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The Adventures in Dormice (0-1 Years)
Busy busy time for Dormice welcoming new babies into the room! The focus remained the emotional development of the babies, securing that bond and attachment with the key person in order to feel comfortable and able to start exploring the new environment and start learning.
The babies have been exploring and engaging in a wide array of fun and exciting activities such as ducks in the water tray, sea animals in shaving foam or hair gel, body painting, hiding and finding rattles in shredded paper and soft play. These activities helped with fine motor skills development and with widening the children’s understanding of the world.
This month we will be focusing on a new topic: Summer and Holidays!!!
We will be exploring sand and water play indoors and outdoors, continuously enhancing these activities for better outcomes and more fun and excitement.
The babies will be spending longer in our garden, observing the new summer colours and scents.
We will continue to provide a wide range of messy and art activities, to enable the babies to explore new materials, textures, colours and mark making tools for a more effective fine motor skills development.
Fun Times in Hedgehogs (1-2 Years)
What a busy time for the children in Hedgehogs!
The focus over the past few weeks was on Mathematics, counting and sorting!
The children used various resources to pair and sort by colour and shape, then encouraged everyone to count to 5 or even 10! To support the counting skills further, we focused on looking at and ‘reading’ counting books. This also helped with developing children’s concentration skills and listening and attention. During our Music and Movement sessions, we practised all the counting songs we know: 5 Little Monkeys, 5 Little Ducks went swimming and 5 Little Speckled Frogs.
The children also enjoyed exploring colour and working on colour naming and recognition, by making marks and drawings on our new easels using different mark making tools such as chalk or white board pens. Well done everybody!
Moving forward, we will be introducing a new topic: Summer and Holiday! As well as exploring a wide array of messy and art activities, the children will be exploring the garden more, playing with the water, water painting, observing the new bright summer colour and scents, and learning to look after plants and flowers.
We also plan on making summery sun catchers that the children can take home to decorate their own windows!
Bring on the sun now, that’s all we need!
Getting Creative in Rabbits (2-3 Years)
Wow what a month it has been!
This month we have been talking about people who help us. From making collages, to dressing up, this topic has enabled us to discover the different job roles and what they do to help us. We have also been exploring the garden, planting strawberries and peas. The children absolutely loved helping to water them using their watering cans and watched in awe the changes noticed each week.
This topic also supported thorough discussions on shapes, sizes, textures, colours and numbers, as well as widening children’s understanding of the world.
When exploring our outdoor area, we came across garden worms, spiders, snails, woodlice etc. The children were so fascinated by the wonders of nature that we decided to investigate further by going on a bug scavenger hunt. Amazing!
This term we are going to be focusing on a new topic: ‘Summer and holidays’ with our friend Pirate Jake from the popular cartoon series ‘Jake and the Netherland pirates’. We plan to travel the world with him each week to discover different countries while also taking part in our fun art and messy activities. In addition, the children will be learning more about the ocean and different habitats around the world.
Jake will be starting off in the UK and then traveling all over the globe as we learn about different countries and their cultures.
Spreading their Wings at Owls (3-5 Years)
What a busy couple of months in Owls!
Over the past few weeks, we learnt all about People Who Help Us and the children thoroughly enjoyed this.
In French Club, the children leant the French words for lots of jobs: doctor, nurse, teacher, fireman, policeman, paramedic.
In addition to this, a variety of activities were set out for the children to discover what certain jobs entail. For example, the children really enjoyed exploring construction area, dressing up for the role and building dens and houses. The children also got the chance to become detectives and investigate and find the culprits!
Thank you to all the parents who took part in this topic by providing pictures of their different jobs. Thank you to Cole’s mum who came in to teach the children about becoming a children’s nurse!
The best way to complete this topic was by asking the children what they will like to be when they grow up. The answers were sincere, original, and thoughtful: performer, swimmer and teacher like Abbie and Sarah!
We have had great success with PE club too! The children have mastered the job of getting changed. We have done a variety of warm up exercises and stretches and many group/ team activities. The children are now ready and excited to be doing a proper PE session in School!
School readiness is in full swing. When going into the Outdoor classroom, the children have been grouped with the peers they will be going to school with to strengthen their relationship and offer them more familiarity when taking this big step.
We are learning a new sound/letter every two weeks through Jolly Phonics and everyone is becoming more familiar with this concept. We continue to work on number recognition too.
