What we did – 2020

What we did – 2020

Baby Room
Toddler Room
Nursery Room
Kindie Room
Pre-school Room

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Baby Room

The baby room children enjoyed playing with the water play outside.
Sensory resources were a big hit in the baby room.
The babies enjoy playing with the cars.
The babies enjoy playing outside in the baby pen.
The babies love to switch the lights on and off on the light panel.
Sensory tiles are great for the babies to walk over.
Our new crawl in sandpit is just right for the babies.
The babies like to draw with the the chalks.
When it gets dark, the babies enjoy exploring the sensory lights.
Wooden shapes, will they fit in or won’t they?
The babies made a large painting together using their feet.
You never know what vegetables you may find in the baby room, butternut squash was hiding inside the kitchen, a cucumber was rolling around on the floor and the babies love to explore the onion.
The babies enjoyed the blue play foam and finding the lego bricks inside.
Frozen peas and sweetcorn are always an interesting concept.
Cardboard boxes are way more fun than what is inside.
The babies like to look through the books together.
The children like to share the balls together.
Picnic baskets are great for transporting the food around the room.
The sensory cubes are such fun.
Glitter string is the new decoration for the baby room.
Musical instruments are always a with the babies.
Mirrors and bubble tube is a lovely area to chill out in.

 

Toddler Room

The toddlers love to visit our outdoor learning area and really like the animals, especially the infamous friendly goat called Carlton.
The toddlers also pay a visit to the the Llamas while they are in camp.
The children enjoy running in and out of the stream.
Two little ones spontaneously hug at the gate.
Long Autumn walks are beautiful in the forest.
Toddlers are always on the lookout for sticks.
Pots, pans and sand in the garden.
Music and dancing is fun.
Outdoor painting using natural products and our resources makes interesting patterns.
Mud and puddles are a recipe for fun in the toddler room.
Sensory blocks and lights to wind down to at the end of a stimulating day.
Coloured rice looks and feels good.
Painting slopes, the vehicles make tracks as they slide down the different slopes.
Foot painting is always great fun.
Jelly play, yummy to taste too.
Making fireworks and making firework noises in the toddler room.

Nursery Room

Washing cars is a requirement in the nursery room.
Looking for mini beasts on the poster and beyond.
Lining up the onions, ready to cook.
Balls, rolling, throwing and catching.
Cling film painting feels squidgy to touch and makes swirly patterns.
Stories are warm and snugly in the toddler room.
Carlton the goat comes to say hello while we play in the outdoor learning area.
Blue foam is messy and fun.
Flower painting makes different patterns.
Tea party with our friends.
Ship ahoy, the nursery children love to go on journeys in our pirate ship.
Block play, how high can we go, how long can we stretch?
The toddlers really enjoyed our body painting morning, they squashed, smooths, patted, splatted and wriggled in the paint using their bodies.
Sensory light up blocks, a lovely activity best enjoyed in the dark.
Examining the pumpkin, cutting, pressing, smelling and poking the pumpkin flesh.
White board writing is a fun way to enjoy mark making over and over.
Mud pies anyone?
Yurt time, the toddlers really enjoyed their day in our Yurt, finding acorns, pine cones and conkers, playing in muddy holes, baking in our mud kitchen and exploring the natural outdoors.
The Nursery children are always wondering what lives in the hole in the tree trunks and then enjoy a good old chill on the grass with their friends.
Drawing anywhere and everywhere.
Sand play is great fun.
Hammering pegs to fit them in the right holes.
Welly printing makes different patterns.
Dress ups, who will I be today?
Spaghetti play feels stretchy, soft, long and keeps slipping away.
Magnifiers to help the nursery room see things differently.
Peas and sweetcorn in our messy tray.

 

Kindie Room

Making dens at outdoor learning, visiting the Llamas, fishing in the pond with our nets, bark rubbing, collecting sticks and exploring the woods with our friends is enjoyed by all in Kindie.
Shape painting, learning about 3d shapes and the shapes they make.
Foam play is messy and fun.
Tortoise – George came for a visit and we loved learning all about him.
Playing with the dinosaurs Rooaar.
Dollies need a lot of care and attention.
Hand painting is fun.
Tea party with our friends.
Sawing boxes like real wood cutters.
Beebot coding to make the bees go where we want them to.
Balancing on the beams is tricky and fun.
Playdough games.
Drilling using the hand drills at forest school.
Painting with flowers, carrots, feet, hands and all sorts.
Flour and blue, add blue to flour and whoosh.
Cling film painting is squidgy and squashy and makes pretty patterns.
Early writing helps the Kindie with fine motor development.
Pouring tea for our friends.
What’s in the box? Kindie love the unique treasure boxes and look forward to finding unusual things inside.
Stories are always needed in Kindie.
Soapy puddles are great fun to jump and splash.
Jumping from the bench is fun in the wind.

Pre-school Room

The Pre-school children use the tubes to communicate together.
The ball chaser is great for encouraging early pencil control in Pre-school.
Peas and sweetcorn in our messy tray is fun.
Pre-school love to play in our home corner with pots and pans, vegetables, dollies, and the tree house.
Block play in the construction area.
Baking with chocolate, yum, yum.
Fine motor skills are promoted in our games in Pre-school.
Finding leaves and sticks in the forest while we forage.
Treasure hunt in the forest school is hidden and needs to be found.
Diwalli lights made from clay, painted and candles make a lovely decoration.
We really loved playing with the coloured ice blocks in our messy tray.
Cutting fruits and vegetables using our safety knives.
Tea party with the Tiger who came to Tea.
The Pre-school children enjoyed listening to stories about Catherine’s granddad in the war and were really interested to see and feel his medals.
Tall towers in the construction area.
Cutting practice using scissors.
Science experiments in the science and discovery area.
Tessellation with our maths resources.
UV writing using luminous marker pens.
We found a frog in the bowl at forest school.
Forest school is such fun using the drills and mallets and exploring the wildlife and the animals habitats.
Growing and planting in the garden, harvesting the potatoes we grew and washing, cooking and eating them was brilliant fun and tasty too.
Home made bubbles using small humans, bubble liquid and a hoop.
Riding bikes up and down.
Painting using different resources.
Rowing in a home made boat.
Spaghetti play is messy and squashy.
Stories are always enjoyable in Pre-school room.
Balancing, jumping and tunnel play outside.
Pasta threading to make jewellery.
Dinosaur painting, the dinosaurs have different shaped feet.
Painting the outside fence using different sized brushes.
Maths with buttons, counting, sorting, matching, sequencing, grouping.
Tiger who came to tea story with the china tea set.
Green water in our messy tray.
Carrot painting makes interesting shapes.
Stir fry with cabbage, parsnips and cauliflower.
Making poppies.
Bathing the babies and caring for them.
Walking the plank is scary but fun.
Outside mirrors, what can we see?
Exploring mini-beasts in the natural world.
Transporting resources in the wheel barrow.
Beebot coding with our bee robots.
Bathing the ducks in our water tray.
Fork painting creates unusual patterns.
Sticky spiderweb, what can we find without touching the sticky web.
Playboard creations using our electronic playboard.
Exploring microscopes around our environment.