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Math’s Champion

Toddlers have been exploring our Math’s Champion activities.

Supertato!

Playdough Fun!

Chopping Vegtables!

Daily Challenge – Emotions

Daily Challenge – Letters

Daily Challenge -Numbers

Daily Challenge – Life Cycle

Daily Challenge – Families

Daily Challenge – Ocean

Daily Challenge – Hot Weather

Daily Challenge Ocean

Daily Challenge – Three Little Pigs

Daily Challenge – Pirates

Daily Challenge – Lion

Daily Challenge – Snow Leopard

Daily Challenge – Doctors and Nurses

Daily Challenge – Road Safety

Bank Holiday Weekend Activities

Daily Challenge – VE Day 75

Daily Challenge – Sizes

Daily Challenge – Transport

Daily Challenge – Letters

Daily Challenge – Ice Cream Maths

Daily Challenge – Shapes

Daily Challenge – Pincer Grip

Daily Challenge Captain Tom’s Birthday

Daily Challenge – Animal Dice

Daily Challenge – Flowers

Daily Challenge – Pizza Toppings

Daily Challenge – St George’s Day

Daily challenge – Window Art

Daily Challenge – Body Map

Daily Challenge – Science Experiment

Daily Challenge – Sink or Float?

Daily Challenge – Sticks

Daily Challenge – Bear Hunt

Daily Challenge – CD Wind Twirlers

Daily Challenge – Friendship Tree

Bank Holiday Easter Challenge

Daily Challenge – Easter Card

Daily Challenge – Easter

Daily Challenge – Animals

Daily Challenge – Suncatcher

Daily Challenge – Create Potions

Daily Challenge – Obstacle Course

Daily Challenge – Sock Puppets

Daily Challenge – Mark Making

Daily Challenge – Outdoor Materials

Daily Challenge – Baking

Daily Challenge: Rainbows

Pre-school’s Love Potion

Heart Shaped Crumpets

Toddlers’ Bracelet Making Tray!

Valentine’s Day Stay and Play Breakfast

Babies’ Valentine’s Trays

Toddler’s Valentine’s Biscuit Recipe

Babies’ Rose Petal Water Play

Flowers

The Toddlers at 28 Harborne Road have been exploring a flower arranging activity this week! We have bought a variety of beautiful flowers with a range of colours and encouraged the children to choose which ones they would like to create a bouquet. The children have then taken their bouquets homes to give to their loved ones for Valentine’s Day!

Flowers

Bubbles!

Toddlers had fun creating different sized bubbles using the different resources.

Carrot Cake

Pre School made Carrot cake

Carrot Cake

Mud Kitchen

Babies enjoyed creating food in the mud kitchen for their friends

Mud Kitchen

Babies

Babies have enjoyed creating healthy meals for the other babies and have enjoyed washing and dressing the babies as well.

Babies

Christmas Tree Decorating!

The toddlers have got a real Christmas tree in their Grotto.

Christmas Tree Decorating!

Maxwell was really excited about watering our special Christmas tree!

Christmas Tree Decorating!

Here is the finished product; beautifully decorated by the Toddlers!

Christmas Tree Decorating!

Maths!

Look at our Maths Area!

Snow!

A Snowy Day for the small world in Toddler Room!

Dinosaurs

A Dinosaur world using natural tree clippings from our nursery garden!

Dinosaur

Christmas Writing Station!

Our Christmas writing station!! Complete with envelopes, plain paper, pencils, crayons and, of course, a special Christmassy post box!

Christmas Writing Station!

Penguins!

Our Penguin number activity for number recognition and matching the amounts of cubes to the corresponding number.

Toddler Tennis

The Toddlers have been taking part in their weekly sessions of tennis. This term they are learning about balancing their balls on their rackets and being able to hit them in to goals and over a net. Whilst this is great for their gross motor skills this will in turn have positive effects on their fine motor skills later on.

Toddler Tennis

Think Tank

The Pre school children enjoyed their trip to the Think tank. They explored the different dinosaurs and fossils. They enjoyed learning about different tools and even got the chance to take on different roles such as a dentist, fire person and a bee keeper!

Vet Corner

The pre school children have been changing their role play area in to a ‘vet corner’ complete with feeding area and dog walking facilities!

Vet Corner

Ice Colours

Our Toddlers have been learning about ‘Ice Colours’ for our Winter activities. They used small mark making tools to focus on their fine motor skills, and used icey colours to create winter scenes to go on our display board.

Ice Colours

Books

Our Babies have been very interested in books. Giving them the opportunity for a quiet time to look at them and read them with their Key Person, they are engaging in the story and pointing out familiar pictures.

Books

Christmas Concert

The Pre school children all took part in a Christmas concert for their parents at St Georges church. The children told the story of when baby Jesus was born. The children then sang a selection of Christmas songs that they had been learning together.

Experiment Week

As part of Experiment Week the children have been exploring their new science kits and learning how the body works!

Experiment Week

Harvest Festival

Harborne road are collecting for their Harvest festival. We are donating it to the local charity lets feed Brum’. We are asking the children, families and staff to donate a number of items that we can then take to the local soup kitchen which will then be given out to people who are homeless and in need.

Harvest Festival

New Role Play Area

The Babies have a new role play area where they can wash and dress their dolls, take them for a walk in the pushchairs, read them stories and then tuck them in to bed!

New Role Play Area

Pre School

The Pre school Children have been mark making using different tools and materials, including sand, water and paint brushes.

Pre School

Mini First Aid

The Pre school children had a session with our friends from “Mini first aid”. The children learnt all about how to look after each other when accidents happen. They practiced putting plasters on the teddy, using ice packs and bandages. The children also learnt what they had to do if it was a emergency and who they had to call. The children then used a pretend phone to practice calling an ambulance.

