Party Time!

The children had an amazing Christmas party this week! They enjoyed party games such as musical statues and pass the parcel . The children looked on with great excitement as Zac won the prize of the Baby Shark book, which quickly led to a very loud song of Baby Shark with all the funny actions which make them laugh. This was followed by tasty food, and going outside where they found footprints! More excitement followed as they discovered Santa had visited early, and left a sack full of presents! They each had a book to take home, and then a great surprise to have a snow disco outside! ‘ Wow ! Its snowing !’ they shouted. Brilliant fun!

The babies and toddlers have had lots of fun being creative and spreading the Christmas Cheer! They joined in with the older children to sit at their own table for the Christmas Party, and danced to Christmas songs, especially the ‘snow’. Hlenhaze laughed and said ‘ Bubbles!’ as he joined in the fun. Zach decided to play hide and seek whilst the little one played in the tunnels shouting ‘Boo!’ as loud as he could. Freddie was very curious to see where his friends had gone, and so peeked into the tunnel and was amazed to find Eve at the other end!

WE WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND CARDS AND GIFTS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL ON THE 3RD JANUARY 2019.

Christmas is coming!

This week has been very eventful indeed! The children visited St Marys House and were very excited to chat with the elderly residents about Father Christmas. They made decorations for the residents who were very very impressed!

They attended St Mary’s Church for the Christmas celebration, where they listened to the story of Jesus with puppets read by the Reverend Cara Lovell. This was followed by singing and dancing, including the Hush song which they also brilliantly performed at the Christmas concert here at the nursery this week. They made decorations, followed by tasty snacks and drinks.

The Christmas Concert was very well attended and the children performed brilliantly with marvelous singing, and acting out their version of ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’. This was followed by Carols by Candlelight outdoors. Thank you to everyone whom attended and the staff and children for all their hard work!

The babies and toddlers have been out and about, and feeding the wildlife in Bushy park. They made tasty reindeer food and had great fun spreading the oats and seeds around when they arrived! Helnehaze and Joshua shouted ‘ Weeee’ as they did so! On the way William was waving to some puppies and dogs they passed. They found a huge tree trunk from a tree which had fallen, and Zach and Ines explored it, climbing along and and finding a spider. They collected many twigs and made mini dens for animals when they returned to nursery. James hid some of the animals and Thomas laughed as he knocked the dens down!

Gingerbread!

The children received a letter from Hansel and Gretel stating they had lost the recipe for gingerbread! ‘ Lets go on an adventure to find the recipe!’ shouted Matilda. They dressed up in the nursery waterproofs and head to the Woodland gardens to search. Joshua spotted a trail of oats ‘ Look, look! A clue! We need to follow the oats!’ They explored the trees and big leaves underfoot, and then Jonah discovered a drawing of Hansel on a tree ‘ Wow! This is amazing!’ exclaimed Leo. The recipe card was found hidden close by in some leaves, and after reading the recipe Theo asked if they could make a gingerbread house, which they did upon returning to nursery. ‘I cant wait to eat this!’ Elara announced.

As a thank you to the Woodland wildlife for helping the children find the recipe, the children decorated the trees and wrote thank you notes. ‘Maybe the fairies will read these!’ said Faith

The babies and toddlers have been making delicious carrot cake! Joshua managed to transfer the most of the ingredients inrt the large bowl, but accidentally knocked the side of the bowl with the flour, which showered the table to which he announced very loudly ‘Uh-oh!’. Xanthe and Thomas tasted the carrot by running off with some and eating it! Ines was in charge of the cinnamon, and was happy to sprinkle it into the mixture, and all over the table and floor!

They have been in the nursery nature area as you can see, where Hlenhaze and James played in a den, enjoying hiding from everyone. Zach and Freddie helped to cook and found some raspberries, potatoes and garlic growing there which was used to create a meal. ‘Dinner’ Zach decided, with Freddie stirring, and others adding leaves and bark for flavour!