Dragonfly Day Nursery

🦋🛒 Welcome to Dragonfly Supermarket! 🛒🦋

Our Butterfly Room children have been having a fantastic time exploring our very own Dragonfly Supermarket! 🌟

Through role play, the children have enjoyed becoming shopkeepers, customers and helpers, developing their communication, confidence and social skills while having lots of fun. 🛍️😊

From choosing their shopping to serving customers and paying at the till, there’s been plenty of wonderful imaginative play happening! 💕🦋

What a fantastic opportunity for our little ones to learn through play! 🌈✨

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We LOVE a homemade playdough recipe!

Playdough is a simple thing to make at home and of course, fun to play with! Writing will be an essential skill learnt at school, so playing with playdough will build up your child’s finger muscles in readiness for holding a pencil. Please visit this link from our TLC website for a simple playdough recipe: https://www.tlc-essex.info/resource/playdough-recipe-developing-finger-muscles/

Welcome to Caterpillar Rooms salon 💇‍♀️

Our babies had so much fun washing our wonderful Bethany’s hair, getting stuck in with the water, shampoo and lots of bubbly fun! 🧴🫧

It was a brilliant hands on experience that encouraged confidence, communication and independence! 💗👶✨

📚✨ We had a lovely trip to the library today! The children had lots of fun exploring books and enjoying some stories. We then had a beautiful walk back through town. 🚶‍♀️🌳

A fun-filled morning of learning and exploring! 📖

Sharing as this may help some of our local families!

🌿🍃 A Wonderful Day Exploring Nature! 🍃🌿

Today our nursery children enjoyed a lovely nature walk, taking in the sights, sounds and textures of the great outdoors. Along the way, they carefully collected a variety of natural treasures, including leaves, twigs, flowers and stones. 🌼🍂

Back at nursery, we used reflective learning to think about our adventure and transform our collections into beautiful nature pictures. This creative activity encouraged the children to recall their experiences, share their observations and express themselves through art, while developing their imagination and fine motor skills. 🎨🌿

We love providing opportunities for our children to explore, discover and learn through meaningful experiences in nature. We can't wait for our next outdoor adventure! 💚

✨ Baking Club Fun in the Butterfly Room! 🦋

Our Butterfly Room has been busy in Baking Club this week, creating some delicious cookies to take home and enjoy as a special treat! 🍪💛

The fun didn't stop there... we also held an important business meeting to plan some exciting activities for next week! 💼💡 With the help of our very own homemade laptop!

We can't wait to see what next week's adventures bring! 🌟

🌳 A fantastic day at Castle Park! 🌳

Our children had a wonderful time exploring, playing, and learning together in the beautiful sunshine.

Throughout the day, they demonstrated our core values of Respect, Independence, Curiosity, and Kindness as they explored nature, supported one another, and embraced new experiences with confidence.

A fun-filled day of learning, laughter, and making special memories! 💚

Our Little Wings have been incredibly busy with their threading activity! 🧵✨

These engaging activities are a fabulous introduction to pre-writing skills for our toddlers. As they carefully thread the pipe cleaners, they're strengthening the small muscles in their hands and fingers, developing the control, coordination, and grip they'll need as they begin their early writing journey.

Threading is also a fantastic way to promote fine motor development, hand-eye coordination, concentration, patience, and problem-solving skills—all through fun, play-based learning!

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Sharing some safer sleep guidance from The Lullaby Trust!
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