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June
2013
We would like to welcome Ella and Cole to the baby room, they are settling in well. The babies have enjoyed creating some new pieces of artwork for our ‘Art Gallery’ display. They have been using paint, pens, pencils and crayons to create their pictures on different colours of paper. We have also been doing some gluing with sand and leaves and flowers for our textures display, as the childdren have been enjoying playing with the treasure basket items and other types of heuristic play. They helped to make bottle shakers with colourful lentils and pasta. Some of the older babies have also been enjoying visits down to the Cruisers room especially when they are out in the garden.
Posted: Caterpillars
5
June
2013
We have been busy in the babies making a new display as the children have been interested in reading stories. We have displayed letters with pictures in the story corner which the children have been interested in pointing at and learning about. We have participated in a group painting activity using our fingers to create fantastic paintings helping us get used to different textures. We have been out walking over the last couple of weeks taking advantage of the warm weather and had a great time at the park last week. We have shown an interest in the number flashcards and have had fun counting to 5 around the room. Our farm animal set has been well utilised this week as the children have been choosing to access this often.
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6
May
2013
We have recently opened a new baby room and would like to welcome Ronan, Odre, Charlotte, Ava-Jane and Cole to our new room. They are all settling in really well. We have enjoyed creating a new birthday chart using paints to paint on circles making a birthday caterpillar. We have also enjoyed playing with the farm and farm animals and the animal flashcards learning the names and sounds. The children have spent a lot of time exploring the sand tray with the utensils and wet and dry sand.
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28
February
2013
This month we have made pancakes for Pancake Day. The babies enjoyed mixing together the ingredients, we allowed them to get messy and make marks in the flour. We ate the pancakes with jam for afternoon snack, yum! We have also been interested in filling and pouring and have brought in the large tuff spot with different sized containers filled with water giving the children the opportunity to explore the properties of water. The children have also been exploring movement through dance, we have been listening to lots of action songs and joining in. This week we have created a bus for the children to use within the room as they particularly enjoy singing ‘The Wheels on the Bus’.
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8
February
2013
The babies would like to welcome Macy to the room. We have enjoyed painting and gluing our birthday chart balloons building our confidence with messy play. We have also created a chinese dragon to celebrate the start of Chinese New Year introducing the babies to festivals around the world. We have been developing our fine motor skills using the ring stackers and shape sorters.
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19
January
2013
We would like to welcome Ronan and Elsie into the baby room. They have both settled beautifully. This week we have been talking about where our eyes, ears, mouths and noses are and we created a display allowing the children to paint their faces on paper plates. We have also been developing our spatial awareness whilst playing in the tents and tunnels.
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16
August
2012
The babies have had a very busy few weeks. We have been settling in new children and have been developing our eye tracking and hand eye coordination skills while playing with our new car run. We also been developing our sensory skills playing with sand, water, gluck and playdough. We loved exploring with the guttering and the balls and have been learning about our basic colours and shapes through sorting activities. We would like to welcome Farrah into the baby room. She is settling in beautifully.
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3
July
2012
In the baby room we have enjoyed playing with the heuristic play this week. We have had a fantastic time getting messy playing with playdough and in the wet sand. We have also been exploring in our home corner, playing with the sink and have had a great time putting things in and out of the cupboards.
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4
June
2012
We have had a great couple of weeks in babies. We have taken advantage of the warm weather to go for walks to colloect leaves and other natural materials. We have enjoyed accessing the heuristic play and have enjoyed using problem solving resources learning about shapes and sizes. We would also like to welcome Fearne, Sofia, Christopher and Zach to the baby room.
Posted: Caterpillars
11
April
2012
The babies and tweenies had a great time at Polson Park last week. They went to the park to pick daffodils for spring and to have a picnic. The babies have enjoyed painting with the fruit and daffodils to create a picnic display and the tweenies have painted pictures of daffodils. We have welcomed Fern into the baby room this week. She is settling beautifully.
Posted: Caterpillars, Ladybirds
