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Mother Goose Day Nursery, 76 Wigton Road, Carlisle (2026)

05/06/2026

Owls 🦉

Thursday 4th June 2026

Ice cream parlour

Welcome to our ice cream parlour. The INTENT came from all the children interests after singing outside during their play.

The ladies IMPLEMENTED this by getting out different resources such as different coloured tissue paper, scoops,blocks for the flakes and sprinkles. The children soon got to work by designing their own ice creams and tubs SC was putting a mixture of the ice cream in the bowl while Sarah H was helping the children design cones by using the tissue paper to wrap around a maraca. PD was placing the tissue paper into the silver goblets, she said it was an ice cream drink. Cheryl told the children how much the ice creams cost which were £1.50. We had TB has the ice cream man were he was asking the children what flavour they would like. We also had flakes which were 50p and sprinkles for 50p.

The INTENT was that the children used their imagination and skills to promote their fine motor skills while creating their ice creams.

During this activity the areas of learning are :

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
EXPRESSIVE ART AND DESIGN

At home you could take the children to an ice cream van to see where the ice cream comes from and the different flavours.

Well Done 🦉

Cheryl and Sarah H

04/06/2026

Penguins 🐧

Happy 3rd birthday MY! 🎈🎂

WELCOME TO PENGUIN CITY 🏙️

Today in Penguins we have been celebrating our friend MY’s 3rd birthday where we followed on from his current interest in vehicles and rolling. So the ladies created a city full of vehicles and different items to roll the cars along and down to. The children had great fun rolling the cars down the different ramps and seeing how fast they roll. The children worked together to collect the cars and did a great job sharing them out, we took the cars around the map finding different routes for us to take and using the loose parts as obstacles too. We spoke about road signs and what they mean and how they can keep us safe too. The children had a fabulous time going on different adventures and telling the ladies all the different places we were going. We later went on to play with the balloons and have a dance with our friends.

Later on at snack time we enjoyed some Yummy cake kindly provided by MY’s parents, thank you so much for providing this cake too. 🍰🥳

All in all we have had a fabulous day celebrating MY’s 3rd birthday and developing our imaginative play, fine and gross motor skills and so much more throughout our play too. We can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in many different ways such as:

🎉Physical development 🎉

🎂Communication and language🎂

🥳Personal, social, and emotional development🥳

🎈Mathematics🎈

🥰Understanding the world🥰

🎊Literacy🎊

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AT HOME 🏡 you could get some vehicles toy have at home and create different ramps to push them along and experiment with.

REMEMBER to share all your at home adventures on tapestry as we would love to see what you have been doing at home and enhance your play at nursery too! 🥰

Well done Penguins 🐧

Megan, Ella, and Lilli x✨

A massive happy 3rd birthday to MY, we hope you have had the most amazing and magical day celebrating with us all! 🚘🎉

04/06/2026

Ducklings🐥

A trip to the beach..☀️🌊🏖️

Today in Duckling we have been exploring our very own beach, we used sand, a deck chair, shells and sea animals to create our own beach. The interest of this activity came Child LA and MS recent holidays aboard over the half term.☀️🌊🏖️

INTENT☀️
Following the children's interest in holidays, we created a beach-themed sensory experience to help our babies explore familiar holiday experiences through play. Our aim was to encourage curiosity, communication, sensory development, and imaginative thinking.

IMPLEMENTATION🌊
The babies explored a variety of beach-inspired activities including feeling and digging in sand, collecting shells, and sitting in the deck chair. We talked about holidays, the seaside, and the different textures they could see and feel, supporting language development throughout the session.

IMPACT🏖️
The children were highly engaged and showed great excitement as they explored the beach-themed environment. They developed their sensory awareness, fine motor skills, and communication skills while sharing resources and interacting with their peers. The activity sparked lots of smiles and curiosity.

☀️Physical Development☀️
🌊Personal, Social and Emotional🌊
🏖️Communication and Language🏖️
☀️Literacy☀️
🌊Understanding the World🌊

At Home🏡
Have you ever been on holiday? Where did you go? What did you do there? Please share pictures of your holidays and adventures on tapestry for us to see. We love seeing what you get up to outside of nursery🤍

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Carly x

04/06/2026

Owls 🦉

Wednesday 3rd June 2026

Pirate Day

Today it was all about pirates. The ladies set out all the different resources such as a pirate ship, sand, treasure chest, treasure, shells and pirate hats. This was AT interests.

