Christmas Nativity 2013

 

Our Christmas Nativity 5^th December 2013

The Children did fantastic in their Christmas nativity, they all dressed up and acted out their parts.

The toddlers and the babies  joined in as well and dressed up as the animals in the barn. They all looked amazing.

The children have had lots of fun practicing over the last few weeks and enjoyed learning all the new songs.

 

They were all amazing and we were very proud.
Well done to all the children at club 0-14 nursery.

 

The Hour of Code

Today our Out of School Club took part in the 'Hour of Code' event organised by Code.org, our youngest programmer was only 5 years old. Our group managed to complete all 20 puzzles in less than the hour.

Several of our participants have already asked to continue with the course and we will keep you updated with their progress.

#HourofCode

Painting

Babies and Toddlers had a great time this morning doing large scale painting.

 All the children used different painting instruments to mark make, different sized brushes, rollers and sponges.

Scarlot and Anya look like they are having lots of fun!

 

December 2013

Monday 23^rd December

AM – Festive morning making Christmas cards and Christmas decorations.

A note regarding personal possessions:- Should your child bring in their own toys and/or equipment such as a hand held games console, music player, *mobile phone, *digital camera etc, We can’t accept responsibility for it. *Please note that children, adults and staff are not permitted to use a mobile phone with camera function, or digital cameras whilst in Holiday club.  As part of our commitment to safeguarding all children if your child brings either of these to holiday club a member of staff will hold it for safe keeping until home time. The item(s) will remain, at all the times, the responsibility of your child and we request you label the items clearly to minimise the chance of them being lost. Thank you     PM –     Grow your own crystals with Paul Make your very own Reindeer food.

Tuesday 24^th December

AM – Cinema   £6.00

Holiday club is closed at 1pm

AM – Make & design a wind- catcher for the garden and Pine Cone Firelighters

PM –  Make your new 2014 calendar and Pine Cone Bird feeders

Thursday 2^nd January

Friday 3^rd January

AM – CD clock making with Paul

PM – Baking Banana Muffins

	Plus – Free choice activities throughout the day, e.g. giant connect four, snooker table, table foot-ball, computer games, dance mat, board games, books, sports equipment, outdoor play, construction toys, dolls, dolls house, free choice craft etc.

 

Write a letter to Santa…

At Club 0-14 this Christmas you can post your letters to Santa and receive your very own personalised letter back. Its only £2 all proceeds go towards the NSPCC. Ask for a letter template today to get involved.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

AND…
Have Christmas dinner with your child…
On Thursday 19^th December we are inviting all parents and children along for Christmas dinner, if it’s a day your child normally is in there is no charge for your child and just £3 for the adults Christmas meal, why not pop along in your lunch break, lunch is served at 12pm for everyone. If your child isn’t normally in on this day you are still welcome there will just be a £5 charge for both you and your child’s Christmas dinner. It’s not just Christmas dinner though it’s a chance to speak with your child’s key worker, have a look through their learning journey and a consultation with them. Let a member of staff know.

Our carrots that we have grown in our growing area

Our carrots in our growing area were ready to be picked.

Diana helped pick the carrots

All the children helped wash the carrots.

Allison helps Owen to peel the carrots, all the other children watch so they can have a go.

We decided to make carrot cake with our home grown carrots, so Tia and Sam get to work measuring the ingredients with Tammy.

Sam, Seren and Dylan help mix it all together.

Darcie adds the chopped carrots.

Elsa and Lucinda put the mixture in the cake cases.

All the children took a carrot cake home, they were delicious. We cant wait to grow more fruit and veg in our growing area.

 

PUDSEY CAME TO VISIT

On Friday 15th November we came to nursery dressed in our spots!

AND... we had a special visitor PUDSEY came to visit the children at nursery and we gave him all the money we raised for the charity.

Pudsey was so tried after meeting all the children he tried to get a lift home on our Mini-bus!

 

Children in Need- face Paint Day

On Thursday 14th November we did Pudsey face paints and eye bandages to raise money for Children in Need.

Carrie-Ann & Sam look fab!

 

Children in Need- Pyjama Day

Carrie & Seren both wore their Pudsey ears.

Everyone wore their pyjamas for the day and donated £1 for children in need. Even the staff wore their pjs. Keep looking out for the rest of the weeks children in need activities.

Children in need 2013

 

We will be showing our support to this wonderful charity by fundraising through the week. All children and staff are invited to join in on our fundraising activities and join in the fun:

Tuesday 12^th November:

Come in your pyjamas for the day and bring along your favourite teddy. A cake sale will be on-going through the day! £1

 

Thursday 14^th November:

Have your Pudsey face paint done at nursery 50p

 

Friday 15^Th November:

Wear your spotty clothes and MEET PUDSEY BEAR!! £1



Firework and Bonfire Pictures

We have been celebrating Bonfire night this week in nursery. The pre-school children made some great firework and bonfire pictures. We talked all about the safety rules.

Sam made his fire work picture blowing the paint through a straw.

Lucinda use a paint roller to make her bonfire picture.

Don't they look great!

 

Halloween Party- Nursery

The nursery had a great day celebrating Halloween as well. They did activities all week and had a party on the Thursday.

Lucinda and Jack are waiting for the party games to start

 

Scarlot lookf great in her witches costume.

 

The staff made a great spider to hang from the ceiling with the children.

 

Scarlot and Darcie help carve the pumpkin.

 

Look at Carrie's outfit, she looks fab!

Everyone together all partied out!

Halloween Party - Holiday Club

The holiday club joined with the Telford holiday club and had a Halloween Party.

They had so much fun, everyone dressed up and played party games and had Halloween party food.

Jo shows them how its done, starting off with catching the apple.

 

Phoebe and Rowan are ready for the party games.

 

Michelle did a great job at baking a spiders web cake, it looks great... and delicious!

Lev shows everyone his dance moves playing musical bumps.

 

 

We have had lots of fun this week doing fun Halloween activities.
In the holiday club we have had a busy week, carving pumpkins, making Halloween
chocolate witchy apples and playing the tasting game and the spooky feely bowls.

David is brave having a go at the spooky feely bowls!

Look what a great job all the holiday club children did at carving their own pumpkins.

These are ready for our spooky decorations, for out Halloween party today!

The Toddlers new Hamster...

The toddlers have just got a new hamster called Barclay. He lives in the toddler room and each day they feed him and give him fresh water.

Here he is in his new home.

Nicola gets him out and speaks to the children about Barclay and what we need to do for him.

Gwen does a great job at holding Barclay the hamster.



Forest School
Pre-school are very lucky to have a new purpose built Forest school we go and use every Thursday morning. We join up with our Telford nursery and all have a forest school session together.

We collected sticks and leaves to make a birds nest. We gave the birds some seeds as well.

Carrie Ann shows us how she can balance across the logs.

Cooking Activity
This week all the children enjoyed making their very own pizzas.

Carrie-Ann, Jack and Diana do a great job at spreading the tomato puree over their Pizza base, after that they all selected different toppings for their pizza.

Sam took his Pizza home and enjoyed eating it with his Mummy and Daddy.

NEXT WEEK: our cooking activity will be BUTTER SCONES!