Please find below some activities that you can do with your child over the next few days. The children also love to share stories and have fun playing outside. Children love to play with playdough and even more than squishing it, they love to make it. The following recipe is a no-cook recipe using boiling water, but you could put it in a pan and stir it around until it all comes together. To make the playdough you need: All these ingredients can be found in a supermarket. The cream of tartar and glycerine are not essential but make a better, longer lasting playdough. The cream of tartar makes the playdough more stretchy and stronger. The glycerine (found in pharmacies) makes the playdough stretchy and softer. 2 cups plain flour (all purpose) 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (baby oil and coconut oil work too) 1/2 cup salt 2 tablespoons cream of tartar (from baking section) 1 to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right) gel food colouring (optional) few drops glycerine – optional (my secret ingredient for stretch and shine!) Method: Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry ingredients Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough Add the glycerine (optional) Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency! If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right

Nursery has been thinking about our senses. We used all our senses to hear popcorn popping, see it pop, feel it, touch the kernals before and after they popped and, best of all, tasted the popcorn!

Nursery have been strengthening their fingers, ready for writing, with daily dough disco or crayon dancing. They have been enjoying mark making.

Nursery has worked really well together this week. They have had a great time in the home area sharing meals together and building a huge sand castle in the sand area. They went on a bus ride, which then turned into going on an aeroplane taking them to different destinations, holiday, the zoo, swimming pool….They have also been building big structures around the classroom for the animals.

Nursery has been exploring shapes. We even baked some delicious shape biscuits!

Nursery have been observing what has been happening to the trees and learning all about Autumn. We have been identifying the different leaves. We read the story ‘The Very Helpful Hedgehog’. We have been learning about hedgehogs, what they eat, what the babies are called, that they are nocturnal and that they hibernate. We also found out that you should never give hedgehogs milk because it will make them sick!