Sticky Fingers Day Nursery

🌞We hope you have all managed to stay cool this week in the warm weather!

💦 We have had lots of water play and time in our cooler classroom downstairs.

📖 Our book this week has been The Perfect Number by Tony Bradman and Sr Sanchez. Numbers really are everywhere! 👀

From counting out cups ☕️ at snack time to matching numerals to the same number of ice cream scoops 🍦or seeing what happens when we add one more toy to a group ➕, our budding mathematicians enjoy number play 💯!

We have been making a 💦splash💦 exploring Oceans!

Decorating fish 🐠 and dolphin 🐬 templates the children made choices about how to stick on tissue paper, describing whether it was smooth or bumpy. 🗣

From water play with sea creatures 🐡 to a sea themed diorama, they have used our books to enhance their ideas 🐙 and stories. 📖

🦖Dino Fun!🦖

We have all been loving reading Penny Dale’s dinosaur book series 📚, finding out about their adventures ⛑, predicting what might happen on the next page 💬 and retelling the stories using small world toys. 🦕

The children have made dinosaur footprints with paint, 🎨 crunched cereal with them and made lots of roaring, crunching and munching sounds! 🔊 And lots more!

We have had a Number Party Week 🤩🎉 Our book has been Double the Fun where the numbers are celebrating a birthday 🎂🎁!

To name just a few activities, the children have
1️⃣ wrapped different shapes up as birthday presents 🟩🟢🔺
2️⃣ found numbers in bubbly water 🧼
3️⃣ made a shopping list and cut up bunting for the party ☑️
4️⃣ played party games and changed the volume from loud to quiet like the numbers in the story 🔈
5️⃣ had a party in the sensory room to finish off the week 🤩💃🕺🏻!

and much more!

See you all after half term on Monday 1st June!

☂️ The Blue Umbrella ☂️ by Emily Ann Davison and Momoko Abe is a wonderful book. All about sheltering others under an umbrella and bringing different people together, it has been a springboard for showing kindness. 👦🏽👳🏾‍♂️👶🏼🧕🏿

We have also crafted umbrellas, followed repeating patterns on colourful umbrellas and used a parachute to make a den like the umbrella in the story.

💙Kindness isn’t just something we teach but something in our practice too!

Working with our families, each child at Sticky Fingers is valued and we strive to create an inclusive setting where each child’s voice is heard, verbal or pre verbal.👂

We adapt the activities, routine of the day and layout of the room to make sure that every child is learning and thriving 🌱.

😋 Healthy Eating 😋

This week the children listened to Handas Surprise by Eileen Browne and did a food hunt based on the story. They played ❓ Guess the fruit or vegetable ❓ using clues and then making up their own clues for the game. 🥕🥦🍅

Splashing in water play 💦 with toy food, they named what they found and made smoothies and fruit kebabs for snack 😋They also learnt about where our food comes from, how it’s made 🧀🌽🥗 and why eating healthy is good for us. 🤩✨

They looked at the inside of an apple and observed how it changed throughout the week. 🍎 Playing the Bean Game the children used their bodies related to different beans, running, stretching high and lying on the ground. 🏃‍♀️🏃

🌕 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Blast Off! We have been to the moon this week with our book Dinosaur Rocket by Penny Dale 🦖.

We have counted planets, and aliens, 👽 matching numbers to their value. The children have painted sparkly planets and role played in our rocket ship after watching a video of real astronauts travelling to space. 👩‍🚀🧑‍🚀👨‍🚀 They baked cheesy stars, measuring out the ingredients and working together to mix the ingredients.

⭐️They had to be brave like the dinosaurs in the story by jumping off a big tower of tyres outside, cheering each other on by shouting ‘be brave, be brave!‘ 🤩 They have done lots of mark making in flour, sand and with with felt tips on a space scene and have used hooks, pulleys and buttons in our Space small world 🥳🪝🚀.

Continuing exploring Spring this week the children have been constructing flowers, recreating the story of the tiny seed. 🌷🌻🌼

They made pictures of the seasons using different materials of their choice to represent each one. ☀️❄️

Developing their social skills, they have shared resources and ideas in games, learning about friendship and taking turns. 🥰

Using different shapes they arranged them to create different elements of Spring, a rabbit, 🐇sheep 🐑and a flower 🌷!

🌷Spring has sprung at Sticky Fingers Day Nursery and we have begun seeing all of the changes that the new season brings.

🌱The children have enjoyed reading The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and took part in a sensory story following the journey of the seed. They blew straws for the wind, sat on a snowy mountain and poured water on the seeds until the last one became the tallest! 🌻

🌸Looking at a flower they named the different parts and have crafted their own. Hopping like rabbits in circle time they saw how a rabbit grows up. 🐇

💦They have also enjoyed playing with flowers and ducks in sand and water, and have spent plenty of time outside on our terrace, climbing on the equipment and digging in soil! 🪴