Little Explorers Nursery

This weeks adventures in Preschool 🙂

We have some small world 🌍 play areas for those children who have been enjoying creating their own story lines, adding in some new characters to play with. 🦹‍♂️🧚‍♂️🧞‍♂️🧝‍♀️

We are going to be continuing exploring shapes with the playdoh 🔻🔹🟧🟣 exploring how we can move and manipulate the doh to create our ideas.

We also are getting creative in the art area with some junk modelling and painting. 🖼️ 🎨 📦

And we also have added some dressing up costumes to our home corner for the children who have had an interest in dressing up and being their favourite characters.

We can’t wait to have a fun filled week with you all 🙂

This week in Bunnies we will be........

🦁 Playing and exploring safari animals
🐬 Finding the Ocean animals
🏀 Ball pool
🪇 Musical Instruments
🍦Making ice creams in our ice cream parlour
🎤Singing songs
📚Looking at and sharing books
🛴 Playing outside

Looking forward to another week of play and fun in Bunnies 🐰

Next week in the Hedgehog Room we will be….

⭐️Looking at the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk!’ 📗 where we will be re telling the story in our mini role play area! 🌿
⭐️ Cars! 🚗
⭐️ Sand play! 🏜️
⭐️ Water play! 💦
⭐️ Superhero City! 🦹‍♀️🦸‍♂️
⭐️ Crafts! 🎨
⭐️ Animals! 🐘 where we will be sharing the book ‘Dear Zoo’ at the end of the week! 🦁
⭐️ Daily outdoor play! 🛴🎾

We cannot wait for another fun filled week with you all! ❤️

We are looking forward to seeing all our little V.I.Ps in Bunnies next week after the Easter break.
Next week "We're going on a bear hunt" with lots of bear themed activities.
🐻 Bear hunt tuff tray to explore the story with different textures.
🐻 Our own "cave" to explore and find the bears.
🐻 Looking for the bears hidden around the room and going on a bear hunt outside.
🐻 Using our senses to explore grass, water mud, and ice like in the story.
🐻 Finding the bear footprints in the sand.
🐻 Colouring our own teddy pictures
.......and of course we will be reading the book lots.
There are also cars, dolls and the home corner to play with and different books to look at and share.
Have a great weekend and we look forward to a week of fun and play with lots of learning opportunities.

🌟 We’re hiring! Early Years Educator – Grantham 🌟

Are you passionate about supporting children’s learning and development? 💛

Children’s Links is looking for a dedicated Early Years Educator to join our team. This is a great opportunity to be part of a supportive charity and to make a real difference for children and families.

📍 Based at Little Explorers Nursery in Grantham
💼 Level 3 qualification essential
🤝 Supportive team environment with opportunities to develop your skills

✨ If you’re caring, enthusiastic, and committed to helping children thrive, we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Find out more and apply here: https://www.childrenslinks.org.uk/post/early-years-educator
🔔 Deadline approaching soon!

Help us spread the word – tag someone who’d be perfect for this role! 🤝

Over the next few weeks in Bunnies we will be ...
🎅 Exploring and playing in Santa's Workshop
🎄 Decorating the Christmas Tree
⭐ Exploring and finding the baubles in our sensory tray
🍪 Decorating biscuits
🌟Continuing with our Christmas crafts
We have also made a dinosaur world as some of the children have been interested in dinosaurs 🦖🦕
Our continuous provision ....
🚗 Cars and garage
🧱 Mega blocks for building and also construction area with wooden blocks
🏠 Home corner with dolls and teddies to play with
📚 Reading area with Christmas books and stories to look at and share.

On Thursday it is Christmas jumper day if you want to wear a Christmas jumper.

Don't forget we also have raffle tickets on sale in the room.

See you all tomorrow.

Christmas has arrived in the Hedgehog room! 🎄🎅❤️

Over the next few weeks we will be…..
🎄 Getting busy in our very own ‘Santas Workshop!’ 🎅
🎄 Feeding the reindeer in the sensory tray! 🎅
🎄 Finishing off our Christmas crafts! 🎅
🎄 Cinnamon scented playdough where we will be making our own gingerbread men! 🎅

Continuous provision will be….
🎄 Home corner and looking after the babies!
🎄 A new car area to explore!
🎄 Lego building!
🎄 Fine motor skills challenge!

⭐️ The children’s Christmas sing a long is on Wednesday afternoon, 2-3pm. The children have been practicing the songs every morning so would be great to see you all there! Raffle tickets are still available. If you would like any, let me know and I can sort them for you. The raffle will be drawn Wednesday afternoon 😃

Cannot wait to see you all tomorrow! ❤️

I would like to say a massive thank you to all my parents and team over the past 3 years who have made my Managers role a delight!
Thank you to my parents and team for your gifts, cards and best wishes it means the world to me
Take care of yourselves ☺️

Over the next few weeks in Owls,
We will be exploring numbers, focusing on counting, numerals and amounts of objects.

We have created a Dinosaur land at a request of a few of our owls 🦕

We will also be exploring winter and what happens through this season ❄️🌨️⛄️🌫️

And last but not least we are also very excited to dive in to the festive fun! 🥰🎄
You may have already heard a few Christmas tunes from our little V.I.P’s at home.
We will be enjoying learning new songs, Christmas crafts and talking about what we enjoy most about the festive period.

We can’t wait to explore with you all!!

Over the next few weeks in the Hedgehog room we will be…..

⭐️ Looking at a new story….’Busy Vet!’
⭐️ Becoming Vets in our very own role play area! 🐶
⭐️ Exploring the Dinosaur tuff tray! 🦖
⭐️ Following the children’s interests, we have a car area with a brand new car mat! 🚗
⭐️ Lego Building! 🧱
⭐️ Being chefs in the Home corner! 👨‍🍳
⭐️ Looking after the babies! 🍼

🎄With Christmas not far away, we will be starting our Christmas crafts this week and continuing to practice our Christmas singing ❤️

Looking forward to another fabulous week! ⭐️