Oh the great outdoors!

Sliding with your bestie putting your turn-taking and physical skills to the test…it’s simply the best xxxx

The pink is gone and yellow you can now see…

That must mean it’s……..a Pudsey tree!!!!!

We hope you will join us all in wearing yellow, spots or pjs as we have lots of Pudsey-related fun on Friday for Children in Need.

If you’d like to make a donation at any point this week please pop your pennies in the Pudsey money box in our entrance hall.

Thank you all for your support xxxx

Our children are a little bit obsessed with fireworks at the moment as many experienced them over the weekend and lots are excited for tomorrow and having even more then…

So their interests have formed the inspiration for some wonderful mark-making activities and they’ve also sparkled up our playdough too…. Accompanied by pops, BANGS and whizzes from a fireworks soundtrack to really bring the experience to life!!

What a wonderful time we have in early years as these are all pre-cursors for developing brilliant early writing skills as mark-making is the foundation for later ‘writing’ development and playing and manipulating the dough strengthens little fingers which is essential before you can even hold a pen. There’s ALWAYS method in our madness here at Jollies…….. Xxxx

Thank you to those who have donated. We’ve since had a further £14.70 donated. We’ll leave the box there until the end of the week and then donate the additional money that has come in since last Friday’s donation (as we were too keen with our paying in!). Thank you all for your kindness and support xxxx

A HUGE thank you to Team Jollies, our children and our parents/carers for all your superb efforts today to help us raise awareness and money for Breast Cancer Now.

We dressed in pink, ate pink snack, played with pink toys, created pink artwork, decorated pink biscuits, explored pink sensory trays and generally had a day filled with pink, pink, pink, pink, pinkness!!!!

We have raised and donated £197.59 for Breast Cancer Now and we hope you will all be talking boobies with your family and friends to raise awareness and get that all important checking occurring…

Find out more here… please think pink and pass it on!!!!

https://breastcancernow.org/…/know-your-breasts-pdf.pdf

Thank you everyone for your support, it means a lot!! Xxxx

At Jollies we are championing maths in the early years inspired by our recent whole team staff training led by Fiona our training Maths Champion.

We are always looking for opportunities to introduce and explore concepts and expand upon vocabulary and Emma decided that playdough was the perfect medium to do so!

Discussions naturally occurred with words such as ‘big’, ‘little’, ‘long’, ‘short’, ‘lots’ and ‘more’ being used. Our children adored exploring the dough and all the pieces as they created.

(Not only did all this wonderful maths learning take place, but also creativity was sparked through exploration, fingers were strengthened through manipulation, hand/eye coordination was developed through determination and language and conversation was developed through communication!!)

There’s ALWAYS method in our madness here at Jollies and learning through play is DEFINITELY the way for us!!!! xxxx

We are getting ready to think pink on Friday and all look fabulous together!!!!

If Friday isn’t your little one’s usual day please just wear pink any time this week…. The box is there to pop a donation in if you’d like to support us in raising awareness and money for this very important cause. Thank you all xxxx

Autumn’s calling…

As we wander up and down the stairs we may be stalling……..

(As there are lots of lovely new autumnal things to spot!!) xxxx

Our newest Jolly babies are getting to grips with exploring our sensory room (with the support of their key person being nearby for any comfort and reassurance required; as this is still a very new space for them all at the moment!).

They are loving the lights, the textures, the sounds, the smells, but above all else… mostly the bubbles!!!!!! xxxx