22 Street Lane Nursery - June 2019 Newsletter

June Newsletter

Ducklings The Ducklings enjoyed their 'Muddy Puddle Walk' to Roundhay Park. The Ducks went in the morning and afternoon in two groups. They went in the pram with their friends, walking through the gardens of Roundhay park and towards the lake. The Ducklings enjoyed looking at the ducks by the lake and feeding them with special food from the lakeside café, we also enjoyed looking at the nature such as the lake, flowers, trees and grass. The Ducklings have especially enjoyed the sunshine and spending time outdoors! We are teaching the children that they need to wear sun cream and a sun hat. They have enjoyed going into the garden and exploring different activities such as riding the bikes, water play and playing in the sand. The children have also enjoyed lots of picnics for their tea! We have enjoyed taking part in different arts and crafts activities including making sun flowers whilst sitting in the garden. They used glue with yellow paint, yellow string, foiled paper and tissue paper. They stuck yellow feathers all around to make petals, and lollipop sticks for the stems. The Ducklings also made foot print 3D flip flops, this included painting the children’s feet and making foot prints on the flip flops! We have been celebrating Greece as our country of the month. The children have been getting involved with blue and white powder paint messy play and we even made our own Greek carrot and parsley bread balls! Each individual child had their turn of mixing the flour and ingredients together 'mix, mix, mix'! They then got to taste the carrot and parsley and we also used our senses to smell the parsley ingredient we were putting in our mixture. All the Ducklings independently got involved with this activity and they all got to take their tasty treat home! The Ducklings have also been very busy exploring mini-beasts in our garden, they found a little caterpillar and we named him 'Clive', we let him live in the Duckling’s room for a day before releasing him back to his family! The Ducklings picked leaves and sticks for his new home and we have been introducing The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and experimenting with fruit.

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