Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Enfield

The pre-school children wrote the letters of their names and placed them in the correct order to create space rockets 🚀 They added stars and galaxies around their names with shiny sprinkles of confetti. We spoke about space and rockets landing on the moon. The children also mentioned gravity and how different space is to our planet. The children loved using their imaginations and had lots of fun taking part.

The babies love messy play so we decided to make moon sand today using cornflour, glitter and oil. The explorers explored the moon sand with their hands and some cutters of stars and the moon. The explorers sprinkled it in the air and watched as it fell down. This activity is great for sensory exploration.

🎉 Eid Mubarak 🎉

What is Eid-Al- Adha?

The celebration of Eid-ul-Adha is about sacrificing and giving back. We celebrate 2 Eid’s the first one is for 3 long days and the second one we will be celebrating is the big Eid which lasts long 4 days called Eid Al Adha. 🤲🏼

Throughout the week some the children have been engaging in making Eid cards for their loved ones. The children where provided with pink coloured card, paint, glitter, stamps and pens. The children decorated the front with their own choices and interests using the resources. This supports them with learning about the 2 types of Eid, supporting them with communication and language as well as Expressive arts and design. 🎨 🖍️ ✨

Our babies have been making lanterns using different resources such as glitter, glue, tissue paper and star stickers.

🎹🎸🥁🎷🎶🎵 World Music Day 🎵🎶🎷🥁🎸🎹

We have been celebrating world music day. The explorers have been exploring different instruments during the day playing the drum, xylophone, shakers and tambourines. The babies used their gross motor skills to move the instruments in different ways some of the babies held the shakers in their hands and shook them. A couple of the babies used their hands to play the drum banging on drum. A practitioner named all the different instruments and demonstrated the different ways to play the instruments.

Today world music day the explorers joined in an activity of an edible guitar we used whipped cream, raspberries, strawberries and rice Krispies. The explorers used their senses to explore sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing. The explorers used the spoons to crush the rice krispies, their hands to explore the different textures, their sight to look at the different food items, their taste to taste the different food items and their smell to smell the different fruits. We used different home languages for the word guitar 🎸 - French, Greek, Turkish, Gujarati, Italian and English!

Happy Father's Day ❤️

Father's Day Breakfast at Monkey Puzzle Enfield 🥐🥞🍎🍌🍐🧁

"I am Overwhelmed with gratitude with this Father's Day because I am blessed to have you as my dad".

I LOVE YOU DADDY ❤️❤️❤️

Healthy Eating 🥦🥒🍠

The children loved making their own activity using a variety of resources. They used cucumbers, pasta shapes, rice, sweet potato and broccoli. Children have been exploring healthy eating this week and wanted make create a healthy eating table.

Jurassic World 🌴🌳🦖

The children have showed interest in dinosaurs 🦖and our practitioners wanted to bring this to life by creating their very own Jurassic World. The children helped their practitioners by using a variety of resources such as spaghetti, dinosaurs 🦖, blue glitter, small world people and many more.

🌴🏖️Beach Themed Play 🏖️🌴

Planets of Our Solar System 🪐

Exploring Different Textures 🔎

Let's Make Pizza! 🍕😋

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛🍎🍐🍓🍊

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👑King Charles III Coronation Celebrations👑

The children have been helping the practitioners do some gardening. The children helped dig holes in the soil to plant the seeds and put the flowers in. They have also helped to water them at the end of the day.🌼🌻🌷

🐧 World Penguin Day 🐧

Penguins are some of the world’s most lovable creatures. Their adorable appearance, comical waddles, and distinct calls make them animals that are beloved around the world. ⭐

World Penguin Day is one day of the year dedicated to penguins. It was created with the goal of celebrating penguins for the unique animals they are, as well as bringing awareness to the challenges they face. ⭐

Here are some facts about penguins:

🐧The average penguin lifespan is 15-20 years
🐧Penguins can weight anywhere between 2 and 88 pounds (0.9 kgs to 40 kgs)
🐧Penguins cannot fly but they can swim up to 15mph
🐧Zero penguins actually live at the North Pole
🐧Penguins are able to safely drink ocean water
🐧Emperor Penguins are the tallest of the penguin species, standing up to 120cm tall but sizes vary between 40cms to 114cms
🐧Penguins eat a range of fish and other sea life that they catch underwater
🐧Penguins can drink sea water
🐧Penguins spend around half their time in water and the other half on land


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Happy St. George's Day!

