Tiddlywinks Nursery York

Love has filled the air at Tiddlywinks York this week!

We have welcomed our wonderful Grandparents in for a Valentines afternoon tea stay and play! There was cake, scones, sandwiches and veg sticks, with a special thanks to our wonderful cook Auntie Sue!

We have had lots of lovely activities, including card making, pink and red playdoughs, making amazing "stained glass hearts" and many more! ❤️

What a fantastic week! ❤️

"We're not scared!" 🐻

This week in Early Explorers we have been going on a bear hunt!

We have had an amazing time getting messy and diving into the story and some sensory play!

We read the story, we squelched through the mud in our gloop tray, we got blown away in a flour and cotton bud snowstorm, stumbled tripped our way through a deep forest and tiptoed in a dark, gloomy cave!

Everyone had lot of fun, got very messy and no one got scared! 🌲 🌨️ 🐻

A huge congratulations to Amber for completing her level 3 in childcare from all of the Tiddlywinks Team in York!

Very well deserved! 🎉🎉

There has been some fabulous 'in the moment' learning taking place in our Imaginative Investigators room this week. ✨

Following a story last week and a conversation about being careful not to walk on icy ponds (as falling into freezing water is dangerous), one of our Imaginative Investigators asked "Well how do whales stay warm?"
A great question and one which the Imaginative Investigator staff sought to answer by carrying out the 'Blubber-glove experiment'!

On the investigation table the children firstly looked at the arctic and antarctic refions on a world map before exploring the small world set up, talking about icebergs, snow, and creatures that we find there.
We then created our own icy ocean by adding frozen icebergs to a bowl of cold water and prepared to test our 'Blubber-glove'.

The children took it in turns to put a control glove onto one hand and the 'blubber-glove' onto yhe otherand submerged their hands into the icy water at the same time, after guessing which hand would feel coldest in the water. It was fabulous to see their faces smile and tell us that their 'blubber-glove' hand was the warmest!

The activity was followed up with a conversation about how some animals have blubber to keep them warm.

This was a fantastic activity allowing the children to predict, test their ideas and then talk about their conclusions, as well as a wonderful example of how we follow the children's lines of enquiry here at Tiddlywinks, making their learning meaningful and child-led.

Great job everyone! 🐋 🧤 🌊 ❄️

'The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge' - Maria Montessori

The Daring Discoverers have opened their senses with a range of fantastic fun filled activities including baking cheese straws, finding Tiddler in our under the sea water and ice trays, celebrating the new year with some hands on painting, decorating our favourite fish characters and getting in our physical activity with some hoops!

A lovely and adventurous start to the new year! 🐠🐟🎉

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. ❤️

The children have been very thoughtful and kind and made some wonderful christmas cards for our neighbours, friends and local businesses! 🎄

Anna and Jake have been out today to deliver them and spread some joy and kindness to our local community. 🎁

Wishing you all a wonderfully Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year from all of us at Team Tiddlywinks! 🎄🎁❤️

Our Active Adventurers have been very busy with incredible festive sensory play in the garden!

Lots to smell, feel, taste and mix, the children had a wonderful time getting creative and messy!

🍊 ❄️ 🎄

We had some very special visitors in nursery this week!

Father Christmas' most special helpers! Ronnie and Prancer, let us give them some special moss from Sweden and stroke their noses!

Everyone was so brave! 🦌 🧑🏻‍🎄

This week we are saying a HUGE congratulations to Early Explorers room's own Laura and Lily for completing and passing their Early Years Educator Level 3 qualifications! 🎉🥳

And also a huge congratulations to our Active Adventurers Room Supervisor Cleo on completing and passing her Bachelor degree in Leading Children's Development and Learning! 🥳🎉

Everyone in the Tiddlywinks Team is incredibly proud of you all, well done! 🎊

Cutest pumpkins in the patch, just boo-tiful! 🎃

We have had a fantastic week celebrating Halloween with all sorts of spooky activities!

We have played with slime, carved pumpkins, created spooky spiders and made some scary ghosts!

We finished the week with a Halloween part in each room! Lots of hauntingly delicious food and treats, music and costumes! 🎃

Have a fabulous weekend and join us for some fireworks themes to get next week going with a bang! 🎆🎇

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

This week in Active Adventureres, we have been having lots of fun with Autumn themed activities! 🍂🍁

Th children have learned all about the Autumn season, the leaves falling for the trees and Halloween!

We have explored malleable play with playdough and soil, used our fine motor skills with tweezers and tools, explored all of the Autumnal colours with lots of mark making!

Everyone has been fantastic, learned a lot and listened well!

Great job Active Adventurers!

We have an exciting opportunity at Tiddlywinks York, we are looking for a passionate, driven Level 3 qualified Early Years Educator to join the team!

If you think that may be you, don't hesitate to take your first step and contact us on the details below!