Some of the children from the butterfly room, have been joining in with our YMI music sessions

Recently a few of the children from the butterfly room participated in a litter pick, learning about caring and looking after our environment

Today our peep session was around how children play and how children play with everyday things and with other people and how this changes over time

Some of our families in the Rainbow Room attended stay and play outdoor sessions this week. We used some natural resources to make some pictures and created an obstacle course for physical play.

Today in the Rainbow Room garden the children spent lots of time creating their own obstacle courses they created these using different loose parts and showed how good their climbing and jumping skills are. The children also used their knowledge of safety to make sure their courses were good to go😁

The last session of magic meals in the Rainbow Room last week was a success and we made our Banana Pinwheels on the fire pit

Visual cards of different hand movements were available for rainbow room children to access this week. This has sparked lots of engagement, building up hand strength with the play-dough.

Some of the rainbow and butterfly room friends took a walk to the woods. They were curious finding sticks and acorns and comparing the sizes of them.

Home start Group on tomorrow…

In the messy area, in the Butterfly Room we have been learning about different types of sea creatures. We recreated these animals using play dough and loose parts!

In the Butterfly Room we have been exploring how to mix colours together to create new colours. To do this we have been using pipettes and coloured water. We have been watching the liquid merge on the kitchen roll, discussing what we could see happening.

At marvellous meals in the Rainbow Room the families joined by measuring and mixing the ingredients for the muffins.

The rainbow room children have been focusing on hand strength through play dough experiences. We have been watching song videos to help support these hand movements through rolling, squeezing and pinching.

The Butterfly and Rainbow Room children enjoyed a trip to the local park where they showed us their great climbing,sliding and jumping skills. They were having lots of fun😁🛝☀️

The Rainbow Room children were busy out in the garden taking part in planting some seeds and watering the plants to help make them grow.

The rainbow room have been enjoying exploring sensory experiences by touch. They have been describing and identifying how these materials feel

The children have been looking at our Simoa Booklet. Pictures have been added for the children to recall learning and look at different ways they are being safe.

Rainbow Rooms week one of magic meal was a success making egg muffins

Yesterday we had our first session of magic meals for this term, families enjoy time together making egg muffins

This week the children in the Ladybird Room have been developing safety and referring to the green thumbs up for safe and red thumbs down for not safe e.g when checking the garden, wearing a helmet on the bikes etc

The children have been doing science experiments in the garden. They made a fizzing bubbly witches brew which they used to make magic spells. We then made some rainbow cloud rain drops where the children used pipettes to make the colourful rain drops as they watched the colours dropping down.

The Butterfly and Rainbow room children were enjoying the nice Spring weather with a trip to the park and spent lots of time climbing,sliding and playing with friends 😊🛝

The rainbow room children continue to enjoy the balance bikes and following instructions “around the cones”. They have also been focusing on putting on there own helmets with some managing to clip these by themselves.

The children in the Ladybird Room have been joining in with small gatherings practising our good listening, good sitting and good looking! Some games we played are What’s in my bag today ? Ring a ring a roses And the honey pot game.

The Rainbow Room children were busy using their fine motor skills to pick up the Pom Poms with the tongs. They also used pasta to post into the holes of the box. Lots of great concentration and problem solving.

The rainbow room children have been focusing on using there fine and gross motor skills using the bike pedals and helmets

The children in the Ladybird Room have been using props when listening to stories. Some children made telescopes for our story of the moment “Shark in the park on a windy day”

This week the children in the Ladybird Room have been accessing more small gatherings out in the foyer and in playroom developing their listening, looking and sitting skills.

The children from the Rainbow Room are using their senses while looking at the touch and feel books and are using good descriptive language to communicate their own thoughts.

Some children from the butterfly and rainbow room accessed the park. The sun was shining bright and they had so much fun.

The rainbow room children have enjoyed taking part in some fine motor activities within the room focusing on there hand strength and problem solving.

Some of the children were having so much fun playing ‘Gooey Louie’ with their peers, practicing sharing and turn taking. Some children were modelling how to play this game to their peers too, sharing their knowledge of how to play it. Well done!

Recently some of the children were modelling their woodwork skills to their peers and others were beginning their woodwork journey by initially hammering their nails into the log/stump. The children were being very imaginative as they created their own wonderful models

This week in the Ladybird Room we have been building the strength in our hands, threading larger beads and using the tripod pencils to make marks

Last week we welcomed some Mummies into the Ladybird room to share experiences with the children to celebrate Mother’s Day. 💐

We opened up the side garden today, giving the children more space to explore and ride bikes. We were exploring risky play riding down the ramps and making sure we wore our helmets to keep safe.

Some of the children were exploring “how many?” and matching, using their early numeracy skills whilst playing ‘Smelly Wellies’ with their peers.

Some of the children helped cut and create their own dinosaur puzzles for our puzzle area, matching them to our toy dinosaurs in nursery

This morning we had a lovely peep session on a walk of our local environment. We had lots of opportunity to use our senses, while exploring along the way.

The rainbow room children have been engrossed in using there fine motor skills through the use of scissors and taking part in other experiences.

We had a successful Mother’s Day event in the rainbow room on Friday creating some beautiful cards and planting a sunflower for our mummy’s.

A nice wee interactive story in the garden today, we went on a bear hunt and the children went round the garden, following the story with me. 🐻

A successful last session at Magic Meals making Beans on Toast Muffins. I hope they taste as good as they looked!! 😋

We enjoyed the process of making our play dough, we all helped mix the ingredients and mould it to a nice consistency with our hands

We used a variety of collage materials to make lovely pictures. We used fine motor skills to scoop and spread the glue and add materials to the paper.

The children in the ladybird room have been engaged with music and movement again and we built a stage, they even lead the play outdoors wanting to do ‘the floor is lava’. The children have also been engaged in the block area building

Some of the children have been exploring the woodwork room resources and experiences, modelling their skills to their peers and sharing their knowledge, including sanding, sawing and hammering nails into their models.

Thank you to the stem ambassadors from Denny High School, who came along today to help us make new sensory bottles. It was great fun

Peep session in the woods, where we explored and talked about how exploring nature supports your child’s well-being and development. Simoa came along to help keep us safe