Hi everybody

We hope you are all well and have enjoyed half term.

Our book this week is ‘The monkey with the bright blue bottom.’

The monkey was very cheeky using the paints!

🐵I wander if you can use lots of different colours and paint some animals?

🐵Can you paint with different size paintbrushes and look at the different patterns each brush makes.

🐵Can you dip string in the paint and make patterns with the string.

🐵Can you have a go at bubble painting?

DIRECTIONS FOR BUBBLE PAINTING

1. Add three tablespoons of bubble solution and two tablespoons of paint to a cup.
2. Mix the paint and bubble solution together.
3. Place a piece of paper on the grass or a table.
4. Dip the bubble wand or a straw into the bubble paint and then blow out bubbles so they land on the paper.

🐵When you go for a walk, maybe you could collect some leaves, or a pretty snowdrop and then draw or paint a picture of it when you get home.

🐵Look at different animals and talk about their colours and the patterns on them.

The stripes on a zebra, the squares on the giraffe, the spots on the leopard and many more.

🐵When you go for a walk, can you see patterns anywhere?  On drain covers, bricks, doors, and many more?

🐵Can you look at lots of animals and think about where they live, would you see them in a zoo, or at the farm, in the jungle? What do they eat?  What noise do they make? Are they tall, short, tiny, huge?  Have the animals got fur? Or scales, feathers?

🐵I wander if you could look at a map and think about where the animals live in the world.

🐵We hope you all have a lovely week and we look forward to hearing from you all.

Take care

Love from everyone in nursery.

Hi children and families

We hope you have had a good week.

This week we have planned activities around the book “Mr Wolf’s Pancakes”.

Here is a video of us reading the story.  We hope you enjoy it.

🥞Do you think the characters were kind to Mr. Wolf?  How do you think that made Mr.  Wolf feel?

🥞Below is a link to the nursery rhyme ‘Wee Willie Winkie’

🥞Below is a link to the nursery rhyme ‘Old Mother Hubbard’

🥞Can you make your own pancakes?

110g flour, 2 eggs, 200ml milk.

You can add different toppings on your pancakes.  I wonder what your favourite is?

🥞  You could use food colouring and syrup and a new brush to paint patterns and colours on your pancake.

🥞  Can you draw circles, like  a pancake and cut around them carefully with scissors?  Maybe you could pretend play with frying pans, whisk, jug, spatula.

🥞  Can you see other round shapes around your house?  Maybe a wheel, a clock, a plate and I’m sure many more things.

🥞  Can you think of something to use as pretend money, maybe milk carton lids?  You could count the lids.  Can you count up to 10?  I wonder if you can count lots of other things in your home.

🥞You could play shops at home, set up items to sell, use money and a purse, a till and a shopping bag.  I wonder what you will buy from your shop?

🥞Can you look for numbers around your house and have a look how many numbers you can see when you go for a walk?

🥞Did you notice the characters in the book? Gingerbread man, 3 little pigs, Little Red Riding Hood.  I’m sure you can tell those stories all by yourself.

🥞Below is a link to the story of Chicken Licken.

🥞We hope you enjoy some of these activities and we look forward to hearing from you.

Take care, we hope you all have a good week.

Love from everyone in Nursery.

Hello everybody

We hope you are all keeping well, and have had a lovely week.

This week we are reading Little Red Riding Hood. We hope you enjoy this video, Miss.  Stone is reading it and Mrs. Ryan is telling the story with puppets.

There is a link on this page to watch a video on YouTube.

• Can you follow a recipe and make apple crumble?  I think Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma would like apple crumble.
• https://www.netmums.com/recipes/apple-crumble-for-kids
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• Can you find 5 red objects around your house?   Maybe you can find lots of other colours around the house.
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• Have you got something red that you can wear and pretend to be Little Red Riding Hood skipping to Grandma’s house?
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• Can you look at your eyes, ears, teeth in the mirror, and then look at your family’s  eyes and talk about the shape and colour of them?
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• Can you look at colouring pencils and use them to make pictures of the characters from the story?  I wander if you can draw the Wolfs big eyes, big ears and big teeth?
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We hope that you have a good week and we look forward to hearing from you.

Take care

Love from everyone in Nursery.

Hi everybody

we hope everyone is keeping well and we miss seeing you all.

Our activities this week are based around The 3 little pigs story.

Below is a link to a 3 Little Pigs song for you to listen to.

🐷 Can you use some recycling objects to build 3 different houses for the pigs.

🐷 Look at the pigs houses and talk about the different materials they are made from.

