them too.

We hope you enjoyed eating them!

We sure do love a Bake Sale!

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Before we could make cupcakes at nursery for Friday's Bake Sale we had to write a shopping list and go to the shops to get the ingredients.

Kaiyan helped write down the stuff we needed to buy and Safa kept the list safe cause apparently Catherine would lose it!

"I'll look after the list, Catherine you will lost it" said Safa, She did an amazing job at keeping it safe.

We went to the shops and remembered the rules and road safety skills.

Once we arrived at the shops Matei said "i see the eggs" Kaiyan and Tommy found the sugar...

Great Job Little Bluebells, Back to nursery to get cooking!

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The children helped make cupcakes for our Friday bake sale.

The children helped count how much of the ingredients we needed and how much milk we need to pour.

Sakhi started to mix the ingredients together and once everyone had a turn we checked to see what the consistency was like. Maysa said its like slime, Sophie said its runny .

We scooped the mixture into cupcake cases and then Catherine placed them in the oven to cook.

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It was also lovely to see the children dress up in traditional clothing and be proud of their culture.

Thank you to all the parents and carers that joined us to celebrate our special days.

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We had a lovely day celebrating our recent special events.

Fireworks night, Remembrance day and Diwali.

The children explored all of the activities and especially liked the food table with making chocolate sparklers and tasting Indian cuisine.

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It was also lovely to see the children dress up in traditional clothing and be proud of their culture.

Thank you to all the parents and carers that joined us to celebrate our special days.

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We had a lovely day celebrating our recent special events.

Fireworks night, Remembrance day and Diwali.

The children explored all of the activities and especially liked the food table with making chocolate sparklers and tasting Indian cuisine.

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Today the children came into class to find a massive egg on the carpet in relation to our new story. The children took turns to talk about what they can see and what they think the story could be about.

The children made suggestions on what might come out of the egg and we looked at the size difference from a small egg to a big egg so the children knew it was an animal or thing much bigger than a chicken or duck.

The children are getting really good at starting to make predictions relating to the objects. We are also learning new vocabulary with every story.

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Today the children wanted to paint and create their own aliens using different colours. The children helped themselves to the different colours and used a variety of different sized paintbrushes and cotton buds for smaller features. The children were also asked if they could write their name or first sound on their work too.

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We held our first parent session to the children who are currently on Talking boxes intervention and were thrilled that everyone could make it. The children were so engaged and the families were able to see the whole intervention. We talked through the process and showed them all the available resources we use.

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Today in phonics the children played silly soup this time we ere adding items from our story and trying to work out the initial sound for each item. The children were asked to listen for the first they could hear and then to see if they could sign that sound.

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Today in phonics the children played silly soup this time we ere adding items from our story and trying to work out the initial sound for each item. The children were asked to listen for the first they could hear and then to see if they could sign that sound.

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The children have had the opportunity to explore the dark tent and available resources that we added throughout the week. The children enjoyed the torches and used them to project shapes onto the tent. We looked at space themed fiction and non fiction books using the torches. We also enjoyed the torches that projected space theme pictures for us to try and identify.

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We played Aliens love underpants Kim's game with Catherine.

Catherine took away an object each time and children were able to identify what objects were missing.

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The staff even joined in with CrAzY HaIr DaY too!

We had Aliens, Shrek, Sprinkles, Curly Hair , Pipe Cleaners, Spiders and colourful wigs.

It was great fun!

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To raise money for nursey we did a CrAzY HaIr DaY!

It was great to see how many different crazy hairstyles we got...

The children had wild spikey hair, cupcakes with sprinkles was popular, colourful hair such as Blue, Red, Orange, Yellow and Black, ,lots of different clips and bows and wigs.

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We played Aliens love underpants Kim's game with Catherine.

Catherine took away an object each time and children were able to identify what objects were missing.

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Reading Rockets - The children enjoyed a relax in their own little rocket crates as they blasted off to space to read their stories.

The children were so relaxed as it took so long that they even had a nap!

We took at a variety of different books to space with us and and the children spoke about what they might see in space.

Safa said "I went to space in my Rocketship, had a story on the moon".

Eva said "i sleep on the moon".

Christian said "Space".

Anna said "look there is an alien".

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Talking boxes

Is an intervention to support EAL children and those children who would benefit from speech and language support.

Our talking box groups are led by Claire and Vicky.

We have been doing talking boxes at nursery for several years and the format has proved successful these groups aim to support children to learn English in a planned and progressive way.

The groups are held twice a week with a maximum of six children in each group. We are very lucky to complete this intervention with Daisy class. The sessions run for five weeks each half term.

During this group we sing a Hello song, introduce activities, introduce book and character, have an attention activity, read the story and have another activity (related to key words), reward sticker and say Goodbye.

