October at St Paul’s Nursery School and Children’s Centre has been all about settling in, with home visits for new families and plenty of autumn to explore in the garden.
The biggest talking point was in Nursery 2, when Sid brought in a giant wasp nest. The wasps had long gone, but the questions kept coming. Was it an ants’ nest? A beehive? One child suggested it might be a whale. Children wondered how Sid got it to nursery, what makes a home a home, and who the nest belongs to now.
In the Early Years 2 Room, children found helicopter seeds under the trees and threw them up high to watch them spin back down. A delivery of new sand turned into a cake shop, with brown sand as chocolate, beige as vanilla and the newest sand as sprinkles, before the cakes were sliced and shared. In Baby Room 2, children worked out how far apart the logs were before leaping between them, and visited the local farm, where they spotted green tomatoes that weren’t ready yet.
Pumpkins appeared across the nursery. Babies huffed and puffed to lift the big ones and then looked inside at the slimy seeds, while Nursery 1 painted pumpkins and shared theories about whether seeds or stones were hiding inside. And with the rain came puddles, which children in every room have been very happy to jump in.
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