Monthly Archives: February 2017
Ladybirds
This week in Ladybords we have had a garden themed week and have really loved making hand print flowers, wiggly worms, fork painting tulips and making egg cup daffodils! The babies have really enjoyed some serious sensory play as well including sand play, playing in the sensory room and lots of ball pit play!
Next week we are having a wonderful colours theme! The Ladybirds will be playing with different coloured scarves and colourful crinkly tissue paper to kick the week off and we will also be trying to spend as much time in the garden as possible!
Butterflies
The Butterflies have really enjoyed created our new Spring Has Sprung display! We got creative making flowers, clouds, trees and a lovely big sun! As ever, the little ‘uns have loved pouring and filling in water play this week as well as bathing babies and playing with our water animals.
We are looking forward to celebrating World Book Day next week as well as venturing out on a (hopefully) lovely sunny Spring walk!
Bumblebees
This week we have been very busy getting to grips with and learning all about colours. The Bumblebees have mostly enjoyed colour mating dinosaurs, fish and poms poms with great success. It’s not just colours that had a big focus this week, we also spent a lot of time engaging with numbers – learning about them and getting creative by decorating them! Outside we’ve been getting messy in the garden and practicing our pouring skills in the water tray with our new jugs, bowls, spoons and cups.
Next week we are looking to spend even more time outside in the fresh air exploring the playground and the garden. We will also be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday with lots of stories and hopefully some great outfits!
Dragonflies
This week we’ve made a super jungle display and engaged in a lot of discussion about the animals that live there. Our duck eggs arrived this week and we have had such a wonderful time watching them hatch and looking after them – they are so sweet and the children love them! The Dragonflies have spent a lot of time outside this week mud painting, texture painting and having running races!
Next week the letter is V and the number is 22. The colour is pink and the shape is a pentagon. We will be continuing to look after our gorgeous little ducklings and learn all about them. We will also be exploring rainbow fish and talking more and more about animals and their habitats!
It has been a super exciting week in Dragonflies with the arrival of the much anitcipated duck eggs.
Over the course of the week we have looked after the eggs in an incubator and had the privelidge of watching the ducklings hatch one by one! They are so sweet, yellow and fluffy! The staff and Dragonflies have been nuturing our newest additions very well and it has been a joy to watch the children engage with them (despite the tears when they couldn’t take them home!)
Ladybirds
This week was Valentine’s themed week and we had so much fun heart stamping, dabber painting with red paint and a red sensory ice tray!
We are really looking forward to our garden theme week next week! The Ladybirds will be spending as much time outside (let’s keep the Spring weather up please!!) as possible exploring the garden. We will also have garden theme crafts with egg cup daffodils and fork painting tulips!
Butterflies
We have loved our loved up Valentine’s week this week! The Butterflies enjoyed the Valentine’s disco we held every day and as well as getting creative with Valentine potato printing. We also loved sensory play this week with a lentil tray and cornflour gloop!
Next week we are excited about holding a tea party in the role play area as well as practicing our balancing on the balance beams – such a fun way to develop our gross motor skills!
Bumblebees
The Bumblebees have been getting crafty making Valentine’s paintings and cards. We have also been very busy learning some new numbers and shapes which the children have loved engaging with.
We are very excited to be putting up our super new Paw Patrol display, enjoying sand painting and exploring our mud kitchen nest week! Our lovely Bumblebees have loved getting messy this week so we are planning even messier fun next week!
Dragonflies
This week, as well as lots of Valentine fun, we have looked at how rainbows are made and the children have really engaged with this topic! They particularly loved painting pictures of colourful rainbows. We also opened up the sand area and had a super fun treasure hunt!
Next week the letter is X and the number is 21. The colour is yellow and the shape is oval. The Dragonflies are going to explore living in the jungle – making animals that live there, exploring what the jungle is like and investigating the jungle habitat on the smart board.
Just a friendly reminder that the nursery is closed all day on Friday 17th February for an Inset Day.
This is so we can facilitate a vital and productive day for staff training to ensure we are always working and functioning at our optimum level.
We thank you for your understanding and cooperation once again.
Ladybirds
This week in Ladybirds has been a weather themed week and we have been getting very creative! We have made sunshines with paper plates, clouds with lots of soft fluffy cotton wool and main rain with dabbers and blue paint! We have also really enjoyed a good explore of the garden as well as plenty of sensory play with sand and rice.
Next week we will have even more sensory play as well as some time in the garden – as much as we can get!
Butterflies
We have been preparing for Valentines this week and making some lovely cards. The Butterflies have also enjoyed using their gross motor movements by walking along our balance beams, climbing on the slide and jumping on the trampette.
The focus for next week will be on sensory experiences and exploring textures and we plan to do this through lots of messy play – yay!
Bumblebees
Our favourite story of the moment is The 3 Little Pigs and so we have been celebrating the book by creating a wonderful display! We have also been busy finishing off our Valentines cards and presents as well as getting thoroughly engaged in lots of sensory play and painting!
Next week we will be making a Paw Patrol display and talking about our favourite characters and why we all love it so much! We will also be exploring animal habitats and making our own homes for animals, discovering what they need and why.
Dragonflies
We have made a lot of lovely Valentine’s cards this week as well as finishing off our planets and hanging them from the ceiling in a great space display! We have enjoyed watching videos of volcanoes exploding and then doing our own volcano experiment. The Dragonflies also loved having a visit from a policeman this week and had so much fun sitting in the police car, hearing the siren and seeing the blue flashing light!
Next week the letter is Ww and the number is 20. The colour is green and the shape is a crescent. We will be getting creative again next week with lots of Valentine’s related activities including drawing pictures of our ideas of a lovely Valentine’s Day.