Farm Favourites

Our favourite farm animals...

We tried to choose just one but it was too tricky for some of us.

Mathilda the cow:

Arsh

Kylie the horse:

Khaius, Arsh, Mylo, Umar, Mariam, Musa, Arshia, Zoya, Theodore, Mohammed, Jazib, Mrs Harrison, Oliver and Lewis

Baby rabbit:

Ella, Miss Bunting, Sinead and Oliver

Fudge the guinea pig:

Ella, Hermione and Ms Jewsbury

Chickens:

Arsh, Umar, 

Baby chick:

Mir

Donkeys:

Rayan, Mylo, Mrs Daniels and Zaviyar

Pigs:

Lots of us really enjoyed throwing the carrots over the fence for the pigs to eat.

Grown ups who helped us, did you have a favourite animal from the farm?

We made masks after our visit and had a fun booklet from the farm to try as well as a special sticker!

Some of us wearing our masks, making animal sounds and pretending to be on the farm!

Fun in the farm and in the sand!

WOW! Independent work! Super chick, well done you! Your mummy was very proud too!

Who has come to nursery today?

1 sheep, 1 horse and 1 cow

Twinkle, twinkle, little stars...!

Grown ups in Nursery have been thinking and talking about how the children are trying so hard, making progress and achieving personal goals. We are 

 very proud of you all!

Each child has a special award in their home-school book for unique effort and achievement. Please share and talk about at home. There is lots to see in their books and around the classroom so please share and have a good look.

EVEN MORE TO CELEBRATE...!

Settling into nursery life and routines (only joined nursery recently): Anoud, Kabir, Zakir, Omar, Umsha, Jazib and Katie

Super effort with sharing and taking turns with others: Mylo, Lewis and Umar

Trying hard with writing: Mir, Imam, Arshia, Rayan, Ella, Arsh, Mariam, Sinead and Zoya

Using different tools and being active: Zaviyar, Musa, Mohammed and Mujtaba

Good effort when listening to others: Mohammed, Mylo, Umar, Imam, Lewis and Mir

Having a good go with counting and writing (some letter shapes from own name): Khaius, Claudine, Theodore, Musa, Mujtaba, Oliver and Hermione

Sharing news at group time (raised confidence): Oliver, Hermione, Arsh, Khaius, Theodore, Zoya and Sinead

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

Please add other 'WOW' moments to your child's book or post a comment on the blog. Thank you!

Super listening, concentration and behaviour whilst on our trip to the farm! All adults were very impressed and proud of you all!

Fun in the sun!

Even more learning outdoors...

Making meaningful marks - we all experienced painting a picture of our favourite animal from the farm.

Super concentrating!

So many animals...

Can you spot your painting?

Wonderful weaving!

Even more fun at the farm...

We spent time in the play area and had rides on the tractors. We pretended to be busy farmers!

It was fun getting the chance to stroke some small animals. We listened carefully and thought about which animals had fur and which had feathers.

Very brave feeding the llama. Look how carefully we had to hold out our hands and let them eat the carrots.

Taking turns to stroke the little lamb. She was quite wriggly. Her mummy was a bit worried about where she had gone. She felt very warm and woolly. 

This little chick was not very old. Lots of us really liked the chick.

Is this Makka Pakka or Iggle Piggle? We liked their names.

We could go into the donkey pen and stroke them if we wanted to. This was great fun!

Fudge the guinea pig was so soft. He really liked cuddles.

Look how gentle we are! Well done, friends!

If you look really carefully, you will be able to see some baby rabbits. They were only a few weeks old.

Here's Kylie again. She was very popular - one of our most favourites!

This donkey was very hungry.

Here we are with the donkeys!

We tried to think of a name for this baby rabbit. It was very cute and so soft.

Two little lambs. We thought that they must be friends.

This donkey is quite old. I think its name was Scrumpy Jack.

Wow! This is fun!

Another busy farmer...

There's that cheeky rabbit again!

A baby duckling. We looked at its webbed feet and its soft feathers and found out that its feathers are waterproof.

We learned so much at the farm and have been talking about it so much since. We have shared our blog and the photos have helped us to recall and relive past experiences. It has also helped us to think harder and answer questions, such as: how and why.

We are planning to make animal masks and pretend to be farm animals indoors and outside... 

We will also add our photos to our board in the cloakroom for you to see, ask us about and please add your comments.

We are also hoping to plan a picnic and maybe 'bring an animal soft toy'. More details soon...

Our Trip to The Farm

Today, we spent a lovely day at Reddish Vale Farm. We spent time looking at the various animals and we even got to feed them!

Some of us meeting the llama.

He was very hungry!

The very noisy cockerel and his hen!

Some very hungry pigs!!

This is Kylie the horse. She was really big and tall!

Our new friend Lewis showing us Kylie's big teeth! We said she could do with brushing them!

Our new friend Lewis showing us his favourite duck, Daphne.

Getting to stroke our new donkey friend, Scrumpy Jack.

This is Domino. He's a goat and he loves to eat carrots.

Being shown a baby duckling by our other new friend, Jess.

This was a cheeky rabbit who came to say hello when Jess was showing us the baby animals.

The tortoises had to keep warm under their lamp.

There was even some budgies and quails at the farm.

We even got to have a play!

There was even some time for a spot of lunch. We had lots to drink too as it was very warm!

Everyone started to get a bit tired.

We'd like to say thank you to Lewis, Jess and everyone at Reddish Vale farm for being so nice and for helping us. We also want to say thank you to the mummies and daddies who came and helped us on our trip.

Thank You!!