Exploring Elephants are little home bodies and they were loving creating their own little families with the baby dolls and looking after them with such care. They were always cooking up a feast and cleaning their house within their room. So when we came across a rotary washing line it just had to be bought!! …
(the very lovely story bus ) for coming to visit us in our Jolly carpark this afternoon. Our children (who were awake as quite a few of them were snoozing!) took it in turns to visit the bus in groups and they were welcomed aboard by Sally and Jim and experienced a sing along and …
What better way than to explore colour recognition and put our building (stacking & balancing!) skills to the test than using a light box?!?! So much fun, so much interaction, turn-taking, sharing and communication as our children explored and experimented together xxxx
It started out as a funny game of ‘throw as many balls out of the ball pool as possible’ and then in the next moment this little one was spontaneously puckering up and blowing kisses!! ….. It then ended in a giggly tickle fest!! It’s just so wonderful to see the strong bonds our children …
It’s been a sensory exploration kind of a morning here at Jollies… xxxx
POP!!! Emma and her children had lots of fun recently outside with the bubbles. They took it in turns to blow the bubbles for their friends to pop. They talked about where the bubbles might be flying to…..it turned into a very giddy time, pretending the bubbles were floating off to watch Moana 2 or …
xxxx Today was our first Jolly visit to the Memory Cafe held on a Thursday once a month at The Two Pointers. It was lovely to get out and about in our wider community and start to build some cross generational friendships. We sang some songs together, we shared books, we chatted and completed puzzles …
Our super intuitive practitioners love to ‘tune into’ and follow their children’s interests. We love that our parents/carers work in close partnership with us too and let us know what they are currently loving at home too. These observations and conversations have inspired a few additions to the role-play kitchen as our little ones are …
Exploring Elephants got creative with Latisha last week when they set to to create a huge masterpiece together. The paint was splodged (after much discussion about the colours about to be used) and it was then their mission to spread it about the paper and see what marks they could make and check out which …
Possums favourite thing to do at the moment seems to be throwing all of the balls out of their ballpool!! So this morning Ellison rolled with this obsession and followed her children’s interests and removed the side of the ball pool allowing the children to totally cover the whole room in balls!!!! This led to …