We have welcomed our Star children over the course of this week and have really enjoyed watching them start to explore and start to learn the routines! Some tears of course and they are to be expected, especially after such a strange for 24 months of their lives, but we can already see that our nurturing and distracting and playing can make a difference to even the most upset little person so we feel really encouraged by that and hope that you are all OK as you get used to dropping them off and please do ring in any time you would like for an update on what they are up to!
We have a firefighter coming in on Monday to see the children as we have really enjoyed our fire fighter role play and we are also having a free Robot Reg Phonics session for the older children next week and it really is wonderful to be welcoming visitors back into the setting.
The Sun group had their first Forest School on Thursday and the Moon enjoyed their session today, we will alternate each Thursday and Friday and now that we have two trained staff we will be running sessions for all children over the course of the year.
We are creating some new areas on our website to share our ethos and planning and curriculum with you so will let you know when those are live.
Next week we will also be learning about farming and harvest time and will be visiting the church at some point for a harvest experience, we have certainly missed getting out and about in our community due to COVID so cannot wait to go out for a wander. We always need volunteers on our trips out as we like to go with a high ratio so keep an eye out for a text request for helpers as we set the date for some trips.
This week our Sun and Moon children have really settled into a good circle routine, please chat to them about their group times – we have learnt about maps this week and drawn our own which are on the wall in the Moon room. We have also looked at the family selfies too and taken pictures of ourselves in group time, we have also talked about how tall we are and looked at very tall building and recreated them out of blocks. We have enjoyed some physical exercise and activity looking at shapes as well and listened carefully to story sacks. The children also explore the concepts of floating and sinking using natural objects they found in the garden….luckily the slowworm that they found on Thursday was discovered after the circle time!
The Star children settle in the Star room, they have a little sing song and then snack and then go on outside to play
