JANUARY 2025

When the nursery reopened after the Christmas break, the children were thrilled to share what Father Christmas had brought them and talk about their favourite presents. It was heartwarming to hear about their festive time with their families. Our office was completed this month, and we were finally able to clear out the temporary storage areas. The children have been enjoying the additional playground space and are delighted to use the role play shed once again. We also celebrated Chinese New Year, with the children having a great time engaging in various activities.

Some of our activities this month:
Ducklings: Water play- Blue water with shaving foam and sea animals, Water with utensils, Water paints
and Water play fishing fun.Books- Giraffes can’t dance with safari animals, Lift the flap books, Puppets with books, Digger book with diggers and Interactive books.Messy play- Shaving foam, Cling film painting, Gloop, Foil painting and Sand play.Dolls and accessories- Dolls and books, Dolls high chair, pushchair role play food, Chinese New Year and Washing babies
Rainbows:Sea animal playdough, Paper plate cars, Construction playdough, Dinosaur sand tray, Digger sensory tray, Lion painting, Feed the animals, Goldilocks and the three bears tray, Maths sand search, Chinese New Year rice tray and Crafty Chinese dragon.
Sunshines: My favourite Christmas present drawing, Hairdresser's role play shed, Dressing up area 
Painting with different objects, Chinese New Year money bag, Chinese New Year colouring and Playdoh tuff tray.

AUGUST 2024

The children and staff have had a wonderful August, making the most of a range of resources to have lots of different messy play activities. 
It was sad to say goodbye to all our school leavers but we wish them all the best on their new adventure. It has been a pleasure watching them all grow and develop during their time with us and the goodbye letters and email we have been sent from parents have been wonderful and heartwarming.  Also a big thank you to parents for the generous leaving gifts given to the staff and the nursery. 
It has also been lovely having so many updates on Tapestry of family days out and holidays during the month. 

This month the children have been enjoying:

Ducklings: Sand play, Gloop, Water play, Kinetic sand, Leaf pictures, Books, Outside play, Shape sorter and Pop up toys.

Rainbows: Cereal sensory tray, Cling film painting, Digger sand play, Pipe Cleaner fishing, Gelli baff fish tray, Under the Sea tuff tray and Foam water.

Sunshines: Making pizzas, Tomato and brown sauce tuff tray, Paint and shaving foam tuff tray, Picking runner beans, Role play vets, Homemade kinetic sand, Frame craft, Rain cloud science experiment and Painting with tubes

JUNE 2024

The children and staff have been enjoying the lovely hot weather we had over the second part of the month. On a very hot day we all had ice lollies to help us cool down. 
On Parents Evening it was lovely to see so many parents attend and meeting with their child's key person. This gave them a perfect opportunity to catch up the child's development and to ask any questions that they might have.
For Father's Day the children had lots of fun making their Daddy a biscuit and card. 

Ducklings enjoyed: Animals - Animal touch and feel, Matching animals, Sensory animal tuff tray, and Animal books/puzzles.
Small construction-Small wooden bricks, Interlinks, Stickle bricks, Duplo bricks and Large and small bricks Sensory play- Soil play, Natural resources tray, Sensory balls, Sensory bags and Sand playArts and crafts- Sticking and glueing on flowers paper plate, Duplo painting, Pasta pictures and Stamping with paint

Rainbows got stuck into: Babies - Match the Mummy and baby animals, Cooking - fondant icing sweets, Home corner cooking

Sunshines entertained themselves with: Let’s make some Ice Cream tuff tray, Holiday Tuff Tray, Traffic Vehicle Tuff Tray, Can you make a magic Potion tuff tray, Can you decorate the Rainbow fish, Father’s Day crafts, Camping Role play set up, How to Grow Cress, Alphabet Play-dough, Tracing shapes tuff tray, Let’s make a birthday cake Tuff Tray, Making name crafts and Can you splat decorate your name.

MAY 2024

One of the highlights this month was when we brought in the Incredible Eggs hatching kit. The children were very excited to follow the progress of the hatching from eggs to little chicks. The learned about caring for them, helped to feed them and got to hold them. Afterwards the chicks were re-housed to a good home.

We also held Pet Week when our children and their families brought in their pets for all the children to meet. We talked bout caring for pets, how to handle them and what they like to eat. One of our parent, who is a vet also talked to the Sunshines about their job and brought in some equipment for them to see.

Other activities this month:
Ducklings: Outside / sit and ride cars, Exploring the garden/sit and ride cars, Large construction, Going on the balance beam, Puzzles/ bead maze, Mud kitchen / little kitchenMessy play, Blue gloop, Pasta play, Shaving foam with sea animals, Wet and dry sand and Play doughCars, trains, transport, Washing the cars, Pushing the diggers down the hill, Play dough with transport, Car painting -making tracks and Car booksHalf term-Sticking and glueing
Rainbows: Wood construction, Car wash and Painting with cars tuff tray
Sunshines: Role-play schools, Can you make a birthday cake?, Sea shell craft, Can you make a dinosaur with your hand?, Peppa pig cutting activity, Construction painting, Messy play-mixing it all together flour, water and food colouring and Pictures of hatching eggs and chicks

APRIL 2024

This month all our preschoolers found out which Primary School they will be attending, which caused a lot of excitement. Now they can plan ahead and find out who will be joining them at the same school. Everyone got stuck in with the Easter egg hunts and we found out who was the winner of the lovely decorated easter egg pictures which the children had made at home with their families. The Ducklings had an outing to the local lakes to see the ducks and the Rainbows explored different musical instruments in the garden. The Sunshine children have started to prepare and plant in the vegetable garden. Fingers crossed we will have some lovely vegetables very soon for the children to pick and eat with their lunch. 

The Ducklings had books, water and kitchen and home corner themes this month with various activites that fitted in with their themes.
The Rainbows enjoyed St George's Day activities, painting and construction themed play.
The Sunshines made shortbread biscuits with their initial on them, threading craft leaves and practiced writing their name using tissue paper.