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We have welcome two new friends join us in Buttercups this week-welcome! The babies have loved making a cave with builder’s tray and pieces of material with their friends, they loved going in and out of the den with their friends . We have also enjoyed getting...
Our buttercups have really enjoyed special circle time this week, our home bear Bertie has been on a trip to Butlins so we all enjoyed seeing the pictures of Bertie with Peppa pig, enjoying the arcades and disco! Also in circle time, we enjoyed listening to nursery rhymes in different languages for Nursery Rhyme week...
Our buttercups have really enjoyed a threading activity with string and large hoops – it was great to see the concentration on their faces! We have also enjoyed many painting activities this week – using paint brushes and also our fingers to make marks onto paper. We have 3 new beautiful displays in our room which the children have loved helping to create...
This week in Buttercups we have been focusing on colours, and have been enjoying different activities around colours. Buttercups have enjoyed touching and feeling the texture of colourful sensory gloves and a colour sorting activities with mega blocks by putting the coloured blocks...
Our Buttercups have enjoyed many pumpkin themed activities; enjoying the sensory aspect of the seeds and juice that came out of the pumpkins, we then made our own pumpkin themed paper mache plates with lots of sticking and crunching with our hands! We enjoyed soft play inside as our physical activity and lots of dancing to Halloween themed music. We have also enjoyed warm splashing
Our buttercups have enjoyed a fun activity with peas in zip lock bags, they enjoyed squashing them and watching the peas break down into mushy peas. We also enjoyed a hand printing activity and then enjoyed washing our hands and watching the water change colour from the paint on our hands. We also enjoyed making dens and reading stories...
Welcome to our new Buttercups! The children have enjoyed exploring their senses this week with different textures on their feet; we have enjoyed feet printing and crushing corn flakes with...
This week we have been getting creative with shiny materials, sticky glue and have been creating fish for our new display – the buttercups absolutely loved our hanging fish above our bubble tube; we have enjoyed laying under them and using single words such as 'fish' and 'wow’. We also enjoyed a mirror activity, looking at our own...
Welcome to our new Buttercups! The children have enjoyed exploring their senses this week with different textures on their feet; we have enjoyed feet printing and crushing corn flakes with...
This week in Buttercups, we enjoyed splashing shells in water play and exploring the texture of them, o ne of our babies visited the beach at the weekend and collected the shells for us! We have...
Our buttercups have had a fantastic week, we have enjoyed lots of sensory activities; particularly water play- we enjoyed splashing with ducks, pouring, emptying and filling. We have also enjoyed playing with the flour and enjoyed...
Babies have enjoyed the sun this week and made the most of it with lots of water play outside. They have also enjoyed exploring their fine motor and concentration skills by placing pegs onto the edge of a cup. The babies have enjoyed exploring ice by feeling the texture of the ice and the water when the ice melts using their hands and mouths....
This week we have loved dancing and showing excitement at each others different movements! We have also enjoyed using potatoes as stamp to paint with, the buttercups enjoyed dipping the potato's into paint to form different marks. We welcomed a new friend...
Our baby buttercups have enjoyed playing hook a duck this week, using a big net and also their hands to help find the ducks in the water tray which we created to look like a pond. We have also enjoyed lots sand play...
0-2 year old room – Buttercups Babies have been gaining a greater sense of self by looking in the mirror and combing their own and each other’s hair. Babies have also enjoyed playing dress up with jewelry and explored all of the different shapes on the necklaces with their hands The babies enjoyed a fun activity with papier-mache and then had lots of fun by throwing the paper in the air...
0-2 year old's - Buttercups We enjoyed an outing to the park to explore and learn about different types of leaves this week, we brought them back to nursery cleaned them up and examined them before crunching them between our hands and feet. We also explored animals and enjoyed painting their feet...
Our around the world themed menu for August is Mexico. We have been preparing and learning about what Mexican families eat, and what family traditions they enjoy and have created a Mexican role play area with food – we have all agreed the food looks very yummy and we are very excited to try these foods! All rooms have enjoyed outings to Tesco to choose some items for snack and two fun trips to the park-We had so much fun! 0-2 year old's- Buttercups Our babies have loved many messy activities this week; such as lentils...
Happy Eid! 0-2year old's- Buttercups This week, we have enjoyed water play to keep cool and have been making bubbles, splashing our hands and feet and also washing boats in the water! Our baby buttercups have also enjoyed helping to make oat biscuits and then enjoyed them for their snack...
We are all so proud of the England team and we enjoyed a party on Monday to celebrate England getting to the final. We played football songs, enjoyed a picnic and enjoyed England flag theme activities. We also used this opportunity to discuss taking part, team work and being graceful winners 0-2 year old room- Buttercups Our baby buttercups have enjoyed role...
We all celebrated Independence Day on Monday and enjoyed an American theme menu, learning about the special day and looking closely at the American flag. We are all so happy and excited at England winning the football and are all enjoying singing and listening to ‘ Footballs coming home!! ‘ We have been making our own England flags to wave for the final on Sunday. 0-18 months – Buttercups The babies really enjoyed making a puppet show box and then extremely...
