Choochoos

Canterbury Choochoos: Our babychoos have been exploring a plasma ball today, using their fingers, hands and feet to make movement on the surface, unvailing a variety of patterns and colours! This was a fasinating sensory experience.

Choochoos Half Term Holiday - Monday 17th February – Friday 21st February. Choochoos will remain open. Children who are term time only will not attend during this period.

Choochoos March Parents Meetings
Parents meetings will take place for your child during March.
Your child's key person will be approaching you shortly to arrange a time for you to attend. It is a very important time for you to attend to help towards reviewing and creating new next steps for your child. We will also be looking at your child’s achievements and progress.
... In preparation for this meeting, please have a look at your child’s eyLog and add any information about your child, to help towards this. Please add photographs along with any written information about what your child has been doing within their home life, their interests and their development.
We look forward to seeing you during the meeting.
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Whitstable Choochoos Our Caterpillars have had a fun filled week mark making, using vehicles and tools to create images. Throughout these experiences our children were learning about colours, textures and giving meaning to the marks they make, describing their creations.

Whitstable Choochoos Our Butterfly children have been learning about space, planets and rockets this week, talking about what planets they recognise and creating their own model planets. Throughout the week our Butterflies have also been exploring their book of the month "Goldilocks and the three bears", making their own wooden spoon puppets to perform with during story times.

Whitstable Choochoos Our children in Babychoos have had a wonderful week exploring their musical baskets that they have created, learning new ways of making music and sounds. Throughout the week our children have been taking part in fruit and vegetable painting, linking to the story book “Handa's surprise”. Our children were discovering what happens when colours are mixed together and how objects can create different shapes. They also had a lovely visit from Gilbert, learning about how to care for animals.

Whitstable Choochoos Our children and practitioners featured in Whitstable Gazette this week, in an article focusing on our fundraising event for the Australian bush fires. We are so grateful for all of the donations and support from our families, children and practitioners. We raised an amazing £700! Well done Choochoos! Take a look at the article!

Dover Choochoos Our children have been exploring and experiencing tea this week. Our children used china teapots, saucers and cups. Our children used their senses to explore the smell, sight and taste of the tea, noticing the changes in the different types, colours and flavours.

Dover Choochoos Hello Babychoos! Our Babychoos like to start their day greeting old and new friends.

Canterbury Choochoos Our Children have been engrossed in a variety of new and familiar stories this week to celebrate 'World Story Telling Day'. Our children dressed up as their favourite story characters and acted out scenes from books including 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Jack in the Beanstalk'. Props were made with a variety of craft resources to make new and exciting story sacks such as, 'The tiger who came to tea', making story experiences more magical and fun. Thank you to everyone who brought in stories from home to share.

Whitstable Choochoos Our children had a wonderful week celebrating ‘World Story Telling Day”. Our children and practitioners dressed up as their favourite book characters and shared their special stories from home with their peers. Our children were learning exciting ways of telling stories by taking part in puppet shows, creating stone stories and writing their own short books, exploring mark making writing. Thank you to all of our families for sharing your books with us all.

Dover Choochoos Please refer to our February events: 3rd February - Candlemas Day 3rd-7th February - Storytelling Week 13th February - World Radio Day... 14th February - Valentines Day 25th February - Pancake Day Please refer to our monthly newsletter for more information or our posters in our lobby area.
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Dover Choochoos KUNG HEI FAT CHOY. Our children have celebrated the 'Chinese New Year' by tasting traditional Chinese food, making Chinese lanterns and practicing our Chinese writing.

Dover Choochoos Our children enjoyed making cakes, they measured out the ingredients and all took part in giving the mixture a big mix! We all enjoyed eating the delicious cake.

Whitstable Choochoos Our children and practitioners enjoyed celebrating ‘Burns Night’. Our children took part in fun and exciting activities, these activities involved cooking their very own Haggis and eating it, listening and dancing to Scottish music and creating Scottish flags. We had a wonderful day last Friday.

Whitstable Choochoos A reminder that it is "Story telling" week this week. All of our children are welcome to come in dressed up as characters from their favourite books. Throughout the week already lots of children and practitioners have shared some wonderful stories from home. Many of our practitioners will be dressed up tomorrow.

Whitstable Choochoos One of our many sponsored bounces for Australia Week.

Whitstable Choochoos Our children, practitioners and families joined together for an amazing fundraising event for the Australian bush fires last week. Our children and practitioners took part in dressing up as Australian animals, a kangaroo sponsored bounce, face painting and setting up their own cake shop. We raised an amazing £700, all of these donations will be sent to the Wildlife Rescue Fund in New South Wales. A big thank you to all of our children, families and practitioners for all of your hard work and donations to support this very special cause. Well Done Choochoos.