What We’ve Been Up To!
Here are some of the projects the children have been enjoying over the last few weeks.
Pre-schoolers Bake Off!
Our intrepid pre-schoolers have been cooking up a storm recently. So far, they’ve baked banana bread and created yummy Greek vegetable kebabs and coleslaw. They’ve also been practising their phonics, predominantly the letters S, A and T. The children have also had fun mixing water and oil, considering the effects, and then using it to produce groovy lava lamps. Finally, we’ve introduced our pre-schoolers to the bean game, which involves pretending to be a different type of bean. As the ‘bean grows’, we encourage the children to explore making movement with sound.
Great experiments!
Toddler’s Explore their Emotions and Pick up Pom Poms!
May saw our adventurous toddlers looking at their different emotions and translating them into drawings. For the practical among us, we also built houses out of various materials and construction blocks. We’ve also had fun looking at numbers in the environment around us – and when you start to look, you notice they’re everywhere! ‘Pom pom pinching’- picking up poms poms with a clothes peg and transporting them to the correct colour plate – has also been a popular activity. As well as good for developing hand-eye coordination, it’s a great exercise for building the toddler’s colour recognition skills.
Picking up Pom Poms!
Busy Babies enjoy Sensory Fun
Our little ones have been enjoying the ‘super sensory’ aspect of our nursery education programme. In particular, they’ve been looking at different things that roll, from fruit to toilet roll. Together we’ve created a fairy mud garden by mixing soap, water, glitter and mud to make a magical, messy wonderland. We’ve also helped the babies freeze flower petals in water and asked them to observe the changes as the ice melted. Self-portraits have been an important focus too, and we’ve been teaching the children to look at themselves in the mirror and draw what they see, resulting in some amazing images!
Clever babies!
