Piglets Pre-School And Day Nursery

These are 2 of one litter of kittens to our little furry friends at nursery, you may have noticed they are not around at the moment they are being well cared for by Lorri Seymour and other volunteers at Cats protection please donate as much or little as you can Many thanks

HAPPY FRIDAY Today the toddler room did some bubble wrap foot painting that very quickly escalated into body painting, the children and staff had so much fun making marks using their hands and feet as well as mixing the colours and exploring the textures, some of the children even decided to paint themselves ­¤Öé
We hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend! ­¤Öé

Pre-School Senses activity! ­¤Öé The children enjoyed using there senses smell and touch to follow on from their food tasting last week. They have been using different words to describe what they could feel and smell such as hard, soft, smooth, bumpy etc.

Here are some pictures of Tiggers Garden set up and New sensory board ­¤Öé

The baby room have been making Mud Pies this morning! ­¤Öé

The baby room are enjoying some body painting, we are encouraging the children to use the tools such as brushes and stamps as well as their bodies to make marks on the paper using different pastel colours. Some of the children are enjoying painting themselves and using their hands and feet to make prints whilst exploring what happens when different paint colours are mixed. We are also encouraging fine and gross motor skills in this activity making large and small movements with the brushes and their bodies ­¤Ä©­¤Öé

Happy Easter from everyone at Piglets, just a reminder we are closed tomorrow and Monday, We look forward to seeing you all next week! ­¤Éź­¤É░

This afternoon babies have enjoyed their Easter themed sensory tray in the garden, they enjoyed feeling the different textures and filling and pouring using the eggs! ­¤É░­¤Éź

Bye bye butterflies! ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ Today we released the butterflies down the hill, 17 flew away and the children really enjoyed watching and waving goodbye!
We hope you all have a lovely long Easter weekend and we look forward to seeing next week! ŌśĆ’ĖÅ

Healthy Eating - Preschool looked at the Eat well Plate yesterday and discussed the different food groups, they talked about a balance diet and what each of the foods does for our bodies. The children each had their own plate which they attempted to put the correct foods into the right sections.The children also got to taste a range of different foods.

Pre-School's topic this week is healthy eating and as part of this they will be tasting new foods, today for tea was Pizza so the children made their own Pizza muffins and added a choice of toppings, they chose tomato, cheese, pepper, mushrooms and ham! YUM YUM! ­¤ŹĢ ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ­ ¤ŹĢ­¤ŹĢ

18 butterflies have emerged over the weekend and will be released this week! ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ The names that Preschool have chosen are; buttercup, yogurt, jelly, pig, Tinkerbell, train, gurl and butterfly ­¤Öé

UPDATE: Three butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ­¤”ŗ
All of the pre-school children voted for a name that they would like to call the butterflies, every time one appears the children all sit together and pull a name out of the cup to name the new butterfly, this teaches the children about democracy which is under British values. So far we have butterfly 1 buttercup (pre-School), butterfly 2 yogurt (pre-school) butterfly 3 is Brenda (toddler room). The children al...so spoke about what the butterflies will need and the children cut up some banana and apple to give to the butterflies with some sugar water. We are hoping after the weekend we will come into a few more butterflies!
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Toddlers are planting sunflower seeds and cress today. the children will be bringing them home and we would love to see updates and see which sunflower gets the biggest ­¤ī╗

Update - Our Caterpillars are all Cocooned and we have moved them into the butterfly nets! ­¤Éø­¤”ŗ­¤Éø­¤”ŗ­¤Éø­¤”ŗ­¤Éø­¤”ŗ

Pre-School played Number Bingo today, all of the children had their own sheet and as the numbers were held up by Katie the children were encouraged to recognise the number and circle it on their sheet, if the children weren't sure Katie would also shout out what the number was until they were all circled and then they shouted BINGO! The children appeared to really enjoy this activity, What a fun way to practice our math skills happy Friday! ­¤Öé

Tigger's are enjoying lots of outdoor time now the sun and warmer weather has made its appearance. ŌśĆ’ĖÅ Today they have collected soil and picked some flowers from the garden to do some planting in pots. The children are using the spades to fill and pour the soil into the pots and use their fine motor skills to pick up and plant the flowers. The children are showing an interest in life cycles after looking at the caterpillars, so they have been talking about what the plants need to grow and changes they can see in the garden. ­¤ī╝ ­¤ī╗ ­¤īĖ ­¤ī╝ ­¤ī╗ ­¤īĖ

Caterpillar update - they are starting to cocoon! ­¤Éø­¤”ŗ