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Clunk click!
Independence and perseverance is not just confined to our oldest children… This little one was observed working so very hard to put the clip back together on the baby doll carrier. They were looking closely throughout and really focusing on what they were doing as they tried to complete this self-set task. After persevering they …
Outdoor fun!
There’s nothing like racing and chasing your friends through a tunnel in the garden is there?! Developing our physical and personal, social and emotional skills in the best way possible!! Run, crawl, stretch, chase, giggle…. REPEAT!!!!!!! xxxx
Independent Ways!!
Some of our children have loved dressing up recently and when they wanted to pop their favourite costumes on they automatically sought help from a nearby grown-up to do this for them. After being asked for help Imogen thought she’d try to see if our children could do it themselves with gentle guidance and lots …
Pittas with a twist!!
It was pittas for tea recently, but Emma and Imogen decided to turn this into an even more exciting learning opportunity by making pittas with a twist… as they morphed into pitta based pizzas instead! Our children got to pick their own toppings and they were super grown up, careful and independent as they used …
It’s my turn to talk and your turn to listen…
the magic of circle time!! Recently some of our Free-Flow children sat in a circle and participated in some ‘circle time’. Whenever they had the worm teddy, that signalled it was their time to talk and if they didn’t have hold of it it meant they had to listen carefully to what their friends were …
Our giraffe and tree are feeling decidedly pink today….
in preparation for our Jolly Pink Day next Friday (6 October). Your little one is invited to dress in pink (if they’d like to) and there will be lots of fun pink activities happening throughout the day (and probably earlier in the week too!) and there will be a donation box in the entrance hall …
From obstacle course experts to jungle explorers…
Recently Imogen’s children started off outside setting up and completing obstacle courses where they went up the steps, down the slide, over the bridge, across the crates and walked the plank to finish their course off after first getting really low to crawl under the stand. This quickly changed when one little one slithered like …
Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo
Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo Baby Shark This little one found it highly hilarious to make her Baby Shark ‘get’ Ava xxxx
Same equipment, different children…
Jade and Ava noticed their children were trying to climb on everything within the room…. They seemed obsessed!! So what did they do? As every intuitive practitioner should, they got the soft play equipment out when they went outside to play so they could both feed their children’s desire to climb but in a safe, …
We like to move it, move it
(…. and it’s ESSENTIAL we do too!!) Putting our bodies and balance to the test as we engage in movement play outside on the soft play mats… Fiona demonstrated, scaffolded and joined in too and her children were all moving in the most marvellous of ways as their coordination and control developed as pathways were …