Is your house made of bricks? If you go for a walk can you look at all the different houses, there colour, size, shapes, patterns.

🐷 On your walk you could collect some sticks to make a stick house.

🐷 can you make a pig sound, and think about lots of other animals and the sounds they make. Where do the different animals live, what do they eat.

🐷 Some pigs are a pink colour, some black, some white and brown. Can you mix colours to watch the colour change.  Do you know which 2 colours make pink?

https://www.faspaints.com/free-paint-colour-mixing-guide-for-kids.html

🐷 can you retell the story and add your own pig voice and Wolf voice, with a big huff and puff!

🐷 have you got some building blocks, or boxes that you could make a house for an animal of your choice.

We hope you have fun doing these activities, and don’t forget we would love to see some photos of you.

Take care everyone,

love Nursery.

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Hello Everybody

We hope that you are all keeping well and have had a good week.

We hope that you enjoy todays video, Mrs. Ryan is reading’ A chair for baby bear.’  This is a story explaining what happens after Goldilocks has broken his chair.

Our music lady Sarah has recorded herself singing a lovely new song for you to learn at home.

We hope you enjoy these videos and look forward to hearing from you.

Take care, from everyone at Nursery.

Hi Children and families,

We hope you are all keeping well, and have enjoyed the weekend Sunshine.

This is our last week of term, before we break up for the Summer holidays.  It has been very strange not seeing you all for such a very long time, and we are sad that we can’t celebrate with you all that you have achieved before you start school in September.  However we are so looking forward to seeing you in Class 1, and some of you returning to Nursery in September.

This weeks story is called ‘The Koala who could’

Hi children,

We hope you are all keeping well and still finding fun activities to do.

This week we have planned ctivities around the book, ‘Olivers vegetables’

You can listen to the story below and we have planned a few activities for you to do if you would like to.

https://youtu.be/2yvllKqyVUc

You can use fruit and vegetables to make lovely painting prints.

You can add fruit into your muffins or biscuits to make them extra tasty.

Toddler Muffins

 

 

 

Print Recipe

Serves: 24 mini muffins

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 10 mins

Total: 30 mins

 Ingredients

Muffin Base

• 1 1/3 cups white whole wheat flour (also called golden wholegrain flour)
• 3/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats (jumbo rolled oats)
• 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds (milled flax seeds)
• 1 small apple – grated with peel
• 2 medium eggs
• 3/4 cup whole milk
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter – melted
• Apple Cinnamon (enough for 1/4 of the muffin batter)
• 1/2 small apple – chopped into 1/2-cm pieces
• /4 teaspoon cinnamon
• Blueberries (enough for 1/4 of the muffin batter)1 handful blueberries (blueberries vary in size, but aim for about 2-3 blueberries in each muffin)
• Carrot and Raisin (enough for 1/4 of the muffin batter)
• 1/4 medium carrot – grated
• 1 tablespoon raisins
• Chocolate Chip (enough for 1/4 of the muffin batter)
• 2 tablespoons dark chocolate chips
• Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 375°F / 190°C. Grease or line a 24-hole mini muffin tin.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, and flax seeds. Fold in the grated apples. 
• In a small bowl, beat the eggs. Beat in the milk and butter. 
• Pour the egg mixture into the batter, and fold together, being careful not to over mix. 
• Split the muffin batter evenly between 4 bowls. In each bowl, gently mix in the mix-in ingredient. You can adapt the recipe to make 1, 2, 3 or 4 varieties. Adjust the amount of mix-in as required.
• Using a cookie scoop, evenly distribute the batter into the mini muffin tin, filling each muffin cup about 3/4 full. For each variety, you should be able to get 6 mini muffins. 
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until cooked in the middle and a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before transferring to a cooling rack.

Growing Vegetables with Children

If you want to grow vegetables with your children then think about those that are easy to sow and grow and will be quick growing.  For the best vegetables to grow are those that:-

• Are easy to sow, especially those with large seeds like courgettes.
• Germinate quickly, to keep those short attention spans occupied.
• You can sow in situ, so you do not have the trouble of transplanting.
• Produce a crop quickly.
• Require minimum maintenance other than watering and feeding.
• Will continue cropping.
• Grow food that you know your children already like or food you have a good chance of persuading them to munch.   Vegetables that you can eat straight from the plant like tomatoes are always a hit with kids.  Harvesting food is one of the best things about growing your own.

 Click here to learn more about creating a vegetable plot.

We hope you all have a fun week.

Take care

Love from Miss. Stone and everyone in Nursery.

xx