Yellow Brick Rd Nursery Clacton

This week little dots set up are fixing on personal social and emotional development

In our tuff tray we are focusing on creative and self expression through children being able to explore freely, encourage imagination and help build confidence. This tuff trays also covers personal social and emotional development by mark marking freely, being independent but also participating along side others which will promote share turn taking and social interaction

Our home corner is focusing on, role play through pretend play, social and emotional development children practice caring for others by feeding and putting babies to bed, this helps children to build empathy and nurturing behaviour and understanding emotions.

Our construction and small world is supporting physical development, fine motor skills through completing puzzles, puzzles also help hand and eye coordination, cognitive development and problems solving. We also focus on mathematics development through colours and shapes, early language and communication.

Book corner has included social and emotional development through resources with our stars and matching book to go along side it, recognising and relating their own emotions, listing to stories and learning new vocabulary. Sensory development with our beautiful bright scarfs, different textures for children to explore

We are excited to see what little dots will learn this week .

🌟 This Week at Yellow Brick Road Nursery 🌟
This week we will be focusing on our curriculum goal 5/5 Learning about the wider world, diversity, creativity and community 💛
The children will explore different cultures, celebrations, communities and experiences through a variety of exciting play opportunities across our nursery areas.
🧸 Small World Area- we have our ducklings arriving shortly so we have our farm and we have different animals in our farm learning about what animals live on farms.
Children will explore people, homes, landmarks and community helpers from around the world through imaginative storytelling and role play.
🏠 Home Corner- we have different dressing up outfits out and we are talking about the different careers around the world and trying on different outfits.
Our home corner will encourage children to celebrate family life, cultures and traditions through cooking, dressing up and caring activities.
🧱 Construction Area- building towers using different resources comparing the heights and sizes.
We will be building homes, communities, transport and famous landmarks using a range of construction materials to encourage teamwork and creativity.
🥣 Tuff Tray Activities-
Making different positions and mixing colours to use our imagination on what we are making.
The tuff tray will include themed sensory and messy play linked to festivals, travel, community experiences and exploration of the wider world.
🎨 Arts & Crafts-
Celebrating our England game that is coming up we are decorating footballs in different styles.
Children will enjoy creating flags, cultural art, community pictures and colourful crafts inspired by different countries and celebrations.
⛺ Sensory Tent-
Our sensory tent will provide calming experiences with lights, sounds, textures and stories from around the world to spark curiosity and imagination.
🖐️ Playdough Area-
Children will use playdough to create foods, symbols, people and objects linked to our topic while developing fine motor skills.
🌿 Outside Area-
Outdoor learning will include community role play, nature walks, large-scale creative activities and opportunities to work together through active play.
We are looking forward to a week full of creativity, kindness, exploration and learning together as we celebrate the wonderful world around us 🌎💫

What’s coming to nursery today? 🦆🐣

Today we have a special delivery coming to nursery!

The children will be receiving a duckling eggs kit!

We will be watching their life cycle from eggs to fluffy ducklings, the children will have the opportunity to take care of the ducklings, handle them and engage in activities all around this topic.

The children are all ready so interested and conversations have sparked!

We can’t wait to see what curiosity and learning this experience will spark for our children.

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🌟 This Week at Yellow Brick Road Nursery 🌟
This week we will be focusing on our Curriculum Goal 4/5 – Developing Early Literacy, Numeracy and Thinking Skills Through Purposeful Play-Based Learning 📚🔢💡
Through engaging, child-led experiences and carefully planned activities, the children will be building the foundations needed for future learning while having lots of fun along the way! 💛
✨ Here's how our learning will look across the nursery this week:
🏷️ Literacy & Mark Making Children will explore name recognition, early letter formation and phonological awareness through name cards, mark-making opportunities, and fun sound-based games.
🔢 Maths & Number Play Using a variety of resources, children will practise counting, number recognition, grouping and comparing objects through hands-on activities and mathematical investigations.
🌍 Small World Children will use small world resources to solve problems, and develop their imagination while strengthening communication and thinking skills. We have got numbers 1-5 to focus on and the children can match up numbers to quantity.
🧱 Construction Area Building and creating with building blocks and loose parts will encourage children to explore size, shape, balance, and problem-solving while developing perseverance and teamwork.
We have the cars racing down the slope and the children will estimate and take a guess how far they will go.
🎨 Creative Area Children will have opportunities to explore colours, patterns and early writing through painting, drawing, collage and open-ended creative experiences.
🥄 Tuff Trays We have laminated children’s names and supplied tweezers; the children will explore the fun filled water and use their fine motor skills/ pincer grip to find their name. This will encourage children to sort, compare, and explore.
🌿 Outdoor Learning Outside, children will continue to develop their mathematical thinking through measuring, collecting, counting and problem-solving activities, while also building confidence through active play. This will be shown with the water tray / sand pit and balancing beans and obstacle courses.
💬 Intent • Implementation • Impact All activities are carefully planned around children's interests, next steps and developmental needs to ensure meaningful learning experiences that support progress across all areas of the curriculum.
🌈 We can't wait for another exciting week of learning, exploring and growing together at Yellow Brick Road Nursery! 💕

This weeks set up for little dots.

