Little Crackers

Nursery News

The Badgers had a wet and wild Forest School morning this week, and made everyone smile as they trudged back to nursery, almost unrecognisable as they were covered in so much mud!  All the children very much enjoyed themselves under the wet trees, in the wet leaves and sliding down the wet slide, but we would have preferred a bit of snow!  Weather reports keep promising, but not delivering at the moment! 

Our Garden Room was also busy during the week, and was particularly popular with the Dormice who combined the farm animals with the logs, leaves and sticks to create their own imaginary worlds.  The animals also helped us with our maths, as we used scales to compare which were heavy and which were light. Everyone learned that when the scales went down the object must be heavy, but some of us spent time testing and working out that an object can sometimes be heavy, but also light, depending on what you tested it with – great problem solving and thinking going on!

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Spotlight On Early Writing Skills

Last week in nursery we had a great adventure and put the spotlight on developing early writing skills.

“We’re going on a cone hunt, we’re going to find a big one! It’s a chilly day, but we’re wrapped up warm!”

Our lovely Little Crackers really enjoyed hunting for treasure; balancing on logs, kicking leaves, sliding across ice and squeezing through sticks, then climbing on rocks, trudging across mud, jumping over logs, scrambling through the net, until finally they found their Autumn Treasure: five fabulous fir cones!

Once back inside, the children worked together to create a super storyboard, recalling and recording their version of the Autumn Treasure Adventure – activities that encourage, develop and support writing skills from a very early age.

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Stay ā€˜nā€™ Play At Home Virtual Video Three

This Wednesday we published the third in our series of Stay ‘n’ Play At Home videos featuring favourite activities such as: settle down for story-time, join in our sing-a-long and get creative with craft. The video included lots activities to entertain and support early learning and as before, families can choose to join in with all or part of each session at a time to suit themselves.

The fourth video will be released on Wednesday 16 December and will be a Christmas Stay 'n' Play at Home special.

If you know someone you think might be interested in joining our Stay ‘n’ Play community and receiving the video links, then please ask them to contact Jenny Vaughan on jennyvaughan@crackleyhall.co.uk or on 01926 514410.

We hope to resume Stay ‘n’ Play in its familiar format as soon as it is safe to do so.

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