2YO Provision
Latest Learning 2024-2025!
04.04.25 - Special Events!
As we approach the special occasion of Mother’s Day, I am thrilled to share the wonderful activities our children have been engaged in recently.
To celebrate Mother’s Day or someone special to you the children have been busy creating delightful biscuits, hand-printed pictures, and wonderful cards.
We have embraced the holy month of Ramadan. The children have participated in creating beautiful Eid cards and crafts, To make the celebration even more special, each child received a goodie bag filled with treats to enjoy during this festive time.
28.03.25 - Farm Visit!
I am excited to share with you the enriching experience our nursery children had during their recent trip to the farm. It was a wonderful opportunity for them to explore the world of growing, animals, and nature, and I wanted to highlight the importance of this trip and how it connects to our ongoing learning in the nursery.
During our visit to the farm, the children had the chance to engage with various animals, This hands-on experience sparked their curiosity. Engaging with the sights, sounds, and smells of the farm provided the children with rich sensory experiences that are essential for their development. They also got to touch the animals feeding them grass and holding the freshly laid eggs and even smelt some herbs that are growing in the allotment patch.
To support and continue this learning back in our nursery classroom, we have incorporated various activities that have built on their farm experience. We are reading books related to farms, animals, and nature, which helps reinforce the concepts they learned during the trip all about farm animals and the sounds they make.
The children have planted herb and salad seeds similar to ones we got to feel and smell at the farm we will be adding these into our home corner and mud kitchen.
Experiences like our farm trip play a crucial role in your child’s education, and we are committed to building on this foundation throughout the year.
21.03.25 - Theatre Visit!
The children in our 2s were invited to take part in the opportunity to visit the Leeds playhouse to watch Persephone, a tale of the seasons. The children had a wonderful morning!
14.03.25 - Exploring planting, growing and Spring!
1. Fine Motor Skills
-Using various mark-making materials which helps improve grip and control.
- Gluing and sticking activities enhance hand-eye coordination.
2. Creativity and Imagination:
- Encouraging children to create their own interpretations of daffodils.
- Using a variety of materials.
3. Sensory Exploration:
- Engaging with different textures (fabric, pipe cleaners) enhances sensory development and awareness.
- Exploring colours and patterns through paints and crayons.
Vocabulary:
Flower, grass, spring, yellow, white, orange, green, daffodil, smell, touch, mud, wet, smooth, dry, pretty, small, tall.
- Speaking about the colours, shapes, and textures of the daffodils.
Social Skills:
- Working alongside others during encouraging sharing, turn-taking, and cooperative play.
07.03.25 - Pancake Day!
Celebrating Pancake Day today with a variety of fun and engaging activities for the children! This is a wonderful opportunity for them to explore their creativity, learn new skills, and enjoy delicious pancakes together.
Crafts:
The children have had the chance to create their own pancake-themed crafts! From paper pancakes to colorful food toppings using glue to stick them together.
Playdough Fun:
Using playdough to make pancake shapes and toppings! This hands-on activity will help develop fine motor skills and allow the children to use their imaginations as they create their favorite pancake designs and smell lemons for our sensory senses.
Tasting Pancakes:
What’s Pancake Day without tasting pancakes? The children have had a special snack where the children have enjoyed delicious pancakes.
28.02.25 - Farm Topic!
We’ve been busy exploring, playing and of course growing!
Heres a glimpse of our chick-tastic journey so far.
As part of our ongoing "Farm and Growing" topic, we have welcomed a delightful group of baby chicks into our nursery. These little bundles of joy will not only bring joy to our days but will also provide a wonderful opportunity for hands-on learning and exploration.
Why Baby Chicks?
The addition of the baby chicks ties beautifully into our current theme, allowing the children to engage with the concepts of life cycles, responsibility, and where our food comes from. Observing the chicks will help them understand the importance of farming and the role it plays in our lives.
We are so excited to embark on this journey with your children and hope it sparks their curiosity and love for learning about nature and farming.
14.02.25 - Brown Bear!
