Little Risers Childcare

🐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 🐬

Our sensory ocean tray has been extremely popular so far this week!

The children have been extremely creative, building homes for the sea creatures.

We have also been practising our counting and number recognition through finding the hidden treasure.

🐝 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐁𝐞𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲! 🐝

Last week was all about celebrating the “bum bum” bees as Little P called them!

Across the week we…
🐝 painted bees
🐝 printed honeycombs
🐝 searched for bees in the sun at Belsay Hall
🐝 fed tired bees in the Little Risers garden
🐝 shared honey on toast
🐝 learnt to name the different parts of a bee

World Bee Day | Early Years

❤️ 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠… 𝐁𝐞 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 ❤️

Here we teach kindness above everything else.

For anyone feeling a little lost today… if the future is people like our Little Risers ruling the world, we are in safe hands.

👣 “𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚐 - 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚏 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚍." 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡

Thank you David Attenborough for an incredible 100 years!

🪴 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 🪴

Busy little bees today learning about taking care of the garden with National Trust Seaton Delaval Hall

Digging, wheelbarrowing, watering… our gross motor and fine motor skills have definitely been pushed today!

We also explored new language as we talked about the lifecycle of a seed (shoot, seedling, germinate)

🌍 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 🌎

Every day at Little Risers, we encourage our children to take care of the planet through simple conversations and demonstrations such as recycling, respecting nature and picking up litter.

But today we had several special activities to mark Earth Day…

We took our gang to Gibside to gather a range of fallen nature treasures and practised weaving them together onto our frames to create a planet Earth art piece. Thank you Norland Hobbies for picking us out some perfect blue wool!

In the afternoon, we made tissue paper suncatchers to take home and display in our windows. Through our crafting conversation, these turned into cards for our loved ones!

Who am I to go against the will power of an army of confident toddlers?!

🪲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬! 🪲

The Little Risers are SO interested in all the bugs that we are suddenly seeing out and about, especially now the seasons are changing.

I was getting multiple requests to draw🕷️

So I drew them a group spider colouring-in tray which went down a treat. So much so, that I was instructed to draw a general “bug” tray during their rest hour ready for the afternoon!

Watching their creativity flow as they carefully selected colours…

The world needs more rainbow insects!

🫧 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 🫧

You are always the popular teacher when you bring out the water and bubbles!

Over the last few weeks we’ve had a range of set ups including…
🌈 Rainbow foam
🦁 Clean the animals
🚙 Working at the car wash