Brighter Days Childcare

🌳💦 A lovely day out at Normanby Hall! 🏛️

We had a fantastic day exploring Normanby Hall! The children enjoyed visiting the museum, where they had the opportunity to explore, ask questions and learn about the past. 🏛️🔎
We then had lots of fun at the splash park and sand area, developing our physical skills, coordination and confidence while enjoying sensory play. 💦🏖️
We also enjoyed time at the park, climbing, running, balancing and challenging ourselves through play. 🌳🛝
Our outing provided lots of opportunities to support the EYFS

This week we have enjoyed a lovely day out at the library, where the children explored books, listened to stories, and developed a love of reading. we also went on a nature walk, picking wildflowers and admiring the beautiful sunflowers along the way. 🌼🌻📚
Our adventures supported several areas of the EYFS, including:
• Communication and Language – talking about the flowers, colours, and stories.
• Literacy – exploring books and enjoying story time at the library.
• Understanding the World – observing nature, discussing different flowers, and learning about our local community.
• Physical Development – walking, exploring outdoors, and using fine motor skills to carefully pick flowers.
• Expressive Arts and Design – appreciating the beauty of nature and using our imaginations during play.
We had lots of smiles, fresh air, and wonderful conversations. What a lovely week of learning through play! 💛

Kick-off to the week with a football theme! Following the EYFS, we explored sensory play with coloured “team” rice. The children practised pouring, scooping, and transferring to build fine motor skills, turn-taking, and early maths language (full/empty, more/less). Come on England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🌊🐚 Beach Week! 🐠☀️
This week we've been learning all about the beach and sea animals through lots of exciting play-based activities. To keep cool in the warm weather, the children had great fun painting with ice, exploring colours, textures, and creativity. Our activities were planned in line with the EYFS, supporting learning and development through play while encouraging curiosity, imagination, communication, and sensory exploration. We had a fantastic week full of smiles and learning! 💙

Today we celebrated Earth Day through simple sensory and creative experiences.
The children explored a fizzy Earth activity, showing curiosity as they watched the bubbles and reactions. Babies used their senses to explore textures and sounds, while toddlers began to notice changes and show excitement.
They used sponges to paint with blue and green colours, making marks to represent the Earth. This supported their early creativity and helped develop fine motor skills as they grasped and pressed the sponges.
We also planted seeds together and watered them. The children enjoyed handling the soil and water, beginning to experience how we care for plants and the natural world.🌎

🌼 A lovely week of learning through play! 🌼

This week we explored the wonders of nature and creativity while following the EYFS framework. The children enjoyed painting with flowers, creating beautiful natural artwork and talking about the different colours they could see. 🎨🌸

We had lots of fun with water play, carefully watering our flowers and learning how to look after them. 💧🌱 The children also practised their counting skills by counting petals and flowers together.

To finish our week, we went on a little bug hunt and searched for ladybirds 🐞—a great way to spark curiosity and learn about the world around us!
So many smiles, discoveries, and hands-on learning moments 💛

We visited milestone ranch where the children climbed, slid, and balanced on the equipment. Afterwards, we went to see and feed the animals the children enjoyed giving food to the goats and watching the chickens and rabbits.🐰

This week we had a wonderful time celebrating Easter! 🐣 We decorated our Easter tree, designed our own Easter eggs, and went on a fun egg hunt. The children loved searching for chicks, exploring messy play, painting their own canvases, and enjoying bubbles.
These activities supported the EYFS areas of learning, including Expressive Arts and Design, Physical Development, and Communication and Language. So many smiles and lovely memories made! 🌼”

Getting ready for our Easter themed week 🐰💛