Thank you so much to Thea Jess and Paddy for such a lovely visit to their house on Wednesday.  The children so enjoyed collecting eggs from the chickens and quail  – they particularly noticed the difference in size of eggs!  They also had the opportunity to brush the pony – while understanding the importance of […]

Shark in the Park certainly inspired role play this week and all the children were all engaged in the story every day- chanting the words and becoming very excited when they saw the real shark on the final page of the book. We made telescopes and the children looked through them to find triangle shapes […]

A big thank you to Ben and his family for inviting us to their new home for a visit.  We all enjoyed a lovely walk from Tiddy, we met and said hello to people along the way and arrived at Ben’s in time for fruit and homemade flapjack!  All the children enjoyed the freedom of playing […]

This week we talked about the kind of weather we hope to experience during the summer and the sort of clothes we might expect to wear.  Nicky got dressed up in various layers of clothes suitable for both winter and summer, with the children helping to define which would be appropriate for hot or cold weather. […]

This week we looked at a book ‘A Sunday with Grandpa’ – all about a family taking a train journey to see the childrens’ Grandpa who lives in the Countryside. We made a start on a train display board for the hall and made tool boxes (Grandpa has a very old fashioned workshop full of […]

Little Dancers Themes Term 6 2015

The children have enjoyed Easter activities over the last couple of weeks. They made Easter bonnets – great care was taken in the positioning of the flowers and we have a lot of photos of some very proud children. There were many different sizes of bunnies brought in and we looked at the similarities and […]

Many thanks to Charlie T, Chris, Emma & her Mum who all brought ‘Tommy’ the miniature Shetland pony along to Pre-School on Thursday –he was tiny & very sweet, the children stroked him and he behaved impeccably throughout. Charlie rode him to Tiddy and back to Crown Farm and it was great for us to […]

The cooking club children had so enjoyed weighing and measuring ingredients, that we wanted to extend the experience into the rest of preschool. This past week we have measured all manner of things, stand still long enough and a tape measure or scales loomed large! We have measured our heights and weights, we have compared […]