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Thursday is here! A rainy day that turned into a lovely sunny afternoon! The children have enjoyed exploring the gardens and participating in Halloween craft.

We love to sit down for group time! Today the children loved reading books with Ekta, MeiTing and Robyn. We love to sing all of our favourite songs and engage in little conversations where we can listen to the children’s voices.

During yoga, the children stretched their bodies and exercised their gross motor skills.

Today we set to work colouring in a spooky witch and using glue to stick Halloween confetti onto the witch’s cauldron! We are so ready for Halloween now 😊 We hope to see everyone dressed up tomorrow!

We practiced our fine motor skills by drawing pictures and playing with play dough. We’ve had a lovely day exploring the farm animals and reading books together!

Tuesday is here! This week is shaping up to be a wet one, but we’ve got lots of wet weather activities planned to keep us busy 😊

The children settled down for group time with their educators. Together we talked about Halloween, read stories and sang all of our favourite songs. Our singings voices were on top form today!

We warmed up our bodies with yoga! The children were excited to get started and helped to set up their mats. They loved making themselves super tall like a big tree, and then really small like a little ball! We finished off our session with some stretches and butterfly poses!

Today the children decorated pumpkins for our Halloween bunting. They used their fine motor skills to draw on their pumpkins with coloured crayons. It’s lovely to hear the children’s voices with words like “pumpkin”, “Halloween”, “orange” and “drawing”!

We also decorated spooky bats with white paint and fun paintbrushes!

What a lovely day we have had – dancing, building towers and having tea parties in the home corner!

Happy Friday! What a fantastic Friday we have had to end the week 😊 the sun was shining, and the children loved joining in with lots of activities!

It’s the last day of book week, but we have really enjoyed sharing your favourite books with everyone! We wish every day was dress up day!

Today the children enjoyed their group times with Affa, Jasmine, Rita and Robyn! Together we read so many books, sang lots of songs and played games too! It’s our favourite part of the day 😊

Jasmine showed us how yoga is really done this morning! We followed along with her yoga poses and exercised our gross motor skills. Everyone looks forward to yoga each morning and the children are always very helpful with collecting mats and taking shoes and socks off.

The children continued with their bug project today and painted lovely ladybirds! They used a circular block to stamp circles on their paper. It was so much fun and it is so much fun seeing the children learn so much about bugs!

We used our fine motor skills to scoop ping pong balls into egg cartons with spoons …

And we loved gluing and sticking too!

Today was lovely and warm! We’ve played with water in the afternoon, dug in the sand pit and solved lots of puzzles! Thanks for a fabulous week, have a wonderful weekend! 😊

It’s Wednesday already! We are halfway through another fun week, but there’s no stopping us!

Today the children brought in more books to share during group time and enjoyed dressing up too! MeiTing had so much fun reading ‘Thelma the Unicorn’ and Robyn loved reading ‘Old MacDonald’s Farm’ and ‘Frozen’ (Alegria dressed up as Elsa)! And of course, we read ‘The Gruffalo’ … it’s one of our favourite books and Maddie made a fantastic Gruffalo too – very scary!

Yoga is a perfect opportunity for the children to exercise their gross motor skills and practice their balance and coordination. We love joining in with yoga daily!

Today the children continued to decorate animals that Meg (from the book ‘Meg and Mog’) puts into her cauldron. The children used their fine motor skills to glue and stick black tissue paper onto their bats!

We had so much fun playing with shaving foam and sea animals in the big tray outside! It’s great to get so messy and enjoy the sensory experience!

The children pushed small world insects into the play dough to create fun fossils!

And we spent most of our day dancing!

See you tomorrow 😊

Welcome back, it’s Monday! We hope you all had a lovely weekend and everyone is excited for the week ahead of us!

Today the children enjoyed group times with Cindy, Jasmine and Robyn, where they read books, played games and talked all about their weekends! Today we read our favourite Halloween book ‘Meg and Mog’ as we have some activities based around the book this week and thought we should refresh our memories!

It’s so lovely to hear the children’s voices and learn what they get up to on the weekends!

Time to shake off the weekend and get ready for our day with a spot of yoga! The children were excited to get started and helped each other with their shoes and socks 😊 We exercised our gross motor skills with animal poses, jumping and stretching!

We’ve been working on our ‘Meg and Mog’ display today! Meg puts lots of things into her cauldron to cast her spell … so today we painted beetles! The children used their fine motor skills and increased their vocabulary with words like ‘beetle’, ‘cauldron’ and ‘witch’!

Don’t forget to check out our spooky Halloween displays in the front yard!

The children have enjoyed their Monday playing with their friends and educators! We danced our little socks off throughout the day and built birthday cakes in the sand!

See you tomorrow!