Buds that Blossom Wendover

Children in Need 💛
Today we celebrate diversity and inclusion as we promote and raise money for Children in Need

We understand the importance of promoting independence for children to recognise their capabilities, and the control they develop as they recognise their own needs. Mealtimes are a sociable time, and we provide the opportunity to explore food and self-serve at mealtimes in our Blossom room. This reduces anxiety around food, and creates an environment of curiosity as we explore new tastes and textures.

This week for Remembrance we have been expressing our learning through different activities. We have used sensory play with rice and play dough, as well as creating our own poppies to take home using paint and rollers. We have also created our own soldier hats using paper plates and paint.
This is important for the children to talk about with us as we are so close to a RAF base and have parents who are actively serving. These activities help develop the childrens understanding of the world, expressive art and design and communication and language.

Today the Buds have been exploring our messy tray. This includes shaving foam and duplo. The children used the tweezers to pick up the duplo and pull through the string. The children enjoyed using the tweezers to pick up the blocks and enjoyed using their fingers to feel the texture. This activity develops their physical development through moving and handling of the tweezers, alongside expressive arts and design.

Halloween 🎃👻
For Halloween, the Blossom’s take part in a variety of fun activities, including pumpkin carving, a halloween disco, lots of arts and crafts and many more! Followed by a spooky afternoon tea.
The activities all help to support the children’s development in communication and language, specifically speaking and listening and attention. Blossom’s communicate to one another about what they are doing and ask a variety of simple questions.

We saw some amazing costumes, well done everyone! ☺️

Happy Diwali!💫✨
To celebrate Diwali, the festival of light, the Blossom’s have experimented with a variety of bright and vibrant colours. The children observe what happens when they mix colours together to create new ones, developing their skills in expressive arts and design. Furthermore, the children develop their understanding of the world and different cultures as we communicate about the different celebrations that take place to celebrate Diwali.

Today the Buds explored our outdoor environment, collecting the leaves and other natural materials from the garden. The children have enjoyed mixing, squishing and crunching the leaves together. This activity impacts their understanding of the world, their communication and language as well as their physical development through moving and handling as they explore the autumn changes 🍂

As part of our sensory, technological and expressive art development, our Buds use the torches to experiment with light, pattern, and shadows around the room, displaying high levels of curiosity and cooperative exploration. Our Buds show capability when pressing the buttons to turn the torches on and off, discovering their independence as they venture around the room.

This morning we focused on the children’s understanding of technology and expressive arts. Blossom’s operate the light board, exploring the different colours and how colours can be changed for different effects. They demonstrate strong foundations for future learning, and critical thinking, as they learn and observe how one colour can become another.

Today in Blossoms we have been working together to create a colourful environment for the cars. The children have shown high levels of enjoyment rolling the cars through the “slippery” surfaces that we have coloured blue, to which the children referred to as ice. This impacts their personal, social and emotional development through making relationships with peers as they work together to build their cars a road.🖍🚗

To celebrate India as our country of the the week, this morning we made play dough Rangoli Mandalas. We use lentils and rice to create patterns in the play dough, as the children display their developing fine motor skills using different grasps to pick up the rice and lentils with their fingers; as well as demonstrating their expressive art and design capabilities.

Autumn pictures 🍁
This morning, our Blossoms ventured out around our car park and garden to gather leaves that had fallen from the trees. As we explore the changes of the season, the children find many different leaves of different colour, shape and size. We identify which trees we think the leaves have fallen from, observing the distance away from the tree they had fallen and comparing the fallen leaves to the ones still on the trees. This afternoon, we get creative, making our own leaf pictures as we observe the qualities of the leaves more closely, feeling the textures and listening to the different sounds they make 🍃

Zoom Rocket Zoom 🚀
To celebrate World Space Week, we have turned our home corner into our very own space station! The children participate in meaningful engagement as they create their own dialogue, developing their imaginative skills throughout play.
The area sparks curiosity and encourages the children to ask plenty of questions, further developing their understanding of the world.

