What We’ve Been Up To!
Here are some of the activities our children have enjoyed recently.
Prepared Pre-schoolers
Our rapidly growing team of pre-schoolers have been busy making apple crumble, filling the nursery with wonderful smells. Next up they have been learning about the lifecycle of butterflies, playing with the mini beasts and talking about where they live. A trip to feed the ducks was a favourite with everyone.
Leading up to the trip to Odds Farm, we have been making shiny pigs from old CDs, exploring different textures in the farm sensory tray, whilst talking about farming and farm animals.
We have also been exploring the ‘Oo’ sound and words with ‘Oo’ in them. Cool!
Our trip to Odds Farm – what a fab day!
Enjoying the tractor ride at Odds Farm.
No you mooooove! Playing with the toy farm animals.
Toddlers in action
Not to be outdone on the cooking front, our intrepid toddlers have made yummy chocolate biscuits and Weetabix breakfast bars! Jelly sensory play, along with shaving foam painting, has ensured we are in messy play heaven. Talking about and recognising our different emotions has been a good learning curve too.
Body painting with prime colours has engaged everybody, and we are currently exploring different animal habitats.
Yummy fun!
Babbling Babies
Our younger babies have been making and feeling their own play dough, creating marks in the sand tray, and using jelly for sensory play and taste. The fun never stops, we have filled the room with the noise of our musical instruments – playing shake, rattle and bang was a favourite!
Bubble wrap mark making with toy cars, exploring and using the new kitchen, shape sorting and lots of lovely dancing at circle time make for busy babies at the Riverside nursery.
Our older babies have enjoyed decorating themselves with rice krispies, cornflakes and flour in sensory play. Followed by free hand painting, gluing and sticking different textures. They have also been creative, building houses for our small world people. As the weather has been warmer, we have also had some fun outdoor water play.
The babies have also been learning to care for the baby dolls in our home corner, which as you can imagine, is very sweet to see!
Colouring in Easter eggs
