In Terrific Twos the other morning the children had all been working upon developing their gross motor skills as they had been exploring the soft play equipment that had been brought in by their Jolly grownups for them to use.
So then in the afternoon they got to work honing their fine motor skills at snack time.
Emma wrapped up a piece of fruit for each one of them. They then chose a parcel from the basket and set to work unwrapping it!! It was a little tricky and sometimes they needed Emma to unpeel a tiny piece to get them going, but it was super exciting as little fingers determinedly got to work to unwrap their pieces of fruit!!!
Honing motor skills, and strengthening little fingers, at Jollies is just soooooooo much fun for everyone!! 
There’s method in our madness… wrapping up fruit you say?!? It’s just learning ‘the Jollies way’!! 
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This morning our children have enjoyed talking together about all the fireworks they saw and heard in the sky last night!!
This soon developed into a huge discussion about how loud they were and about all the different sounds they made!!
Following the children’s very obvious interests and fascinations this soon turned into an opportunity to get creative and recreate some of their recent experiences…
Stephen set out a variety of different materials to paint with which the children liked to choose from in order to recreate some of the fireworks they had seen with their families.
Whilst Latisha’s children recreated their firework experiences through the medium of sound as they selected instruments to represent the different sounds they had heard… there were some VERY LOUD bangs!!!!!
We think we can safely say that everyone enjoyed bonfire night last night 
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We can safely say our children are sooooo excited!!! We’ve had so much fun creating our own (often messy!) representations of fireworks…. Some great sound effects have been heard all day!! As well as some tasty treats emerging as some of our children have created their very own ‘edible sparklers’ and also chocolate dipped apples with firework sprinkles… yummy, yummy 
We wish you all lots of family firework fun this bonfire night xxxx
Our children are beyond excited for tomorrow and the talk is all about going out trick or treating with their families… we can’t wait to see your spooky attire if you’d like to join us in some Hallowe’en dressing up tomorrow.
There will be a TREAT waiting for you on your way out of the building to add to your buckets and get your trick or treating fun underway…
So please don’t forget to help yourself to a chocolate lolly when you exit the building tomorrow. Xxxx
Not that we’re currently totally obsessed with pumpkins or anything here at Jollies?!? xxxx
Our little ones have been focusing upon their fine motor skills using coloured shapes, screws and a screwdriver. They all got busy screwing different shapes onto their boards, as well as recognising colours and the names of common shapes throughout this activity through discussion with nearby grownups.
It is interesting to closely observe how our little ones hold their screwdrivers, noting the grips they naturally use and also which hand appears to be their dominant one. We look closely at how they manipulate their tools and whether they naturally coordinate themselves to hold the board in place whilst screwing by utilising both sides of their brain/body in order to complete the task in the most effective way possible.
These are the kinds of activities that are the precursors for developing early writing skills; as if you can’t grip a pencil you won’t be able to make meaningful marks…
So get those construction kits and tools out as it will lead to great writers in the future 
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Last week Jollies became spookier and spookier as the week progressed….
It’s safe to say our children are VERY excited about dressing up later this week and going out for a spooky walk (and a spot of trick or treating) with their mummies and daddies!! …….It’s definitely the talk of the nursery at the moment!! 
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A week ago today we enjoyed our pink-themed day to raise awareness and pennies for Breast Cancer Now. We are very happy to say that so far we have raised £139.37.
We are going to do some baking as a nursery too and will have some little bake sales going on over the next couple of weeks to hopefully raise a few more pennies to add to our total and then we’ll make our nursery donation when all the buns have been eaten
Thank you so much for your kind donations and supporting us in raising both money and awareness (by talking boobies with your friends, family and colleagues too!). Our children on the other hand just enjoyed revelling in pink, pink, PINK all day long!!!!!!! Xxxx
Look around what can you see? Gone is the pink…. making way for one very spooky tree!!!!
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