The children have taken part in various activities including biscuit decorating, dragon making and more! 🌟

💚💙🌎 Happy Earth Day 🌎💙💚

Celebrating this day gives a chance for everyone to do something good for our planet. Earth Day shouldn’t just be seen as a once-a-year event, it should serve as a reminder to us all that we should take better care of the Earth and do something good for our planet every day. This day is a great opportunity for parents to talk to their children about being environmentally friendly and living a more sustainable lifestyle.

🌙 Eid Mubarak🌙

The festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is celebrated all over the world. 💕

Eid al-Fitr, is a joyous celebration. Muslims mark the occasion with private and community events such as communal prayer, parties, preparing and eating special foods, giving gifts, wearing new clothes, and visiting friends and family. 💕

Wishing Eid Mubarak to all the families celebrating! ❤️

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One of our parents who is a dentist kindly visited the nursery to talk to our Preschool children about dental hygiene and read them a lovely story. The children were highly engaged and they practised brushing a dental model teeth with a brush 🦷🪥

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🌟Orthodox Easter 🌟

Orthodox Easter Day, which takes place on the Sunday after the first full moon after Passover, is a sacred season and the most significant celebration of the Eastern Christian churches or orthodox churches. The date of Orthodox Easter Day is different from the Western Easter, which bases the celebration period on the Gregorian calendar. Meanwhile, the Eastern Orthodox Church still uses the earlier Julian calendar for calculating the dates of festivals, including Easter. 🐰

Orthodox Easter is celebrated by going to the church followed by delicious food with family. It is also very common to dye the eggs for this celebration. 🥚

For those who are celebrating today, we hope you have an amazing day with your loved ones. 💛

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🌟🌙 Ramadan Activities🌙🌟

⚠ Construction Site ⚠️

🐣 Happy Easter 🐣

The children have taken part in lots of egg-cellent activities to celebrate Easter over the last couple of weeks. 🐰

From everyone at MP Enfield, we wish you a Happy Easter filled with fun, love, laughter and lots of delicious food! 🫶💛

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Easter Stay and Play 🐣🐰

This week, we welcomed all parents to join us for a stay and play session, it was lovely getting together enjoying the sunshine! 🌞

The children took part in Easter egg hunt and lots of different activities with their parents🥰

Thank you to our lovely families who turned up! 💕

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Learning in Preschool 🤸

Preschool provides your child with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their essential skills which will ready them for a life of learning and empower them to make positive contributions to the world around them. Preschoolers learn best through play, when using their whole body and engaging their senses. 👂🤔

3-year-olds are full of wonder and spend a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their imagination is working at all times. They are particularly interested in perfecting their fine motor skills that they once found it challenging when they were two years old. A three-year-old loves to pour, mix, mash and squeeze. 🔍

At this age, children begin to hold writing equipment better thus our room is equipped with large pencils and crayons to help with mark making and drawing. The gross motor skill development of this age group learns to throw and catch a large ball, hopping, climbing and skipping that children love to practice and are incorporated into everyday activities. ✍️⚽

Learning about mathematics and language skills are integrated into our daily practice and introduced in context of play. Daily learning promotes social interactions, playing together to develop friendships and improve social skills which increases children’s ability to make special friendships and to have mutual respect towards each other in the environment. Practitioners are attuned to the emotional quality of interactions and help children identify emotions (their own and others) and learn problem-solving strategies. 💬🧮

We support the children in their journey towards school readiness to help them to make that exciting transition to ‘Big School’ as smooth as possible. 📚

🌟 Here in Monkey Puzzle Enfield, we focus on supporting the children in all of the skills they need to be independent and ready to learn when they join Reception. 🌟

World Autism Day🧩

World Autism Day was adopted to raise awareness about people living with autism spectrum disorder (A.S.D.) 🌟

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental and neurological disorder that progresses throughout a person’s lifetime but develops in early childhood. It affects a person’s interaction and communication with others as well as how they learn. A.S.D. is a ‘spectrum’ because it may present itself in a wide range of symptoms, which vary from one individual to another

To all the beautiful diverse minds and personalities out there, we love and appreciate what you bring to the world! ❤️

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Learning in Adventurers 🧸🧮

Between ages 2 to 3, toddlers make lots of progress within their development. They are physically more able, keen to explore and imitate the world around them. They develop their social skills as well as their language at this age. 🗪

We support children in the toddler room to develop their independence, self-help skills, communication, resilience, understanding and learning to regulate their emotions. We also encourage children to learn about showing care to their belongings, resources, nature, animals and each other. 🤗

