The children are staying longer at activities now, and getting really engrossed!

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The children have been developing their fine motor control (fingers).

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Winter time is a good time to stay cosy indoors with a book or practise early writing skills

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If we can nurture children’s well-being in their early years it will help build resilience to carry forward and help them fulfill their potential. But to do this we need to feel comfortable, healthy and happy ourselves. At the current time this is not always easy. For some useful tips please follow the link below

How-to-look-after-your-mental-health

or look on the well- being section of our website

Wellbeing

As children engage in pretend play we can see their imagination develop.They are using increasing vocabulary as they talk during their play, using their own experiences.

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We have been introducing more opportunities which support fine motor development such as, turning nuts and bolts, threading, peg boards and building carefully with various sized blocks. Children often  revisit these skills in their own play.

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We decorated some small pine cones from the pine tree in the Woodland Area, then put them back on the big pine tree.  We sang “Oh Christmas Tree”as we stood at the base of the tree.  A lovely experience.

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We are now seeing much higher levels of concentration in activities now that children are relaxed and comfortable.

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The children have been using our indoor resources more this week, and we are seeing their imagination developing more and more.

The children have been developing their hand-eye co-ordination by filling ice cube moulds with small grains of rice and pasta. We coloured the rice first – and the children said the rice were “sprinkles”.