We included the light box in today the set up, we added Kinetic sand with colour shapes. This covered mathematics through colours and shapes we added the sand for more texture play. This will help children to use their fine and gross motor skills, hand and eye coordination. The light box will help children to focus on this small activity with their friends.

Our art table has included paint and glueing, outdoor resources such as leaf’s and flowers. The children can relate the resources to the sunflowers in the vase and the outside world, using their imagination and being creative. Children can make patterns and nature prints. We used different shapes and sizes for leafs so children can compare sizes such as big and small. This activity also covered sensory exploration by touch visual and smell.

The children current interest have been cars so we included this into our tuff tray set up, this set up covers physical development by pushing cars up and down the ramp, hand and eye coordination and hand grips. Sensory development using different textures such as shaving foam and water play.

Our construction area helps children with their fine motor skills, using the bolts and screws to strengthen their hand and finger muscles. Problem solving learning how to turn and twist. Mathematics exploring shapes and colours, differed sizes. Social and emotional development working together as a team to help one another,
Sharing and turn taking with their friends. This will help to build their confidence, to be resilience and a sense of achievement.

We look forward to seeing what little dots will learn this week

Today staff from across all four settings took part in some extremely inspiring baby room practice training.

We focused on babies feeling safe, loved and ready to learn and how to recognise and support this alongside different attachment styles and baby led planning!

We have all learnt so much from this and have ideas ready to implement into all four settings next week.

Thank you to stronger practice hubs for this and a lovely lunch too with free resources 😊

Glinda had been to the salon and looking fabulous! ❤️

We have so much more planned for our children now we have means of safe travel to take larger groups and our SEN children out safely, we have always included the local community and real life experiences into our curriculum and this has opened the door to so much more for us!

⭐️ beach trips
⭐️library trips
⭐️forest school sessions
⭐️sensory experiences
⭐️pumpkin patches
⭐️theatre shows
⭐️woodland walks
⭐️santa visits
⭐️farm and zoo trips
⭐️care home visits

So many opportunities for our wonderful children.

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Today set up for little dots cover all area of development.

Our construction and small world area help children with their fine motor skills, cognitive development through problem solving and manipulating the resources through hand and eye coordination. Language and literacy by encouraging new vocabulary, developing listening skills and connecting words with pictures and experiences.

Our book corners covers self awareness and social emotional development, by recognising themselves and their movements. Explore facial expressions using the wall mirror. Literacy and language by listening to story’s and independent book exploration. Imagination and being creative by pretend play, role playing relating to the books and story’s and creating expressions through movement and music.

With our art table we related this to the children current interest, the children have taken a real big interest in practicing their fine lines through mark making, visual tracking and pencil control. Cognitive development through problem solving matching and sorting shapes. Early math skills through recognising patterns. This activity help children to focus and pay close attention.

Our tuff tray focused on the colour orange. With included gloop to make this more interesting for the children. The tuff tray focused on problem solving, mathematics through colours and shapes and space awareness. Fine and gross motor skills, language development and being creative through immigration.

Have a lovely week everyone

🌟 This Week at Yellow Brick Road Nursery-
This week we will be focusing on our curriculum goal of helping children build essential physical skills to support independence, self-care and early learning ☺️
Through exciting play opportunities and carefully planned activities, the children will be developing both their gross motor and fine motor skills while building confidence in becoming more independent 🩷
✨ Here’s how our learning will look across the nursery this week:

🏡 Home Corner
Children will practise independence skills such as dressing dolls, role playing preparing meals and developing self-care through imaginative play.

🌍 Small World Area-
Using small world resources will support fine motor development through grasping, positioning and moving figures while encouraging storytelling and imaginative play.

🧱 Construction Area- building towers with different sizes of wood and bricks this will support the Children with strengthening their coordination, balance and hand muscles through building, stacking, lifting and problem-solving activities.

🪣 Tuff Tray Activities- celebrating dinosaur day with a dinosaur world tuff trays will encourage scooping, pouring and exploring different textures to support fine motor control. Also encourages imaginative play.
🎨 Arts & Crafts-
Creative activities such as painting, cutting, sticking and mark making will help children develop pencil control, hand strength and coordination.

✨ Sensory Tent-
This week we will be exploring all our sensory baskets Children will enjoy calming sensory experiences that support body awareness, movement and fine motor exploration through lights, textures and interactive resources.

👐 Playdough Area
Rolling, squeezing, pinching and moulding playdough will help strengthen little hands and fingers ready for early writing skills and also to use their imagination by adding play dough into our role play area to make recipes.

🌿 Outside Area-
Our outdoor environment we will be using our mathematical skills to measure and pour into different jugs and cups which will also support our fine motor skills. We will encourage balancing, running, jumping and large movements to support gross motor development in all weathers.

We will also continue supporting children with important independence skills including handwashing, toileting, feeding themselves and managing their belongings to help build confidence and school readiness 💛

We can’t wait for another active, exciting and fun-filled week of learning together! 🌈