It’s out with the old and in with the new as the Jollies great outdoor renovation gets underway…. Exciting times ahead. It’ll be a few days of restricted play for our children, but you can’t make an omelette without cracking eggs, so we think the interruption to usual service will be well worth the wait… …
The ‘people’ have been taming and riding the dinosaurs here at Jollies today… it’s all in a day’s imaginative play for our little ones xxxx
What a wonderful morning Exploring Elephants had together today. Following the children’s current interests Fiona and Tracey took them on an adventure to the train station! The children had been building huge tracks within the room and whizzing lots of trains around them so a natural exciting progression and thing to do was to pop …
Jade was busy leading an adult-initiated activity for some of her children when this little one spotted that she had put her tablet down on the floor next to her with the camera still open. Jade had been busy snapping photos of her children in action to document their learning as part of our online …
These resources had been bought to enhance play when amazing vehicles are being created out of chairs, crates and planks, but this little one decided to snaffle them to explore them just as they were. He then spent time investigating how they stacked together and moved them around to form different colour combinations. Then Fiona, …
Imogen joined some of her children upstairs in their playroom and they had such a fun time sharing lots of stories together… Someone picked ‘The party book’ so that was the first one they shared and together they pretended they were having their very own little party up there. Free Flow was full of giggles …
Emily observed these little chefs cooking up lots of crazy creations in our role play kitchen and then serving them up with the biggest of smiles!! One little one tucked into a lettuce, peas and egg sandwich…. Much to her friend’s delight! xxxx
literally!! Maths in the early years should be fun, hands on, extremely active and linked to our children’s interests!! So the mini ‘Number Blocks’ characters led to some fabulous building with huge wooden blocks in our Jolly garden. Our children focused upon the markings/spots on each panel to ensure the number of them matched their …
(…..and loops!!!) Free-Flow have once again been asked to have the car track out as it is such a firm favourite with our children and we love to feed their passions and interests! This morning our children have been exploring loop-the-loops! So far they’ve managed through some great collaborative teamwork and turn-taking to get past …
It’s the process that’s important, not the product! ……. But Exploring Elephants’ recent exploration of paints, brushes and mark-making tools led to a rather impressive masterpiece…. So the final product became the backing paper for one of their room’s new display boards!! Their exploration ended up leading to an exciting enhancement to their environment!! xxxx