This month we have been very crafty making lots of things to go home, we decorated our bags with Christmas shapes and used foamy paint to make a card. We did some gluing and sticking to make tree decorations. We painted our own master pieces that we put on card and Auntie laminated for our…
We have had a lovely evening enjoying lots of exciting Christmas-themed activities. We were so happy to see children and parents enjoying themselves and having fun, exploring lots of sensory activities such as candy cane playdough, melted snowman gloop and an exciting frozen arctic tray. They also took lots of goodies home like Santa handprints,…
This week we’ve been exploring Halloween!We’ve been dressing up as different characters throughout the week and trying on the hats in the home corner. We’ve explored the texture and weight of various sized pumpkins, placing them into different baskets to transport around the room. We open up the pumpkin and inside was a very wet,…
The past two months in the baby room have been very active and exciting! We’ve been building tall towers, placing bricks on top of each other and then giggling when they fell down. We’ve been exploring different textures using all our senses and playing dress up too. We explored the outdoors walking on different terrain,…
We were very excited when the firefighters came to visit us and tell us all about their job! They told us about the protective gear they wear to go into fires and Firefighter Tom even put his protective gear on for us to look at. We talked about what happens if the smoke detector goes…
We had a very exciting morning meeting some exotic animals and insects – we were very brave and held the animals and stroked them as well. We learnt so many new things such as how many legs a millipede has, that snakes smell with their tongues, and a bunny rabbit puts its ears down when…
June in the Classroom has seen us learning about safety and the people who help us. We have had interesting visitors to teach us about how they care for people including Holly the student nurse and the local community police officers. Holly told us all about how she makes people feel better, and we got…
Classroom and Toddlers came together for a very exciting Easter themed stay and play session! We had lots of exciting activities going on; including chocolate play dough, crunching up chocolate cereal, scooping and pouring in the Easter pasta tray, decorating our own Easter eggs and the children especially enjoyed decorating (and tasting) their own biscuits!…
We have had so much fun celebrating World Book Day this week! We have spent the week enjoying many different stories we brought in from home to share with our friends and dressed up as different characters from our favourite stories. The Preschool children have been reading stories to their younger friends showing great passion…
January has been an exciting month in the classroom as the children were all very happy to be back with their friends after the holidays. They couldn’t wait to tell their friends what they got for Christmas, and we jumped straight back into the messy play! Our focus this month was on ‘Winter’ with a…