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As part of National Book Sharing Month we are very lucky to have a Pippins parent who works at a Zoo, and who has kindly volunteered to live video call us to show us some real animals from the stories we are reading each week. Yesterday we had a fantastic tour of the butterfly house to link in with our book The Hungry Caterpillar. There are some very exciting tours coming in the next few weeks!

We were super excited to put eggs in our incubator today. Hopefully we will have some chicks in a few weeks.

Some lovely messy mud painting yesterday

Massive thank you to everyone who has been collecting crisp packets for us !

Another lovely Hygge Friday...we had a lovely morning out in the woods and nature area. We made some self & family portraits of dough and items we could find. We also collected interesting treasures in egg boxes in the woods and then told each other what we had found. A yummy hot chocolate at picnic snack and then this afternoon baked our own bread which was delicious.

We have been playing with ice today.....brrrr....chilly

We have been asking children to collect signs of Autumn on their walks and bring them to Pre-School to add to our table. Here is what we have so far... 

Today's session was 'all things colourful' !!

We had a fantastic week at Holiday Club! 

Today we gave out our first Bronze awards of 2019 ... 

Today we had a lady come to do Gymnastics with the childre. 

Today the children came dressed in their PJ's/ onesies we talked about the importance of sleep and had a story all about sleeping. 

Today's task was to set the veg in our veg garden, the children enjoyed digging and planting with Kath and Abi. 

Today the children had a Teddy Tennis session and learnt about controlling the ball along the floor.

Today the chlildren have been looking at the book 'Olivers Vegetables' whilst enjoying the new fruit and veg shop and Dentist role play areas. They have also been digging up and washing Vegetables! 

Next week is the start of our Healthy me fortnight.. we will have a fruit shop set up and a dentist role play. We will also be having a dance, tennis and gymnastic session throughout the fortnight too. 

The children have had some lovely Forest School Sessions over the last few months, collecting objects in the woods and helping to find the missing fairies. 

We have changed our Website photos - take a look and see all the fun our children get up to!

We are pleased to announce that Abi has completed her Level 3 Early Years Qualifiication! 

Today the children did a Hey Duggee Dance off, Stick Stick Hunt, Deocrated Cakes to sell and a drawing challenge all to raise money for children in Need. 

Today's Teddy Tennis session. 

Today we had a company called 'Teddy Tennis' come and do some Tennis sessions with the children. 

We have had a fantastic week at Holiday Club.

Today we did a Messy play session based on Stick man, the children made stickmen using playdough and sticks, they made snow, they played in the hair gel and they searched the garden for the stick man characters. 

Today we had a visit from 3 lambs....

Today the mums and grandmas were invited to lunch with the children. They made sandwiches and decorated cakes before playing some games and then sitting to eat their lunch. 

Today the children had the fire pit out and toasted their own marshmallows and made smores. We talked to the children all about how to keep safe around fire. We also did some fire pictures and played fire safety bingo.

The children celebration World Book day by dressing up as characters from Room on the Broom. They then made broomsticks, made there own edible wands and toadstools and also helped to make a potion. 

This children helped to make Sweet and Sour Chicken and Pineapple and Ice Cream for our Chinese New Year Feast. 

Today we learnt how to move to Chinese music and did some dragon dancing. We also had noodles for Snack. 

We had great fun at our holiday club :) 

The children spent time today exploring different states, looking at what things float or sink, making pictures out of printing duplo bricks, measuring how tall i am and watching an exploding bottle. 

This morning we had a visit from Annabelle from Tickle Fingers. She came in to make Vegetable samous recipe from her book. The children cut up the vegetables, brushed the pastry and then filled up their pastry before having a go and folding it up. All the children then had a chance to try them yummy!!

Emma (the nurse) came to visit us today the children got to use some bandages, she how oxygen masks work and learned about different things that might happen at the doctors. 

The children had a great time in the woods find sticks to make their boats and jumping in the leaves. 

Thank you to everyone who attended our xmas party!

This morning the children helped to decorate the Xmas tree, we also started our own advent calender where instead of opening a present we give a present. We put all the food presents in a basket and at the end of term we will donate. 

This morning the children went on a trip to the chapel to learn about christingle. 

They heard the story about Christingle, made their christingle, ate snack and then made X-mas cards and Snowman. 

Each child got a present from the villagers at the chapel.

This week the children have been making poppies to make our very own poppy wreath. This morning we walked up to the war memorial and had our minute silence. 

Take a look at our Halloween Fun!

The children have been making firework pictures this morning.....

This years holiday club was the busiest it has ever been, look in the gallery for some photos. 

Forest School Session today - making clay faces on the trees in the woods. 

Thank you to all those who have given in Vocuhers, We now have 1698! 

The children have enjoyed a busy day today, plus the planting of one of our veggie beds. The children all enjoyed planting beetroot and lettuce.

This week the children have been learning how to cross the road and pretending to be Lollipop person.

Monday 8th February is Chinese New Year. The children will be going to the woods to learn more about the history of this event.Chinese DragonThey will spend the rest of the day learning about Chinese culture.