Kids at kelly's

We’ve been keeping a little secret 🤫

And Chinese New Year has begun..

The year of the horse 🐴

🍌 24 pancakes!! 🫐
Thank goodness for ready-made

Supporting several learning areas through the enjoyment of play.

🎨 Understanding the World / Expressive Arts

❤️Recognising and naming colours
❤️Noticing similarities between objects of the same colour

✋ Physical Development

❤️Using tongs,tweezers or chopsticks to pick up objects. Enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and concentration & Strengthens small hand muscles.

🧠 Communication & Language
❤️Talking about what they see
❤️Describing objects (big/small, soft/hard, smooth/rough)
❤️Using colour vocabulary
❤️ Turn-taking teaches children to listen, anticipate, and respond appropriately
❤️ Playing with vehicles (especially round a child’s interest) introduces new words

🔢 Maths (Early Skills)
❤️Sorting and grouping by colour
❤️Counting objects
❤️Comparing sizes and shapes

👶🏻🧒 Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED)

❤️Waiting their turns, transforming impulsive desires into patience, empathy, and self-control.

❤️ Building Friendships: By sharing and taking turns, children build trust and foster positive relationships with peers.

Well it’s been a while since I’ve been able to offer spaces but from September I have the following.👇🏻

Latest Hampshire SENDIASS Online Workshops for parents.

Wishing my Minder’s & their Parents a wonderful Christmas & New Year!!
Thank you for trusting me with your precious little ones 💙❤️
We have had another wonderful year of fun & learning. From adventures, songs to crafts!! It's been a joy to watch them grow & learn. X

💙💙The children’s Christmas keepsakes have been heading home 💙💙

I was also sent a Message, that a parent has still kept these from 2015!!🥰

Comment away if you still have yours.

Winter often brings big energy in little bodies… and just as much tiredness in the adults who care for them.
This is where heavy work becomes one of our most powerful tools. ❄️🤍

Heavy work isn’t about “burning off energy.”
It’s about regulating the nervous system.

When children push, pull, carry, lift, drag, climb and crawl, their bodies receive deep proprioceptive input — the kind of sensory feedback that helps them feel:
• Grounded
• Calm
• Safe
• More able to focus
• More able to regulate emotions
• Less overwhelmed by the world around them

Many winter behaviour spikes aren’t “naughty behaviour” at all…
They’re sensory regulation needs asking to be met.

Simple winter heavy work ideas:
❄️ Carrying logs, cones, stones or watering cans
❄️ Pushing wheelbarrows, prams or trolleys
❄️ Pulling sleds, baskets or tyres
❄️ Dragging tarps of leaves
❄️ Moving chairs, crates or cushions indoors
❄️ Wall push-ups, bear crawls, rolling big balls
❄️ Smashing ice, kneading snow dough, digging frozen treasure

No flashy resources.
No complicated set-ups.
Just purposeful movement that brings calm.

And this is the heart of what we explore inside Hygge in the Early Years™ —
Not adding more…
But learning how to slow the pace, support the nervous system, and create environments where calm can actually live.

Because when children feel regulated, they don’t need to communicate through dysregulation.

✨ If you’d love to deepen your understanding of regulation, slow pedagogy and creating calm, connected early years environments, you can explore my training here:
👉 https://www.hyggeintheearlyyears.co.uk/hygge-accreditation

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Moments lately 🥰

Our annual trip to keydells was fabulous again today & Christmas crafts are well under way.