Mrs Hudson's tiney home nursery

We have been busy creating our Father's day cards for Sunday 🎨

Continuing to observe our 5 🐛 that today started the miraculous process of metamorphosis. Predicted and printed what we thought our butterflies would look like. Sorted the minibeasts by their appearance and searched for them on out minibeast hunt.

Celebrated England's win with a special World Cup childminder playgroup session 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We throughly enjoyed supporting our siblings and friends at their sports day 🏅

And we picked our first homegrown strawberries 🍓
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I planned a loose theme of 'under the sea' this week as the children spotted the sea creatures last week and got excited. l am however, always mindful of the changes (which can happen very quickly) or adaptions depending on how play develops. Children steer their learning and sometimes in unique ways you would never expect!

Just a few highlights 🌟

Fruit smoothies for snack
A visit to Bolton museum, aquarium and library
Our caterpillars arrived

GOV.UK says 'The three Prime Areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) are the vital foundations for all future learning. They are crucial for building relationships, igniting curiosity, and thriving. They include Communication and Language, Physical Development, and Personal, Social and Emotional Development.'

'Physical Development -
Crucial for building a child's coordination, control, and overall health.

Gross Motor Skills: Developing the strength to run, jump, climb, and control larger body movements.

Fine Motor Skills: Building hand-eye coordination for smaller movements (like using scissors or a pencil).'

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20th May 🐝
Happy Bee Day! Bees are so important to the health of our planet that they have their own special day.
The event takes place each year, to spread awareness of the significance of bees.
They help to provide a lot of the food that you eat. Bees help to grow fruit and vegetables by flying around and pollinating plants.
• Some bees might visit as many as 2,000 flowers every single day
• Honey bees can remember landmarks so they know where their hive is
• Bees flap their wings about 200 times every single second when they're flying
• Honey bees fly about 500 miles in their lives - that's like flying from Edinburgh to Paris!
• There are about 20,000 different species of bee in the world
• A worker bumble bee can carry pollen that weighs half as much as them!

This week we have been exploring the very important role of a nurse. On Tuesday it was International Nurses Day. We worked really hard looking after all our patients but found out we also had a lot of paperwork to do!

Two of our littlies have been poorly this week. We really have missed them. We hope they are well enough to return next week.

May the 4th - May the 10th is Hedgehog Awareness Week. It aims to raise awareness of hedgehogs and their declining population in the United Kingdom. It was launched by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) to highlight the threats facing hedgehogs and to promote efforts to protect and conserve the species.
Through campaigns and educational projects, the BHPS raises awareness for how we can help these much-loved creatures. They fund research that provides important new insights into the welfare of hedgehogs. On Thursday we visited 'The Hive' building homes for the hedgehogs, and learning interesting facts like a baby hedgehog is called a hoglet. The lovely volunteer built a fire and read us a story about a hedgehog, his spikes and a balloon. On Friday we made yummy bread
hedgehogs, using our scissors to snip and make the 'spikes'.
Do you know how many different species of hedgehogs can be found in the world?

We have had another fabulous week, as we said goodbye to April, and hello to May.

First week back and we have been blessed with beautiful weather 😎☀️
On Wednesday we found out all about St George's Day at playgroup and on Thursday we visited The Hive in Bolton with our some of our friends from playgroup.