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Spectacularly Sensory!!
We love our sensory room as it’s such an exciting space to explore for all our children; from our babies to our oldest giraffes… We simply change the sensory resources within the room to match their differing needs, abilities, ages and stages of learning and interests… In these photos there are buttons to press, lights …
Tongue’s out!!
You know our children mean business when the ‘concentration tongue’ comes out… we love it when our little ones try, try, try again to achieve their self-selected desired challenges. In this case perseverance definitely paid off as the balls eventually balanced on the tees in the dough!! Xxxx
There’s no BIG bad wolf to blow this willow house down
……… (just an amazing friend to race and chase around the decking with waiting outside the door)xxxx
Fascinated with face painting!!
This week the children in Free-Flow have been fascinated with face painting and pretending to paint their friends’ faces. This interest was shown again this morning when they imaginatively used some different coloured wooden owls to pretend to paint faces. Well you all know how we just love to follow our children’s interests here at …
What’s cooking in our mud kitchen?!
Our little ones have a splashtastic time getting muddy and messy as they mix away!! Will you fancy a brew, or will a mud pie catch your eye?! Whatever you decide upon we know you’ll have a muddy marvellous time cooking and creating here xxxx
Yay to toothbrushing!!
Yesterday morning toothbrushing got mentioned by a few parents at drop off time; as one child had loved it and another had struggled a little over the weekend. So to encourage positive toothbrushing, supporting our parents/carers and also following on from our children’s interests Jade brought the toothbrushing box into her room and set it …
Children’s weekly baking
Once a week one of our rooms takes its turn to make pudding for the whole nursery. This is a great opportunity to reinforce hygiene and safety messages, introduce the concept of weighing and measuring, follow instructions as a recipe is worked through, develop understanding of sequencing; what is done first and what comes next, …
It’s Spring Cleaning Time…
To start with we’ve opted for a refresh of the garden side… lots of pressure washing, sweeping, weeding, cleaning, sorting and throwing away, refreshing of sand and bark (and lampshades!! ) and adding new and exciting resources into the garden to enhance our areas. We are very lucky at Jollies to have a HUGE outdoor …
That’s my kangaroo…
This other morning this little one was sat in the book corner and was busy looking through the ‘That’s not my…kangaroo’ book. Alice observed that she was VERY excited to see the nearby toy kangaroo that looked just like the pictures in her book! She seemed to really enjoy the sensory aspect of this book …
Pirates Ahoy!!
Free-Flow were loving the pirate ships and figures so much, that when they spotted an empty box there could only be one outcome for it… Stephen grabbed some scissors and facilitated their ideas as it was soon transformed into their very own HUGE pirate ship! They set sail towards future adventures, looking for treasure through …