May in the Classroom has been another busy one, as the Pre-Schoolers have now found out their big school placements and we have been chatting about growing up and big changes. Some children have been on school visits already and have been sharing their experiences with their friends at circle time and during imaginative play….
This month we’ve enjoyed lots of messy activities. We added chalk and water together in a container, gave it a big shake and made our own paint. We made lots of marks at different heights, making comments along the way. We also enjoyed making patterns with the dabbers and giggled as we watch the colours…
April in the Classroom has seen us celebrating the warmer weather. We have had lots of fun in the sand and water play and have enjoyed more time in the garden playing in the sunshine.Spring has been a big topic for discussion this month as we have enjoyed seeing the flowers grow. We have made…
This month we have been very chocolately getting ready for Easter. We went out in the trundle bus to the shop to buy Rice Krispies for our Easter cakes. We saw lots of different things on our walk including the post office van, lots of people walking dogs and lots of cars and motorcycles. We…
This month we’ve enjoyed celebrating Easter, we made our very own chocolate nests by crunching cereal with our whole hand and transferring it into the bowl with chocolate !! We’ve also enjoyed painting our very own caterpillars from our story of the month ‘The very hungry caterpillar’. We used different brushes to create lots of…
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!…
This month in the baby room we enjoyed making our Mother’s Day cards, we printed patterns using some very bright colours, we also enjoyed washing our dolls in the home corner using warm soapy water and flannels.We accessed various jigsaws, continuing until we found the right shapes and explored the oats tray, emptying and filling…
This month in the Classroom we have been learning all about the changes in the season and growth. We have enjoyed all sorts of weather this month, from snow to hailstones, rain to sunshine, and we have noticed changes to our environment like flowers growing outside and the temperature getting warmer. Our morning registrations have…
This month we have enjoyed dressing up for world book day and sharing stories. Some of the older children came to read us a story and we enjoyed looking at our own books. We also went into the preschool room to listen to stories. We have had lots of fun in the walk in sand…
February in the Classroom was a busy one! We had lots of fun exploring feelings, we enjoyed a range of books about feelings such as ‘The Colour Monster’ and ‘Even Superheroes have bad days’ – this focus topic was important for us as we were able to explore feelings such as sadness, happiness, anger and…