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Exploring with little fingers and toes!!!
Recently Laura made some very exciting sensory bags for her babies!!! They then used their fingers and toes to touch and feel all the different textures within them; from paint, to crazy foam, to feathers!!! All her children were very focused and they spent ages touching and feeling the variety of bags with their very …
Ribbons, ribbons everywhere!!
Little fingers got working and strengthening recently when our children used their hand/eye coordination to practise their threading on a metal dome. They had to make decisions… which colour would they choose next? They had to investigate… how long was the piece they were using and how much could it be pulled before it came …
Christmas prep begins!
Christmas is all about the preparation… Santa and the elf are busy making a list and checking it twice!! Xxxx
A captivating read
When the frost and ice arrived outside recently Natalie saw this as the perfect opportunity to extend her children’s interests (as they had shown their natural curiosity on their journeys into nursery) so she found some books to reflect the weather outside and they shared a little group storytime about snowmen and wintry weather all …
Santa’s little helpers!
Whether we’ve been a helper-elf frantically mixing ingredients in the role-play kitchen inside, or Mrs Claus warmly serving up a feast outside, we have simply been Christmas dinner obsessed in Exploring Elephants recently!! xxxx
Perseverance, practice and problem-solving!!
Sone of our little ones have been tackling the ‘balls and sticks’ construction set outside. Initially they found it a little tricky to get the sticks into place, but not to be deterred our resourceful children came up with different ways of trying to achieve this result; such as balancing the ball on the floor …
As happy as a pig in……
Weetabix and Shreddies apparently?!?! Elise invited her children to participate in some marvellous messy farm play recently! Following her children’s current obsession with animals she gave the concept of a farm a whole new sensory level… crushing up weetabix and sprinkling shreddies before adding some water to create the perfect messy pig pen. Her children …
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
On Thursday night the fairies brought Christmas to the inside of nursery as a surprise for our children and today helper-elf Ed has brought Christmas to the outside of nursery too… So don’t forget when you arrive at nursery next week to ask your little ones to look up and see what they can see… …
A superb sensory space…
As you will be aware Sian is our SENDCo here at Jollies and refreshing (and transforming!) our multi sensory room has been a passion project for her recently Sian is always looking to help the team fully understand each individual child and really ‘unpick them’ and ‘unlock them’ so we can ensure any potential barriers …
What’s on offer today?
Here are just a few of the wonderful invitations to play on offer to our children this frosty Friday morning… So many things to delve into to extend their learning through purposeful play……but ultimately……. pirates win!!! (Free-Flow have even been making treasure maps and are going on an actual treasure hunt later… no gemstones, but …