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This week at nursery, we’ve been celebrating kindness and friendship with lots of caring, sharing, and creative fun! The children have enjoyed making beautiful heart-filled pictures, using paint, stamps, and even their own handprints to spread joy. We explored a Valentine’s sensory tray filled with red and pink rice, rose petals, and hidden hearts of different sizes and textures. The children loved feeling the soft petals, scooping and pouring the rice, and searching for the hearts, making it a wonderful sensory experience that encouraged curiosity and fine motor skills. Instead of making individual valentine’s cards, we all created special pictures for each other to celebrate friendship, reminding us how wonderful it is to share and be kind. It’s been a fantastic week full of kindness, laughter, and creativity! Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at nursery! ❤️✨
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We had so much fun today with our water play! There was plenty of scooping, pouring, splashing, and giggles as the children explored different tools and textures in the water. 💦 From catching colourful bears to fishing out numbers, everyone got involved and yes, we all got a little bit wet! 😆 Due to the huge popularity of last week’s activity, we even had some special surprise visitors… the penguins! They waddled their way into our play, making it even more exciting! 🐧❄️ While we were having fun, the children were also learning through play, practising their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, counting, and colour recognition.
 This week, our little ones have been diving into the wonderful world of penguins! 🐧 💙 📖 We started with a lovely story, Jonty Gentoo: The Adventures of a Penguin by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, bringing the icy adventures of penguins to life. 🎶 Then, we sang and danced along to I’m a Little Penguin, a fun song to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot, perfect for learning how to move like penguins. 💦 Finally, we had a fantastic sensory play session with frozen penguins and icy water. The children loved exploring the chilly textures while developing their fine motor skills and curiosity. 🌍 What Have We Learned? 🐟 Penguins love to eat fish and krill from the deep blue sea! ❄️ They live in icy places like Antarctica, where it’s super cold! 🤍🖤 Penguins are black and white, helping them camouflage in the water and stay safe. It’s been amazing seeing the children so engaged and excited. 🐧❄️💙
 This week, we had a very exciting surprise – Phoebe the guinea pig came to visit! The children were absolutely delighted to meet her and learn all about how to care for guinea pigs. They had the opportunity to gently stroke her soft fur and watch her nibble on her favourite treats🍎🥬. It was a wonderful hands on experience that helped the children develop empathy and curiosity about animals. Thank you, Phoebe, for being such a calm and friendly guest! We can’t wait to welcome you back again soon.  We’ve enjoyed lots of fun and exciting Christmas activities this week at nursery! It’s been lovely to see everyone so excited! Thank you so much for our amazing gifts and cards. We wish all our families a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 6th January. 🎄
We had lots of fun making Father Christmas handprint tree decorations this week.
 We made a dinosaur swamp and it was so much fun making muddy dinosaur footprints. 🦖🦕
We all had so much fun this morning playing in the snow! We enjoyed making big and small footprint patterns with our wellie boots. We put some snow in our tray to play with and we made a little snowman. It was funny watching the snow melt into slushy ice.
 This week, we have been enjoying our indoor growing project and we’ve been learning lots of fun facts about nature and science along the way! We planted some cress seeds into yoghurt pots and we later decorated the pots with eyes and mouths to give them little faces. Our adorable little cress heads are now sitting happily on the windowsill and we will be watering them to keep the cotton wool damp. Our cress pots will be coming home in a few weeks time. 🌱
 Today, we made a pretend bonfire using twigs and leaves. We had fun creating colourful fireworks using chalks and we used our fingers to smudge the chalk in the play tray.
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