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Christmas Party Week

Posted on 22nd Dec 2023 by Tracie Dowling

We have had such a fun few weeks getting ready for Christmas. The house has been well and truly glitter bombed!

Holly is looking forward to her first Christmas. She has grown so much this year and been such a good girl, Father Christmas will definitely be bringing her something nice.

Ben and Jack absolutely loved these star shaped doughnuts, who doesn’t love Christian treats!

We have made so many different crafts over the last few weeks for our parents and grandparents. We loved making our Snowmen, let’s hope it really snows so we can make a real one.

Below are some photos Tracie has taken over the last few weeks.

We looked at some old photos of Chloe, Poppy and Tracie. We could see how big they have grown! can you see who is who?

These are a few Photos sent to Tracie over the festive holidays. George looks super lucky standing with all his Presents, Father Christmas has left him! Tracie had a lovely meal out with her family and has enjoyed the festive time off to re charge her batteries for the New year’s activities.

Ben and his mum look super excited to open their presents.

Look at our Debbie, she scrubs up well. I bet Father Christmas leaves her something lovely for Christmas.

Elsie and Evie are very happy with their lovely gifts. I particularly love her Spider Girl outfit! Wonder if she can climb up the walls? Let’s hope she wears a bungie rope for safety.

We wish everyone an amazing Christening and a Happy Healthy New Year.

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Our Favourite Christmas Activities Of week 2

Posted on 16th Dec 2023 by Tracie Dowling

We started off the week making a ginger bread house and Christmas trees.

Unfortunately the house kept falling apart so the children decided to eat it instead!

We decided to make gingerbread men instead to decorate, it was far easier for the children. However the end result was the same… they ate them and took one home for someone special, nom nom

Everyone was in the festive mood when we had Christmas Jumper day.

Fun was had trying to learn how to balance penguins and polar bears on the floating icebergs. The children enjoyed the activity so much we played it four times in one day!

What fun we had on week 2, Christmas party week next week, Exciting!

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Christmas Festivities Week 1

Posted on 13th Dec 2023 by Tracie Dowling

We kicked off the festivities with Poppy putting up the Christmas Tree. Next was the decision of Fairy, Angel or Star, Poppy decided it was the star as she wanted ‘Bling’ this year.

Molly was excited when she saw all the decorations, I took this fabulous picture and sent it to her mum.

Our first trip out was to our Stronger Practice Hub at Everton to join in with the Forest school. We made a fire and had marshmallows, smores and lots of activities outdoors. Even Father Christened made a visit!

We started our crafts by making a Christmas wreath. All the children made green hand prints, except for Elliott, he doesn’t like getting his hands messy. Elliott painted a green picture instead and we cut out shapes to add to the plate.

Next we glued the prints onto a paper plate and added glitter, sparkly paper and various other pretty shapes. Tracie then hung them up to dry. We displayed them on the window for everyone to see.

When Molly was in she asked me what my favourite decoration was, i said the light up Robin. Mollys favourite was the glittery peacock and George’s said his was the owl twit twoo.

The children made some very pretty Stockings. painted some lovely cutouts of Father Christmas and all his Reindeer’s, Jack gave Rudolf a big red nose.

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Posted on 24th Nov 202313th Dec 2023 by Tracie Dowling

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Our Gardening Gallery 2023

Posted on 23rd Oct 202323rd Oct 2023 by Tracie Dowling

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October Fun Photos At Tracie’s Treasures

Posted on 23rd Oct 202323rd Oct 2023 by Tracie Dowling

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Pumpkin Play

Posted on 23rd Oct 202313th Dec 2023 by Tracie Dowling

We had fun this week with the Pumpkin’s, heres a little gallery of our activities.

We went to Teds Farm Pumpkin Patch to choose some Big ones to carve out.

We all had a fun day out and can’t wait to go again next year.

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Fun in the Garden

Posted on 24th Jul 202325th Jul 2023 by Tracie Dowling

We have so much fun learning and playing in our garden at Tracie’s Treasures. I want to share some of my favourite films from the last couple of months.

In this film Jack is looking in our small barrel pond he is investigating what lives in there. He finds YUK

Jack Exploring In The Half Barrel Pond

George and the girls walk around the garden to check for bugs, George sings ‘Barbie Girl’ all the way around.

George Singing Barbie Girl

Mr Black Bird Having A Bath

This funny clip George is singing again as usual. This time he is singing to a Snail about being gorgeous.

George Singing ‘Your Beautiful’ To A Snail

My favourite time of day, looking in the greenhouses to see whats growing.

Elsie, Grace and Georgia Looking In The Greenhouse

Hope you enjoyed the films, the children here are amazing.

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Tongue Drumming

Posted on 24th Jul 202322nd Aug 2023 by Tracie Dowling

The Children have loved playing our Tongue Drum. They have been practicing hard, enjoy their music 🎶

Twinkle Twinkle by Mason

Happy Birthday By Mason

Music By Jack

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Open Ended Question Time In The Garden

Posted on 6th Jul 2023 by Tracie Dowling

Today we have been focusing on communication, what better place to use questioning then our garden!

Walking along the path Elsie noticed some Strawberries which we had grown in one of our pots.

I asked the children “what do you think they will taste like? Else’s answer was “delicious, can I have one?” As I gave her the strawberry “ I asked “ what does it feel like?” Jack said “ yum yum” and took it out of my hand and popped it in his mouth. Else’s response was “squidgy “.

“Jack is the strawberry blue?” Jack shook his head to say no Elsie shouted from over her shoulder to me “it’s red silly”

I asked the children if they could find a flower that was red too. Elsie went one way and Jack the other.

Else’s found hers first, I asked her if she knew what it was called and she said “ it’s a Poppies, we sow the seeds yesterday! I explained “we sowed them in Springtime and it takes a long time for them to flower” I asked her if she could remember the parts of a flower she said “Petals and leaves”

When Jack found a leaf with holes in he stopped and looked at it for some time then turned to me and said “o no, o no“ I said “looks like a bug has had his dinner Jack. What type of bug could it be? Elsie thinks it’s a spider, Jack a ladybird and Tracie thinks a bee, we will have to keep watching to see if we can find the culprit. Jack then pointed at a very tall sunflower, “b, b” and signed the words ‘big Flower’ I showed Jack that the Sunflower was taller than me!

We went for a wonder, I asked the children “ how many different colours of flowers can we find in our garden? Jack found one first “blue, blue” well done Jack “ you found a blue flower” can you say flower? “Blue blue” that’s such a fantastic flower Jack can you smell it? Jack put his nose right into the flower and the pollen went on the the tip of his nose. He started wiping it saying “yuck yuck”

Else’s found yellow, orange, blue, purple, brown, pink and green flowers. “Wow Elsie well done finding all the colours of the rainbow”

I picked out a beautiful flower and asked Elsie “ how many petals does the flower have?

Elsie counted to 11 in sequence then kept missing out some numbers then said “to many!” I explained I would have trouble counting them too as there where so many. I asked Elsie what colours she could see in the flower, she said “ yellow, purple and white” I asked her what do you think the middle colour will be when it’s fully open? Elsie thinks it’s going to be Green, we will have to look again tomorrow and see.

What a lovely garden activity we had lots of new words, descriptive words, colours, conversations and fun.