Diddi Dancing comes to Club 0-14

Every week Emma from Diddi Dancers comes and teaches us dance moves, it is great exercise and we all love it.

Carrie-Ann loves dressing up to dance

Apple Picking 

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Babies and Toddlers

On the 23rd of August the babies and toddlers went outside to see how our very own apple tree was doing. When we looked we notice that the apples were ready to eat, so we decided to pick them. We took it in turns to pick the apples and placed them in a bowl.

Once they were picked we washed them and chopped them into slices ready to eat. We think they tasted delicious! We are also very proud that we grew them all ourselves by planting the seeds and making sure we watered and looked after them.

 Diana begins and picks out her apple

 

 Carrie-Ann and Nia both have a go at picking their apples from the tree. 

 Jack places his apple into the bucket and Ewan picks his red apple

 

Elsa enjoyed pulling her apple from the tree and used all of her strength as they were very well attached!

She then dropped her apple into the bucket being held carefully by Carrie-Ann.

Lucinda needed Claire's help to lift her up as she chose an apple very near to the top.

Seren also had fun pulling her apple from the tree and Diana carried the bucket back into nursery for us.

Time to eat our homegrown apples!

 

Diana and Lucinda choose their freshly washed apples from the bucket.

Sam is enjoying eating his apple

So is Lucinda

 

Carrie-Ann and Diana look very happy with their apples.

Club 0-14 is very proud of the children for taking such good care of the garden and the apple tree and we will be planting more trees soon.

Monday's Photo Competition

To celebrate the 125th year of the Shrewsbury Flower Show we went to the Dingle in the Quarry to hold a photography contest.

The winner was Lewis with the photograph below

Lewis' view of the Dingle garden

Runner-up Eleri, with the Dingle pond

Lake Vyrnwy

 On Friday we went on a trip to Lake Vyrnwy - to read more abou the Lake and it's origins, please see the Wikipedia article.

We had a picnic lunch and then hiked up the valley to the Rhiwagor Falls.

Summer Fair 2012

RMP Big Bounce provided us with a pair of bouncy castles for the day

 Many thanks to everyone who came and supported the Summer Fair, a big thanks to RMP Big Bounce for the bouncy castle loan.

A full list of all the raffle prizes and their winners will be posted shortly.

The smaller children loved going in the ball pond castle

The tombola stand did great business all afternoon

Sam enjoyed bouncing with his Dad on the big castle

Amy and Jade took a break to bounce for a while

Phillip and Lucinda had a go on the big castle with their Mum

Seren enjoyed plaing with all the coloured balls

Jo kicked of the raffle and Phoebe won the giant tiger

Armed Forces visit

Armed Forces Visit

On the 29th of June we were lucky enough to receive a visit from a soldier called Tony. Tony works on the Army base in our very own Shrewsbury town. We think that the Armed forces do a great job for our country which is why we wanted to celebrate Armed Forces Day that was being held on the 30th of June.

Here is Tony getting his kit ready to show the children

He laid it all out ready on the floor for us to look at. He bought a lot of kit including hats, medals, binoculars, dog tags, boots and camoflage cream.

Tony shows us how he can unscrew his flashlight to change the colour of the lens. The pre-school thought this was very interesting.

Xade has a go with the flashlight.

Alfie and Tyler have so much fun looking through the binoculars. They said they made everything look much bigger than in real life!

We think it was very nice of Tony to show us the shiny medals that he had gained whilst working in the Army. Layton, Xade, Alfie and Amee all looked very impressed.





The children had so much fun trying on the hats. Amarpreet and Diana loved wearing them and Becks and Layton also had a go.

 

Here's Alfie on the left wearing his own Army uniform. He came to nursery dressed like this to show all of his friends. On the right Layton puts his feet into Tony's boots. They look a bit big!

Finally Club 0-14 would like to thank Tony for taking time out of his busy day to come in and tell us all about what he does in the Armed Forces. We are also very grateful that he could bring in so much of his kit for us to see and help us be a part of Armed Forces Day. 

Messy Play with Babies and Toddlers

This week the babies and toddlers have been taking part in lots of messy play activities. They have enjoyed exploring shaving foam and soap flakes. Whilst these activities are a great way to introduce new and different textures for the children to explore they are also lots of fun and very messy!

Babies shaving foam

25/06/2012

Here is Nia, Lucinda and Sam ready to explore the foam

Nia uses her hands to squash the foam

Lucinda is having lots of fun patting her foam down

Sam has covered both of his hands!

Toddlers Soap flakes

29/06/2012

Claire and Laura took the toddlers outside and made some soap flake mixture from the Grab and Go boxes.

Food colouring was added to the mixture to make different colours. We also added some strawberry essence so the mixture would smell different too. This was great as the toddlers used a lot of different senses during this activity.

Carrie-Ann uses a scraper to move the flakes around

Diana and Lucinda explore the mixture with their fingers and brushes

claire adds the strawberry essence to Becks's mixture

And they both lean in to smell the strawberries

Lucinda liked the blue food colouring in her mixture and swirled it round with her brush

Diana also used a brush to spread the mixture along the table

Diana and Becks watch Claire add the food colouring to their mixture