This week has been a good week, the children have enjoyed joining in with all the fun national activities that we have set up for them and enjoyed going on some daily walks. This weeks national days were Porridge day. The children enjoyed porridge activities and having a nice warm bowl for their breakfast. Then came farmers day, which the children enjoyed playing in the farmers tuff tray themed tray. To end a fun week our last national day was desserts day. The children enjoyed playing in our dessert themed activities, eating pineapple for pudding after lunch and telling us what is their favourite dessert.

We have been celebrating 🥳 porridge 🥣 day! We used our fine motor skills to pick up 🔝 a spoon 🥄 and scoop up the oats into the single bowls or into their mouths 👄 to taste 👅 them. Some of them thought it was yummy 😋 whilst some of them weren’t too sure and went off to play elsewhere.
Some of the babies 👶 liked playing with the different sized sensory balls 🏀 rolling them around the room, pushing the balls 🏀 with their hands 🙌🏾 listening to the bells 🔔 jingle.
We played with our own little tea 🫖 set. We used our hands 🙌🏾 to pick up the teapot 🫖 and tip the tea ☕️ onto their own cups. They used different senses for this activity, they used their noses 👃 to smell the different teabags and used their mouths 👄 and tongues to taste the tea 🫖. In toddlers 👫we have been doing all things porridge as it’s porridge day! 🥣We started off our day by role playing as Goldilocks and the three bears! 🐻We held masks 🎭of each character to our face and pretended to eat some yummy 😋porridge! We then pretended to be Goldilocks 👱🏼‍♀️and fed the three bears🐻 some porridge to make up for eating it all!!!😱😋
We then headed into the creative ✨room to make them some more porridge! 🍽️We explored each ingredient by feeling✋smelling 👃and tasting👅 each one! Following this we talked about how to make porridge and we mixed all of the ingredients together in a big bowl! 🥣
On top of this, we have been using our fine motor 🤏skills to make some numbers 🔢out of play dough! We used our fingers to manipulate the play dough to shape it into each number! We then sang🎤lots of counting songs 🎶once we had done this!
We have had a brilliant day in preschool. We have been celebrating national porridge 🥣 day!! We have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and the three bears 🐻 🐻🧸 story book. 📖 The children sat down in a big group and listened to the practitioner re tell this story using props. The children were really engaged whilst watching this visual and interactive version of the story. Throughout the story there are many themes of emotions, keeping safe and sizes. We focused on looking at the different sizes. The children help to find out who’s bowl, chair and bed matched which bear. The children soon noticed that the small furniture 🪑 was made for the baby bear 🐻, and the medium sized furniture 🪑 was for mummy bear 🐻 , and the big furniture 🪑 was daddy bears 🐻!! We learnt lots of vocabulary to describe the different sizes, small, medium and big became are key words to describe the difference in sizes. Once the story was told the children had lots of fun using the props 🐻🥣🪑🛏️ to reenact the story. 📚
In addition we had so much making our very own porridge 🥣 for the bears!! The children explored the oats texture with their hands 🤲 and had lots of fun scooping the oats in to the big, medium and small sized bowls 🥣 “like the bears!!!” 🧸One child said very excitedly! The children again noticed the difference in sizes and matched the correct sized spoon 🥄 to their bowls. The children liked measuring and weighing the oats with their balancing scales ⚖️. We then poured some water into the bowl 🥣 and took it in turns to mix the oats and water together to make some porridge 🥣. The children enjoyed seeing step by step how the texture of the oats changed into porridge 🥣.

Old McDonald had a farm!
Today has been farmers day, where we learned about all the animals Old McDonald had. He had snakes, cows, mice, sheep, pig and lot more! We had lots of fun singing along using musical instruments as well as using animal marks. 🐒🐷🐹🐍
We then made our way over to the tuff tray which had a theme of a farm. We splashed away in the blue foam water With the ducks and crunched our way through the leaves like horses. 🦆💦
To get our bodies moving we had a game of Simon Says. We listened to the ’Simon’ and copied what he said. We pulled dolly faces, jumped up and down, clapped hands and many more movements. 🤪👏🏻
Next stop was over at the pasta station! There were different coloured ribbons of different sizes to choose from to make it easy or tricky for us. We had lots of focused attention then even turned some into bracelets.📌🖇️ 🧵

Happy Friday,
Hope today has been a great day for you all.
This morning the children 👦👧 enjoyed our mark making activity that we had set up for them. There were plenty of different resources ✏️🖍for the children to use to be creative.
In the tuff tray the children 👦👧 enjoyed playing with the different colour 🟣🟠🟡🔴 shredded paper 📄. They used there hands 🤲 to feel and explore. It was a rainbow themed cake tray because today is dessert 🍨 🍮🧁 day.
In the messy room the children 👦👧 enjoyed playing with our milkshake 🥛 activity. They had so much fun blowing through the straw to make the milkshakes 🥛 frothy. This was a lot of fun 😄.
In babies 👶 they enjoyed another trip to the park, The swings and slides were their favourite today.