This month we have been making playdough adding the ingredients and mixing it together. We have been choosing the colour and smell of the playdough. After it’s made we have been enjoying making lots of cakes!We have been exploring the nature area making lots of marks with sticks and chalk. We have also been painting…
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…
This month it snowed !! We enjoyed exploring the cold texture with our hands and watched as it melted away in the sun. We also explored different coloured ice, we transferred them into different containers, giggling when they slipped from our hands. We also explored cold wet sand, white snow themed play dough and made…
December in the Classroom was a fun, sensory month as we explored lots of sights, smells and textures. We worked as a team to decorate our room and get it all ready for Christmas. This was the month that the garden changed as the temperature dropped and the children had lots of fun dressing up…
This month we have been very crafty making lots of things for Christmas, we made snowmen cards and tree decorations. We’ve explored Christmas shaped pasta and looked at the different shapes and colours.We have shared lots of Christmas stories and songs, developing our language skills.We painted a box to be a gingerbread house and created…
This month we’ve enjoyed making Christmas crafts! We used paint, crayons and felt tips to make our creations.We followed a simple recipe to make salt dough, we then baked and decorated them with paint to make Christmas tree ornaments.
This November we have had lots of fun in the classroom! Our interest this month has mainly been on the fireworks we were all very excited to see on bonfire night, and we have been doing a lot of relevant activities based around ‘Light’ to explore our interest further. We have had lots of fun…
This month we have been doing lots of messy play, we have been playing with the animals in the cereal making the animals stamp which broke the cereal.We played with the dinosaurs in the rice and more cereal and we had lots of fun exploring noodles looking how long they were.We have washed cars making…
This month in the baby room we’ve enjoyed exploring lots of messy activities. We made our very own hungry caterpillars using red and green paint, we dabbed and moved the brushes around the page, strengthening our muscles at the same time. We also enjoyed exploring different temperature sand (warm, cold, wet, frozen). We used our…
This month in the Toddler room we have been outside exploring the big garden practicing our gross motor skills and balancing. We enjoyed running around and playing with the bats and balls. We made the best of the rain and jumped in puddles, adding water and bubbles to the builders tray to see what happened…