This month, we have been focusing on valentines activities and discussing who we love. We have done lots of sensory activities, like jelly making and painting cards for loved ones. We have also been making music and singing nursery rhymes. We have also been using our problems solving skills when building or when playing with jigsaws.
The children have had a wonderful time exploring a variety of mark-making resources and using their imaginations during creative play. They showed great enthusiasm when they decided to transform a large cardboard box into a bus, working together to develop their ideas and bring their creation to life. There has also been lots of interest…
This month we have been learning all about Autumn. When we accessed the garden we noticed that lots of leaves had fallen from the trees. The leaves had turned a variety of different colours such as orange and brown and became very crunchy. We decided to collect the leaves and make some leaf rubbing pictures….
This month has been a very busy one. We welcomed some new friends, helping them to settle in by showing them around and helping them to follow the routine. We enjoyed looking at story books both with Auntie and independently, turning the pages one at a time. We used lots of short phrases to describe…
This month we have been in the nature area going on a bear hunt we used the garden to go through the grass, through the mud, the seats to go through the forest. We ended up in the cave with the bear. We had fun retelling the story and hiding the bear around the garden…
This month we have enjoyed spending time in the messy room! We have shown lots of interest in the dinosaurs so Auntie extended this by planning lots of fun dinosaur activities that help our development. We had to free the dinosaurs from the ice, working together to come up with various ways to get them…
This month we showed lots of interest in flowers, talking about the textures, scents and colours we could see. We collected them from all around the garden and carefully threaded them into the holes on the card board to create some lovely collages. We then decided to open a “flower shop” selling our flowers to…