Today we had dads, grandads and uncles in nursery with our children playing together and having lots of fun. Thank you to everyone who turned up and supported this lovely day. Here are some of our pictures from the day.
We have been focusing on activities linked to the summer season this week. This has included a walk to ‘the ‘Big Forest’ where we enjoyed climbing trees and having a picnic for snack. We saw ducks and their ducklings in the river Don and some of us were lucky enough to spot rabbits hopping about! We also made ice-cream sundaes, with different flavoured ice-cream, and enjoyed listening to stories about the seaside.
This week we did lots of mark making using shape and cars. Some of the children decided to make roads and maps as they practiced their early writing skills. We also used our writing and drawing books to make our plans for work time.
This week the Blue Group have been very busy getting ready for our visit to Hall Hill Farm. We learned about the life-cycle of a chick as we listened to clues and took part in a treasure hunt outside. We had group discussions about farm animals and their products and even got to hold the newly hatched chicks, in nursery before they went back to the farm.
This week we have been talking about the importance of well-being. This included exercising to music and relaxing yoga activities. We also made friendship bracelets for one another using pasta and colourful beads.
This week we have been exploring 2D shape during planning and small group time. The children worked together to make boats, rainbows, robots, vehicles and roads.
The Blue Group listened to farmyard stories this week and made their very own farms; which created much excitement about our farm visit in June. 
This term we have been looking for signs of Spring; which created lots of discussion about how to look after plants and animals. We looked closely at the frogs in the pond, during our Family Forest school session and explored lifecycles which included reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We also planted cress seeds during one of our small group times and talked about how the seeds needed water and sunlight to help them grow
This week we used small wooden sticks to make the letters v w and z. Whilst creating the letters, some of the Blue Group thought of words that begun with each of the letter sounds. We also created shapes and patterns such as crosses and train tracks.
This week the Blue Group did a great job as they carefully painted daffodils, during our observational drawing at small group time. We talked about the stem, petals and trumpet parts of the flowers.  Whist at Forest School this week we found lots of signs of spring, especially daffodil shoots appearing through the ground.
