Butterfly Room
We have been busy building on our skills these past couple of weeks. We have enjoyed lots of outdoor play helping us with our exploration and investigating skills. We have been taking photographs of each other using the children cameras, this had helped us with our understanding of the world development, finding out how to use equipment.
We have been matching objects together putting lids on and opening and closing items we were so good at this it helped our problem solving skills and our fine and gross motor movements.
We enjoyed world book day dressing up and reading lots of fantastic stories “bearhunt” is our favourite. Take a look at the past two weeks 
This week we have explored new surroundings visiting the Alps located on the school grounds. This helps us develop our understanding of the world and investigation skills. Our focused activities aimed to develop our imagination and mark making skills, we made small world scenes using the dolls house, farm animals and dinosaurs this enabled us to play imaginatively, we also made marks in different materials- foam, glitter ,sand and cereal we used our fingers and tools to create different marks this will help us with our writing skills as we get older.
We have also enjoyed building with construction toys, visiting the park and playing in water 
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The children have really enjoyed the focused activities this week. We explored different objects and demonstrated how we might use the objects and named them, this activity helped us to use our imagination and exploration skills helping us improve our understanding of the world skills.
We have explored instruments this week, we figured out how to make different sounds and how to use the instruments we made loud and quiet sounds this was a very noisy activity but lots of fun 
This activity helped us with our expressive arts skills finding out how we can make different sounds using different approaches.
This week we have also enjoyed walks in the environment, baking with our star baker Julie and painting activities.Take a look...
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Christmas has arrived in the Butterfly room, we have decorated our Christmas tree and started our Christmas displays we have even danced to some Christmas songs.
Our focused activities this week concentrated on music and sounds and threading we used pots and pans to make different sounds this helped us with our expressive arts development. We threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners using a pincer grasp it was difficult but we enjoyed it, this activity helped our fine motor skills this will help us to become great writers when we are older.
We have also enjoyed play dough, sand and water and hall time sessions. 
Sorry the blog update is a little late. We had so much fun last week taking a ride into Wigan on the bus to lay down some poppies that we made as a mark of respect for all the fallen soldiers. The children were so well behaved we were all very proud of each other.
Remember it’s Children in need this Friday all week we will be baking cakes and selling them for 50p each or 3 for £1 all money raised will go to charity. Wear your pyjamas on Friday the 15th November and bring in your £1 donation 
we have had a good week celebrating Halloween, we have scooped out pumpkins, made Parkin cake and some delicious Butternut squash soup, Julie is a great cook 
This week our focused activities concentrated on Maths and physical development, we looked at big and small objects named them and categorised them by their size. We also dressed and undressed ourselves using the dressing up clothes this helped us with our self care skills.
The Halloween party was a great success we all had brilliant costumes and enjoyed the food and games take a look 
We have had a fun week playing in water and doing large scale mark making these activities are planned to help develop our communication and physical skills, we use gross motor skills to use the large rollers making different movements and creating different marks.
We have also visited the pet shop, enjoyed yummy snacks played outside and completed our carpet time activities.
Remember it’s half term next week we will be back on
28th October. It’s our Halloween party on Thursday 31st October we will be enjoying party games and party food- please dress up in your Halloween costumes
this week we started our key person carpet time, each morning and afternoon we get into our key groups and take part in a small activity that has been specifically planned by our key person to help our learning and development.
The focused activities this week aimed to develop our understanding and our self confidence- we identified and named familiar objects such as a cup, pig, pen, spoon and a car. We also played a game of Simon says pointing to our different body parts we were all brilliant at this.
The rain has poured this week but it hasn’t stopped us having fun we put on the wetsuits and splashed in puddles this was great fun, this week we have also baked delicious cakes, painted beautiful pictures and ate some yummy snacks....take a look 
this week we have focused on our health and self care development we have eaten foods using spoons we had cereal, yogurts and angel delight we were very good at this and enjoyed the different snacks. We have also been filling and emptying different items in the sand and water area this helps or maths development making us aware of shapes space and measure.
This week we have also enjoyed collecting leaves outside, painting using balloons and investigating conkers....have a look 
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This week we have started our focused activities the activities this week have focused on communication and language development with the aim to improves children's speech. The children have enjoyed doll play feeding, dressing and washing babies and teddies, they have also joined in with singing and dancing they are all getting good at leaning the words to our nursery rhymes- wheels on the bus, miss polly had a dolly and baa baa black sheep.
This week we have also been building up and knocking down towers using the large house bricks, we have been painting using large and small rollers and we put cereal in the sand tray with cars and diggers- take a look 
What a amazing week we have had. The children have enjoyed sensory play exploring beans, custard and Pom poms we used words such as “wet” “slime” and “bumpy” 
the children have been on lots of environmental walks we picked conkers from the trees and got some leaves which we will make pictures with next week
All the children are settled and love our nursery routine especially snack time 
