What a week it has been!

We read and talked through the book ‘The bear and the piano’ talking about his feelings throughout which were, happy, proud, lonely and sad because he missed his friends. 🐻🌳🌆

Giving the children the chance to explore their musical side, 3 keyboards were left out for them to orchestrate and perform to a crowd of friends. 🎹

The book lead into our challenges this week, in small world the tuff tray had natural materials in representing the woods and a tray for you to build your very own big city.

The hospital role play was to make a hearing devices out of recycled materials and in creative we had a beautiful textile tree for the children to touch and feel different textures.

Maths was all about matching quantities to numerals 0-5 the children did really well at this and loved the hide and seek number games.

Cooking we made cranberry granola bars, talking about how much bears like berries and honey 🍯 yummy.

indoor PE had an assault course ready for the children to move their bodies in different ways.

In the forest, children were taught about how to look after the birds making bird feeders for the big bird watch week. As I am a lover of birds seeing the children staying focused on an activity which helps the birds and watch them was a pleasure to see. In nursery Mrs Pablos created a lovely lookout window in the cozy corner for them to watch closely at the birds feeding. Tweet, tweet what a treat! 🐧

Next weeks book will be ‘ The invisible’ ❄️💨 https://youtu.be/bQplJCEYgWM?si=5nNWm9HElrGvJyZ2

https://youtu.be/IN4k7vfEY8c?si=qJpIFGlYMbsLE7E9 The bear and the piano

Well they’ve all settled in and back very nicely here in Mighty Oaks ❤️
It’s a big change in routine for most for them but they have adapted really well and starting to explore the setting and making friends.
We appreciate your patience while the staff learn all the new faces of mommy’s, daddy’s, grandparents, aunties, uncles and childminders at pickup time, thank you 🙏🏼
Now your children have been assigned a colour group, you well start to see observations coming through from their key worker. If you are still unsure please ask at the gate and we will welcome you to your child’s teacher.

This week our story has been Funny bones 🦴 we’ve dug right into this quite literally by digging for bones in the tuff tray, looking at X-rays in our hospital role play 🩻 making skeletons out of pipe cleaners and cotton buds, then out lining our bodies with wooden blocks.

In cooking they made tasty savoury puff pastry bones, while learning about the importance of calcium and where their ingredients came from. 🧑🏾‍🍳

In the woods they’ve explored its changes our time and made their very own dream catchers 🌳

Indoor PE was all about balance, yoga and team work. Playing lots of tag games and memory games. 🏃🏽‍♂️

Next weeks book is ‘ The bear and the piano ‘ all about a bear and his talents who’s taken away from the woods to a great big city and all the emotions that he felt. Will we see our future musicians as the keyboards are coming out? 🎹 very excited !

Well that’s a wrap 🎄🎁 what a term it’s been! Full of celebrations all around. Seeing Santa, disco party, snow ball fight, the Christmas performance and many, many more exciting activities.
We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year 🥳
Thank you from all of the team for the wonderful positive comments it really does make us feel proud of what we do with the children and each milestone achieved. Also a massive thank you for the ever so thoughtful cards and gifts.

We look forward to returning in January with some new faces joining us ❤️