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You are my sunshine

Inspired by the glorious weather that we’d been having at the time (and also linked to her children’s current fascination with all things space themed!) Laura set up a creative learning opportunity whereby her children could develop their fine motor skills to create their very own sunshine masterpiece. This activity was messy, but yet not …

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Meeting in the middle!!

Fiona, as a closely observing practitioner on hand to offer support and assistance as required, wondered how this was going to play out as both girls went up the log steps… they got to the top, said ‘Hi!’ and went back down again! Physical skill testing days and wonderful friendship ways spent playing here at …

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A Pirate Mission

This morning this little one came into nursery asking to make a pirate ship again after having previously built one with Emma several weeks ago… This time he had a few specifications, which meant Lauren and Kirstan had to get to work right away creating a fireable canon, a flag and ensuring that a plank …

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Just a day in the life at Jollies….  xxxx

A Jolly Little Band

With a shake, rattle and roll beautiful music was made outside as Fiona and her little Possums explored all the instruments together xxxx

Big rings, small rings

we ALL rings! Fascinating to watch this little one so very focused on getting as many rings hooked on the tree as possible. Great for their hand/eye coordination as they carefully placed them on, but also great for developing their core strength and balance as they naturally reached and stretched to grab more rings to …

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Fox’s Socks

We can’t wait to add this weekend’s fabulous find into our ‘Fox’s Socks’ story bag… previously we’ve posted when we’ve found some fabulous fox coasters and a wooden fox to accompany the array of socks and story book within this bag… but now our little ones can have fun popping the different socks on their …

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Getting Stuck In!!!

Fiona was busy sat updating her children’s memories books when one little one came up to her, sat on her lap, started looking at all her photographs, before picking up the glue stick and, after some careful modelling and demonstration by Fiona, she was soon busy sticking them into her book… Our older children love …

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Hello… Hello!!

We love it when our children imagine another object to be something else that they’d much prefer it to be. Imagination shone through here as the block became a phone and then it was cue nearby Jolly grownup to scaffold and extend as a wonderful conversation ensued… they didn’t have a block to hand, but …

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Puzzling it out…

We are OBSESSED with jigsaw puzzles… Look at how clever we are at matching the pieces to their corresponding spaces Xxxx