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Vrooooom, vrooooom…….
Combining paint with cars was the perfect combination for Exploring Elephants today…. They whizzed their vehicles through the different coloured paint to create track marks of their cars differing journeys! There were extra challenges involved as tinfoil boulders were obstacles that needed to be navigated!! Early years play combines so many areas of learning and …
Pancake Day
Then… as if today wasn’t exciting enough…. We then had pancakes for our tea as it’s Pancake Day!! After sharing stories about making pancakes and role-playing creating our own pancakes we got to experience the real deal thanks to our ‘Pancake Queen’, Sian, who made them for everyone’s tea…. We had both savoury and sweet …
Chinese New Year
What a wonderful day we have had here at Jollies celebrating and finding out about Chinese New Year…. We have explored the traditions that surround this very exciting time of year and we have enjoyed James’ yummy sweet and sour chicken at lunchtime complete with pancake rolls and prawn crackers and we even had a …
Jolly family
We have ed being with our friends this week at nursery, but we also the weekend and we our families, so we are hoping for the perfect weekend filled with love and loveliness for everyone within our whole Jolly Family!!! Happy Valentine’s weekend one and all xxxxxxxxxx
Be my valentine!
We Team Jollies…. Sian and I got a little Valentine’s treat for our team to remind them that we love them all and are grateful for everything they bring to our Jolly Family… Wishing everyone lots of love and happiness, not just this month but always!!!! Xxxx (We know the way to their hearts is …
Boxes of fun
What’s the best thing about getting a fabulous delivery of new role-play kitchen furniture, children’s drawer units, tables and chairs and play panels….. obviously not the spangly new equipment, but the MASSIVE boxes they all came in……. Sooooo much fun playing house and building in them as a den and we think some fabulous crafting …
Routine
Loving it when we see healthy messages and routines replicated during roleplay scenarios Hands were washed before pizza making and eating commenced!! xxxx
Let’s get physical!
Putting our physical skills to the test and challenging ourselves to take measured risks with a little bit of colour recognition and mathematical language thrown in to boot… it can only be play in the early years!! Xxxx
Jolly Book Nook
We are sooooooo excited that our ‘Jolly Book Nook’ is ready to invite our children in to get snuggly and foster their love of all things books!!! xxxx
We are ‘smARTy pants’ here at Jollies…
What better way to show off our subitising skills than by creating a modern art masterpiece at the same time?! Once the dice had been rolled our children then filled the paper with the corresponding number of spots! Maths in the early years allows freedom, fun and creativity and we all love to show off …