Sarah H kindly drew a skull and bones onto the flag, we then asked the children if they knew what it was. PD was able to tell us that it was a skull and bones. We had a book with different ships 🚢 in the children thought it was interesting looking through the 📕. The ladies asked the children what sort of creatures would you find in the sea. CC said octopus, he counted the legs. with Cheryl and he said that there was eight. AT said that you get mermaids that can swim. While Cheryl was discussing this AT said you have treasure in the treasure chest. PD and AY were protecting the treasure.

During the activity CC and SC got into the pirate 🏴‍☠️ ship, they were going through the water, CC said I am a pirate. Cheryl and Sarah H were doing crab moves,long John Silver. The children thought this was quite amusing.

All in all we had a fun day full of laughters.

During this activity the areas of learning are :

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

At home you could dress up as pirates, you could also design your own pirate 🎩

Well Done 🦉

Cheryl and Sarah H

03/06/2026

Ducklings🐥

Building and stacking with Ducklings🧱🚧🔨

Today in Ducklings we have been exploring building and stacking using different objects. We used a mixture of stacking blocks, wooden log slices, metallic reels and sensory bottles to build towers. We also practised our counting skills too with help from the ladies. This activity helped us develop early mathematical skills, problem solving as well hand eye coordination. The children used their different abilities to help us each to build towers. They took turns with the resources making sure to share. 🧱🚧🔨

🧱Physical Development🧱
🚧Personal, Social and Emotional🚧
🔨Communication and Language🔨
🧱Mathematics🧱
🚧Literacy🚧
🔨Understanding the World🔨

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Carly x🤍

03/06/2026

Penguin’s 🐧

PlayDough morning! 🌼

What will you use to explore the playdough? 🌼🍃

Today in Penguin’s we have been busy exploring the play dough we made earlier on today with the ladies where we helped the ladies to mix all the ingredients and create our yellow play dough. Throughout we were using the natural resources to explore the play dough enveloping them inside the play dough before squashing and squeezing the PlayDough exploring the texture. The children let their imagination run wild and began creating different things telling the ladies all the different things they had made. We spoke about what we had made and how we could enhance it further too.

The INENT of this activity was to allow the children to develop their interest whilst also exploring the natural resources too. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this throughout by having a range of different items for the children to use to enhance their play dough play. The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their imagination whilst also getting creative too.

All in all the children had a busy morning exploring our play dough, and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in different ways such as:

🌼Physical development🌼

🌼Communication and language🌼

🌼Personal, social, emotional development🌼

🌼Understanding the world 🌼

🌼Literacy🌼

🌼Expressive arts and design 🌼

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AT HOME 🏡 you could make your own play dough and add in different resources from around your home.

REMEMBER to share pictures of all your at home adventures as we would love to see what you have been up to at home as we would love to involve your at home play at nursery to help enhance your play.

Well done everyone! 🥰

Megan, Ella, and Lilli 🤍

03/06/2026

Owls 🦉

Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Dinosaur World 🌍

Today it was all about dinosaur 🦕 world. The intent came from KY interests.

The ladies IMPLEMENTED this by getting out different dinosaurs 🦕, sand, wooden sticks, and water along with different objects and a book about dinosaurs to show the children how to find out information on them. The children soon got to work by selecting the dinosaurs. KY was able to name quite a lot of them as he particularly likes dinosaurs. He was able to name the Terri tops, stegosaurus, TRex. CC was moulding the sand together he told Cheryl it was a volcano and he was hiding his dinosaur there so no one could find him. PD told Cheryl that you find dinosaurs in dino world where they eat leaves. During the activity EV,HDJ,PD were using their hands to collect sand to make a fish mould. HDJ said look Cheryl I have made a shell print out of the sand.

The IMPACT showed the children that they could use their skills and imagination to create different places for the dinosaurs to go, how to look at the book on the dinosaurs to find out information on them,

During this activity the areas of learning are :

PERSONAL SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

At home you could get out different animals and find out information on them by using the relevant book for each animal.

