Sticks, Stories and Super Skills

21st November 2025
Nursery

This week in Bumblebees Preschool class, we have been exploring the much loved story of ‘Stick Man’. Our activities included painting stick men, counting and sorting sticks, and in our ‘Funky Fingers’ area, we have been threading beads onto sticks to develop and enhance our fine motor skills.

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