Mila's Little Owls

☀️ Another Fun-Filled Week at Mila’s Little Owls! 💦🌈
What a wonderful week we’ve had enjoying the sunshine while recapping some of our favourite themes from the year.
We revisited Transport, spotting different vehicles on our walk and singing lots of nursery rhymes together. We also explored zoo and farm animals, with the Little Owls proudly recognising and naming so many different animals.
The paddling pool and water play were the highlights of the week! From splashing and pouring to imaginative water play and games of Ring a Ring o’ Roses, everyone had a fantastic time keeping cool.
A special moment was watching a beautiful Red Admiral butterfly visit our garden before it fluttered away.
It has been another week full of laughter, learning, friendships and summer fun. We can’t wait to see what this week brings! 💛

🌊🐠 What a fin-tastic two weeks we’ve had at Mila’s Little Owls! 🐠🌊

Our Little Owls have loved exploring our Under the Sea theme through stories, songs, sensory play, creative activities, garden adventures, walks, and even a fun trip to Cha Cha Chimps! We pretended to be sharks, crabs, jellyfish and turtles, searched for sea creatures, enjoyed water play, and learned so much through play.

It has been wonderful watching the children use their imaginations, build confidence, and develop new skills while having lots of fun together. We can’t wait to see what our next adventure brings! 💙🐙🐢

🌊🐠 Under the Sea Fun at Mila’s Little Owls! 🐳🐙

This week, the Little Owls began our new Under the Sea theme! We explored amazing sea creatures including whales, dolphins, sharks, octopuses, crabs and colourful fish through stories, books and even a short Octonauts adventure. 🦀📚

With the warm weather, we made the most of outdoor play. The paddling pool and water tray were huge favourites, where the children enjoyed splashing, sliding and creating their own underwater worlds. 💦 We also built with Duplo, matched colours, rode trikes, created with waffle blocks and enjoyed short nature walks.

It has been a week full of laughter, curiosity and lots of learning through play. We can’t wait to continue our underwater adventures next week! 🌊💙

👩‍⚕️ What a wonderful week at Mila’s Little Owls! 👩‍⚕️👮‍♂️
This week we carry on with our People Who Help Us topic, focusing on police officers and doctors. The Little Owls enjoyed reading stories, taking part in role play, building police stations, caring for baby dolls and learning about how these important people help us every day.
🚓 A highlight of the week was meeting two police officers and seeing a real police car up close!
📚 We also enjoyed visits to the library, Hummingbirds Playgroup and Little Learners, where the children explored, created, played and made new friends.
☀️ With the beautiful weather, we spent lots of time outdoors enjoying walks, garden play and water activities.
A fantastic week full of learning, imagination and fun!

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👀‼️ Let’s address a common issue, and create awareness of the dangers.

Over the last few weeks I’ve had more people than usual with complaints of ‘faulty car seats’ however, 9/10 times food is the culprit, not a fault.

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗹𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆.

𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗲 / 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲.

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁.

🚒📮 People Who Help Us – Week 1 📮🚒

What a fantastic week the Little Owls have had learning about the amazing people who help us every day!
This week we focused on firefighters, postal workers and delivery helpers. We listened to the Postman Pat song, looked at pictures of the famous red van and talked about how letters and parcels travel from one place to another. 📬
We enjoyed reading lots of books, including Freddie the Fire Engine, Bizzy Bear’s Breakdown Truck and train stories. The children loved pretending to travel on trains to different destinations, using their imaginations and developing their communication skills. 🚂
Our role-play activities included driving fire engines, delivering parcels, using toy phones and practising how to call 999 in an emergency. Through play, the children learned about staying safe and how emergency services help our community. 🚒☎️
We visited both Hummingbird Playgroup and Little Learners Playgroup, where the Little Owls enjoyed meeting new friends, exploring new environments and developing their social skills. They also had great fun riding bikes, kicking balls, building with blocks and taking part in creative activities. ⚽🚲🧱🎨
We even made a trip to Broughton Fire Station.
To finish the week, the sunshine finally arrived! ☀️ We burned off lots of energy at Cha Cha Chimps and enjoyed plenty of outdoor play in the garden.

We can’t wait to continue our People Who Help Us adventure next week! ❤️🦉

🐷🐮🐑 Farm Animal Fun at Mila’s Little Owls! 🐑🐮🐷

What a fantastic week we’ve had exploring our farm animals theme!

Throughout the week, the Little Owls enjoyed learning about different farm animals, the sounds they make, and where they live. We read wonderful stories including Animal Rhymes and Oh Dear!, sang favourite nursery rhymes such as Sleeping Bunnies, Five Little Speckled Frogs and Baa Baa Black Sheep, and had lots of fun building barns, stables, pig pens and hutches using magnetic tiles.

Our adventures took us to the local park, where we spotted dogs, cats and even spiders, and to Tesco, where we explored the book section and visited the dog statue. We also enjoyed exciting outings to soft play, Little Learners and Cha Cha Chimps, where the children had endless fun climbing, sliding, running, dancing, singing and exploring with their friends.

Back at the setting, we continued our learning through imaginative play, building homes for our farm animals, creating artwork, dancing with colourful scarves and enjoying plenty of time outdoors in the garden.

It has been wonderful to see how much the Little Owls have learned.

🐷🐮 Farm Animals Week at Mila’s Little Owls 🐑🚜

What a wonderful week we have had exploring our new theme — Farm Animals!

Throughout the week, the Little Owls enjoyed playing with our farm sets, tractors and animals, pretending to be farmers and caring for all the animals on the farm. During circle times, we read lots of lovely stories including Noisy Farm, Buster at the Farm, On the Farm and Hide and Seek Pig. The children have been getting so good at recognising different animals and making all their sounds correctly! 🐔🐴🐷

We also sang lots of nursery rhymes and favourite songs, especially Old MacDonald Had a Farm, which became a big hit this week! 🎶

The lovely weather meant we could enjoy lots of outdoor play too. The Little Owls had so much fun in the garden with water play, splashing in the paddling pool, sliding into the water, catching fish, cooking in the mud kitchen and riding tricycles. We also enjoyed local walks where the children mooed, baa-ed, neighed and chirped like farm animals while walking together under the shady trees. ☀️💦

We finished the week with a lovely visit to the library where we explored even more animal books and stories together.

It has been a week full of learning, laughter, singing and imaginative play. Well done Little Owls! 🦉💛