The nursery children finally got to do their sports day last Monday, they all had a wonderful time and ran as fast as they could, all of the staff from nursery were very proud of them. In the following days the children made themselves certificates with a drawing of their favourite race.

The children in nursery have loved learning about safari animals over the last couple of weeks, they have created some fantastic paintings and learned lots of facts about animals that originate from other countries.

The children were very excited on Friday afternoon, just before we went to the summer fair one of our butterflies hatched out of its chrysalis! After a discussion we decided that we would need to add some food to both of the nets as the children thought more may hatch over the weekend, so we put half a satsuma in each net just in case! We can’t wait to see how many we have on Monday morning!

The nursery children have been very excited to see how quickly our caterpillars have grown into ‘big fat caterpillars!’ On Friday we even had two that made their chrysalis’s ready to become beautiful butterflies! The children have loved sharing their knowledge of butterfly life cycles and observing each stage so far!

In nursery we have loved having our new planter to grow things in, over the last few months we have nurtured and cared for a range of flowers that we have grown from bulbs and seeds. The children have loved observing our plants growing, we are all super impressed with our gardening skills! We think our flowers look beautiful and we are all thrilled that the bees love them!

Last week nursery we were very excited to receive our caterpillars in the post, they were very small as they had just hatched! We discussed our knowledge of caterpillar to butterfly life cycles from the Eric Carle book of The Hungry Caterpillar. All of the children gently passed them round to have a good look at them.

Yesterday we were amazed at how much are caterpillars have grown over the weekend, we decided they must be thriving from the warm conditions in nursery!

Over the last week in nursery we have been discussing things we have done in the half term break, some of the children decided to draw a picture of their experiences.

As you can see they produced some fabulous pictures!

The children have had a wonderful time throughout their Forest School sessions, recently we have been learning about British Wildlife and how to safely climb trees with their friends!

Over the past few weeks in nursery we have been very creative, with a focus on farms, the children have loved painting, gluing and sticking, and making farm animals!