Windmill Daycare-Music Federation

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called “Little sunflower”. Our rhyme of the week has been “Baa baa black sheep”. The children have enjoyed planting sunflower seeds. We have used chalk outside to draw around our bodies and measure them and compare sizes. In forest school the children experienced a bare foot walk on different textures such as stones, grass, mud and bark. We have started our transition visits to the sunflower room for the children that will be moving up in September. We have had such a busy week back.

This week in the sunflowers room we have looked at the book “you choose fairy tales”. This book has been one of the children’s favourite books this year, there is so much to talk about and so many activities to do.

The children have enjoyed listening to the book and choosing their own characters, houses, friends, mazes ect in this book and putting the story together at the end. We let their imaginations run away with itself. We have also created our own stories by choosing characters who we want in our stories then drawing them. The children have also spoken about what they would like to be when they grow up, we had lots of teachers, builders, princesses, spidermen and many more wonderful things.

In our forest school we got to experience a bare foot walk which the children absolutely loved. They spoke about what they could feel on their feet as they walked across it.

And finally… in our little chefs we created pizza wraps!! They were absolutely delicious. The children add mushrooms, tomato puree,Sweet corn and cheese. The children loved them.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend and remember always follow your dreams✨💫

This week in Buttercups, we have been focusing on the story “Rabbits nap.” We have been doing lots of things around sensory play, we have had a sensory tray out with lots of different textures for the children to explore such as feathers, different types of brushes, textures balls, tiles and fidget spinners. We have also had fluorescent paint and shaving foam on the table, they have used different tools to make marks. The children have also been visiting their new room Daffodils ready for their transition in September and to become familiar with the room and staff.

This week in Daffodils, our story has been “Look out! Hungry Snake.” The children have been enjoying making their own snakes using their fingers and hands, the children have expanded their balancing skills outside to walk along the balance beam and move along their own snakes we drew out with chalk. In forest school, we found and collected lots of different materials we could find from the garden. We spoke about the different textures, colours and sizes, the children have also been visiting their new Tulips ready for their transition in September.

Don't forget nursery is closed tomorrow Friday 22nd May 2026 for a training day. We hope you all have a lovely bank holiday in the sunshine.

We’ve had a chilly week this week in Daffodils. We have been exploring ice with animals, washing the babies and making our own ice cream sundaes. The children have been role playing bedtime routines with the teddies and the babies. The children explored the mud kitchen creating their own kitchen delights. This has linked to our story of the week The Bedtime Bear.

This week in the Tulips room we have been reading the story called “Kippers picnic”. The children have enjoyed lots of activities related to the story such as Printing with fruit and paint, having a picnic with the bread that we have made in little chefs and making kites in forest school. Our butterflies have grown too and the children watched as we released them today. What a busy week! We hope that you have a lovely half term and we will see you soon 🌷

This week in the sunflowers room we looked at the book Giraffes can’t dance. The children have really enjoyed this book as they were able to dance around to music, create their own musical instruments using boxes and bottles with rice and string as well as other resources and some of our children even drew their own giraffes.

The children have also been keeping up with our plants ensuring there always watered and well looked after. They are starting to grow and it’s super exciting!!

Our children have also been practicing their mark making skills too! They are doing incredible at this!! Well done boys and girls.

We hope you have a fabulous bank holiday and a great half term! We will see you after half term 🌻🌻

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called Animal hide and seek. Inside we have been playing lots of matching and pairs games in small groups. Outside we have played hide and seek and the children have been looking for animals that are camouflaged in the garden. At forest school we have been creating our own dens and hiding spaces. On Wednesday we celebrated numeracy day and we invited our parents and carers to join us for some number activities and to sing some number songs. What a busy week we have had 🌷

This week in the Sunflowers room we looked at the book The Big Race. This books all about a race between different animals. We played games and races outside and explained to the children it’s not just about winning it’s about taking part. The children did really well at understanding the games and taking part in them. We also explored the forest school garden to find different animals/insects, we found ants, spiders, lady birds and caterpillars. It was so much fun. The children enjoyed creating their own games too, they created snakes and ladders, bingo and many more.

Do you remember when I said stay tuned? Well guess what… our cress has grownnnn!!! The children were super excited and they even tried some cress too. The rest of our plants are still growing so hopefully we will see there progress of growth soon.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all next week for another exciting week🌻🌻