Weeks ending 3rd April 2025

Crafts crafts crafts! We've been getting messy making cards for people we love for Mother's Day, and with Easter closing in we've had paints and glue everyday.

The children had to be careful while rolling marbles to decorate Easter egg cards, and they concentrated well when sticking petals on daffodils. We had fun stamping to make spring bunny pictures. Lots of us also drew a flower, copying from photos of real ones, to go up on one of the walls for Spring.

When we weren't crafting inside, we were crawling through tunnels, jumping across stepping stones and using bandages to help the 5 little monkey's when they fell off of the bed!

We hope everyone has a great time off over the holidays! :)

Weeks ending 14th March 2025

These past two weeks have been exciting! We've been making playdough pancakes, finger painting and exploring all things books. World book day was the 6th of March and so we had Hungry Caterpillar games, Shark in the Park activities and more. We also had '5 little men in a flying saucer' toys for a song book.

Lots of us came in dressed up but for those who couldn't we had lots of hats and costumes ready to be used. There was also a practice fire drill the next day that we were great during! When we visited Acorn Patch we found slugs, worms, newts and more. We were careful to be kind and not scare them.

Weeks ending 28th February 2025

Everyone has been so busy trying out new games. We got gifted a wonderful marble run set that is super fun to build and use. The children particularly liked the pieces that spin fast and make noises (like the bell!) and tried out rolling the marbles in a bowl to make them go fast. The adults also found a lion puppet friend that was very hungry. We all helped to count out his snack to get him the right number of oranges/strawberries and more. 

We also spent time colouring some Elmer elephants to decorate one of our wall displays, we all picked different colours and patterns. There is now something up on every wall in the room, it looks fantastic!

Weeks ending 14th February 2025

The children have been making special cards to give to people they love. There were paint pens and glittery shapes to decorate them with, and lots of glue!

We have also enjoyed using velcro chopping shapes with blunt wooden knives to pretend to make salads and snacks. Some of us drew shopping lists of which fruits or vegetables we were going to use.

The adults found some different coloured playdoh to use, lots of us concentrated well for a very long time on what we were creating with it. The water tray has also been a big hit these past two weeks, with filling/pouring activities, sinking/floating experiments and catching fish in nets.

We hope everyone has a nice week off during half term! :)

Weeks ending 31st January 2025

We've been busy learning about Lunar New Year and have been starting to talk about people we love in the run up to valentines day. We learnt that the children were born in the year of the rat or ox, and we got to watch a video on the new interactive board all about how different people celebrate. We also took turns to add glitter to our paints to make them sparkly.

The board has also been great for listening to a couple of different songs and watching some quick Makaton sign videos. The children have been doing really well learning the signs for 'Help' 'Hello' 'Food' and more. Great job everyone!

Weeks ending 17th January 2025

We've been having fun talking about our Christmas holidays and showing all of the new children our toys. The builders have also nearly finished building the new school areas, so we got to see a giant crane come to move our old mobile preschool away, very cool! We have a new big piece of furniture that was donated, we have already filled it with duplo which has been a fan favourite. 

The children have been making different faces out of eye/ear/mouth/nose cards. Arctic animals have also been out with all the chilly weather. There was also a trip to acorn patch to see what's changed- one of our plants is now enormous!