Happy Hares Nursery Blog
May 2025
Wow, what an exciting month May has been! We've been buzzing with fun exploring 'Mini Beasts', grooving in 'Music and Movement', and pretending to be 'Pirates'! The children loved searching the garden for tiny insect friends. They carefully placed them in magnifying...
April 2025
April has been a garden digging, ice-cream making, tower building, book reading, train track creating, tree climbing, frog watching, cress growing whirlwind of a month! We have spent a lot of time in the garden developing our physical skills by running around, riding...
March 2025
This month at Happy Hares we have focused on the topics of ‘Stories & Books’, ‘Space’, and ‘Science’. We celebrated World Book Day with an exciting trip to our local bookshop! And of course, we were also busy making cards for the special people in our lives for...
Red Nose Day 2023
We have had a brilliant day dressed in our red and funny outfits! Thank you all for dressing up and for kindly donating, everyone looked amazing!
Chinese New Year
We have had a fabulous time this week learning about Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed making dragon masks by collage and painting and we also made a huge dragon altogether! Our favourite part was tasting different foods - the noodles and crackers were a real hit!
Magical month of December!
We have had a magical month for December! Leading up to Christmas we have been taking part in lots of Christmas activities and crafts. We have been creating our own crafts to take home to our families whilst decorating the nursery with our handmade decorations. We...
Hartbeeps Musical Class
This week we were super lucky to be able to have a Hartbeeps musical class in nursery! Neralie came to see us and showed us all of her magical resources! We sang lots of songs, learnt new actions and dressed up all whilst developing our communication and language...
Our talented two’s have had an exciting month in June!
We have been focusing on 'Under The Sea' and 'At The Beach'. We have been getting our hands messy in arts and crafts, under the sea sensory trays, sea animal playdough and painting our own sea creatures. We have also been practicing our fine and gross motor skills,...
Minibeasts
This month our topic has been based on nature and Mini beasts! We have learnt all about different insects including how and where they live, whilst challenging our numeracy skills through counting their arms, legs and eyes! We have decorated our own bug biscuits,...
Spring!
We love that Spring is in full bloom at Nursery! We have loved starting to plant in our garden - making it even more beautiful ???? Getting children involved in gardening allows them to experience plant care and learn about the process of change and plant life cycles!...
Author Visit
What a super exciting morning we have had today with a visit from local author Roy Goddin. He shared 3 of his books he wrote with us and we were so engaged commenting on what was happening, answering his questions and even posing questions to him such as “why is the...
Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! The children are having a fabulous time this week learning and celebrating this special festival. All the children have loved testing the delicious Chinese food with the crackers being a firm favourite! We have made a...
Children In Need
We have had a fantastic day celebrating Children In Need today! We have been very busy with lots of different activities such as, baking Pudsey Bear cookies, creating Pudsey hats and masks, pinning the bandana on Pudsey and a Children In Need workout!