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Toddlers Activities

Babies Activities

The babies are all set up ready for Monday morning fun!

Babies Activities

Stories

We love reading stories!

Stories

Bird Feeders

Rockets

The toddlers had lots of fun using open end resources to create their own rockets!

Picking Carrots!

Pre-school and Toddlers had lots of fun with the nursery chef picking the carrots they have grown!

Picking Carrots!

Sunflowers

The Toddlers have enjoyed planting their own Sunflowers today. We look forward to watching them grow!

Making Smoothies!

The children had lots of fun making their own smoothies!

Making Smoothies!

Emergency Vehicles

Pre-school have been learning about people who help us. They’ve enjoyed painting their own interpretations of emergency vehicles.

Emergency Vehicles

Addition Sums

Pre-school have been doing some simple addition sums. Well done Pre-school!

Addition Sums

Football Fun!

Pre-school love joining in with Coach Lee’s football lessons!

Football Fun!

Valentines Day Biscuits

The babies have been making Valentines day biscuits for their families.

Valentines Day Biscuits

Chinese New Year

The pre-school children have been creating pigs to celebrate Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year

Role Play

Our babies have really enjoyed exploring their new role-play toys. They have been making ‘tea’ and having lunch at the table. This encouraged lots of babbling, speech and learning new words.

Role Play

Independent Babies

Independence is encouraged in all ages at Norfolk House and as you can see the babies have lots of fun serving their own foods!

Independent Babies

Outdoor Play

Some of our older babies have enjoyed outdoor play!

Beep Beep!

Some of our younger babies have enjoyed making marks using the cars!

Beep Beep!

Pre-school Writing

The Pre-school children have been practicing their mark making and writing skills by using chalks outdoors. They have been writing their names and simple words too.

Pre-school Writing

Toddler Fun!

The Toddlers have been exploring a Dinosaur World, making porridge for the three bears and creating their own potato heads in the water tray!

Toddler Fun!

Mark-Making Stay and Play

Our parents and their children had lots of fun at their mark-making stay and play! Thank you to the parent’s that attend.

Mark-Making Stay and Play

Potions

The babies have enjoyed using natural resources and water to create their own ‘potions’ outdoors.

Potions

Tea & Coffee

The Babies have enjoyed the sensory experience of exploring coffee beans and teabags to make their own ‘drinks’. They enjoyed mixing, pouring and filling and it was a great way of promoting their communication and supporting their relationships with peers.

Tea & Coffee

Potions

Pre-school have enjoyed emptying and filling using sand. They made their own ‘potions’ and explored capacity and new language.

Potions

School Library

Pre-school enjoy their visit to the School Library every Friday morning. They enjoyed reading some stories and then creating their own book reviews.

School Library

Pre School Children

Pre-school had lots of fun exploring their new ball pit. They also practiced their balancing and jumping skills on tyres!

Pre School Children

Junk Modeling

The children in Pre-school really enjoyed creating their own ‘Rocket’ using Junk Modeling. They used various resources and worked in a group before going on a Space Adventure!

Numbers

The Pre-school children have been practicing their counting skills and making marks to represent numbers.

Numbers

The Gingerbread Man

The Toddlers have really enjoyed ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. They have taken part in lots of related activities and particularly enjoyed decorating their own Gingerbread men using sand and buttons!

The Gingerbread Man

5 Little Speckled Frogs

The Toddlers have enjoyed singing ‘5 Little Speckled Frogs’. We used this interest to explore number recognition and counting and the Toddlers were able to count out the correct number of frogs for each Lilypad.

Ice & Colours

The babies had lots of fun exploring ice and splashing! Lots of language was used and they even attempted to match the penguins to the correct coloured rings!

Park Trip

The toddlers had lots of fun going on a trip to the local park. They travelled by bus and had a picnic. They explored in the playground and practiced gross motor skills with the football.

Park Trip

Pre-school Writing

The Pre-school children have been practicing their writing. Some of our children were able to listen to the sounds in words and write them independently.

Loose Materials

The Pre-school children have had lots of fun exploring in the garden with loose materials. They built their own ‘obstacle course’ and then even added their own ‘telescope’.

Loose Materials

Practising Numbers

Pre-school have been practicing their number recognition and writing skills. They used whiteboard pens to copy a variety of numbers.

Practising Numbers

Mark-Making Shapes

We have been practicing our pre-writing skills and shape recognition by mark-making different shapes in flour using our fingers.

Fruit Printing

The babies had had lots of fun exploring different type of fruit. They took part in fruit tasting and they made their own pictures using pieces of fruit.

Fruit Printing

Potions!

Pre-school had lots of fun making their own ‘potions’. They used their imagination to create different ‘spells’. They used pipettes to transfer a variety of different coloured water and watched as the colours mixed together.

Potions!

Matching Colours

The Pre-school children have been exploring different colours. They had lots of fun sorting a variety of animal and transport counters into coloured groups and then matching the colour on the different cushions.

Matching Colours

Fine Motor Skills

The children made a series of lines and traced shapes in sand using their fingers to practice their fine motor skills. They also copied the shapes using pom poms.

Fine Motor Skills

Painting with Carrots!

Babies 2 explored different ways of making marks and they used carrots to paint with! They had lots of fun and enjoyed painting their faces too!

