Month: October 2025

Today at snack the children started talking about animals that go to sleep over winter.  This sparked lots of questions and as a group we did some investigating and found out that this is called hibernation. Together we went on to explore what animals hibernated and looked at pictures of where some of the animals… Continue reading Friday 31st October 2025

Welcome back after the October Holidays.  We hope  you have all had a lovely break. This term we have introduced clay into the setting. Clay offers a different sensory experience to playdough with it being more firm but still malleable for the children to use. There was lots of super descriptive language used as they… Continue reading Thursday 30th October

Today we have been getting Halloween ready.  Drawing some spooky pictures and making some potions in the sensory trays.  The children went around trick or treating with the cauldrons.   We were also practicing our fine motor skills, hammering the nails into the pumpkins.  SIMOA was reminding us to stay safe by wearing our safety goggles… Continue reading Thursday 9th October 2025

This morning we all headed down to the beach to make the most of the calm day.  We took some paint with us and the children had lots of fun painting stones and bits of pottery.  Before we left everyone hid their stones on the beach for other people to find when they visited. Of… Continue reading Thursday 2nd October 2025