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Babies have had a wonderful time at their Christmas party this afternoon.
They decorated melting snowman biscuits using fine motor skills to scoop, use pincers and place small decorations.
We used large muscle movements to catch and throw balloons and dance to Christmas songs.
We played pass the parcel, learning about turn taking, that was lots of fun, each child received a book as a prize.
Santa came to visit whilst he was out on his rounds, he brought us a present to,
It was then time for a scrummy tea before we went home ... See more

Babies explored conditioner and cornflour using their senses, apple fragrance, soft cold gloopy mixture.
Babies used their hands and fingers to make marks, Babies babble in their communicating with each other
Babies hear repeated phrases from adults during their play, embedding descriptive words in their memory box ... See more

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas here in the baby room.
children helped to decorate their Christmas tree using fine motor skills to place the baubles whilst investigating the decorations

Toddlers have been Reading the book' Big Bear Little Bear' the main characters in thee book are Mummy and Baby Polar bear. The children have been focusing on activities around the snowing weather.
Toddlers have been watching snowfall on the interactive board at the same time they have painted snowy pictures using various tools
On Polar bears the children have been using tweezers categorizing the amounts of pom poms matching the written number
I can make, the children used a variety of media to create their own interpretations of Polar Bears.
A lovely fun week so far
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A few of baby rooms invitations to play, lots of learning intentions for babies to explore and investigate using their imaginations, learning about the world around them and using their senses

The children at nursery had a visit from Santa and Rudy the Rudolph this afternoon. They made a special delivery of antlers and red noses in preparation of our Rudy the Rudolph fundraisng event for St Barnabas Hospice.
The children and the team will be wearing the antlers and red noses for the festive wake and shake, the week beginning the 14th December. You can find the link on a previous post, all donations will be gratefully received.
Thank you again for your continued support ... See more

Babies have been developing their physical and hand eye co ordination through various activities, Posting using pincer grip, threading rings onto a stacker, exploring chunky animals, also climbing the slide. We have a new walker in the group, well done Harper ... See more

Toddlers story of the week is the stickman. Children have been discussing the world around them using natural resources that was collected on walks.
The children talked about Autumn, the falling leaves after they have changed colour, animal that start collecting food ready for the winter season.
The Toddlers used sticks and leaves to construct their own interpretation of the character in the book ... See more