'Funny the Bear' at Hampton Day Nursery

Last week the children were very excited to have their Daddies coming to nursery for a ‘Builders Tea’ to celebrate Father’s Day. They sat together at the table with various construction equipment and the children demonstrated their building skills. Everyone enjoyed their tasty sausage and bacon baps, including the children! Joshua said to the other children "I want my Daddy to come to nursery every day!"

This week the children have brought their favourite teddy bears into nursery and have had fun Teddy Bears Picnics. They sat together on the log chairs, sharing their food with their teddies. Matilda said "My teddy loves muffins, just like me!" While Ines held up her teddy George and shouted "George. George gone!" hiding him behind the chair and giggling with the other children.

They have joined in with many activities surrounding the topic of bears. At the beginning of the week they made clay bears, talking about their different features. Sienna said "They have big scary eyes that can see you!" To which Darcey replied "In the dark dark cave where they live!" They have also made up their very own story about one of our big bears at nursery. They called him 'Funny the bear' who ate a big chocolate egg, did a very funny dance and splashed in muddy puddles. Robyn said "If we wear our welly boots we can splash in big, big puddles!" They have also been mixing water and oats together, to make tasty porridge, pretending it was for the 3 bears. Elara said "We can't let Goldilocks find the porridge; she might eat it all up!"

This week the babies have been practicing their motor skills. They enjoyed playing with the gulleys placed on the wooden bench to roll their cars down. Xanthe rolled her car down first, as it came down to the bottom she said “Yay” whilst Thomas tried to get his car down a tube that was too small. He soon worked out to try another!

The babies had fun indoors with the puzzles and tried quite successfully at putting the pieces into the boards. The babies placed them well with James sharing the puzzle with Ines. After putting the pieces into the right places they laughed and smiled as the board was full. Rowan had a go at the stacking towers, however after over stacking the tower it fell over. Rowan gave a big smile and a small giggle before Emily came over to help her fix it. Thomas did some drawings with the crayons using his pincer grip to make marks. After finishing with the crayons he stood the crayons up in front of him pointing at them saying “Ta” to Eve so she could have a go and put them away.