Our oldest children enjoy making choices throughout their day and recently it started as soon as they entered the building, as they got to serve themselves breakfast!! Excellent independence skills were exhibited too… every moment is a learning opportunity here at Jollies xxxx
Recently our oldest children were encouraged to take a moment to reflect upon this question as they considered their current mood and how they were feeling… were they happy, sad, angry, tired, excited? Fortunately for most of our children their reflections led to them soon realising they were feeling happy and the reasons stemmed from …
In our sensory room the focus has mostly been upon lovely, lovely lights and cause and effect recently! Our children have been enjoying switching them on and off and exploring colours as well as exploring textures within the room too. Some amazing marks have been made upon sequinned cushions and we have squashed, squeezed and …
Next time our children venture upstairs in Free-Flow they will be able to sit and share their stories with their friends in their very own jolly secret garden. Gone are the former superhero cushions and figures and instead flowers, leaves and vines are bursting with colour around them as they look up at the starry …
Emma told me ages ago about a fantastic place, The Recycle Yard in Ossett, and when I finally made it there for a visit last week I came back armed with lots of lovely resources that I knew would be perfect for many things; but one use I definitely had in mind for some of …
Yesterday Free-Flow were busy painting and practising cleaning their brushes along the way! They liked to mix their colours, but learning to clean their brushes before each dip of new paint meant they could just mix the colours on the paper instead if they chose to add them to each other to create a new …
Our babies just adore watching, tracking, stretching and moving to pop, pop, pop the bubbles floating around and about them. Bubbles are full of awe and wonder and we love a little bit of magic here at Jollies Did you know that bubble play with older children can be hugely beneficial in developing later speech …
It’s a little chillier outside this morning, so Free-Flow’s polar bears and penguins are very happy!!! xxxx
The best drawing, writing and creating definitely DOES NOT have to take place at a table top!! We LOVE the Early Years and the freedom to move, move, move, find your own way of doing things and explore… let the creativity flow!! Xxxx
Oh the joys and endless possibilities…. xxxx