Stepping Stones Day Nursery - Lingley Mere

This week in preschool the children have continued to show a strong interest in climbing, waterplay and bugs as well as a new interest of filling and categorising objects and role play outside, we have made a car wash station and an ice cream shop. Have a lovley weekend and we'll see you next week :)

This week in the toddler room we have been mark making in different ways, we have turned our home corner into a house so we can care for the babies and engage in role play, we enjoyed playing on the bikes and in the water area. Have a lovely weekend :)

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Babies have been exploring our community looking for shaded areas to play and explore using bridges and woodland. We found baby ducklings to sing to using animal sounds at the birds and other animals that we have been discovering in our books and song props at Nursery. Learning how to push and roll objects in different environments and looking at our family photographs in our family tree, please bring in family photos so that we can extend your babies communication recognising people that are special to us next week, we will look forward to hearing about your weekend, see you all next week.

This week in our Baby Room we have been continuing to climb on various resources, playing in water (filling & emptying containers) and also looking at song bags and the props to support this. We have especially enjoyed different activities based around our interest in 5 little ducks. We hope you enjoy our photo's. Have a lovely sunny weekend x

This week in Pre Toddlers we have been exploring the marks we make using various resources. We have enjoyed filling and emptying containers, posting items in different sized slots and we have even been working with dry spaghetti, cheerios and pipe cleaners. We hope you a wonderful weekend enjoying the sun shine.

This week in Toddlers as well as enjoying the sunshine we have been continuing our interests in climbing (taking risks), mark making and pouring and filling. We hope you enjoy our photo's and a weekend full of sunshine x

We are following the babies interests supporting them with pulling to standing, challenging them by adding to the activities we have played with, extending vocabulary throughout with songs, props and rhymes to keep concentration for longer periods. Please fill in weekend books we will share all family photos with the babies.

This week preschool have shown an interest in shops, we turned the home corner into a shop and have looked at how to recognise 1p 10p up to £5.00 and how to count back to get change. We have written shopping lists and worked on letter formation. We have also explored the mud kitchen again, making soups, adding herbs and spices and adding different ingredients. We have added various things to the water and looked at different sized containers and shapes. We have also promoted risky play by doing obstacle courses and using the balance bike to ride across high planks. We have learnt lots through play this week and some of us got very muddy looking for bugs! Big thank you to everyone who came for our Father's Day penalty shoot out! :) have a lovely weekend X

This week in the toddler room we have been mark making inside with different equipment, outside we have been climbing, playing on the bikes, playing in the water area, we have done activate fun with Danny. On Tuesday afternoon some of our daddys came to play football. I hope you like our pictures see you all next week love toddlers :)

Thank you to the dads who came on friday to our Pre-Toddler stay and play session and to the ones who came this morning to have breakfast with us. It was lovely to see you all, Hope you like the pictures 🙂 xx

This week in preschool we have followed the interests with water play, adding and combining, making playdough with scents, hide and seek and climbing and building! The children have seen lots of bugs including a Wolf Spider and this has developed their interests of insects! We hope you have a lovely weekend and we will see everyone next week :)

This week in the toddler room inside we have been looking at mark making in different ways, outside we have been playing in the water area, learning how to blow bubbles, climbing, being superheros and we turned our bike area into a car wash. Some of our dads came for breakfast for fathers day. Hope you enjoy our pictures. Happy fathers day.

Babies have been very busy this week. We have done lots of work on developig our physical skills. We have enjoyed using the walkers, crawling through the tunnel, playing on the softplay. We have also enjoyed looking at the different type of textures of balls and what they feel like. We have had lots of fun looking at different rhyme and song bags again this week. See you next week :D xx

This week in Pre-toddlers we have been continuing with our interest of push and pulling objects. We have been using the bikes and walkers in the garden through an obstacle course to do this. Also been looking after the dolls. Using sponges to wash them. We have continued with our interest of using different tools to create marks with: crayons, chalks and white board markers. The children have also enjoyed posting items. This has been done through the use of dfferent shape sorters, the children have used the shapes and blocks to post through the holes on the sorters. The children have all done a card to take home to give to their daddy for fathers day. xxx

Today in preschool we have been very busy extending our learning. The children have shown a very strong interest in our mud kitchen by adding and combining various things, we have looked at photos of cakes, soups and dishes today and the children have used basil and food colourings to make these. We also piped 'chocolate icing' on cakes using mud! We have experimented whilst baking by smelling, weighing and stirring the ingrediens. Outside we have also been doing climbing and jumping as well as experimenting with water colours again :)

Babies have been exploring the water, sand, balls and song bags. We have been on a walk to the park, climbed a tree and had lots of fun :)

Last week preschool maintained their interests within balancing, water play, using the mud kitchen and looking at bugs. We have introduced literacy within the mud kitchen and colours and scents in the water tray. The children have drawn their own versions of bugs and even went on a few walks :)