0-18 months – Buttercups Our Buttercups enjoyed creating their own puppet show with animal hand puppets this week, which encouraged social skills and communication development. The babies also looked intently at how the animal’s mouths opened and closed and they loved listening to the different noises that...
0-18 month old's – Buttercups This week in Buttercups we have enjoyed keeping cool with water play, forming bubbles in the water and splashing about! Our babies have been working hard with shape printing using bright colours and shape stampers, all aiding them in learning about shapes and colours...
0-18 months – Buttercups Buttercups have been continuing to look closely at body parts, this week we have been particularly focusing on teeth. To extend this focus theme we took part in a teeth brushing activity on our own teeth– the babies absolutely loved this! We created a homemade cooling water spray to keep cool – the babies laughed as they sprayed it onto each other. We have also created a musical instrument line; we threaded the instruments though a thick ribbon and tied it to two chairs, we explored many different ways of exploring the instrument line for example crawling under...
0-18 months old – Buttercups This week to keep us cool in the warm weather we have enjoyed lots water play, particularly with the bubbly water, the babies loved popping the bubbles and using vocabulary such as 'pop' and 'gone'. We have also enjoyed sticking and gluing with lots of different materials such as soft feathers and bumpy brilllo pads. The babies have been working hard on their Fathers day...
We hope all of our families had a lovely bank holiday weekend and children that are on half term have had a lovely week. We look forward to welcoming you back next week. 0 - 18 months – Buttercups We have enjoyed lots of water play this week, which has helped us keep cool in the warmer weather. The babies have enjoyed splashing their feet and hands in the water!
0-18 month – Buttercups Our buttercups have been very this week! We have enjoyed potato printing; the potatoes were placed onto lolly pop sticks, meaning the children done a fantastic job at picking them up small between their thumb and fingers and developing their fine motor skills. In circle time we loved sharing our family pictures, the babies smile with excitement seeing the pictures of their loved...
All of the children have been looking at the life cycle of caterpillars and we will be creating our own butterfly’s next week. 0-18 months – Buttercups This week we enjoyed a sensory activity with paint and glitter placed into zip lock bags – we were very interested in the effect of making movements which leave marks. We have also enjoyed singing nursery rhymes and have particularly enjoyed...
This week in our Buttercups room we have been block painting, we got very excited to see the different marks formed from the dipping the blocks into paint – much more exciting than using our fingers and paintbrushes and a great opportunity to explore mark making in a range of ways...
Our babies have enjoyed lots of sensory play this week, using wet paint and glue to make hand prints and sticking with different textures. We have also enjoyed learning about animals, using an animal identifying activity, with role play farm animals, and animal flash cards; we have loved hearing, copying and learning about animal sounds!
Our Makaton sign of the week is ‘Friends’ This week we welcomed some new friends into our toddler and pre school room's. The children have settled in so well and all of the children have been very welcoming and friendly. We really enjoyed playing Dinosaur hide and seek this week! This was a great activity, which supported our language skills; we communicated to help our friends who were looking for the hidden dinosaurs by using...
Our Makaton sign of the week is ‘Nursery’ We welcomed a new friend into our toddler room this week and we have all been so kind and welcoming! The babies have enjoyed lots of sensory play this wee, particularly feet painting! We have really enjoyed painting faces, we looked in the mirror to see where our mouth, nose and eyes were on our face...
Our Makaton sign for last week was 'Home and this week it is 'Special' We hope you had a lovely Easter break. The children loved talking about what they got up too in circle time. Congratulations to the winner of our 'Guess the dogs name' competition! The correct name was Barney. Thank you to everyone that took part, we raised an impressive £75 towards our nursery camera! Thank you to all the children who took part in our Easter bonnet competition and congratulations to the winner who won a yummy Easter egg!...
Our Makaton sign of the week is ‘sorry'. This week in our 18 months -30 month old room we created 3D Butterflies from toilet roll tubes; enjoyed using our fingers and thumbs to do finger and thumb printing for spot’s on the butterfly. Our 3D butterflies are going on our new display board to support our ‘the hungry caterpillar’ theme, which has come from the children's interest Our Easter dog raffle tickets are up for sale please do see our poster displayed on our social media (Facebook and Instagram) and reception door. All money raised will go towards our nursery camera...
Newsletter: March 15th 2021 We hope you all had a special weekend celebrating Mothering Sunday –appreciating our loved ones is not just Mum’s but also Foster Mums, Aunties, Nan’s or Godmothers and any other special women in our lives! We hope you loved receiving the gorgeous card’s your children created at nursery. We have been...
Newsletter: March 8th 2021 The children have enjoyed playing with the new music wall outside in the garden this week, listening to all the sounds the different objects make. The children have loved talking about Mother’s Day and how much they love their mummies and what makes them special to us. View Newsletter...
Newsletter: March 1st 2021 Our Makaton sign of the week is ‘To listen’- don’t forget to ask your child to show you all of our signs! This week we celebrated St. David’s day and enjoyed using real daffodils and leaks to do painting with. We loved seeing the different marks that the flowers and...
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