Smarties Day Nursery and After School Club

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Our babies have been enjoying some treasure baskets, playing hide and seek with them seeing what is hiding beneath the shredded papers. They then extended on there love of cars by making ramps for them to go down. These type of activities support the enveloping and trajectory schemas which are an important part of a babies learning ⛴️🚘

🦋 Smarties Day nursery 🦋

A thriving, vibrant nursery school in Meols. Providing the highest quality care and early years education, for children 0-5

All practitioners hold the paediatric first aid certifications and safe guarding training

All staff have undergone enhanced dbs checks

All children enjoy 2 freshly prepared home cooked and healthy meals

You are welcome to book a show round anytime by

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Today it’s lovely and cool outside so we enjoyed some morning yoga together in the garden. This is a lovely way to wake our bodies up gently to get ready for the day
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We have been, cutting and squeezing this morning to make our own ice lollies to help cool us down this afternoon 😋

As a few of our Butterflies have been on holiday lately and have loved the beach over there we have created one in our tuff tray. This type of activity enables resources for the children to act out real life experiences with their friends ✈✈✈

As one of our Butterflies loves Disney we have set up a Rapunzel hair cutting tray for them to practise their scissor skills 😊

Preschool have been enjoying making their own boats, the challenge was to make one that can float ⛵️🛶🚤🚢⛴️

Seed Exploration-Before and After 😝
Our Butterflies have found this activity really interesting this morning. We have been making predictions of what type and how many seeds are in each fruit/vegetable and then investigating to see if we are right.

This activity has lengthened our language and knowledge of different varieties as pomegranates, butternut squashes and cherries are new to us.

Exploring with our senses like this can encourage us to eat a wider variety at meal times too.

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We have added spiders to our painting table this morning🕷🌼🕸🕷🕸🌼🕷

🦋 Our Butterflies 🦋 have been enjoying their new interactive board we have made.

We added pegs and string so that they can strengthen their fine motor skills while removing and putting back the pictures during and after use.

We will use our pictures as reference points when talking about spiders, while we are trying to make webs, and when we are at the play doh table. 🖊️

We can even trace our pictures on the drawing table.....so many uses! 👩‍🎨

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Preschool are working together with our loose parts to create a huge treasure map! ☠🏝⚓

🎶 I am a spooky spider
My name is hairy Fred
I do push ups in the morning
And jog around your bed....
Every morning when I wake up
I always bang my head......
That's because....
I live under your bed!! 🎶

Our Butterflies are investigating Spiders this week! Starting off with some very tasty looking spider cookies!! 😋😋😋

Our babies will be playing with some beautiful spring flowers and different crunchy textures while finding bugs this morning. Babies love to explore new and exciting objects, this also helps with teaching them new vocabulary 🤗

As some of our children in preschool love platting and styling each others hair at the moment we made our own hair dressing heads to practice our cutting skills 💚

Our baby room have a new and very cute rhyme for you to practice with your little ones at home ‘Bee Here’. This song will help the children to learn their different body parts if you introduce actions too 💛🖤💛

We are very proud of our buzzy bee biscuits!

WoW what an exciting morning! We would like to say a big thank you to Sunlight Bees you were amazing with the children and very knowledgeable. We would highly recommend you guys to any other settings who wish to learn about Bees 🐝 Fantastic!!!
We Particularly enjoyed the Bee Dance !

Honey sandwiches, stripy socks and rescuing bees from the yellow water 💛🖤💛

Our babies have a very exciting tray to explore this morning. We will be listening to the sounds the rices make as they are sprinkled 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛

Our babies have been exploring crunchy noises and the enveloping schema of filling and emptying containers 💛🖤💛

Our preschoolers are testing out their ideas with their flower experiments 🧪 🌷🌡️

This morning our Butterflies will be practicing their cutting skills in our beautifully smelling sensory flower tray 🌺🪷🪻🌸🌼🌹💐

This Wednesday we are lucky enough to have our local Bee Keeper from Sunlight Bees coming in to educate us on their industry. They will also be bringing in the honey that they make which will be on sale if you would like a jar please let your key person know!

You are all welcome to come to nursery wearing black and yellow on this day in honour of the bees! 🐝🐝🐝

We would like to say a big thank you to all of the families that came to our open day, it was lovely to see you!

🎨OUR ART GALLERY!🎨SAT 10-1PM
If you would like to come and view your child's master piece come along to our open day tomorrow 🖼

Our babies are going to be learning a new song next week....

5 little speckled frogs 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

If you would like to learn it at home you can find it on youtube !

Buzz buzz buzzy bees,
Buzzy bees,
Buzz if you like but don’t sting me! 🐝🎶

A fun way to explore sensory play, our babies loved this activity 💙

We have some surprise presents waiting for our babies this morning in their tent. Our sensory basket is full of wrapped toys. We are trying to feel them guessing what is inside, and then using our fine motor skills to open them and see. We extended on this further by attempting to wrap them back up and giving them to our friends 🚂🚗🚛 This was very tricky but kept our little minds occupied for a long time 🤩

We have been learning about how bees make honeycomb by recreating it using gloop and bubblewrap in our tray. Gloop is a lovely relaxing material to play with, it sets hard but then turns runny again with the heat of your hands 🐝🌻🐝🌻🐝

Come and visit us, Centreself Coaching and Spencers Friends this Saturday at our Open Day 10-1pm 😃

As part of our ‘people who help us’ topic our preschoolers will be using the different coloured rices and lentils to focus on pattern making 🚒

What a lovely day to have a play along the shore and do a little boat spotting🐚🌞🌊⛵️

We also have Buzzy Bee loose parts play doh to explore and get creative with 🌺

Our Butterflies will be discovering the world of Bugs this week. Starting off with creating their own honeycomb prints 🐝🐝🐝