We would like to say a huge thank you to our lovely families for their wonderful contributions towards our local food bank donation!
What an amazing turn out for the harvest festival.

Our caterpillars have turned into beautiful butterflies!🦋
Over the past two weeks we have got to observe the life cycle of a butterfly. The children have shown a special interest in the insects and have been independently going to check up on them through out the day. Today out in the garden, we release them into their natural habitat and watch as they fly off into the sky. The children develop their understanding of the world and living things while being given the opportunity to demonstrate their care and concern.

SUMMER FETE ✨

Thank you to everyone who attended our summer fete, we really enjoyed having you all join us. The children showed high levels of enthusiasm, and parents too!, exploring the activities and engaging in games. We really appreciate the donations and contributes made. We have raised a fantastic £654 for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and for Baby Jayden!!

Our caterpillars 🐛 have arrived! We are all eager to explore the life cycle of the caterpillar and observe them as they grow into beautiful butterflies, caring for them along the way, before releasing them into our garden 🦋

Platinum Jubilee 👑
We celebrate the milestone in reign of The Queen by exploring a range of provision, impacting all areas of development, as we learn about Her Majesty and all things royal, from designing our own unique crowns to small-world play with cars and horses, as well as learning new songs and dressing up in different costumes 🇬🇧

Our country of focus this week has been England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
We have been making our own fruit tea in the messy tray, developing our pouring skills as we explore capacity and measuring whilst engaging in role-play.
We made our own scones with our wonderful life skills ambassador Ingrid, following the instruction of the recipe and further developing our mathematical skills before showing lots of enjoyment in sharing an afternoon cream tea on our Friday afternoon.

St Patrick’s Day 🍀
We have been exploring all the different green sensory activities and making towers independently with the green bricks. This was providing the children with rich learning opportunities to promote feeling different textures, balancing and building and creating using the bricks. This is promoting our maths skills, physical development and personal, social and emotional development.

World Book Day & Communication Week 📚
Reading stories with our little ones and providing them with rich learning opportunities to promote literacy and communication and language skills is something we do everyday at Buds that Blossom.
The children and staff team looked fantastic in their costumes today as we celebrate and share our favourite stories 😀

Our role play corner all set up for Monday🌱
We have transformed the area into a garden centre for next week, with the intent of the activity focusing on mathematics.
We will be exploring differences in size, length, weight and capacity. By encouraging language such as “smaller” and “bigger” and filling and emptying with measuring cylinders and water. We will also be encouraging counting using the play money and recognising numerals.

The Costa Rican rainforest 🍃
As Costa Rica is our country of focus this week we have designed our own Blossom rainforest. We have been exploring different animals and their habitats as we play with our small word reconstruction, asking questions and talking about aspects of the rainforest and develop an understanding of similarities and differences in different environments.

For Mental Health week our Blossom’s have been practicing their yoga. We have been exploring social stories and reflecting on our emotions by moving our bodies in different ways, observing the effects on our bodies, and expressing ourselves through movement. We develop understanding of our abilities, experiment with our abilities and feel a sense of belonging as we participate in activities together as a group.

Today we celebrate Chinese New Year. In our Blossom’s room we engage in stories about dragons as well as The Tiger Who Came To Tea as our story of the week, as the animal this Chinese New Year is the tiger. The children use the inspiration and theme of The Tiger Who Came To Tea to create their own tiger paintings, exploring how colours can be changed, giving meaning to marks made and exploring simple linear patterns.
We use spaghetti noodles with letters and chopsticks as our funky finger provision to extend our phonics ‘silly soup’ activity. We display well establishing fine motor skills and recognise letters as we begin to form familiar words. The children communicate effectively with one another and we encourage and model mathematical language as we explore the noodles such as “long” and “short” to describe the noodles.
They show high levels of engagement in our expressive art and design activity of lantern making where the children display their exceptional scissor skills, showing firm understanding of how to use them safely with control to achieve a planned outcome, to which the children show high levels of satisfaction.
Happy Chinese New Year!

