Squirrels Den Daycare

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/education-children-and-families/find-a-family-hub/

Find your nearest Best start in life hub in the link.

Find a Family Hub - West Sussex County Council Visit your family hub, where children can make friends and learn as they play.

After half term we have Zoo lab visiting the setting on Wednesday 3rd June. I wonder what animals they will bring in to visit us? This is a great experience to get up close and look at the animals. 🔎
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Week Beginning - 18.05.26 - Zoo Animals
This week we have been looking at Zoo animals.
Role Play - Visiting the zoo - we have been pretending to visit the zoo in the role play area.
Construction - building zoo enclosures using playdoh and lolly sticks. The children then had their own ideas to use the lolly sticks and playdoh to make ice creams.
Small World - Zoo scene with animals and visitors.
Creative - choosing between a zebra, tiger, cheetah and giraffe to make their patterns. Vocabulary surrounding the names of animals and patterns - spotty, stripy.

The children have shared their experiences of visiting the zoo. 🐅 🦁 🐊 🦒 🐫 🐆 🦓 🐘 🐧 🐻‍❄️

Stay and Play sessions for children with SEND.
Lots of professionals also go to these sessions for support and guidance to support families.
The nearest one is Worthing on a Tuesday morning 10am - 11.30am.
Click the link below for more information.

Stay and Play sessions - West Sussex County Council Free weekly sessions for children with SEND aged 2 to 5, their parent, carers and siblings.

Support groups for parents/carers of children with a special educational need.
Click on the link below for places, dates and times.

Reaching Families Umbrellas Parent Support Group Support from fellow parent-carers is one of the most effective ways in which parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities build resilience and emotional wellbeing. Parents also tell us their most valuable source of information, support and advice is other parent-carers.

Some clubs held at local libraries.

Children's Activities | West Sussex Libraries

An idea to get children to drink more water as the summer weather hits is to add fruit to the water to give it some extra taste.
I don’t drink enough water so will be giving this a go myself to keep me hydrated.
In the coming weeks we are going to introduce a hydration station where the children can self serve themselves drinks from the taps. The station will have water in but with different fruits to encourage children to try it.
Strawberries 🍓
Cucumber 🥒
Lemon 🍋
Orange 🍊
Pineapple 🍍
Watermelon 🍉
Apples 🍎 🍏
Blueberries 🫐
are just a few ideas of fruits to put in water.

Below is a website I’ve quickly looked at for ideas.

Refreshing Fun: Healthy Fruit-Infused Water Ideas for Kids - cooksizzle Turn hydration into a colorful adventure with fruit-infused water! From zesty lemon-cucumber swirls to sweet strawberry-mint magic, these healthy combos make drinking water fun and flavorful for kids. Sip up!

Thank you to one of our parents for bringing in their kitten Ozzy to show the children. The children enjoyed stroking him and talking about what he felt like “soft” and “fluffy”
We talked about what he ate and learned that a baby cat is called a kitten. He’s so cute 🥰

Pets Week.
Thank you Kim for bringing in Lenny the tortoise 🐢 and Marshmallow the hamster 🐹
Do you have photos of your pets you can share.
If you want to bring in photos for the children to show their pets please feel free or upload them to here. Thank you.

Pet week 🐢

This week is our Pet week 🎉 This morning we had a visit from ….

“Lennie”- The Tortoise
“Marshmallow”- The Hamster
“Inie, meine, Minie and Mo”- The butterflies that have been hatched from caterpillars

Stay tuned for more pets coming this week for visits and lots of talks with the children on what they eat and how we look after them 🌟