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This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘sit’, we have used this during meal and group times. We have also enjoyed playing with pasta play, filling and emptying containers, foam shapes, feather blowing and trying to catch bubbles...
This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘drink’. We have had lots of sensory trays to explore this week, including shredded paper, rice and an autumn themed tray too. We also enjoyed celebrating Children In Need on Friday – wearing our pyjamas and playing party games...
Babies – This week in the baby room our sign of the week has been ‘cold’. We have used paint dobbers to create different marks in our tray, had a lentil messy tray created into a poppy shape and also had a water tray with petals in for our way of participating in Remembrance day. Toddlers – This week...
Babies – This week in the Baby Room our sign has been ‘garden’. We have had lots of sensory exploration within the room this week, shredded paper, shaving foam, metallic and shiny trays and also mark making in flour! Toddlers – This week in Toddlers our...
Babies – This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘nappy’, we have been using this each change. We have enjoyed sensory trays filled with different resources, had pumpkin play and jelly play too! Toddlers – This week in toddlers our sign has been ‘book’. We have been enjoying messy play and activities. We have had fun Halloween themed messy...
Babies – This week in our baby room our sign has again been ‘coat’, we have done this each time we are taking coats on and off. The babies have enjoyed lots of messy play this week, with different resources such as flour and shaving foam. The babies also have shown an interest in the role play area, so we created a tray with pasta
Babies – This week in baby room our sign has been ‘coat’, we have done this each time we are taking coats on and off. The babies have enjoyed creating their very own sensory bottles, adding different resources to bottles, each making different sounds and filled with different colours...
Babies – This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘shoes’. We have used this throughout the week when we take our shoes on and off to go in the garden. Toddlers – This week in toddlers we have been signing ‘rain’ and ‘sun’. The children have enjoyed following their interests of mark...
Babies – This week in our baby room our sign has been ‘look’. We have used this throughout the week. We enjoyed creating lots of slides and tunnels out of pipes and...
Babies – This week in Baby room our sign has been ‘look’. This week have been really engrossed in rolling and throwing balls, so we have built a ball run out of cardboard tubes, guttering and ramps; the babies have really enjoyed...
We will be stopping our weekly theme and having an monthly theme over the whole nursery, which will allow us to follow the children’s interests and be more child led. Babies – This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘listen’, we have used this when we are having...
Babies – This week in the baby room our sign has been ‘sing’, we have used this during circle times and each time the children have initiated nursery rhymes. This also tied in well with our session of sing and sign we had this week- the babies had a great time! This week we looked at Autumn trees...
Babies – This week in baby room our sign has been ‘book’, we have used this during circle times when we have been reading stories, also each time the children have shown interest in the books. This week we looked at Autumn leaves; we used these to paint with and painted our own too. We also made a handprint wreath using...
Babies – This week in the baby room we continued with our theme of transport. Our sign of the week has been ‘happy’ and ‘sad’. The babies enjoyed playing with the boats in the water, decorating buses and using sponges to paint cars. At snack time on Monday the babies...
Babies – This week in baby room our sign has been ‘come’; we have used this during circle times, for meals and when we are ready to transition to a different area. We have enjoyed getting very messy this week and a have played in shaving foam with cars, hidden different objects in shredded paper and sand play. We have also enjoyed decorating...
Babies – This week in baby room our sign has been ‘sit’, we have been practicing this during mealtimes and circle times. We have continued our beech theme this week and we have had great fun outside in the garden now the weather has improved we have enjoyed splashing in...
Babies – This week in baby room our sign has been ‘boat',’ linking with our theme of the seaside. As well as having lots of sand and water play we have really enjoyed getting creative with our hand and foot prints creating sea creatures! We have been really focusing on trying to engage the children within...
Babies – This week in baby room our Makaton sign has been ‘all gone’. We have had a fantastic time doing lots of tiger related crafts to celebrate national Tiger day such as creating tigers out of our handprints and creating tiger masks too. We have as always enjoyed spending lots...
Babies – This week in the baby room our Makaton sign of the week has been ‘sorry’, we have practiced this sign alongside encouraging the babies in sharing resources. We have really enjoyed lots of water play this week and have made the most of being in the garden and the sunshine. Inside we have been getting messy and explored paint...
Babies – This week in baby room our sign of the week has been ‘sorry’. Our theme throughout the week has been managing feelings and behaviour and we incorporated this into our play by encouraging the children to share and take turns. They have done so...
Babies – This week in baby room we have been creating flags to coincide with American Independence Day. The children have created these by gluing and sticking tissue paper and using paint dabbers to dab on the paper. We have also continued our creative theme and, following the children’s interest in...
Babies –Babies have had a fantastic week we have been focusing on England and the football! we have created our own St Georges cross flags using balls rolled in paint! We have also played several ball games, such as rolling a ball along different obstacles like the...
