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May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

Babies and Toddlers find out about farming

Our babies and toddlers are learning all about farms and farm animals.

Having enjoyed our Gingerbread Man theme, the babies and toddlers are learning all about farm animals and the farms they inhabit.

Home corner has been transformed into a fun farmyard featuring animals, hay and farming equipment.

We’ve also been busy making scarecrow masks, tractor sticking and painting pictures of horses using shoes and finger prints.

Of course, what theme would be complete without some messy play? Don’t worry the babies and toddlers are having lots of fun splishing and splashing toy farm animals in the water tray!

Our dingle dangle scarecrow faces

Giddy-up: Our finger print farm horses

Our tractor artwork

Our fantastic farmyard

The babies’ free-choice artwork

April 20, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

It’s all about the Moo, Baa, Neigh for Pre-schoolers

We’ve had a brilliant time playing in our farmyard.

Our pre-schoolers have been learning about farming for the past few weeks. As well as making lots of big farm animals, we’ve talked about where our food comes from. We’ve also looked at farming in other countries in Europe and the type of crops grown there.

To learn more about farm animals, and pet them too, we’re looking forward to our trip to Odds Farm Park on Tuesday 26th April – especially as the whole of pre-school is going and we’re travelling on a big coach!

A quick reminder to mummies and daddies – please remember to return the permission slips and don’t forget to prepare your little one a packed lunch!

Moo! Baa! Neigh! Our fantastic farmyard

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April 20, 2016April 21, 2016 by riverside

Babies and Toddlers enjoy a taste of The Gingerbread Man

Babies and toddlers learn all about the classic folk tale, The Gingerbread Man.

The youngest members of the Riverside nursery are ‘currently’ (sorry!) having fun learning about the story The Gingerbread Man.

Designed to entertain and stimulate little ones’ imaginations; we’re doing activities such as reading the story every day – using visual aids of each of the characters and lots of us pretending to be the gingerbread man. We’ve also baked some delicious gingerbread.

Home corner, a popular place for the babies and toddlers to play, has been turned into the little old lady’s kitchen. The children have also created a fantastic background featuring fields through which the gingerbread man runs away.

The toddlers have also been busy making gingerbread puppets using split pins so that their legs move. Whilst the babies have been having lots of gooey fun with gingerbread men sticking. All our gingerbread man creations are displayed on the artboard for everyone to see – take a look next time you’re in.

[pb_blockquote]Alongside gingerbread fun, there’s plenty of sensory play for the babies and toddlers to ‘smoosh and squish’. As well as sand and water which is out every day, we’ve been playing with pasta shapes. [/pb_blockquote]

We’re also really enjoying building and playing in dens at the moment, so much so that, we had story time in there.

The little old lady’s house with our lovely ‘Big Art’ cow

Our Gingerbread Men

We love story time in our den

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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

Mmm porridge! Babies enjoy Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Babies and toddlers learn about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Your little one may already be familiar with the story of porridge gobbling Goldilocks. As well as stimulating young imaginations, this is a great tale for developing early ideas about what constitutes positive behaviour i.e. not eating other people’s porridge!

Home Corner has been transformed into the three bears’ cottage – complete with porridge bowls – so the children can act out the story, and this week the children have been busy creating a fantastic Goldilocks and the Three Bears display, which you will see in the nursery’s main room. Lots more Goldilocks-themed activities will take place in the coming weeks, including making clay bears and goldilocks and bear masks. There’ll also be lots of opportunities for the children to decide what they want to do, from free art to sensory play.

Our Three Bears House complete with porridge play!

Our Bear house complete with porridge play! Yum yum!

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