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Santa’s little helpers!
Whether we’ve been a helper-elf frantically mixing ingredients in the role-play kitchen inside, or Mrs Claus warmly serving up a feast outside, we have simply been Christmas dinner obsessed in Exploring Elephants recently!! xxxx
Perseverance, practice and problem-solving!!
Sone of our little ones have been tackling the ‘balls and sticks’ construction set outside. Initially they found it a little tricky to get the sticks into place, but not to be deterred our resourceful children came up with different ways of trying to achieve this result; such as balancing the ball on the floor …
As happy as a pig in……
Weetabix and Shreddies apparently?!?! Elise invited her children to participate in some marvellous messy farm play recently! Following her children’s current obsession with animals she gave the concept of a farm a whole new sensory level… crushing up weetabix and sprinkling shreddies before adding some water to create the perfect messy pig pen. Her children …
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
On Thursday night the fairies brought Christmas to the inside of nursery as a surprise for our children and today helper-elf Ed has brought Christmas to the outside of nursery too… So don’t forget when you arrive at nursery next week to ask your little ones to look up and see what they can see… …
A superb sensory space…
As you will be aware Sian is our SENDCo here at Jollies and refreshing (and transforming!) our multi sensory room has been a passion project for her recently Sian is always looking to help the team fully understand each individual child and really ‘unpick them’ and ‘unlock them’ so we can ensure any potential barriers …
What’s on offer today?
Here are just a few of the wonderful invitations to play on offer to our children this frosty Friday morning… So many things to delve into to extend their learning through purposeful play……but ultimately……. pirates win!!! (Free-Flow have even been making treasure maps and are going on an actual treasure hunt later… no gemstones, but …
The fairies flittered and fluttered and brought Christmas to Jollies…
Something magical awaits our children in the morning as this evening some fabulous fairies have turned nursery into an oasis of light and sparkle. Fuelled by pizza and no/pro-secco bubbles the fairies have filled Jollies with Christmas magic to begin the exciting countdown to the big day in the best possible way for all our …
Going nuts for marvellous movement play!!
We’ve been busy practising our physical skills and having a good old giggle too! Our children loved participating in some exciting movement play recently when they explored using the ‘peanut’ to help strengthen their core muscles and balance, but the overriding theme seemed to just be that it was simply lots and lots of fun …
Winter has arrived!
It’s beginning to look (and feel!!!! ) a lot like winter!!!!!!! xxxx
The story bus returns!
Yesterday Sally and Lawrence brought the story bus again. We sang a welcome song as a group, added in some instruments and Sally read us a story. We could then choose stories to share with a friend or to read in the cosy hidey holes!!