Babies: Fun with cardboard boxes

Babies: Splashing in puddles

Pre school - Baking

Following a suggestion from a parent pre school made some biscuits.....

Observation opportunities:

•Welcomes and values praise for what they have done.

•Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.

•Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

• Is able to follow directions

•Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.

Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

•Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.

•Uses some language of quantities, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’

Uses the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects.

I like ice cream.....

Following a conversation between two of our children about ice cream we made our own ice cream using shaving foam with food colouring.

Next week staff are going to make an ice cream parlour, they have ordered ice cream cones, shaving foam, sprinkles, cupcake cases, food colouring from asda. We will be using money to buy a variety of ice creams.  Keep an eye out for photographs :) 

Junk modelling

Do you have any cardboard boxes, yogurt pots, kitchen roll tubes that children can use to create their own models?

 Please bring them into Nursery to restock our junk modelling  ....

Democracy

What is Democracy?

Democracy within the early years is all about teaching children that their opinions are important and that each child’s thoughts and feelings should be listened to and valued. Democracy is also about teaching children that sometimes we are given the power to choose and make decisions as individuals and as a group. Turn taking and sharing all come under democracy, much of democracy is promoted through personal, social and emotional development within the EYFS.

We are currently in the process of updating our long term calendar ready for 2017/18. 

For our 2016/17 long term calendar Mr Tumble was the focus of our Safety Messages and Healthy Messages. 

Mr Tumble would like a rest this year so we need to choose a new character/ theme. 

Today we have started to ask the children to pick a new character/ theme:

Peppa pig 

Paw Patrol 

Nuresry Rhymes

Peter Rabbit  

We will let you know what the children decide... 

Thank you

Pre school staff would like to say a big THANK YOU for all the lovely cards and gifts from our school leavers. We will miss you all very much but you are all ready for the your next adventure :)

Tweenies- 5 Current Buns in a Bakers Shop......

Babies - Snappy Croc

This activity came from a conversation with a parent about how her child doesn't like brushing his teeth..........

Parents Evening Feedback

In an effort to improve our services Mary’s Nursery feels that feedback from parents/carers is essential.

During parents evening we gave each family two post it notes, 1. Things they like about Nursery  2. What we could improve on

We greatly appreciate your comments. All comments/ feedback can be seen on our 'App' (our school-app)

Pre School - Light Board

A traditional light box is used with children to explore objects with the added dimension of upward facing light, and can be brilliant for investigating silhouettes, colour mixing, and patterns, amongst many other things. 

Tweenies - Creating sounds

•  Joins in with favourite songs
• Creates sounds by banging, tapping etc
• Shows an interest in the way musical instruments sounds