Leeside nursery
By Joy
Heels
The first date for our sports day was cancelled due to the inclement weather, but we were able to have it five days later and the rain just managed to hold off. The children all enjoyed the running, backwards jumping, potato and spoon, angel and hoop races. The parents also had an egg and spoon race. Thanks to all the parents who provided a cake stall, enough money was raised to pay for a bouncy castle and a ball pond for our seaside day and some to go towards a parachute.
From the last half term (growing) we emptied the potatoes out of the buckets and counted them; the older group won with 13 potatoes against 10 from the younger group, but the youngest group had the biggest one.
The children enjoyed eating them at snack time when they had been cooked. Our tomatoes have flowered but no fruit as yet and unfortunately I think the rabbits ate the carrots.
This half term our topic is seaside; the children have made stained glass window fish, seaside collages, under the sea pictures with moving sea horse and octopus, a puppet octopus and a kite that really flies. A mackerel was brought from the supermarket with its head still on so that the children could feel what a fish’s scales were like. You would be amazed how much they got out of this; they even opened its mouth and found it had teeth!
Our seaside day was a great success; they had a bouncy castle, ball pond, paddling pool, sand pit, sailing boats, beach balls, waffles to make a boat and skittles. You can’t go to the seaside without having an ice cream, which we all enjoyed.
Thirteen children are leaving this term to go on to their 'big' school, six of whom are going to Lee Common; we wish them all well.
We will end the term with a ‘teddy bears’ picnic’.
The first date for our sports day was cancelled due to the inclement weather, but we were able to have it five days later and the rain just managed to hold off. The children all enjoyed the running, backwards jumping, potato and spoon, angel and hoop races. The parents also had an egg and spoon race. Thanks to all the parents who provided a cake stall, enough money was raised to pay for a bouncy castle and a ball pond for our seaside day and some to go towards a parachute.
From the last half term (growing) we emptied the potatoes out of the buckets and counted them; the older group won with 13 potatoes against 10 from the younger group, but the youngest group had the biggest one.
The children enjoyed eating them at snack time when they had been cooked. Our tomatoes have flowered but no fruit as yet and unfortunately I think the rabbits ate the carrots.
This half term our topic is seaside; the children have made stained glass window fish, seaside collages, under the sea pictures with moving sea horse and octopus, a puppet octopus and a kite that really flies. A mackerel was brought from the supermarket with its head still on so that the children could feel what a fish’s scales were like. You would be amazed how much they got out of this; they even opened its mouth and found it had teeth!
Our seaside day was a great success; they had a bouncy castle, ball pond, paddling pool, sand pit, sailing boats, beach balls, waffles to make a boat and skittles. You can’t go to the seaside without having an ice cream, which we all enjoyed.
Thirteen children are leaving this term to go on to their 'big' school, six of whom are going to Lee Common; we wish them all well.
We will end the term with a ‘teddy bears’ picnic’.