Well done 🦉

Cheryl and Sarah H

02/06/2026

Penguin’s 🐧

All aboard the Dino Train 🦖🚂

Where will you take your Dino today? 🤔🗺️📍

Today in Penguin’s we have been busy going on an adventure with our dinosaurs, we used our train tracks to create an adventure for our dinosaurs. Throughout we spoke about how we can change and adapt our track alongside making new and different ones to explore too. We then went on to explore our dinosaurs and stomp them on our track. We spoke about the dinosaurs and all the different features on the dinosaurs from their colour, to their spikes and so much more. We enjoyed looking through the story books too and seeing all the different types of dinosaurs throughout too.

The INENT of this activity was to allow the children to develop their interest whilst isi g our problem solving skills too. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this throughout by having a range of different items for the children to use to create their train tracks and vehicles to use too. The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their imagination whilst also problem solving and sharing throughout.

All in all the children had a busy morning going on an adventure with our dinosaurs, and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in different ways such as:

🦖Physical development🦖

🚂Communication and language🚂

🗺️Personal, social, emotional development🗺️

📍Understanding the world 📍

🦖Literacy🦖

🚂Mathematics 🚂

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AT HOME 🏡 you could go to your local train station and see what trains you can see coming and going.

REMEMBER to share pictures of all your at home adventures as we would love to see what you have been up to at home as we would love to involve your at home play at nursery to help enhance your play.

Well done everyone! 🥰

Megan, Ella, and Lilli 🤍

02/06/2026

Owls 🦉
Monday 1st June 2026

Good Morning Owls,

Welcome back to the second half of summer term!

Today in the Owls room it was all about shadows, let’s make a shadow!
How can you use the resources to make a shadow? What shapes or letters can you see?

The ladies had set up a learning opportunity and gathered resources together such as the LED light screen that changes different colours, coloured pencils and paper, different wooden shapes, pinecones and some chess pieces. Sarah gathered a group at a time over to the provocation and asked each group what are shadows? A few knew but child CC replied with “what is a shadow Sarah?”. Sarah explained it is something that reflects the light, for example, Sarah asked the Owls to lean over and wiggle their fingers. Owls what can you see in the light?Most of the Owls could say “it is our fingers” we then carried on making different shapes and shadows with our fingers, child PD said “look a butterfly”.

We then used the pencils and paper to draw what the different resources the shadows made. While the Owls were busy drawing away Sarah noticed something “Look Owls the cardboard tube has made a shadow, it looks like something familiar. Who can guess what it looks like?”. Child VN said “it’s a party hat”. Some of the children were also drawing around the colour pallets shadow carefully copying the shape. Child HDG had noticed the pencils and the pot were casting a shadow on the paper, it looked like spikes. Child HDG used the different coloured pencils to draw their own interpretation of what they saw. Concentrating so hard at the end it looked like a rainbow 🌈.

Well done Owls great work learning all about shadows!

There areas of learning covered in this activity were:

🟥 Understanding the world
🟠Communication and language
🔹Personal, Social and Emotional development
🟡Expressive Arts and Design
◼️Literacy
🔻Mathematics

Sarah, Cheryl and Carly

01/06/2026

Ducklings🐥

1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive🐠🫧🎣

Today in Ducklings we have been exploring one of our favourite songs during song time ‘12345 once I caught a fish alive’. The interest of this activity came from child RAJ and RGJ interest in the fish lamps through the room. These lamps add a cosy sensory vibe to our room as well for our younger children to explore colours.

Intent🐠
The Intent of this activity was to support children's physical development, turn-taking skills, and early mathematical language through a fun, water-based activity inspired by the nursery rhyme ’12345 once I a caught a fish alive’🐠

Implementation🫧
The children used nets to scoop and catch colourful fish floating in the baby bath. They carefully swung their nets through the water, trying to catch as many fish as they could. The children practised sharing by taking turns with the nets and worked together as they explored the different coloured fish they could see and catch.🫧

Impact🎣
The children showed great enthusiasm and perseverance as they developed their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. They demonstrated social skills by sharing resources and waiting for their turn. The activity also encouraged language development as the children talked about the different colours of the fish and counted how many they had caught.🎣

🐠Physical Development🐠
🫧Communication and language🫧
🎣Personal, Social and Emotional🎣
🐠Literacy🐠
🫧Mathematics🫧
🎣Understanding the World🎣

Well Done Ducklings🐥
Angel and Lilli x

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