Poppies Holmer Green Day Nursery & Pre-School

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden… 🌱💚

Our children got hands-on creating their very own wormeries out in the garden! Using plastic bottles, they carefully layered different materials to make the perfect home ready for some wriggly visitors. 🏡✨

The children loved exploring the different textures and learning all about how worms help our environment. It was a fantastic way to spark curiosity about nature and see how living things thrive beneath the soil. 🌱💚

We can’t wait to see what happens next as we watch our wormeries come to life! 👀🏡

✨🌈 Magic Science in Action! 🌈✨

At Poppies Holmer Green our Explorers took part in a magical science experiment! 🧪💫 The children painted tissue paper and then added water, watching in amazement as the colours spread and blended together to create beautiful rainbows. 🎨🌈

We love creating fun, hands-on experiences that spark curiosity and imagination. 🧪💫

Stick Man, oh Stick Man 🌿

Our Explorers got crafty and instead of using paintbrushes, used sticks to paint! 🎨

The children loved dipping the sticks in the paint and making different marks, lines and patterns on the paper. It was lots of messy, creative fun! ✨

Activities like this help children to:
✨ Be creative
✨ Explore new ways to paint
✨ Develop their fine motor skills

📚✨ World Book Day at Nursery! ✨📚

We had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! The children came dressed as their favourite book characters, and the staff joined in the fun with their costumes too!

Everyone enjoyed sharing stories, looking at books, and taking part in fun book-themed activities. It was lovely to see so much imagination and excitement for reading.

In Preschool, independence is part of our everyday routine 🌿✨

Each day at snack time, the children choose their own fruit from the fruit bowl🍎🍌, carefully chop it using child-safe knives 🔪, and pour their own drinks 🥛 all by themselves.

By giving them these daily responsibilities, we’re supporting their fine motor development ✋, coordination, confidence 🌟 and decision-making skills .

These small daily moments make a big difference in building lifelong skills 💛

Well, this weather is ray-markable! ☀️😄

The children were so excited to see the sunshine today. After plenty of chilly mornings, it was lovely to take off our coats and enjoy a little glow-up from the sun 🌤️✨

Let’s hope the bright days are here to stay! 🌼

🎨🌈 Exploring Emotions in our Explorers Room! 🌈🎨

This week in our Explorers Room, we have been diving into the wonderful story The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas 💚💛💙❤️

Through reading The Colour Monster, the children have been learning all about different emotions and what they might feel like inside. We talked about happiness, sadness, calmness, anger and love – and how it’s okay to feel all of them. 💕

Our learning didn’t stop there! The children explored their creativity with a Colour Monster art activity, using different colours to represent different feelings.🎨✨

We also enjoyed some calming time making and rolling in our Colour Monster playdough. This sensory activity helped support self-regulation, fine motor skills, and provided a gentle moment to relax and reflect. 💙

Supporting emotional regulation from an early age helps build confidence, empathy and resilience. 🌟

🌿✨ Outdoor Adventures & Magical Discoveries! ✨🌿

Preschool have been busy today enjoying the great outdoors and making the most of nature all around us. 🌳🌼

The children had great fun creating their very own magical potions using leaves, sticks, mud and a little bit of imagination 🧪🌸

Outdoor play is such an important part of our learning, helping to develop creativity, teamwork, communication skills, and a love for nature.

We can’t wait for our next adventure! 💚

🌈We’re back! 💚

It’s been a little while since we last posted, but we are back with a bang!✨

Behind the scenes, we have been busy supporting growth and development, creating lasting memories, and enjoying plenty of laughter along the way.

We’re excited to reconnect with our wonderful families and community online and to share more of the special moments that make our nursery such a special place to learn and play.

Thank you for being part of our journey — we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been up to! 👋

Thank you to everyone who attended our Power of Stories Open Day! ✨📖 It was truly magical to explore the power of stories with you all. Until next time!

📚✨ Reminiscing over an amazing World Book Day here at Poppies Holmer Green! 🌟 Our little bookworms had a blast dressing up as their favourite characters and diving into all the exciting book-related activities we had lined up. 🎉📖