Little Gems Pre-School

Last Friday we closed our doors for the final time at Little Gems 😢
We would like to thank all our families & children for their kind gifts, cards & well wishes. We will really miss our beautiful little nursery, but know that our children returning in September are going to love their new setting at Jubliee.
Staff have been working really hard all week to make sure that everything is set up & ready to welcome you back in September.
Here is a little sneak peak of what we have been doing. ☺

Our last week at Little Gems 😭
Don't forget to bring your teddy bear on Friday for our teddy bears picnic. 🐻🍪🍎🍌🍞🍓🍰
Parents are welcome to join us at the end of the session to say goodbye to staff & spend one last time in nursery. 💟

A few of our summer themed activities from the last few weeks. 🌞

● ice-cream parlour set up in the role play area. Our children developed some lovely language & communication skills ordering ice creams & acting out the role of shop keeper. 🍨

●Exploring light & numbers. Counting out shells & recognising numbers on our light table. 🐚

● Recognising & Celebrating diversity in our community with an explosion of colour in the garden. 🌈

●Celebrating Eid with a range of different activities.🌜

We have certainly made the most of this lovely weather over the last few weeks 🌞
●Lots of different water play set ups to explore🐋🐟🐠
●Beach scenes to build sandcastles & recreate experiences 🐚
●Underwater themed sensory area 🐙🐡🐟
●Team building activities - testing out & thinking of new ideas (making a tunnel out of tyres)
●craft activities ( chosen by the children) 🐟🐠🌹🌻🎨
● outdoor sand construction area ☺🚧

Nursery will be closed next week. We re-open on Monday 5th June. We hope you all have a lovely week off. ☺

Here's are a few pictures of the activities our children have enjoyed over the last few weeks. We have taken advantage of all the lovely weather & set up lots for the children to explore outside. ☺
We celebrated 'World Bee day' 🐝🍯 & got creative with lots of nature activities.🌻🌹🌺

We hope you all had a lovely long weekend celebrating the King's Coronation. 💂

Here's a few pictures of how we celebrated last week at nursery.

👑 We decorated bunting using red, white & blue paint.
👑 Designed crowns for King Charles using loose parts.
👑Enjoyed a small tea party with our take on Scones (fairy cakes with jam & squirty cream)
👑Made crowns to wear at our tea party.

This week we will be making King Charles a card to send to Buckingham Palace. 🏰

Welcome back. We hope you all had a lovely Eid celebrating with your family & friends. 🎉🎉
Yesterday we celebrated Eid with our children at nursery. We enjoyed a special healthy snack of friut sticks, wraps, cheese & cucumber. 🍓🍇🍏
Our lovely Naima created some beautiful henna patterns on some of our children's hands. 😊

This week our children have been taking part in Easter & Ramadan activities. We made some tasty Easter treats & Eid cards to share with our family & friends.
Nursery is now closed for 3 weeks. We hope you all have a lovely half term & we will see you on Monday 24th April when nursery re-opens. ☺

Our worm adventure. Today whilst we were moving the outdoor area around we found lots of worms underneath crates & pallets. Our children showed lots of interest in the worms & started a worm hunt. We had lots of discussions about worms and decided together to make a home for the worms. We searched on the Internet how to make a wormery & gathered the things we needed. Our children worked together to create layers of soil & sand and found lots of dead leaves to place on top. Once we had finished making our wormery we put our worms in and watched them tunnel their way through the soil. Some of our children created pictures of the worms using language such as long, skinny, thin and stretchy. We then created a bug corner to allow our children to explore different types of bugs & extend on their interest & learning.
We can't wait to see what our worms have been up to on Monday. ☺

Happy World Book Day 📚

Today we have celebrated by creating some cosy dens indoors & outdoors to read our favourite books.

Staff have created some story themed set ups for our children to explore, act out and recreate different characters & storyline's .

This week's activities ☺

We started the week by celebrating Pancake Day. Our children enjoyed pancakes & fruit for snack & created their own nature pancakes using herbs, pasta & cereal.

Our children's interest's this week have been; farm animals - naming animals & categorising them into animal groups. 🐑🐄🐓🐖

Construction vehicle's - naming the different machines & talking about the different jobs they do. Exploring different textures such as sand, pasta & cereal.👷

Rolling tyres in our outdoor area - developing physical skills. Maneuvering tyres across crates, up ramps & steps. 💪

A few of our favourite activities from last term. ☺

We followed lots of different interests from the children which included stickman, superheroes, birds, farm animals & dinosaurs.

We celebrated Chinese New Year by talking about what happens during Chinese New Year & looking at pictures during circle time. Our children enjoyed a delicious snack of noodles, egg fried rice & prawn crackers. We decorated our room with some traditional Chinese lanterns & fairy lights.🍲🎉

We were so excited to see our first snowfall of the year & enjoyed exploring outside using paints to change the colour of the snow.⛄

We finished the term off by celebrating Valentines day. Our children created some lovely cards & love bugs to give to their 'someone special'. ❤