Babies – Babies have had a fantastic week this week and they have created some lovely artwork for their summertime board, as well as exploring the sand and water trays, creating a real summer vibe within the room! They have also been practising their sign of the week ‘please’...
We have all had great fun making the most of the lovely weather at the beginning of the week and then jumping in puddles at the end of the week! Babies – Babies have had a lovely start to the week playing in the paddling pool, we had great filling and emptying containers and splashing each other! We have been very busy making our Father’s Day cards ready for the weekend, we've all promised to be extra good on Sunday...
Babies – We are pleased to see more wonderful weather this week and it looks like it may be here to stay! We have been creating bees, hot air balloons and flowers for our Spring board using our hands, feet and drawing utensils. We have also been enjoying the cooler mornings outdoors with sand, water and block play. We have also been enjoying action songs and using Makaton alongside this...
Babies – We have thoroughly enjoyed the weather this week and we have spent the large majority of our time outside in the garden – we are lucky to have lots of shade in our garden which has meant we could make the most of the lovely warm days! This week we have enjoyed sand and water play, story time and our outside home corner area. We have been using our Makaton sign ‘Mummy’ with the children as well the others we have learnt previously to communicate...
Babies – This week the children have been playing with the shredded paper for sensory exploration and using it to play hide and seek with resources. This is a great activity to support the children's natural willingness for exploring using their senses, as well as their very early math skills when trying to figure out where something could have gone. We have been signing Mummy as our Makaton sign this week. We have now learnt and regularly use the signs Elephant, nappy, more and change. We have been focusing on routine, the children are very much used to the routine...
Babies – This week in babies we have been using the Makaton sign 'nappy'. The children have been getting their own nappy out of the cupboard and closing the door again, before getting their nappies changed. We have also been focusing on routines, independence, and consistency. We have been super impressed with the children’s understanding of the routine, taking their shoes off, often with very little help...
Babies – This week in babies we have been using our sign of the week ‘Elephant’ for our animals in the jungle theme. We have enjoyed playing with our Noah’s Ark, using this to count and match for some early math skills. The children have also made Elmer the elephant finger paintings. This week we have been increasingly encouraging health and self-care skills, the children have been getting their own nappy out at changing time...
Babies – This week in babies we have been using our Makaton sign of the week, ‘More’. The children have learnt this really quickly and it is lovely to see it being used, especially to know it is being used at home already! 😊 We have had a strong animal theme this week and have found this to be a common interest shared by all of the children, to explore and develop this interest further we set up a farm and sea theme tuff tray, we think the fact...
Babies – This week in babies have been very busy! We had a lovely start to the week with some beautiful sunshine; we got our sun cream on and headed out to the garden to play in the sand tray using the scoops, mini rakes and animal shaped moulds. This week we have celebrated Penguin day by making our own masks, using arts and craft materials. Our biggest focus this week was physical development; using our gross motor skills to climb, crawl and slide. We set up the large wooden blocks as steppingstones for our older children and they were able to do this independently...
Babies –This week in babies we helped the Queen celebrate her birthday by making our own crowns! On St Georges day we had fun celebrating by dressing up in red and white and taking part in a range of red and white themed activities! As the weather has been so good, we have spent a lot of time outside and have enjoyed exploring some of our new resources...
The children had a fantastic time during their Easter bonnet parade. We would like to thank everyone for all their hard work helping the children to create their lovely bonnets! This week Babies have been having lots of sensory fun! We have set up sensory bags filled with paint, glitter, and sequins for the children to explore, we then attached these to the table for the children to explore. We have been doing lots of dancing and singing with the children, using the tablet for background music and also singing songs that the children have initiated!...
This week in our Baby Room we have enjoyed lots of Easter related activities look out for these next week when the children will be taking home their Easter baskets full of goodies! In addition to our Easter focused theme we have continued to change our sensory area to keep interests flowing including a dark den and a cozy pod. The children have also enjoyed lots of additional small world resources including a dolls house, car garage and a fairy house. We used the small world people, furniture, cars and animals to introduce other types of role play resources to the children - they loved this!...
Newsletter: March 15th 2021 Babies created a light den this week filled with sensory lights which went down a storm! On Wednesday we enjoyed St Patrick’s day themed activities and created collage Shamrocks and a green-themed ball pool pit. In addition to this, we have continued all our normal activities such as plenty of garden...
Newsletter: March 8th 2021 In Babies we have loved creating some Mother’s Day surprises for our mummies this week; this has involved cooking, painting and crafting. As well as our focused activities for Mother’s Day we have enjoyed reading lots of stories, singing along to our favourite songs, whilst doing the actions! We have loved...
Newsletter: March 1st 2021 Babies have loved creating some daffodil pictures this week using Spring colours and collage effects, our hands always get very sticky from the glue bus mess is what we do best! We have been seeing lots of friendly behaviour and sharing from our older children towards our younger children this week...
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