Overbury Grasshoppers News

We’ve had a very busy and exciting couple of weeks at nursery, full of wonderful opportunities for the children to observe and learn about life cycles and minibeasts.

Thirteen days ago, Bonnie brought in a selection of eggs for us to observe. We borrowed an incubator from Paul and marked each egg with a small red dot so we could easily see when they had been rotated.

This morning, the whole nursery climbed back aboard the tractor trailer and set off to visit Farmer Jake at Park Farm as part of our new topic on farm animals. The journey up the hill was very bumpy, which made it all the more exciting!

Last week, some of our Squirrels and Hedgehogs children enjoyed a very special adventure as we travelled by tractor trailer to visit the beautiful Bluebell Woods. The journey itself was lots of fun — the tractor ride was quite bumpy, which caused plenty of giggles and excitement along the way!

The children have been busy exploring the wonderful world of birds through the story ‘Owl Babies’ and a variety of hands-on activities.

Children at Grasshoppers have been taking part in lots of fun food based learning to tie in with British Food Fortnight which runs from the 26th September to the 12th October. 

The children have been talking about road safety this week.

The children have been learning about all aspects of bread making from growing and harvesting the wheat to making a loaf for their snack. 

The children have been learning all about where their food comes from. This week we have been looking at food from tress. 

The children have had lots of fun playing in the leaves after the wind blew them off of the trees.