Yellow Brick Rd Nursery Highwoods

Well done to our teams for getting involved in the making it REAL project for two days this summer.

The project focuses on Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL).

We are really excited to implement the project in September and all settings have made a project plan together to work on the same page.

Keep your eyes pealed for more information, parent events, and much more!

Our team are so dedicated and excited to move with the project we’re very proud of them 😊

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This week from our curriculum we will be focusing on- Children will learn about the wider world , diversity, creativity and community, developing a good sense of belonging and respect☺️
In the art area today we have a range of different dolls set out with a mirror for children to look at themselves and see the similarities and differences between themselves and peers and they can use the dolls to see that everyone is different 💚
In our playdough area we have set out the playdough along with loose parts and photo frames for children to be able to create an image inside the frame using the loose parts and unleash their creativity. This activity is one of our most popular activities and the children absolutely love this 💖

In one of our inside tuff trays in the home corner we have potion making using coloured water , leaves , bowls , glitter and scoops . Children can freely use all the resources to create potions or anything else their imagination leads them too . We absolutely love seeing the children get creative and get messy 💛

In the garden of course we have a water tray filled up with bubbly water allowing the children to use jugs and the weighing scales to learn about quantities and also respecting each other her by turn taking ❤️

So proud of my team .. our exhibit at the Tendring show has won 🥇

This year we will be showcasing our 5 nurseries at the Tendring Show on Saturday 11th July … so if you’re attending then please do pop along and have a look at our display and grab a little free bee too 💛💛💛💛💛

Our statement off the week is- Children will build essential physical skills to support independence, self-care and early learning.

Garden area 💦☀️- In our garden we have activities out which promotes children’s physical development in many different ways. In our tuff tray we have lemonade and orange juice making. Children can use their fine motor skills using the wooden scoops and the cups to scoop and pour water, this activity also promotes communication and language, and the wider world too by learning essential skills like ingredients making. This also links too our mud kitchen, experimenting with different resources such as carrots, potatoes, parsnips and coloured water. Children can work on their physical skills with the tweezers to promote fine motor skills, using their muscle strength in their fingers. Children can explore the coloured water by pouring and mixing, also learning about the wider world by experimenting with different kinds of foods. In our water tray we have potion making 🧪🩷- This activity can help with physical skills by pouring the water, and using their hand-eye coordination using the syringes to collect and squeeze out the water 💦 Children can also use their mathematical skills by identifying the colours of the Pom poms in the tray and the coloured water. Each of these activities in the garden helps build essential skills such as independence for children and early learning skills.

In our kitchen area we have an activity for children to help wash dishes 🍽️🫧 - This activity promotes children physical skills by using the washing cloths to clean the dishes, also pouring the water. Children can use communication and language during this activity by communicating to one another. Children can also learn essential skills in this activity like washing things. IIt can also promote self care, by learning how to take care off things.

In our art area we have a cutting activity✂️✂️: This area promotes children being able to use their physical skills by using the scissors, relating to fine motor skills also. Children will be using their hand-eye coordination too when using the scissors. Mathematics can also be promoted in this activity by identifying different shapes and patterns.

During this week too it’s national sports week, we will be doing different sport related activities with all off the children such as throwing and catching, obstacle courses outside in the garden and learning about why sports are so important. This all links to our physical skills! 💛

This week at little dots we are working with the children to help them learn essential physical skills to support independence, self care and early learning ✨

In the small world area 🌍
We are creating an activity that allows the children to independently search for farm animals inside of cloud dough, this will help them build their fine motor skills and cognitive thinking as they will need to move around the cloud dough to find the animals. This will help with their understanding of the world with the different animals, and their communication and language skills when we use different language such as stuck.

In the Art area 🎨🫟
We will be creating splat, this will be bubble wrap with spoons. The children can hit the paint filled bubble wrap with the spoons to make the splat sound, this will be from the paint and the bubbles in the bubble wrap. Helping with their early learning of sounds and colours.
This will help with their physical skills, using hammers and their communication and language skills, with words such as splat.

In the Home corner 🏡
In the home corner this week we have a baby bath, we will be making the toy babies dirty and allowing the children to clean them. This will teach them about safe care and how important it is for them to do so. It will also give them a deeper understanding of the world around them, letting them monow it is okay for them to get messy.
This will also help with communication and language skills but also physical skills with their fine and gross motor skills.

Within the sensory area
We will have different liquid materials for the children to transfer with pipettes. This will be liquids like water, milk and oil. This can be both an independent task and a adult lead task. We can lead by example then allow the children to independently move the liquids this will help with early learning as it will enhance their physical development, fine motor skills aswell.

Inside the reading area 📚📖
We will be creating a teddy bear picnic for the children to participate in. There will be lots of books that help with early literacy and early mathematics. There will also be different pretend foods to help their understanding of the world. This will also help with their communication and language skills.