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Growing Sunflowers

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We have loved our first weeks of our 'Living Things' theme. We found out about the parts of a plant, tasted different parts odf a plant and then we planted sunfflower seeds. We have loved watching them grow.

We have also enjoyed our letter of the week activities.

Pirate day 2018

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We loved Pirate Day!! What a way to end our half term.

A Royal Wedding

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Enjoy our Royal Wedding celebratrions.

We did lots of lovely activities to celebrate Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.  We made the Union Jack flag, threaded beads to make a beautiful bracelet, came to Nursery wearing aour best outfits and made delicious trifle to eat at our picnic wedding feast.

Nursery rockpools

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Dear All,

We have been having such fun with our under the sea theme. Last week we found out about rockpools and hermit crabs. We did a lot of investigating with shells and rocks and used them in our maths activities for counting and making shapes and exploring patterns.

We have really enjoyed making a rockpool in a bottle. Choosing what to go in and filling it to the half way mark. If we listen carefully they even sound like the sea.

We have also been very busy in the warmer weather doing our outdoor activities. We made some beautiful nature crafts and we love our clay tree faces.

Summer Term

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Hello all,

Welcome back after Easter Break. The children had a wonderful time exploring and learning in the field and our other outdoor areas in the Springtime sunshine last week. Don't forget the children will spend most of the day outdoors on a Friday so always dress appropriately for the weather!

We also had a great start to our Under the Sea theme for this term . We made some fabulous sea creatures for our role play from old CDs, cooled down in the water tray with a spot of fishing and  made our own sea creatures using 2D shapes.

We have loved learning the letter 'l' this week because Mrs Edmunds got the lego out! We made lots of creations and also did some printing with it.

Come and Play Session

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Thank you to all the Mums, Dads and Granddadswho came to our Nursery on Monday. It made us feel so special.

Jungle fun

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We have had a great start to our new Spring theme -Down in the Jungle...

We loved making animal hatas and painting our faces to look like a favourite jungle animal. We have talked alot about colours and patterns. Our fork lion pictures looked wonderful and we could do them all on our own! We have loved doing lots of other jungle activities too and our role play is as popular as ever.

World Book Day

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We had a great time celebrating world book day in Nursery last week. We all dressed up as our favourite book characters- don't we look fantastic?!

Chinese Celebrations

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We thought you would enjoy the photos of our last week of Spring 1 term when we found out about Chinese New Year and Shrove Tuesday.

We loved creating Chinses dragon puppets, tasting fried rice and prawn crackers. dancing to Chinese music and making our own drum. We found out it was a Spring festival and made some beautiful blossom pictures.

We also enjoyed making pancakes, cooking pancakes and eating them when we found out about Shrove Tuesday. We then had a pancake race. It was such fun!

Nursery Fun

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Hi All,

We have been enjoting learning our letter sounds the past few weeks. Thank you for all the contributions from home the children love sharing the objects they find around the home. We enjoyed a letter hunt outside in the sunshine and lots of craft activities. The children were especially excited by letter 'p' and enjoyed all the p,p,p, pirate activities. The gluey, glittery, green and gold 'g's' look beautiful.

We would like to thank all who sent in photos and souvineers for the holiday worrk. The children shared their memories and experiences really well and we have decided to make a fabulous display of their travels.

Please note that parent consultations are next Tuesday and Thursday we look forward tocatching up with you and sharing the good progress the children are making.

Our New Friends and Transport!

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Hi All,

A big welcome to our new families to the Whitehouse Common Nursery blog please scroll through to read about and see some of the fun activities we have been doing through out the year. We have tried really hard to make our new friends feel very welcome and have been showing them daily our rules and routines. 

We have also been having lots of fun on our new theme -'Travel and Transport'....

Shapes on planes, ships, trains and cars.

Parking the cars in the correct bay - counting sets and finding the matching numeral.

A traffic jam in the blue tray.. How many?

Traffic light biscuits were a big hit.

We have been doing a lot of investigating ...

How do hot air balloons work? Mrs Edmunds showed us when air gets hot it expands and rises using a balloon a bottle full of air and hot kettle water.  And they are so pretty.

Emergency vehicles and uniforms have reflective materials on them.Which material is the most reflective? We went in the dark den with our torches to find out...being a scientist is such fun!

Our new Train Station role play has been very popular. Where are going today Freddy? "Barbados!"