Yesterday, the children enjoyed exploring healthy foods. Together, we identified a variety of healthy fruits and vegetables and talked about the importance of including these in our diet.

The children then had lots of fun creating their own tortilla wrap faces using a selection of fruits and vegetables. They carefully added features such as eyes, a nose, mouth, eyebrows, cheeks and hair, using their creativity and imagination to design their faces.

The children were very excited to eat their creations at snack time and enjoyed tasting the healthy fruits and vegetables they had used.

This morning, we explored ramps and balls by rolling, launching, and dropping them to investigate forces, motion and gravity. The children adjusted the height and steepness of the ramps and made predictions about which ramp would make the balls travel the fastest and the furthest. They tested their ideas, observed the results.

When you begin with paper, card, scissors and glue, you’re not just crafting—you’re bringing your imagination to life!

With a little creativity, simple materials can become something amazing. Today, a car rolled out of an idea and into reality.
Carefully constructed with determination, adaptability and lots of enthusiasm. Every cut, fold, and stick helped turn a vision into something tangible….! Just amazing!

We love the children’s creativity! 🌟 Today, a “bubble blower” was made using interlink stars. After testing it with water and washing-up liquid, we’re delighted to report that it worked! 🫧✨ What a fantastic example of imaginative learning and problem-solving.

Today the children enjoyed exploring our sensory trays. We talked about the different textures and used descriptive words such as crinkly, wrinkly, bouncy, bumpy, soft, hard, lumpy, and smooth. The children used their sense of touch to explore how the materials felt and their sense of hearing to listen carefully to the crunching sounds made by the paper. Sensory play is so important as it supports language development, encourages curiosity and helps children learn about the world through their senses.

After the activity, the children were absolutely amazing picking up pom poms and feathers – a big well done 😊

A little fine motor activity for those who chose to join…

The children carefully peeled the backs off stickers (all persevering), using them to create their own patterns. The activity encouraged hand-eye coordination, finger strength. The children showed exceptional concentration as they manipulated the small stickers and decided where to place them.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring with the pestle and mortar. The wonderful scents filling the nursery this week have been incredible.

We love providing different learning opportunities for the children throughout the week. Some children may feel curious and choose to join an activity, while others may decide not to and that is absolutely okay. We value each child’s individual interests, choices and learning styles in nursery.
This afternoon, some of the children made wax rainbows, others sculptures and experimented with Spirograph patterns. It was wonderful to see their curiosity, creativity and confidence shine through as they investigated the materials in their own ways. It was particularly impressive observing the children using the different Spirograph parts…circles, teardrop, cross shapes etc and moving them in the inner track to make patterns. It is quite a process and requires a lot of hand coordination. One of the children transformed their Spirograph pattern into flowers and trees…absolutely brilliant!

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