Happy Fathers Day! (W/E:15.6.19)

  (Spoiler alert!) This week the children made Fathers Day cards, using their fingerprints to decorate fish. This was a great opportunity for them to talk about their families and all of the special things they do! We also picked some of the lettuces that we have...

A Royal week! (W/E:7.6.19)

This week we have been celebrating the queen’s (official) birthday and the (real) birthday of Prince Philip! We read lots of stories with a royal theme, such as Queen Victoria’s knickers and also made crowns to wear at our majestic tea party on Friday. For...

Fun, fish and fruit salad!

This week our letter of the week was ‘f’ and we had lots of activities that began with this letter. The children went fishing in the water tray with magnets and number fish. This is a really fun way to reinforce number recognition. We also made a massive...

Water play and outings! (W/E:17.5.19)

This week we have had both a visit to the care home and a visit from them. The children love sharing their toys with the visitors and showing them what they have been doing, so it’s lovely that the better weather means that they can come. The children have been...

Jelly fun! (W/E: 10.5.19)

Normal service is resumed this week following our technical fault last week! We had some jelly activities this week, which were sparked by a child asking how jelly is made. In response to this enquiry, we made some jelly of our own for snack time. We also sang...

Blog-3.5.19

I’m afraid that I can’t post a proper blog this week as we are experiencing problems with our broadband connection! An engineer is booked to visit first thing on Tuesday so hopefully we’ll be back to normal service...