This week, our focus story has been "Brown Bear," and we have been exploring the topic of bears. The children have been engaged in learning about colours and colour mixing through a variety of fun activities using resources such as food coloring, paints, chalks, coloured sand, and Playdough.
To extend this learning at home, you can encourage your child to practice their colours by playing colour matching games or going on a colour hunt in your area or at even at home. These activities can provide a wonderful opportunity for you to bond while reinforcing what they have learnt in nursery.
I’ve added the link below of our story Brown Bear that you can play at home and learn:
31.01.25 - Celebrations!
We are thrilled to share with you the wonderful celebrations we had in our nursery for Lunar New Year! We celebrated those vibrant cultural event, lthroughout a variety of activities;
Exploring story books about the Lunar New Year,
During snack time the children enjoyed delicious vegetarian spring rolls and prawn crackers and noodles.
We also had noodles set out in our home corner where the children practiced their fine motor skills using pinchers, tweezers, and chopsticks. Experimenting with these tools, enhancing their hand-eye coordination while having fun!
The children also had the chance to watch a delightful CBeebies dragon dance. Which then encouraged a small group to creat dragon mask-making, where they used their creativity to craft colourful masks using fabrics, paints and glitter. This activity allowed for self-expression and imaginative play.
Sensory experience with colorful rice for filling and emptying, which helped to develop their tactile skills. The children also enjoyed playing in red sand with small world animals representing the Chinese New Year, which supported their imaginative play with adult support.
Dragon hand printing and card making, where each child created their own unique card and picture to share with their families.
We are grateful for the opportunity to celebrate Lunar New Year with your children. It has been a wonderful experience that has encouraged cultural awareness, creativity, and social interaction among our little ones.
17.01.25 - Enjoying our role play area!
This week in E2 nursery our focus story has been the postman bear. Our focus rhyme has been the bear goes over the mountain.
Watch out for the Bears! The children are creating bear pictures by simple ways of joining materials using glue and tape. Using a variety of felt fabrics, paints and pens to create their Bear pictures.
Posting fun! The children are enjoying our post office role play area. Using the postal costumes to dress up and post letters into our postbox.
13.12.24 - Big Create - Ice Painting!
The children had a fantastic time experimenting with ice painting! Using various materials such as watercolours, acrylic paints, food colouring, pens, and chalk, they explored the effects of painting on ice. This hands-on activity allowed them to observe how different resources interact with the ice and how colours blend and change as they melt. It was a wonderful way for them to engage their creativity while learning about cause and effect.
06.12.24 - Antarctica!
This week in our classroom, we embarked on an exciting journey to the icy Antarctica! Our focus story has been: That’s not my penguin and That’s not my polar bear. The children have been learning all about fascinating Antarctic animals, specifically penguins and polar bears. Through this exploration, we aimed to spark their curiosity and creativity while enhancing their understanding of these remarkable creatures.
Through stories and activities, the children learnt about these animals.
The children engaged in hands-on sensory activities that allowed them to experience the textures and elements of the Arctic environment. They played with materials that mimic snow and ice, encouraging imaginative play and exploration. We used Ice, foam, fake snow, and even created penguin handprints.
- Creative Arts: Using a variety of colouring materials, sticky craft supplies, and glue, the children created beautiful pictures inspired by penguins and polar bears. This activity not only fostered their artistic skills but also helped them express their understanding of these animals, while using their fine motor skills.
- Penguin Hand Prints: One of the children's favourite activities was making penguin hand prints! The children used their hands to create adorable penguin art, which they proudly displayed in our classroom. This activity was a fun way to combine art with learning.
Encouraging Learning at Home:
To continue this theme at home, we encourage you to discuss these animals with your children. You might watch documentaries or read books about penguins and polar bears together. Reading stories will enhance your child’s imagination and understanding.
22.11.24 - Nursery Rhymes!
This week in the 2's we have been very busy. We have been focusing on our rhyme of the week, Twinkle Twinkle. The children have been creating star pictures and exploring the sensory provision. As part of our story dough session, we have been making star shapes in the playdough and learning the words and actions to the rhyme.
Here some children have been extremely creative and made a star-shaped ramp for their car!