We don’t just breed trainspotters at Jollies (you can’t blame us, we are opposite Woodlesford station after all!), but plane ones too!! This little one was outside with her friends and after her recent holiday, she enjoyed doing some plane spotting with them. Together they counted how many planes they could see and discussed whether they thought they were travelling fast or slow!
It also led to some fabulous recounting of holiday adventures too…
Wonderful observation and conversation together with our friends here at Jollies It’s great to be outdoors in our huge outside area just taking a moment and seeing what we can see… Xxxx
It was just so lovely to watch one of our big school leavers caring for one of our younger children when their paths crossed outside this morning! He instinctively helped her, held her hand and chatted away to her. They went on all the different equipment together and such companionship was shown throughout.
Kind and caring ways make for the happiest of days playing and learning together here at Jollies xxxx
Seeing as all her children are currently obsessed with The Gruffalo book, Chloe went on a book hunt and found yet another book and this one had an actual Gruffalo puppet attached… which made it even more exciting!!
This book gave her children some simple instructions to follow on each page; such as “Can you scratch the Gruffalo’s nose?” and “Can you give him a cuddle?”
Well what a fabulous job they all did at following the instructions given to them… getting the whole way through the book with their super-duper listening ears on! What excellent comprehension and understanding they all exhibited!!
Many of the children did such a great job at remembering some lines from the original story too; saying “purple prickles on his back” and many other well-known lines too! It was so lovely to observe their total love of this character and hear them, unprompted, reciting parts of the story!
Obsessed, us?!? Just a little, but there’s worse things in life to be obsessed with!! xxxx
Boundless energy leads to determined little ones whose confidence and belief in their abilities leads to them challenging their bodies’ capabilities as they stretch and balance and climb!
Gross motor skill developing ways and rising to the challenge days spent risk-assessing and exploring here at Jollies xxxx
After closely observing her children and their current interests and the choices of resources they were selecting from around the room Latisha filled the mini activity table’s containers with…..blocks (before this they had been brimming with slime, water, shredded paper and water beads to name but a few of their previous contents…)
Then she stepped back to observe and reflect upon what they would do next and how they would use them!
The group really enjoyed finding the blocks in the tray and exploring them carefully comparing their different sizes and shapes.
One little one thought of an idea of making her very own farm whereby she had cats and dogs on there too saying, “I love cats and dogs!” She was loving adding all the different blocks one by one and imagining them to be her ‘animals’ and she told Latisha exactly what their names were too!
So much building occurred; but not just of farms; we saw tall towers, houses, airports, a zoo…. These blocks became literally anything our little ones wanted them to be as the only limit was our children’s imaginations!!
The building was also interspersed with an impromptu game of peekaboo, as the actions of one little one when they crouched down to pick up a fallen block led to further crazy fun under the table!!! They all really loved playing peekaboo under the trays with their friends having lots of giggles as they imagined and built away together. It was wonderful to watch them driving their play forwards together.
Collaboration, communication and cooperation continued as our children inspired each other to build and play in the way their hearts’ desired…. xxxx
They make our days that little bit brighter, our jokes that little bit funnier, our puzzles that little bit easier, our play that little bit more imaginative, our games that little bit more fun and our hugs that little bit more special
We are so lucky to share such warmth and fun with our friends here at nursery xxxx
A new train track was recently donated to Jollies so Tracey passed it Exploring Elephants way as she thought they would love it… and they definitely did!!
Jade and Latisha set their children a challenge…. to see whether they could build the train track just like the one on the box?!
Although their creation didn’t turn out exactly like the one on the box it was still their very own representation of the image… and they were all very satisfied that their collaboration, cooperation, close observation, fine motor manipulation and imagination as they used their pictorial cue had paid off!
Proving the process, rather than the product , is the most important thing here at Jollies xxxx
Team Jollies have such amazing bonds with their children and this leads to them getting totally immersed in the fun as everyone learns, explores and develops through their play!
Jade joined her children in sliding down the ramp outside in our huge garden area and they were delighted to have their extra special grown up, literally hand in hand, sharing in their adventure!! Xxxx
That was how one of our little ones summed up our day at the farm!
We have had a WONDERFUL day and we want to say a massive thank you to Aidy, our superb guide, who looked after us, kept us safe and shared his knowledge of all the animals on this working farm.
The day was made even more special as not only did the children have their lovely key people there to spend the day with, they were also joined by Laura (who is currently on maternity leave) and Eliza and as she’d spent so much time caring for them in Free-Flow beforehand it was great she could share in their special day making memories together before it is time to leave Jollies ready for school journeys to begin.
From seeing Izzy and Wizzy the meerkats and finding out they get a mouse and an egg for breakfast (they like to break the shell to get the yolk out apparently!), stroking Tiger (the rabbit) and Cutie Eyes (the Guinea pig), feeding the ravenous lambs… we loved seeing their tails wagging with joy as they guzzled their milk bottles down, feeding the carrots to all the animals in the paddocks was amazing too and we had our best ‘flat hands’ so we didn’t get nibbled fingers!
They made us giggle as they tickled our hands as they took the carrots from them and quite a few left us covered in slimy saliva It was ok though as our children knew the drill and we washed our hands constantly after touching and feeding the animals (as we’d listened to Aidy VERY carefully!) and we knew not to rub our eyes or put our hands in our mouths either.
We loved seeing the calves and the lambs and the piglets too…. Everywhere we looked it was fascinating and the farm was just awesome!
Swithens Farm also has some excellent play areas which we made sure to make use of; we especially loved the soft play, trampolines, tractors and the beach!!
Before catching the bus back to Jollies we popped into the farm shop and chose a toy to spend our pennies on…
Our children adored their BIG school leavers treat day and Aidy said they should be so very proud of themselves as they’d been AMAZING and had been a credit to Jollies
Thank you guys for a simply fabulous day at the farm!!! xxxx
It’s great to be outdoors in our huge outside area just taking a moment and seeing what we can see… Xxxx
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