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The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac. We used this book, and a Cbeebies video to retell the story and act it out using the animals (with various different endings). As it is the year of the snake children explored cooked spaghetti in green water to find snakes. Other activities to celebrate the […]

Helping Marj to pull up the leeks and compare size was a great way to engage the children with nature and help develop their fine motor skills. They were excited to take some home to cook. The dinosaur table fuelled the children’s imagination as they roared and stomped around the room. Trying a different technique

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See’s repetitive structure supports sequencing by following a specific, predictable order. As we read the story each page introduces an animal and children arranged pictures of the animals in the order they appear in, helping to develop essential skills in observation, and memory. Our first trip this year

This weeks cold spell provided an excellent opportunity to explore indoor winter activities. Creating snowmen with ‘fake snow’, sensory tray filled with wooden figures and salt for ice, a winter themed small world table, and tape resist snowflake painting. To keep active and warm we also brought the bikes inside for children to ride and

Entering the warm church the children sat at the front with Margaret, intrigued by the hand puppet with a squeaky beak she was holding. A lovely version of the Nativity story followed with lots of interaction with the children. Everyone joined in singing Christmas songs after. A hush fell over the church as children heard

Our last visit of the year saw the children collecting fallen leaves to make a wreath, decorating pine cones with elastic bands, playing Christmas bingo, and completing a Christmas hunt. All week the children were excited to roll the tombola drum and pick out the winners of the raffle. Besides playing on the ‘sleigh’ and

Lots of Christmas activities were available for the children to join in with this week. Loading up the sleigh, and delivering the presents was acted out over and over again. Making goodies for their Christmas box children decorated their Christmas cake and planted the bulbs into their painted pot. We played games of hiding jingle

After a lovely walk around the village we popped into the church to see the Candle for St Catherine bags. The children enjoyed searching for their bags. Christmas arrived this week at the Pre-school as children decorated the Christmas tree and painted pots for their hyacinths. Turning the role play area into a jungle some

After listening to the story ‘Owl babies’ Abbotsbury Explorers collected feathers, made a nest, chose eggs, and fed their babies worms. A walk around Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens involved waving at themselves in the giant mirror ball, climbing, playing pooh sticks, weaving in and out of bamboo, feeding the fish and making leaf angels. After lunch

Each year the children design lantern bags to celebrate the Name day of St Catherine of Alexandria. On Sunday 24th November the lantern bags are placed onto St Catherine’s Hill. It is a wonderful sight to see. For more details here is the link: https://www.abbotsbury.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/COST-2024-LR.pdf Enjoying the dry weather the children fed the birds at