Mini First Aid

Pre School Children

The Pre school children have been exploring shapes and sizes. They completed part of this activity by experimenting with bubbles and hoops. They each took it in turns to stand inside the hoops and they had great fun splashing the water and making bubbles!

Digital Camera

Pre School Children

Babies 2

Babies 2 have been learning about different movements using balls and water. The staff helped the babies set up a course for the balls to travel down, the babies helped with moving the guttering to form the course. The babies took it in turns to roll their play balls down.

Babies 2

Pre School Children

The Pre School children have been learning all about the importance of Hygiene. They discussed why we must wash our hands and then did some research on the different types of germs and what they could look like under a microscope.

Babies 1

The babies had great fun creating pictures using different textures. They were given various resources to use such as cotton pads, pom poms and paint!

Toddler Children

The Toddler children have been learning all about their letters, the name, sound and shape of them. Whilst in the garden the children were encouraged to then create their own marks and symbols in the mud using their brushes and their fingers.

Toddler Children

The Toddler children made different bridges using the resources in the garden. So that their cars could travel over and in to the bark which was the ‘Water and Mud’!

National Caribbean Day

The Baby room had a day celebrating “National Caribbean Day”. One of the Parents cooked and brought in some sample foods for the children to explore and taste!

Sports Day

The Pre school children took part in their own sports day! They learnt many new skills including balancing, jumping, kicking, catching, throwing, spatial awareness and how to work as a team!

Sports Day

Exploring Water

Babies 1 enjoyed exploring water. They had a go at filling and emptying the different bowls and jugs. They also had lots of fun splashing themselves!

Exploring Water

Babies 2

Babies 2 have been decorating their own invite to their “Royal Wedding” party!

Winnie the Pooh

Spatial Awareness

The pre school children have been exploring spatial awareness. They made their own obstacle course and station using the equipment in the garden. This enabled them to work together, to gain body awareness and an understanding of spatial relationships.

5 little Ducks

The toddler children have enjoyed the song “5 little Ducks”. After exploring the different varieties of ducks, they created their own pond!

Babies 1

Babies 1 have been exploring different textures and they made their own textured collage. They had fun putting all the glue on their paper and getting very sticky!

Pre School

The Pre School children enjoy a visit from “farm on wheels”. They all got a chance to stroke, feed and hold the baby animals .

Pre School

Toddlers

The Toddler children enjoy a visit from “farm on wheels”. They all got a chance to stroke, feed and every hold the baby animals.

Winnie the Pooh

The babies 2 room dressed up as characters from Winnie the Pooh. The children made masks of the characters and even sang some Winnie the pooh songs and had a game of “pooh sticks”!

Toddlers

Pre-Writing Skills Workshop

The Pre School staff arranged for a Pre-Writing skills Workshop for the parents to attend. This was following on from the training that the staff had, they thought it would really beneficial for the parents to pick up some of the tips and activity ideas to do at home.

Pre-Writing Skills Workshop

There were activities to encourage fine motor skills, pincer control and gross motor skills. Some of these included taking part in some “Dough Disco”, which involved removing objects that were stuck to the table.

Natural Ways to Play

The children have been exploring the “natural way to play” this week. Following on from a training session that all staff attended they have been adding lots more natural resources to their activities. As a result the children have been able to select their own resources creating their own imaginative games!

Natural Ways to Play

Babies 2 Room

Some of the children have been learning how to look after babies. We used the dolls that we have in our role play area ,as well as the children’s own spoons, plates, cups and bottles that they use in nursery, so that they could feed their children using “real life” equipment. We also bathed the dolls, and got them dressed and even put some nappies on them!

New Starters

Our Younger baby room has had some new starters this month. They have enjoyed exploring their new surroundings and making some new friends with the other children and adults.

New Starters

The two new children really enjoyed exploring our garden area, moving around our Astro turf and feeling the different textures.

Rhythm Time

The toddler children take part in Rhythm time every week. They have great fun learning about different pitches, tones and rhythms. They use lots of different instruments to make a range of sounds, as well as following on from beats and songs. They also use lots of visual aids such as cuddly toys and parachutes.

Pre School Football

The Pre school children take part in a weekly football class. They learn all about balls skills such as learning to control the ball, correct safety measures, scoring goals, different strengths of kicks. As well as being a great social activity, the children get some physical exercise.

Dinosaur Hunt

The Pre-School children enjoyed a Trip to Clent Hills where they went on a dinosaur hunt! The children walked to the top of the hill and pretended they were dinosaurs and searched for footprints. We then went on a dinosaur egg hunt in the natural play area, finishing off our day with a lovely picnic.

Toddler Yoga

The Toddler children enjoyed their first Yoga session! The theme was all about the Beach. The Children took part in a yoga story where they had to move in different ways to act out the parts of the story. They learnt all about balance and stretching as well!

Exploring Textures and Colour

The babies enjoyed exploring texture and colour by creating different pictures using Vegetables. The children also created their own marks and are beginning to explore mark making and fine motor skills!

Animal Lady

The Babies enjoyed a visit from the Animal Lady. She brought lots of different animals and some of the children were brave enough to hold or stroke them!

Letters to Santa

The Toddler children have enjoyed writing their letters to Santa. They also practiced their fine motor skills using sellotape and scissors to wrap presents.

Exploring Structures

Pre-School have been exploring different building structures.

Fundraising

All of the children came dressed as their favourite superhero to raise money for the Neo-Natal Unit at Russells Hall Hospital.

Christmas Place Mats

Babies 1 enjoyed making their own Christmas place mats. They explored different colours and textures, moving their fingers around in the paint to create different marks on their card.