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May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

Pre-schoolers explore North America

Our current pre-school theme is North America.

Our pre-schoolers are learning about the world’s third largest continent, North America.
To help bring the theme alive for the children we visited Virginia Water Lake. As well as a gentle meander by the lake, we visited the 100 foot Totem Pole – a gift from Canada to the Queen in 1958.

We talked about the pole’s history and the children spent time drawing the totem pole before eating their packed lunch.

The children behaved wonderfully and walked really well through the park, which if you’ve been yourself, you will know is a fairly long walk, particularly for little legs. Well done children!

As part of our North America theme, we’ve created a reservation on-site where the children can play. We’re also doing fun craft activities, such as making dream catchers, drums and sheriff badges.

Our North America reservation and tepee

Our Dream Catchers

Neigh time: Our Peg leg horse

May 21, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

Fun at the Farm

We had a fab time at Odds Farm.

We were delighted that almost everyone from pre-school was able to join us on our trip to Odds Farm Park. In fact, there was so many of us, we needed a huge coach to take us there – a logistical first in the history of The Riverside Day Nursery!

The children loved travelling by coach and there was much excited chatter on board, including ‘are we there yet?’ and ‘can we eat our packed lunches now?’.

When we arrived, the children played in the big barn before taking a bumpy tractor ride around the grounds to see the cows. The children then took turns bottle feeding the baby goats before eating their yummy packed lunches.

After lunch, the children enjoyed seeing more of the farm’s animals, including lambs, donkeys, chickens and a very cute, if a little smelly, litter of piglets. The last part of the afternoon was spent playing in the adventure playground.

When we got back on the coach to come home, the children (and some of the nursery team!) were very much ready for a snooze.

You can see more photos of our day in the lobby area.

Our BIG Coach

Lunch time! One of the lambs we saw at Odds Farm

Thomas and Imogen at Odds Farm

Are we there yet? – x and x on the coach

Are we there yet? Nellie and Holly on the coach

Peek-a-boo in the play area with Isabel and Henry

Kids feeding kids!

A ‘pong’ of piglets!

April 20, 2016April 25, 2016 by riverside

We’re the Kings of the Castle!

As part of our Castles theme we’ll be visiting Windsor Castle.

Emma Yarrow, The Riverside Day Nursery’s Manager said: [pb_blockquote] “We went to Windsor Castle last year and really enjoyed seeing the Queen’s house. We thought we saw the Queen looking out of one of the window at one point. The children were thrilled!” [/pb_blockquote]

The trips to Windsor Castle will be made in smaller groups – please keep an eye out for permission slips which will be distributed in the coming weeks.

To mark the Queen’s 90th birthday we had a street party and made a huge Birthday card from all the children at the Riverside nursery, Windsor.

We’ve also been talking about the different elements of the Queen’s life, including her homes, her family and her royal duties.

Other exciting castle related activities coming up in the next few weeks include:

• Castle DIY – we’re going to decorate our big castle in the pre-school room, including printing bricks and working out how many we need to cover it completely.

• Artwork fit for a Queen – making all things fit for a queen including, crowns, flags (perfect for our street party on the 21st April) and soldiers – just like the ones guarding Windsor Castle!

• Lego Castles – We’ll be building Lego castles and towers and using our bricks to work out how high/tall long/short our castles are.

• Our Favourite Books – we’ll be reading our favourite books, including The Queen’s Hat and The Queen’s Handbag.

Our beautiful castle

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March 08, 2016March 09, 2016 by riverside

Nursery Trips Out

We’re out and about…

To help our pre-school children learn more about farming as part of our European theme – and pet a few friendly farm animals along the way – we’re planning a trip out to Odd’s Farm later this month. While to bring our castles theme to life we’ll be visiting that most magical of castles right on our doorstep, Windsor Castle.

It also happens to be the Queen’s 90^th birthday on April 21^st so we’ll be hanging up the bunting and having a street party in celebration.

[pb_blockquote] More details to follow nearer the time, in the meantime we’ll keep you updated with all our adventures right here![/pb_blockquote]

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