Reverend Nicky visits every Tuesday for a little story and songs
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A visit from the Bug lady got all the children excited and Lianne!!
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Bugs and Creepy Crawlies - Fun Fun Fun
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Glitter and Glue to create an amazing fireworks display
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SSSSSSS - salt dough made by the children to create spiders. Linking with the sound SSSS
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Inspired by pumpkin art we mix colours - learning that red and yellow create ORANGE
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Autumn natural finds create beautiful door wreaths
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Goggles, Hammer and Tees create great fine motor skills..... they loved this activity
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Who doesn't like cooking. We try to bake at least once a week and we make salt dough for sensory play every week.
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We join the school for Harvest Festival
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We love to go for walks in our community - to the Church, Park, Fields - we enjoy exploring every week
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We pick blackberries for Gruffalo Pie! There's No such think as a Gruffalo.......
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MMMmmmm
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We have used leaves and berries to create Beautiful story bags. Now we use our story bags to choose books from our Library to take home
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We love our new outdoor Mud Kitchen - supporting our social skills and working together.
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Imagination runs wild with block play and small world animals
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See Saw - we learn about weight and gravity
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Chinese New Year Dragon Dance Celebrating and learning about different cultures, religions and celebrations
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It's not always the adults that inspire the children but the children themselves. They inspire each other at the painting easel
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Balancing - Plenty to do in our beautiful garden
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To the local Park - we provide opportunities to go outside our preschool - teaming up with reception children
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Our new Forest School outfits - ready for our Hot Chocolate and Forest School Fire using the Kelly Kettle
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Making Mud Pies and Apple Stew in our amazing Mud Kitchen
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Simply climbing a gate gives the children confidence, builds core strength, Coordination and physical strength and self esteem
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Enjoying waffles that we made on Pancake Day! Yummy
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We learn about the dangers of electric fences when we go on walks to the great oak tree and meet sheep along the way
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FRIENDSHIP
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Imagination is ignited and encouraged
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Daily salt dough which the children make build the muscles in their little hands ready for mark making
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Forest School - Lighting the Kelly Kettle
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Our Summer Trip - Picnic on the grounds
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Our Summer Trip - A crocodile staying very still as the children watch
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Autumn Term Week 1. We look at The Colour Monster and The Colour Monster goes to school to discuss emotions and feelings.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 2. We went blackberry picking in the farmers field and thought we saw a Gruffalo....
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Autumn Term 1 Week 3. Owl Babies is great to read with the dark Autumn nights and starting back at school -
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Autumn Term 1 Week 4 & 5. With Harvest Festival energy through out the school and a Church visit. This is a great story to explore the Farm!
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Autumn Term 1 Week 6. A child brings in two fantastic home grown pumpkins so what better way to lead the week with Pumpkin Soup.
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Autumn Term 1 Week 7. Last week before half term and they found the Room on the Broom. Who doesn't love Julia Donaldson?
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Autumn Term 2 Week 1. Back to school and this is a wonderful book to explore different celebrations. The book inspired some great activities
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Autumn Term 2 Week 1. A lovely story about a Hedgehog who wakes from hibernation. A simple way to help the children make connections .
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Autumn Term 2 Week 2. With the excitement of fireworks we started looking at stars and space and planets.
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Autumn Term 2 Week 3 Following the children's interest of space and our xmas nativity Twinkle Twinkle Little star - Laura's Star was a must
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Autumn Term 2 Week 4 - The children found a Christmas Ginger bread man - so we had fun reading and baking The Ginger bread Man.
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Autumn Term 2 Week 4, 5 and 6 - With the excitement of Christmas looming the children learnt about The Nativity along with other festive stories
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Spring Term 1 Week 1 - Returning back from Christmas and having fun with out forest school sessions - The Stick man was a perfect story
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Spring Term 1 Week 2 - Always good to revisit with The Colour Monster to talk about emotions and feelings - we love this story
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Spring Term 1 Week 3 - donations from parents of exotic fruit that we enjoyed at snack time brought out the book Handa's surprise
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Spring Term 1 Week 4 - The Big Bird Watch - we have our binocular's ready and settled down with a lovely book about birds and what makes a home
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Spring Term 1 Week 5 - Parents kindly donated super hero outfits which the children loved so Supertato linked lovely with their interests
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Spring Term 1 Week 6 - This is a great book to explore different celebrations and culture. The children loved this book
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Spring Term 1 Week 6 - With the year of the Tiger - and an old classic The children found this book very funny
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Spring Term 1 Week 7 - Valentines Day - talking about who you love and why they are special - This book is a little Gem.....
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Spring Term 2 Week 1 - Pancake day - we loved this story and discovered traditional stories. We didn't expect the ending!
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Spring Term 2 Week 2 - Following last weeks story and chatting about lambs and Piglets we thought the traditional story fits in lovely
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Spring Term 2 Week 3 We enjoyed a visit by Steve the Lamb - A real live Lamb. This book links lovely with Spring.
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Spring Term 2 Week 4 A great book to chat about Mum's during Mothers Day week.
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Spring Term 2 Week 5 Easter is upon us - and what better way to share the fun - an Easter egg story with bunnies!
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Spring Term 2 Week 6 This is a lovely child friendly book to explore The Easter Story
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Summer Term 1 Week 1 - With our broad beans growing - this book is fab to explore growth
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Summer Term 1 Wk 2&3 - The Hungry Caterpillar is a classic and as we found an injured butterfly it created lots of discussion of the life cycle
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Summer Term 1 Week 4 - Monkey puzzles explores differences and links to the hungry caterpillar
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Summer Term 1 Week 5 - The children found snails in the garden which we investigated further - enjoying this story and doughnuts!
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Summer Term 2 Week 2 - This week was daddys day week and here we look at what makes dads and men in their life special
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Summer Term 2 Week 3 - After visiting Minehead Tropriquaria an interest in fish and the ocean became a topic of the week
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Summer Term 2 Week 4 - A child brought this book in and the children loved it - encouraging us to ignite our imagination and storytelling
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We are now in Summer term and enjoying the sunshine by spending lots of time outdoors. Our routine has changed as the months go on and we find the children really enjoy spending the first 40 to 60 minutes outdoors either in our beautiful garden or the school field. Here they can blow off the cobwebs by stretching their legs and being active, we find this is a special period where the children come together and form those friendships. Our pumpkins and tomatoes are growing fast so part of the morning routine will be to water them, here we talk about plants and growth and what they need to grow healthy and strong. I have finished my Forest School training and waiting for my certificate which is really exciting and Lianne is working hard finishing her Level 3 in Early Years and a few more months on her Forest School qualification. We continue to go on some lovely walks to the castle and enjoy the mud kitchen and our beautiful garden.
We have seen new changes in the preschool room with a new floor - it looks amazing and the children loved the new look as do the adults. It certainly finishes our room and the vision we had for it two years ago - bright plastic storage and resources have gone and our new look of natural resources and wooden materials bring a calm and beautiful provision. Plants and our four little fish bring an appreciation of the natural world and support children's understanding of how we need to care for living things.
We continue to use stories to support children's interests and help them to make connections and songs are always part of our daily routine.
We enjoyed our Summer trip to Tropriquaria in Minehead, so exciting for the children to go on a coach - an experience that not all the children have done before. A wonderful day for everyone.
We are excited to be part of a Take Art Music Project in September, music is so important in the early years so this extra training will make a huge difference to our practice and most importantly our children's development.