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Each week we focus on a different story, the story this week is The Colour Monster. The Colour Monster experiences lots of different feelings, we invite the children to explore and discuss their feelings and explore how colour can be changed using our light up board.

We have created a Jurassic World in our sand pit. This activity incorporates many different elements of learning and development, we are focusing on expressive art and design, communication and language, understanding the world and literacy. We will be exploring textures and using our communication skills through listening and vocalising sounds and words 🦖🦕

This month for our parent partnership and nursery focus we have been exploring the importance of oral health. All of our families have received an oral health pack that we have made up full of information, including a tooth brushing chart and a toothbrush with toothpaste. Our team at Buds That Blossom have all completed training on oral health and this is something we promote alongside our health and self-care 🦷

Canada is our country of focus this week so we have been exploring all things Canada, this week we made Canadian pizza muffins 🇨🇦

Don’t forget the deadline for photo orders is Wednesday 15th December

Perfect opportunity to do a hands on job in a nursery while gaining a level 3 qualification.

“Poppy poppy what do you say?
Wear me on Remembrance Day.
Poppy poppy what do you know?
That peace on earth shall grow grow grow” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️
The children show lots of interest exploring poppies and show their creativity as they make their own. We engage in discussion of the meaning behind Remembrance Day as a day to remember those that looked after our country.
Our Blossom’s show fantastic skills when participating in our 30 seconds of silence in the garden to think about those that look after us.
Being so close to RAF Halton and with lots of our families in the service we find it particularly important to discuss, celebrate and learn about different occupations and ways of life within our curriculum.

Buds that Blossom nursery in Wendover are looking to take on new staff due to increasing numbers.

We are looking for full time qualified level 3

We also have the opportunity to take on an apprentice who we will support in gaining a level three qualification.

Please call on 01296 621143 or email
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Please share and spread the word.
Www.budsthatblossom.co.uk

Buds that Blossom nursery in Wendover are looking to take on new staff due to increasing numbers.

We are looking for full time qualified level 3

We also have the opportunity to take on an apprentice who we will support in gaining a level three qualification.

Please call on 01296 621143 or email
[email protected]
Please share and spread the word.
Www.budsthatblossom.co.uk

Our buds have been busy this morning, we have been exploring colours and textures to celebrate bonfire night and also Diwali the festival of light! Lots of keen interest was being shown in both activities where they explored a wide range of sensory textures finding their own ways to create different marks🎨

This week we have observed the effects of autumn and have collected conkers and leaves from our wonderful outdoor areas. Our life skills ambassador Ingrid engages in discussion with the children, describing our findings and teaching the children about changes over time. We explore the different natural objects and explore the properties of them, crunching the leaves and feeling the texture of the pumpkin 🎃🍁

In our local area we are fortunate to have a variety farm shops within close proximity of Wendover. The children display high levels of enjoyment and engagement as we create our own Blossoms farm shop for the children to experience with fresh fruit and vegetables and milk. We learn about the structure of the shop, playing with money and turn-taking in queues. We learn about occupations as the children alternate from being the shop keepers to the customers. We practice effective communication together, mathematics as we weigh the fruit and vegetables, count how many we have and experiment with money, and learn about the world around us 🥛🍊🍋🥔🥕

Blossoms Dental Surgery 🦷
We have been learning about the importance of oral health and have been exploring the health & self-care of brushing our teeth.

Gardening with our life skills ambassador Ingrid 🧑‍🌾 the children learn about capacity and language of size as they fill up their pots whilst exploring the texture of the soil. They show control pouring and scooping the soil up and pat the soil around the plant as they pot it. We can now care for our plants and observe the changes over time as they grow🌺