Our children have found a recent fascination for talking about homes and families and sharing what these look like for all of them. Houses have been at the forefront of many of these conversations; especially after they read the book ‘This is my home’…. Soooo many wonderful discussions ensued.
So to follow on from this current interest and fascination Kirstan and Laura decided to go for a walk around the village with their children and see all the different types of houses they could all spot together!
From terraced houses, semi-detached, detached ones, bungalows, to converted churches, they spotted friends’ houses and some children even spotted their own as they walked around!!
They all did some amazing walking, talking and listening! They then stopped at the shop on their way back to Jollies and bought some cookies as a treat as this was an opportunity to work upon their maths and money knowledge too! (Every opportunity is a learning one after all!)
Following our children’s interests and getting out and about in wonderful Woodlesford to really help bring learning to life… it’s just the Jolly way!! Xxxx
A HUGE thank you to all the Cheeky Monkeys and Pouncing Possums parents/carers who came along tonight for our first ‘For the Love of Learning Evening’…
We hope you enjoyed looking through your children’s Memories Book with them and having a chat with their key people and other parents/carers too whilst having a cuppa and a jammie dodger (we couldn’t miss the opportunity to have a heart-themed snack on this special evening celebrating our LOVE of learning!!)
These books will continue to be compiled as their learning journeys continue here at Jollies and we shall invite you all in again towards the end of summer for our ‘Summer Celebration Evening’ so you can chat together about even more of their Jolly fun whilst having a Pimms on the lawn (hopefully in the sunshine!!!!!
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We look forward to welcoming our upstairs’ parents/carers in next week for their special evening on Wednesday 5 March.
Thank you all for working in such close partnership with us as we support all our children along their individual learning journeys. They definitely learning and we truly having them here at Jollies… xxxx
A new group of children walked super sensibly up to the Two Pointers to meet some new friends at the monthly Memory Cafe which is held there.
It was lovely to see the cross-generational friendships developing as conversations were had together. We did some magic painting, we did some dinosaur colouring in and we sang some songs together. We enjoyed a treat drink and a biscuit there too before waving goodbye to our friends and making our way back to Jollies.
Despite there being some torrential rain whilst we were up at the Memory Cafe we walked back in sunshine This reflected the feeling we all had too due to the warmth of the friendships being made within the room xxxx
When the ball pool is your happy place and a balloon floats by…… 
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We have been feeling the love here at Jollies…
Talk (and play!) has turned to all things love this week here at nursery….
Our children have been immersed in red, pink and love hearts. They’ve scooped and poured red rice, they’ve pressed hearts into play dough, they’ve created ‘love bugs’, they’ve printed and painted, they’ve decorated Valentine’s biscuits, they’ve reflected upon who and what they love. We’ve had some wonderful discussions about our family and friends.
We’ve realised that love truly does make our world go round…
Happy Valentine’s Day to our whole Jolly Family xxxxx
Team Jollies
We hope you are feeling the love today from the tips of your warm snuggly toes…
…. to the relaxing scents that drift from burner to nose
Happy Valentine’s Day you crazy amazing Jolly people and thank you all for being you!!!!
Just break off the wax melt of your choice and take your tea light so you can use your burner whilst having a relaxing bubbly bath tonight xxx
Role-playing is a brilliant source of imaginative play and developing creativity whilst also allowing little ones to reenact lived and familiar experiences.
It is also an opportunity not to be missed by our closely observing practitioners too!
Alice spotted this little one so engrossed in his love and care for his baby and so Alice asked questions, encouraged conversation and this little one proudly ended up showing her that he could point out and name his baby’s body parts. Lots of lovely conversation as facial features were named and pointed to, lots of careful listening and thinking and then lots of lovely role-play development as care routines for their babies were enacted together.
We love to talk, we love to listen, we love to pretend and we just love to love our babies here at Jollies xxxx
glasses and drape 
