The Green Cave Day Nursery

Today we have been exploring rainbow rice and a mixture of different containers and objects. We have been talking about the different colours we can see. The children enjoyed using the scoops to fill and empty the containers exploring mathematics and developing fine motor skills 🌈

We are really proud to have achieved an award for being one of the top 20 Nurseries in the whole of the South East of England. This is out of over 2500 Nurseries, so we are delighted to have been nominated this. Thank you to all of our customers for your recognition.

Celebrating Dinosaur day with a nice sandy swamp to play in 🦕🦖

The children enjoyed the sensory exploration of feeling the wet sand between their fingers and mark making l. This supports physical and personal, social and emotional development especially for babies ✨️

Introducing..Little Tums.

Thank you for bearing with us during a longer than intended switch of Nursery Food supplier.
We are pleased to announce that Little Tums will be providing our Nursery hot lunches and cold tea’s as of next week.
After sampling the food and choice of the 3 week rolling Menu, we feel our children will absolutely love the new tastes and have a better variety than our last supplier.
For the menu’s please see https://www.littletums.co.uk/menus/lunch-menu/ and https://www.littletums.co.uk/menus/cold-tea-menu/
Little Tums pride themselves for supplying fresh and nutrictional meals to local businesses, and of course can cater for allergies and dietary requirments, plus ages and stages.

Sun’s out, fun’s out! ☀️🌳 There’s nothing like fresh air and sunshine to boost our little ones’ spirits and develop their gross motor skills! 🌼🌿

Happy Valentine’s Day to our amazing team ❤️ without you all we wouldn’t be where we are today! 🥰

Last week, we celebrated Lunar New Year! 🎉🧧 The children had so much fun exploring the different activities set up by our amazing team including a coloured rice sensory tray, making firework pictures, creating lanterns, exploring snakes for the year of the snake, a dragon tuff tray, and reading all about Lunar New Year from our books📚🐉✨

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎄

Our children truly benefit from spending time in our sensory room ✨ The sensory room aids in emotional regulation and creates a sense of calm for children to relax and better understand their emotions 🤔 For children to self-regulate, it involves a process of co-regulation, where they need a supportive and understanding adult to help them reach equilibrium and balance their emotions ⚖️ Our team is selected not only for their experience or qualifications but also for their personal attributes such as patience, understanding, and the ability to listen to each child in our care👂❤️

The children in our baby room have really been showing an interest in pouring water, especially at meal times ☺️ As a result, Gem followed this interest and organised a warm water play session for the children to explore 🫗 A great deal of fun was had whilst strengthening our fine motor skills 🤏

Last week, the children celebrated Diwali at nursery with our wonderful Richa ❤️ She arrived in her beautiful sari and jewellery, showing the children and even bringing her children's celebration clothes for them to try on, which they adored 🥰 After dressing up and having a glittery bindi placed on their heads, the children listened attentively as Richa shared the story of Diwali, explaining its significance and traditions 📖 Richa also showcased lovely decorations and Diya candles used in Diwali, including Rangoli patterns, garlands, and floating gold Diyas 😍 Some children tried making and colouring Rangoli patterns, while others painted Diyas or crafted them 👩‍🎨 Happy Diwali, everyone! 🪔