ABC Nursery Coventry

This week we have had some very keen gardeners help refresh our planting areas! 🌱

The children have worked together and used lots of different skills to plant tomatoes, peppers, raspberries, lavender and wildflowers ✨

It may look grey this morning but the sun is due to come out and see us ☀️

Our Raindrops children have been using their problem solving skills to fit jigsaw pieces into inset boards. The children were also encouraged to take turns and use their knowledge of animals to make the animals sound 🐊 🦁 🐘

Inset board jigsaws are a fantastic way to support a child’s development through play. They help build fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving abilities and concentration. Children achieve a wonderful sense of achievement as they complete each piece 💫

Dough disco 🕺
This week some of our sunshine children took part in a dough disco! This is a creative way to enhance children’s hand strength and skills for writing and fine motor tasks.

As children squeeze, pinch, roll, stretch and mould the dough, they strengthen the small muscles in their hands and fingers. These movements improve hand-eye coordination, finger dexterity and control, all of which are essential for early writing, cutting with scissors and self-care skills such as doing up zips and buttons.

Why not have a try at home? Get out the play dough, turn on the music and call out different ways to manipulate the dough!

Happy Father’s Day ✨

This week we invited dads and grandads to come in and spend time with their little ones whilst taking part in some exciting activities!
It was a great success all round and we loved sharing this special time with you all 💫

The rain hasn’t stopped us diving into some exciting activities this week ✨

The toddlers have been taking part in the big green week, using recycled materials to get creative and add different features to their play. They have used boxes to play sorting games and also created a large recycling truck ♻️

The Raindrops children have been using problem solving skills at group time Looking for specific items hidden under stacking cups.
They have also been using physical skills over in the art room scooping, filling and emptying containers and searching for mini beasts in a sensory tray.

The preschool and sunshine children took part in a following instructions game out in the garden followed by a dance lesson with our talented teacher Tilly 💃
They have also been using the train resources to encourage number skills. The children had to match train numbers to the numbers on the stations.
Over in the art room the children had the chance to make fruit salads, talking about the smell and texture of the fruits and then take them home to taste them 🍋‍🟩 🍎 🥭

It’s going to be another beautiful day! ☀️

This week the ABC children have been joining in with our mini beasts theme!
The toddlers have had sensory trays with miniature insects to find, as well as making creepy crawly pictures!
Over in the preschool art room we have been creating buzzy bee pictures and a bee hive for them to live in 🐝
In their role play room lots of the children engaged with the bug hotel, dressing up as different mini beasts and checking in insects of all kinds! The children used imaginative skills to create mini beast delicacies and serve them up to their friends 🐛 🐞

Today’s visitor was one of our very own ABC parents who came to chat to the children about her job - A doctor 🩺

Caitlin used a doll to model some of the equipment used at check ups such as a stethoscope and thermometer. The children gained some hands on experience having a go and seeing how the items are used.

Caitlin spoke to the children about things that keep us safe and healthy such as suncream, a helmet, antibacterial soap and Calpol.