Painting with Carrots!

Baking

Babies 2 had lots of fun doing some baking. They practiced lots of new vocabulary, practiced gross motor skills and took turns with each other

Baking

Healthy Eating Workshop

Our health visitor visited the nursery on 8th May to deliver a ‘Healthy Eating’ workshop to our parents and children. The children took it in turns to explore different fruit and vegetables and learn about healthy eating.

Healthy Eating Workshop

Jungle Animals

Healthy Eating Workshop

Jungle Animals

Warley Woods Trip

Making Smoothies!

Warley Woods Trip

Think Tank

Getting Messy!

The children have had lots of fun getting messy and creative by painting on cling film! They used their gross motor skills to create a series of lines and circles.

Trip to the Sealife Centre

Jungle Animals

The Pre-school children have been learning about Jungle Animals. They researched some facts on the laptop and wrote them down on their own fact files. They also painted their own representation of each animal.

Football Fun!

Trip to the Sealife Centre

We had lots of fun travelling by bus to the Sealife Centre! Toddlers especially liked looking at the penguins and came back to nursery to create their own sea creatures.

Cooking Activities

Toddlers have really enjoyed taking part in various cooking activities. They have been exploring lots of different vegetables, practicing their cutting skills and making pizza/stew.

Big and Small

We have been learning about big and small using our interest in Dinosaurs. We used our hands to dig for Dinosaur bones in the sand and sorted them into different piles.

Toddler Tennis

The Toddler and Pre-school children join in with ‘Toddler Tennis’ on a Tuesday. They have lots of fun practicing their physical skills in line with the EYFS requirements.

Making Number Peg Spiders

Toddlers have been practicing their counting through their interest of Mini-beasts. They used pegs to develop their fine motor skills, putting them on to their spider and counting as they did this.

Cutting Vegetables

Toddlers enjoyed exploring different Salad items and vegetables and learning their names. They used knives to cut up Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Courgettes and Carrots.

Forest School

During Forest School the children had lots of fun having snack in their den, exploring nature and making their own leaf hedgehogs. They used natural resources to create their pictures.

Mark-making

The Pre-school children have been practicing their mark-making and writing skills. They created a ‘We love writing’ display.

Soft Play

We had lots of fun visiting a soft play area at ‘Rock Up’.

Making Mud Pies

During Forest School, we have had lots of fun getting muddy! We have been digging for worms and making mud pies with our friends.

Making Bird Food

The Toddler children have really enjoyed creating their own ‘Bird Food Balls’. They mixed together Lard, Oats and Raisins and then put them outside for the birds to eat.

Construction Tray

The children in Toddlers helped to make a construction tray, they added lots of different cereal and rice and role-played together with the diggers and tools.

Exploring Senses

The Toddler children have been exploring their different senses. To support this, they created their own ‘sensory gloves’ by filling up gloves with various different resources.

Autumn Walk

On our Autumn walk, we found lots of leaves and sticks. We also looked for birds in the trees!

Botanical Gardens

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Botanical Gardens

The children had lots of fun visiting Botanical Gardens. They explored in the leaves, enjoyed watching the birds and had lots of fun playing on the park.

Library Visit

The children really enjoyed visiting the Library. We read lots of different stories both individually and in small groups.

Stanleys Farm Shop

Toddlers loved going to Stanleys Farm Shop on the coach. They explored all the different fruits and vegetables and then took part in some cooking activities on their return to nursery.

Soft Play

Babies had lots of fun exploring the Soft Play.

Exploring the pond

The children had lots of fun exploring the pond. They used small nets to do some pond dipping. They put the different things in the pond trays to explore.

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Gruffalo hunt in the woods

Toddlers had lots of fun going on a ‘Gruffalo’ hunt in the woods. They explored the natural environment and also played in the park.

Visit to the park

Pre-school had lots of fun travelling by bus to go to the park. They collected lots of natural resources to use when they returned to nursery. They played in the park and even tried to catch a Squirrel!

Stanleys Farm Shop Trip

Stanleys Farm Shop

Toddlers loved going to Stanleys Farm Shop on the coach. They explored all the different fruits and vegetables and then took part in some cooking activities on their return to nursery.

Botanical Gardens

Bird Feeders

The toddlers had lots of fun making their own bird feeders. They put them outside and watched to see if they could see any birds!

Botanical Gardens

Babies went on a trip to Botanical Gardens, they had fun exploring the swings and looking at the birds.

Moving Outdoors

Toddlers had lots of fun exploring different ways of moving outdoors. They created an obstacle course and moved in different ways to get to the end of it.

Painting Pumpkins

Babies have been making marks by decorating their own little pumpkins! They used a paintbrush and paint to make their own marks on the pumpkin.

Soft Play

Our younger babies had lots of fun travelling on the bus to get to Soft Play. They climbed and explored the ball pits and had lots of fun!

Fairy Doors

Toddlers made some lovely fairy doors to go and place in the woods. They put them at the bottom of the trees and are looking forward to going back to visit their new fairy friends!

Walking

The younger babies have been practicing their walking using the walker toys.

Emotions

We have been exploring emotions and talking about what makes us feel certain ways. We used our gross motor skills to draw circles and imitate drawing our own faces.