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Gorgeous garden adventures…
Exploring Elephants made full use of one area of our lovely Jolly garden… from zooming cars around the track they’d created, peek-a-booing through the tunnel, whizzing down the slides and ramp, climbing up the decking, creating masterpieces on the chalkboard; they found that teamwork makes the dream work and having fellow friends to play and …
Happiness is….
dressing up!!! xxxx
A definite love of books!!
First there was one, then there were more… these were boys with a love of books that was for sure!!!! Spontaneous story time erupted when Laura shared a story with her Possums friends, but our children proved recently that they certainly don’t need an adult to enjoy a good book! One little one was sat …
Fiona was in for a treat!!!
Recently in the mud kitchen Fiona was in for a real treat as a couple of her children worked together to make a very healthy meal of mushrooms, pasta, broccoli, peas strawberries and raspberries… (a VERY interesting combo!!) They worked together really well constantly coming up with new ideas for this lovely meal; negotiating plans …
“…..It feels really ooblecky… it’s soft but hard!!”
Emily set up an oobleck invitation to play today for her children and they have loved exploring its very strange properties!! We’ve always called it ‘gloop’ here at Jollies, but clearly the technical term is ‘oobleck’ (every day’s a school day!! ) and if you’d like to have a play with this at home too …
Snap Happy
When Ellison was spotted taking photos by these two cheeky monkeys they suddenly struck a giggly pose…then poked out a cheeky tongue… then they decided it was selfie time!! Real life technology skills in action as selfie-time commenced in Possums. Technology definitely does not faze our little ones here at Jollies xxxx
Sensory smiles….
Sensory smiles…. When you find yourself exploring the sensory corner with Nat Nat loving all the brightly coloured ribbons and the different textures and sounds around you. Ribbons tickling the tops of heads produced the biggest giggles!!! Although shaking them in the air all around came a very close second!! Sensory fun for everyone spent …
All in a day’s work…
(… that is…when your usual working day involves transforming yourself into a ‘big bird’!!!!) That’s the life of a Team Jolly member as your children’s interests and the spontaneity of the nursery day can take you literally anywhere and in Imogen’s case it turned her into a gigantic bird!! A couple of children had been …
Playdough fun!!!!!!
Our babies have loved to explore the play dough recently sat at the table… They had lots of different wooden tools to roll out the dough and make marks with too! They also had some cutters to make different shapes and after careful modelling by practitioners they had soon learnt how to use them and …
Tummy Time
Tummy time is just as important at two years as it is at two months old, as children are continuing to grow, develop and strengthen their bodies and their fine motor control and providing tummy time and the chance to make marks from a different perspective will most definitely encourage and facilitate this. So armed …