What We’ve Been Up To!
Here are some of the activities our children have enjoyed recently.
Pre-schoolers Spice up their lives!
The learning has been non-stop this month. As well as focussing on farm animals, including the udderly amazing art of how to milk a cow, we have been studying the difference between land and sea creatures. We have had lots of lively times too, dancing to the Spice Girls (a real favourite with the nursery team!), practising hurdle jumping and playing ball control games – all good for helping us develop strong hand/eye co-ordination skills.
In Silly Science, we made a soda bag explode (all safely, of course!) and had lots of fun making imaginative models for our junk modelling competition. The fun didn’t end there, as we also played in the mud kitchen, cooled down with water play, planted cress seeds and baked yummy scones, all in time for tea! Phew, what a jam-packed month!
Sploosh! Having fun with water.
Having an udderly fabulous time practising our cow milking skills!
Toddlers test out texture
Textured messy play has fascinated our toddlers over the past few weeks. We have made scented coloured playdough, traced with stencils and used the sand tray for mark making – our first foray into handwriting, don’t you know? We have also listened and looked at different types of instruments, which has been lovely and noisy, and have danced along to our favourite songs. We also treated the teddies to a wonderful teddy bears picnic in the glorious sunshine. What did they eat? Crackers and camembert (camem-bear) of course!
Our colourful hand painting.
Babies enjoy mark-making and duck feeding
Our younger babies have had a lovely messy time using toy cars and brown paint to make construction themed paintings. They have also been exploring different sounds using dry pasta and practising making marks with crayons and dipping their fingers in flour and water.
We also indulged in our babies’ favourite activity of going for a long walk to Windsor Castle and feeding the royal ducks! As the weather has been warmer, we have also spent time outside splashing about in water and footprint painting. To top it all off, we have been singing at the top of our lungs groovy action songs, like Wheels on the Bus.
Our older babies made the whole nursery smell amazing while making homemade shortbread. We have also been getting hands on with tactile sensory games, and there have been all sorts of things popping up in the sensory trays, including farm animals (the toy variety!) hay, flour and Weetabix. We have been super arty too. We have tried free drawing our family and spent time looking at the different colours. We’ve also spent time in the garden cooking up muddy delights in our mud kitchen and learning about the different wildlife and mini beasts you can find outdoors, including the ones to look at and not touch! Best of all we have had a ‘roarsome’ time playing with our dinosaurs in the playdough!
Wibble wobble! Getting stuck into jelly play!
Messy play! The babies enjoying mark making in flour.
