Candleby Lane EYFS

Welcome to Early Years at Candleby Lane!
To arrange a visit or apply for a place in our fantastic Early Years contact the school office on 0115 989 2284.

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Making phonics fun 🤩
In F2 we love finding initial sounds 🔠📝
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Bonfire night 🔥
Some lovely set ups in the provision this week to celebrate bonfire night 🪵 the children explored textures, colours and artistic techniques 🎨
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1,2,3 🔢
This week in F2, we are focusing on counting objects up to 3! ☑️
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Fireworks 🎆
The children in F2 enjoyed this set up to celebrate bonfire night 🎇
The children used the tweezers to carefully place the decorations on the templates 🎇
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Rangoli play dough designs 🎨
In F1 we used the gems to make our own rangoli designs to replicate the traditional Diwali decorations 🎇
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Diwali water 🪷
We celebrated Diwali late this year as we were on our half term break whilst the celebrations were happening! The children loved this water set up to explore the traditional lotus flowers used in the festival of lights 🕯️

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Sunflower 🌻 f1 have been doing observational paintings of sunflowers, enjoying the very last of summer!

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Pumpkin playdough 🎃 the children have loved exploring the orange dough to create their own pumpkins!

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DOUBLES ❎2️⃣
In F2 we are exploring doubles this week! This weeks maths enhancements ☑️

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BOG BABY 🫐🪻🫟
This weeks provision enhancements for F2! We are so excited to see the children design their own bog babies and see them come to life in our creative area 💙
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FARMSHOP 🌽 🥚 🥦 🍞 🥕
The children started their own little role play of a shop on the old stage yesterday so today we transformed it into a farm shop! Still lots to do but the enjoyed played in here all day today in nursery and loved it!
#enhancements #provison #childled

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THE GARDEN 🌷
Lettuce, rosemary and tulips are thriving in the F1 garden 🌱
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SUNFLOWERS 🌻
our sunflowers have sprouted over the Easter holidays! The children are very excited 😄
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THE GARDEN ☀️🌱🍄🌼
Wow, how amazing does the garden look when the sun is shining! We can’t wait for our sunflowers and vegetables to grow!

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SMALL WORLD 🌍 🗺️
We swapped a few things around in our small world! Lots of new enhancements for the children to get excited about tomorrow 🦖🪼🦧🦒🦔
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ART 🎨 🖌️
We love getting creative in nursery! Our Jackson Pollock wall really brings out art area to life 🎨🎨🎨

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MAGICAL CLASSROOMS 🌈
In EYFS at Candleby we love to make our classroom an immersive experience for the children. As the seasons and weather changes, our classroom is a great talking point for the children ❄️ ☀️ ☔️ 🍂

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FROG SPAWN 🐸
Chia seeds are a great way for children to explore ‘frog spawn’.
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SEEDS 💚🪴
We have planted our seeds into small pots and keeping them warm inside until they have sprouted and will be ready to put into our garden 🪴
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We are excited to keep you updated with how our garden changes over the next few months ☀️ 🌼 ☀️ 🌼
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