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August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 by riverside

Babies and Toddlers go on their summer holiday!

The babies and toddlers are enjoying dipping their toes in all things sandy and sea-watery.

Our littlest members have been learning all about the Beach and Under the Sea over the past few weeks. They’ve been enjoying lots of seaside-themed activities such as making papier-mâché beach balls, paper plate seagulls and crab hand prints.

They’ve also been cooking up some brilliant beach inspired treats, from beach ball biscuits and fruit jellies to ice cream cones and beach scene cakes. Yum, yum!

To help develop the babies’ fine motor skills, we’ve set up lots of sensory play materials to encourage scooping, pouring and mixing. The little ones have had lots of giggles searching for sea creatures in water and buried treasure in sand.

To support language development and learn about reading we’ve been reading and interpreting a variety of books, including Under the Sea, At the Beach, Commotion in the Ocean, and Clumsy Crab, a fun story about Nipper with huge clumsy claws – Snippety-snap!

Pop in to see the babies’ and toddlers’ beach art display featuring swirly seagulls and jiggly jelly fish.

Fishy business: Nikita making fish cakes with Beth.

July 01, 2016July 01, 2016 by riverside

Babies and Toddlers turn Jungle Explorers

Babies and toddlers explore the deep, dark jungle.

Over the past few weeks, the babies and toddlers have enjoyed lots of jungle-themed activities including making giraffe biscuits and lion face pizzas and creating some inspiring jungle artwork. Check out the children’s amazing giraffe hand prints below!

We’ve been teaching the children about the different types of animals that live in the jungle, such as lions and giraffes, and practising the different noises they make – we have some lovely loud lions in the group!

We’ve also listened to and performed actions to one of the children’s favourite stories – Rumble in the Jungle – and sung about noisy Leo the Lion. As well as great for making huge ‘roars’, these stories and songs help the children become attuned to stage one phonic sounds.

We’ve also been practising counting and identifying numbers at circle time and in different, imaginative ways throughout the day.

The seaside is coming…

In July the baby and toddler role play area will transform into a lovely sandy beach. We have lots of exciting adventures planned such as creating papier-mâché beach balls, exploring tropical fruit and jelly and making our own ‘flip flops’. Watch this space for the results!

Our jam-packed jungle featuring jungle animals and crawly ladybirds

We made glittery butterflies

Can you ‘spot’ our ladybirds?

The toddler’s handprint giraffes

July 01, 2016July 01, 2016 by riverside

Pre-schoolers enjoy Rainforest Adventures

Our pre-schoolers have been learning all about the Rainforest – and what a fantastic time they’ve had!

As well as playing in their own rainforest, they’ve got to know the different rainforest animals by making fantastic animal art. They’ve also made the lifecycle of a butterfly covering the four different stages: egg, larva, pupil and adult. It’s hanging up in the pre-school room if you want to take a look.

We’ve also read the story Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson. After hearing the story the children got busy creating a magnificent display board including a brown wooly monkey, handprint parrots and bubble frogs.

Lots of the children love butterflies and frogs, so we’ve spent time talking about the different stages of butterfly and frog development. As you can imagine, the children loved making their own frog spawn by mixing shaving foam with tea leaves!

To help develop our pre-schooler’s numeracy skills, we’ve also played games such as counting ladybird spots and matching animal prints.

Of course, what theme would be complete without cooking?

The children have cooked up a (rainforest) storm, including scrumptious ladybird pizzas and butterfly cakes.

The children’s swinging Monkey Puzzle display

From egg to butterfly – our pre-schooler’s huge butterfly life cycle

The Caribbean’s coming to The Riverside Day Nursery

Next stop on our pre-schoolers world tour is the sunny Caribbean.

Starting Monday 4th July our pre-schoolers will be able to enjoy summer on the beach.
We’ve got plenty of Caribbean capers planned, from messing and mushing about with clay to making dangly jellyfish and a big leafy palm tree.

We’ll also be playing games such as ‘seaside bingo’ and the very hungry shark game (yikes!). Plus, we’ll be rolling out some literacy favourites – Commotion in the Ocean, The Rainbow Fish and Smiley Shark – there’s plenty for the children to get their teeth into (sorry).

The pre-school planning schedule will be emailed out to parents in the usual way, in the meantime if you have any questions let us know.

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May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

Babies and Toddlers find out about farming

Our babies and toddlers are learning all about farms and farm animals.

Having enjoyed our Gingerbread Man theme, the babies and toddlers are learning all about farm animals and the farms they inhabit.

Home corner has been transformed into a fun farmyard featuring animals, hay and farming equipment.

We’ve also been busy making scarecrow masks, tractor sticking and painting pictures of horses using shoes and finger prints.

Of course, what theme would be complete without some messy play? Don’t worry the babies and toddlers are having lots of fun splishing and splashing toy farm animals in the water tray!

Our dingle dangle scarecrow faces

Giddy-up: Our finger print farm horses

Our tractor artwork

Our fantastic farmyard

The babies’ free-choice artwork

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April 20, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

It’s all about the Moo, Baa, Neigh for Pre-schoolers

We’ve had a brilliant time playing in our farmyard.

Our pre-schoolers have been learning about farming for the past few weeks. As well as making lots of big farm animals, we’ve talked about where our food comes from. We’ve also looked at farming in other countries in Europe and the type of crops grown there.

To learn more about farm animals, and pet them too, we’re looking forward to our trip to Odds Farm Park on Tuesday 26th April – especially as the whole of pre-school is going and we’re travelling on a big coach!

A quick reminder to mummies and daddies – please remember to return the permission slips and don’t forget to prepare your little one a packed lunch!

Moo! Baa! Neigh! Our fantastic farmyard

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