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Totton Nursery News

New Decking Area

The children had a grand opening ceremony for their new decking area and had
great fun unwrapping new equipment to use on there.  This area will mean
that the children will have an adpatable space that can also be used as an
'outdoor classroom', providing lots of learning opportunities.

Some of the children having a healthy and nutritious breakfast at our
'Breakfast Club'.

'How does your garden grow ?'

In today's world caring for the environment encompasses many aspects.  One
of which is caring for the environment immediately around us - our gardens,
homes and open spaces near to where we live.

Soon the children in Pre-school will taking part in activities linked in
with various aspects of environmental education.  Through environmental
education we can use what is nearer and more familiar to us to promote an
early understanding of the care we need to give to living things and our
planet.
All of the activities are part of a scheme entitled 'How does your garden
grow ?'.  The first part is based on awareness of the world around us and
the second part will be about growth.  They will run alongside the general
topic activities in Pre-school and many will take place in the Nursery
garden.
The whole process of caring for a garden can help the early understanding of
caring for the world, through learning about the plants and animals present,
also the seasons, life cycles, growth, habitats and the weather.
The activities are planned with links to the Stepping Stones  in the
Foundation Stage Pre-school Curriculum.

'Going shopping'

Pre-school have been using their role play area as a shop.  This play
opportunity gives the children the chance to be indpendant in their thinking
and creativity, and be able to incorporate familiar situations, such as
shopping into their play.
As well as this it provides a good foundation for increasing mathematical
and language and literacy skills.

Fun with Paint !

Paint and similar mediums are used for a wide range of activities across all
of the age groups in the Nursery.

The Older Babies have recently been hand and foot printing
This is what they had to say......

'We made lots of hand and foot prints and then added lips and eyes to make
them look like fish. The paint felt funny between our fingers and toes, and
especially made our feet all tickly!
Our fish then decorated the Older Baby Island in our playroom'.



Pre-school have been exploring their senses, particularly sight. The
children experimented with mixing paints together to see what colours they
could create. They talked further about light and dark colours and
different shades.

SAINSBURYS
The total number of  vouchers reached was in excess of 14,000 and we received a whole range of exciting equipment including different types of sensory balls, pom poms, gymnastic and sports equipment.

Max, Tom, Katie, Jessica, Lily, Alex and Levi couldn't wait to show us what they could do with the balls and hoops.