Mighty Oaks this week have been so busy! We have really enjoyed our science week doing lots different experiments. Our volcanoes were a super success, giant explosion that really surprised the children as they predicted it would blow up so high. We were lucky to have some fantastic jelly rocks, that changed over time with water , they grew so big and the children had lots of fun feeling and playing with them especially with the new grabbers we had.

Cooking this week Red and Purple Group made fruit lolly pops, this really tested their fine motor skills, as we left them to chop and mush the fruit all by themselves. Then we added a little bit of ice cream ready to freeze. They then had them the next day for snack. Yummy 😋

They’ve been in the forest school area exploring the natural wildlife and climbing on the equipment. As you can see they are very creative in building their own ideas for climbing and sliding on. I hear their little picnic up there was quite a treat, but they deserve it, they have worked so hard.

Red group and Purple group have been looking at two letters one sounds and tricky words. Today they have done us proud by reading sentences! Watch out Newdale school because these little super stars are coming your way.

Here at Mighty Oaks we have been so busy doing lots of different activities. We have been painting rocks to go in the garden. Getting ready for Father’s Day by making cards and gifts. We even had time to get physical in the big hall.

Red group and Purple group this week have been very busy making bird feeders and volcanos. We have tidied the garden up and noticed how many different birds visit us. We made bird feeders out of bottles and moulds for them to have yummy treats. The children have really enjoyed finding out the birds names from our poster outside.

Then for wonderful Wednesday cooking we made volcanoes from ice cream cones, biscuits and yummy sweet treats. The children have been researching volcanoes ready for our science week next week.

Over the last few weeks orange group have been working really hard with their maths and their writing. Here are a few pictures of the work we have been doing. Orange group children are so proud of their work and rightly so :).

Well done orange group, I’m so proud. Sophie :)

Mighty oaks this week are enjoying playing outside. All the rain has not stopped our play. As you can see your children are having fun being ever so busy. We are all sending our well wishes to friends at home.

Good afternoon mighty Oaks children, from all of the team here at nursery. I can see you’ve been continuing the amazing work of homeschooling. We are missing you but we know that you are safe and well at home, happy with your families. Please keep sending in your work from home and remember we are here at nursery if you have any queries. Hope to see you all soon.

We thought you would like to see how happy the children are back at nursery. They’ve bounced into our activities with a can do attitude and really enjoying learning. I think this just shows how well you all have done and continue doing at home keeping things as normal as possible in this unusual circumstances. We hope to see more of you back in the future. Take care

It’s not always so easy to have the time to bake at home with the children, our life’s are busy. So for this weeks cooking activity I thought let’s try our hands at this microwave vanilla cake. Looks good I wonder if it taste good. I’m going to give it a try myself today and see what happens. First time for me baking in a microwave! 😬

Get out your measuring spoons and measuring cup sets and let your children learn how easy it is to measure out their own single-sized mug of vanilla cake batter.

Ingredients

• 2 Tablespoons egg substitute (like Egg Beaters)

• 2 Tablespoons butter, softened or melted

• 1/3 cup flour

• 3 Tablespoons sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 3 Tablespoons half and half or milk

• 2 Tablespoons rainbow sprinkles

• 1 cup powdered sugar

• 2-3 drops pink or red food coloring

Directions

1. In a small bowl, stir together egg substitute, butter, flour, sugar, vanilla, 2 Tablespoons of half and half, and 1 Tablespoon of rainbow sprinkles.

2. Place in an extra large mug. Microwave for 60 seconds, wipe any of the batter that has bubbled over the edge, then return to the microwave for an additional 30 seconds.

3. Remove the cake and place it in the fridge. While it’s cooling, stir together powdered sugar, 1 Tablespoon half and half, and food coloring. Drizzle over slightly warm cake. Sprinkle and enjoy this easy microwave dessert recipe!

Fantastic again Newdale nursery 🙌

Clear to see your fine and gross motor skills have been tested, but yet again you shined though. Maths homework and literacy you are flying through.