The program is the same for both age groups, the books and activities are simple as we are teaching the children the basic words.

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For phonics this week the children listened to the story "Walking through the jungle" for this story the children had to listen carefully to see if they could identify the animal sounds.

The children listened beautifully and could identify the sounds from the book.

We heard animal noises from a lion. crocodile, elephant, monkey, tiger and a snake.

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We're making Silly Soup - Phonics this week was silly soup the children helped Claire make a silly soup made out of the items beginning with 'm'. Children all engaged with singing the silly soup rhyme and chose the correct items to place into our bowl.

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Today we played a game called "Amy Says". The children watched the adults do the demonstration and were then able to play the game. The children had lots of fun stretching up high, bending down touching their toes, laying on their backs and doing jumping jacks.

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For fitness Firday we played "Amy Says". The children listened to Amy explain how to play the game. We had a few demonstrations from the teachers and had ago our self. We had to stretch up high, bend down and touch our toes, pretend to be sleeping and do star jumps.

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In the home corner the children had a good go at chopping some apples carrots and mushrooms. The children found the mushroom was easier to cut than the apples and carrots. Some children found a different way to snap the carrot which was use the knife and then break the carrot in half.

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In the home corner the children wanted to have a go at chopping some fruit and vegetables. We had ago at chopping some apples, mushrooms and carrots. The children listened carefully to the instructions when using the knifes. The children used there muscles to have a good try at cutting them up. They found the mushroom easier to cut than the apples and carrots.

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The children enjoyed helping Amy make yummy flapjacks. We all took turns to add the ingredients together and then mix the ingredients together into a large bowl. Once it was in the bowl we all pressed the mixture flat with a spoon so it was ready to go into the oven.

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For Tasty Wednesday the children enjoyed making flapjacks with Amy today. They looked at the recipe and was able to tell Amy how much of each ingredients we needed. Once all the ingredients were in the large bowl we all took turns to mix it together and then place it into a large dish ready to go into the oven.

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This week for funky fingers, the children have been able to explore our space themed funky fingers activities! This included cutting out different shaped pants where they were also able to identify the numbers up to 20! They then took those pants they had cut up to our very own washing line! They were all able to have a go at hanging up their own pants with the pegs!

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With our focus book being Aliens love underpants, This week we have been discussing the PANTS rule in Bluebell Class.

The staff had conversations with the children that are developmentally appropriate and what they would understand.

The main points we covered were:

Privates are private and your body belongs to you.

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In conjunction with our core book Aliens love underpants, we have been discussing the PANTS rule with Bluebell Class.

Please be reassured that such conversations are developmentally appropriate and are sensitively delivered in a manner that the children will understand. The main points we covered were:

Privates are private and your body belongs to you.

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Celebrating 10 years of Talk PANTS!

Pantosaurus has helped 1.5 million parents Talk PANTS and keep their children safe from sexual abuse.

Developed in consultation with children, parents, carers and teachers, Talk PANTS is here to help children understand their body belongs to them, and they should tell a safe adult they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.

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Our PANTS activity pack makes it easy to talk to your child about staying safe from harm. With a word search, dot-to-dot and maze game, you can help them learn without using any scary words.

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The Pantosaurus Song! | #TalkPANTS | NSPCC

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For our first WOW - we had a visit from Ark Farm, it was a first time experience with animals for some children but other had lots of experience and they absolutely loved it.

We loved seeing the parents engage with the animals and watch their child/children engage with them too.

The animals we met:

Guinea Pig

Rabbit

Chinchilla

Dog

Tortoise

Hedgehog

Lizard

Mouse

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This afternoon we walked to the post office to buy stamps. The children asked the lady in the post office for two first class stamps. They then looked at coins from Claire's purse to pay for the stamps.

The children licked the stamps and stuck them to the envelopes before we put them into the post box. We really hope we will hear something back- fingers crossed.

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During parliament time while talking about our current story and space the children have really shown an interest in astronauts. The children have been looking at a book about Tim Peake and we are been thinking hard about questions that we would like to ask him. Today we put together a letter to write to him. Kaiyan asked" What do you eat in space?" Annabelle "Why does it take so long to get to space? ". "What can you see in space?" asks Eva

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During parliament time while talking about our current story and space the children have really shown an interest in astronauts. The children have been looking at a book about Tim Peake and we are been thinking hard about questions that we would like to ask him. Today we put together a letter to write to him. Kaiyan asked" What do you eat in space?" Annabelle "Why does it take so long to get to space? ". "What can you see in space?" asks Eva

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Talking about the farm, the children played with the farm animals. Children were able to talk about the animals also what sounds they make.

Feeding the animals food, Isabella said "look look yummy, sheep hungry baa".

Yunus said "pig, oink".

Ollie said "my favourite is a horse"