Fir Trees Nursery

At Fir Trees we have joined in with Bucks Communication Week, focusing on great books including 'Five Enormous Dinosaurs' and 'Suki Cat Astronaut'. We have also had great fun dressing up and reading our favorite stories for World Book Day.

Sometimes it's as simple as bubble wrap and paint that make the most exciting, sensory activity!

We are celebrating the beginning of Ramadan with those families with our setting who celebrate it as well.

The children have enjoyed reading stories about the special celebration and finding moons and stars hidden in a rice tuff tray. We have also been making cards for the parents and decorations to hang around the nursery.

Happy Pancake Day!
The children have had a great time making their own pancakes out of playdough and adding some yummy toppings. The children also had a yummy treat on Tuesday adding some fruits of their choice to go with their pancakes.

This week has been all about the senses. The children have had a great time getting messy and exploring different textures, smells and colours.

Last week, we learned about The Gruffalo. We learnt the Gruffalo song during circle time as well as reading the story. We explored a woodland tuff tray, retelling parts of the story and in the afternoon, we went to the 'lake'. The children enjoyed splashing each other! We have painted Gruffalo pictures, focusing on the colours we can see. We have also completed a Gruffalo hunt in the garden. The children were very excited when they found the animals hiding!

This week we have focused on one of our favourite book, Stickman. We started the week by watching some small clips of the BBC Film, then went for a hunt in the garden for our very own Stickman. The children have also made stickman playdough which they used their sticks from the garden to explore, painted their own stickman and explored a seasonal stickman tuff tray. The older children have also been using Stickman to help them practise their counting.

Happy New Year!

This week has been a cold start to the year. But inside the nursery it's been toasty and warm, so we have brought the Antarctic to us. The children have really enjoyed a penguin themed week, including painting their own penguins, helping penguins escape from an Icey situations and a blue glittery water tray, where the children practiced their pouring and fine motor skills.

Last we had an extremely festive week, with a lovely Christmas Dinner and lots of Christmas themed activities. We also made some very special food for the Reindeers that might come to visit everyone on Christmas Eve.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Fir Trees. The children have been getting into the festive spirit over the last couple of weeks decorating our Christmas tree, painting and creating their own decorations, exploring different sensory winters trays and feeding Santa his favourite cookies.

When its cold and frosty outside the best thing to do is build an amazing den to hide in keep warm and make music😄

We've been down into the jungle this week. The children have had a great time seeing the different foot prints that the animals make and helping them take a bath after getting very muddy.

We also watch the snow fall in the garden on Wednesday morning which was super exciting!