Key person and practitioners learn a lot about what children are interested in by closely observing them to be able to plan exciting and stimulating activities based on the children’s own interests. Activities and experiences are tailored to children’s interests and needs in toddler room. We help support children’s growing sense of self and encourage confidence and self-esteem. 🥰

Children are able to freely access all resources without restrictions during such as accessing creative equipment for messy play, exploring in the sand and water areas, choosing a book or two for the cosy area, making their own playdough or simply exploring different areas of learning where they can freely access different resources.🔍

Children at this age are curious about the world around them, they tend to ask lots of questions and show curiosity, so there is never a dull moment in this room, everyday is full of surprises and lots of ‘why’ questions to answer! 💭🤔

Farmyard Sensory Play 🚜

Ramadan Mubarak 🌙✨

Every year, Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar. For approximately 30 days, fasting from dawn to sunset and engage in nightly communal prayers leading up to Eid al-Fitr, the final day of Ramadan. 🌟

It's also important to note that every family and individual celebrates Ramadan differently, and while most participate in the daily fasting, there are exceptions to this tradition. 🌟

Ramadan Mubarak to those celebrating, wishing you and your family a prosperous, peaceful month.🌟

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MP Enfield Turns 5! 🎈🎂

Last week we celebrated Monkey Puzzle Enfield's 5th Birthday!🥳

Throughout the week, children participated in celebrations with our special visitor Marvin and our daily birthday disco. 🎉🪩

We want to take this opportunity to thank all our past and present parents and staff for being a big part of our journey. As we look back and reflect, we have achieved so much and look forward to many providing many more years of quality childcare and amazing memories with our MP family. 🌸💖.

🍀St. Patrick's Day 2023!🍀

💕 Mother's Day! 💕

Happy Mother's Day to all fantastic mums out there! Whether you're a mother, grandma, step mum, godmother, mama to a fur baby, aunt, sister, someone's second mum, mama to an angel baby, or yet to fulfil your parenthood dream, we celebrate YOU! Your love, kindness and sacrifice makes this world a better place. 💐

We hope you had a very happy Mother's Day! 🌸

Happy International Women's Day!💖💖

To all the incredible women who make the world a better place, we celebrate YOU today. 🙌🎉

Here’s to strong women..

💜 May we know them
💜 May we be them
💜 May we raise them

World Book Day at Monkey Puzzle Enfield 📚💕

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Pancake Day! 🥞

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We recently held a Macmillan breakfast morning in the nursery, the children loved having their parents join us for breakfast. It was also lovely to see parents engaged with their children in the nursery environment. A massive thank you to those joined us and donated! 🥰

💖 Valentine's Day 💖

The most romantic day of the year was upon us, and we had a wonderful time celebrating all things Valentine's Day yesterday at the nursery! 😍

Children took part in variety of activities, including baking & decorating heart-shaped biscuits, making cards and tuff tray activities. 🫶🥰

Valentine's Day is a wonderful opportunity talk about our special people and show appreciation for people we love and cherish 💕

Learning in Explorers (0-2’s) 🧸

At Monkey Puzzle Enfield, the key person plays a crucial part in child’s journey at nursery. By providing a warm, loving relationship the babies become secure and begin to explore their environments confidently to PLAY, LEARN & GROW! 🥰💕

Active play is vital in Early Years and much of the learning takes place from investigating surroundings with senses. Lots of the play children take part in daily includes water, sand and other malleable materials. 🧮 💭

We encourage early mark making through different activities where children get to use variety of materials to develop their motor skills. 🖍️🖌️✏️

Heuristic play is encouraged daily, which is play based on natural curiosity (heuristic means ‘to find out’). As babies grow, they move beyond just feeling and pondering things, to wanting to find out what can be done with them! 🔍

Of course, a baby room wouldn’t be quite right without an abundance of nursery rhymes, singing and reading! 📖 Whether in groups or during routines such as nappy changing, we embrace every opportunity to develop our rhythm and vocabulary through a good song.🎵

Happy Chinese New Year!🐇🧧

2023 is the year of the Rabbit 🐰

Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others.

Each culture celebrates the Lunar New Year differently with various foods and traditions that symbolize prosperity, abundance and togetherness. In preparation for the Lunar New Year, houses are thoroughly cleaned to rid them of inauspicious spirits, which might have collected during the old year. Cleaning is also meant to open space for good will and good luck. ✨

Wishing those celebration a happy, prosperous New Year! 🎉

Happy New Year! Wishing You All a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2023! 🎆🎉✨

MERRY CHRISTMAS! WE HOPE YOU HAVE AN AMAZING DAY WITH YOUR LOVED ONES🎄❤️

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