Chapel Road Little Explorers

🐠🌊 World Ocean Day 🌊🐠

We have been focusing on World Ocean Day, which is an annual event raising awareness about marine conservation.

We have talked about the sea and the different fish and corals that live in it. We also learnt about it being very important to look after the sea to help the fish and corals. Fish 🐟 🐬 🐠 🦈 🐢

🍪 National biscuit day and the Great Outdoors 🌷

On Friday Preschool made their own biscuits as part of national biscuit day!

We talked about what ingredients we needed to make them. The children guessed we needed flour, sugar, butter and an egg 🥚

We then took turns at measuring out the different ingredients and mixed it all together. Once they had been in the oven, we took a little trip out and had a picnic in the park 🧺 .

We all tasted the biscuits then went exploring and found lots of daisies and different flowers 🌸🌷

🦁🦍🦒 Dear Zoo 🦒🦍🦁

The babies and our Rising 2’s children have been focusing on communication and language skills and have been making the different animals noises they see.

Some were able to recognise the different animals, and enjoyed pointing to the pictured spoons.

❤️ The Importance of a Key Person ❤️

A key worker in early years settings provides a consistent, trusted attachment figure that helps children feel safe, secure, and understood.

This role, crucial for emotional regulation, reduces separation anxiety and builds resilience, while promoting tailored learning. Key workers also bridge the gap between home and nursery, fostering strong, collaborative partnerships with parents.

🌎 Earth day 🌎

Today the children have been very busy learning about ‘Earth day’.

Toddlers used lots of different tools to choose from pouring, tipping and using tweezers to pick up the different objects in the tuff tray.

Pre school made a fizzy earth using bicarbonate of soda and food colouring, they then made their own earth pictures using fine motor skills to print using the dabbers 🌎.

The babies used a selection of natural materials including bright coloured flowers 🌺 , different leaves 🍃 grass and some insects hidden 🐜. The babies reached out and grabbed the petals and leaves showing curiosity.
They also attempted to use the magnifying glasses to look at different objects in the tray.🔎

Local walks 🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶

We have had lots of fun exploring the local area with the children.
We have seen the horses 🐎 and baby ducks 🦆 in the stream. Goats 🐐 and pigs 🐖 at the Hayloft and have been to the library for story time 📚

The children used there gross motor skills to climb the stairs up the slide, and also enjoying the swings! 🛝

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We had our Environment health inspection this morning.

We achieved 5 stars and the inspector was really impressed with the standard of cleanliness, organisation and thorough paperwork that was in place. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Well done Kirsty 👏 We are all really pleased at the outcome.

🌺 Mothers day stay and play 🌺

On Friday the children had a lovely time celebrating Mother’s Day with their special family members. The children enjoyed taking part in lots of activities such as decorating biscuits, planting flower seeds, colouring and lots more.

We hope all that attending had a lovely time and we hope you have a lovely mother's day 🩷

Happy International Women’s Day! 🌸✨

Today we celebrate the strength, resilience, and achievements of women everywhere. From the women who inspire us daily to those who have broken barriers and paved the way for future generations 🧡

Let’s continue to uplift, support, and empower one another, not just today but every day 💜

Here’s to strong women:
May we know them.
May we be them.
May we raise them