Sunflower Room
Well its that time of year again were we say goodbye to all our children moving onto Pre-school.
What a fantastic year all our Sunflower children have had take a peek at their journey ........................
From everyone in the Sunflower room we wish you all the best of luck and we will miss you all.
Claire, Robyn, Donna, Beth, Ashley, Jane, Vanessa, and Karen 
The children have had fun exploring the new park equipment .........
The children are very confident now at climbing up and down the stairs............. High five everyone!!!
Thank You to all the parents and children that completed the PIP project with Claire and Rachael.
Well done to all of you!!!! We hope you enjoyed it!!
The children have been going into the Pre-school outdoor area developing their physical skills on the climbing frame and using the bikes and cars.
The children enjoyed having the opportunity going into Pre-school to hold and look at the baby chicks.
The weather was wet and windy so we took the opportunity for children to have fun puddle splashing. Even though the children got really wet they had lots of fun.
During the May half term we changed our role play area into a building site for the children this was a huge success and the children have all enjoyed this learning experience.
Lots of fun and learning took place take a peek............
We celebrated Beth's 21st Birthday.....
Happy Birthday Beth
Learning through play...........
We celebrated George's 3rd Birthday with yummy cake. Happy birthday George 
Water Play
Water Play Fun!
The children have been using jugs, cups and water wheels to develop pouring and filling skills. they had lots of fun splashing in the water too.
With the weather being sunny and hot we've been doing lots of physical exercise.
Take a peak ......
We have started the daily toddle, this consists with us running and doing gentle exercise for 15 minutes everyday.
This helps us to stay healthy! 
The children are getting really good well done!!!!
We have been developing our physical skills by pulling ourselves up onto climbing equipment and balancing along the benches within the hall. The children are growing in confidence and showing excellent climbing skills.
The children have been experimenting with marks making.
Take a look at what marks and drawings they have been making....................... Super work Guys!!
April moved from the baby room into our room. She's settled in really well and is getting to know all the children and staff. Big high Five April
During the half term we changed our role play area into a supermarket, so this weeks focused activity was to promote children within the supermarket to use their imaginations to pretend to go shopping, children also had the experience of walking to the local shops to buy goods which had a great impact within the role play area.
The children was really engrossed take a look........
We had fun making yummy cakes
Dinner time!!
Learning through play
Reminder nursery will close for children who are term time on friday 31st March 2017and will re-open on Tuesday 18th April 2017.
The centre will be closed for Good Friday 14th April 2017 and for Bank Holiday Monday 17th April 2017.
Have a yummy easter
Scarlett celebrated her 3rd birthday this week and shared some yummy cake with all her friends.
Happy birthday Scarlett from all your friends in the Sunflower Room.
We said goodbye this week to two of our friends who have left us to start a new journey at pre-school. Have lots of fun at your new school we will all miss seeing your beautiful smiles in the Sunflower Room.
Take a peek ..........
The children have been easel painting this week and enjoyed creating their own unique pictures.
Sunshine Fun 
Parachute Fun!!!
The children have been looking at their own reflections and were encouarged to point to their own features, then asked to create a picture.
This weeks focused activity was blow painting using straws because the children had so much fun bubble blowing within the water tray last week.
The chidren picked up the technique quickly and really enjoyed themselves.
The children was introduced to a new experience this week- slide painting..........
This was very messy but look what fun the children are having 
During this week hall times the children have been learning to climb confidently and pull themselves up onto climbing equipment.
Look what fab climbers we are ..................
The children have had a couple of busy weeks- for focused activites they have been developing their fine motor skills by threading cheerios onto pipe cleaners , and making connections between the marks they make by painting with objects from around the room.
They have also still been having fun with the outdoor water wall and the babies in the role play area, both areas have been a great learning experience for all the children. Also children have been learning to blow bubbles using straws in the water tray they had lots of fun.
Also this week the children came to nusrery wearing something red or with mad hair to raise money for Red Nose Day. Thank you to everyone for your donations and taking part.
We hope all you mummys/grandparents all liked your special cards the children made and had a relaxing Mothers's Day .
Our focused activity this week was outdoors with the water wall and even though the weather was very wet the children had so much fun splashing in puddles and particpating with filling, pouring and transporting water from different containers.
Take a peek it was a fantastic learning experience .............
Mark making with cars.
We attatched felt pens to the cars to give children a different experience to making marks. Take a look what marks we created 
We changed our role-play area after half term into a baby corner based on the children's interests.
What a fab learning experience this has been for all the children. They have shown excellent modelling in pretend play by feeding the babies, taking them for a walk, changing their nappies, and showing lots of care over the babies. All children were fully engaged and had lots of fun with this. High five everyone!!!
Thank you to all parents for bringing in your children's baby photos.
Just look at how the children are showing love and care for the dolls.
28th February 2017- Pancake Day
We celebrated Pancake Day by eating yummy pancakes, children were offered a choice of chocolate, lemon, jam, sugar to put on their pancakes. They showed their own preferences and good control over tools.
yummy pancakes
We have been learning to cut with scissors making snips in play-dough.
The children showed good control over the scissors, well done everyone!!
Wow we are great builders!!
We celebrated Ollie turning 3 with yummy cake .
Happy birthday from all your friends at nursery.
Fun times at nursery have a look what we've been up to ..........
Happy Chinese new year!!
This week the children went to the chinese restaurant to explore foods. The were super at walking there and back to the restaurant. Well done
They also developed their fine motor skills by making marks to create chinese writing pictures. Take a look.................
We have been very busy developing our physical skills over the last few weeks. We have been into pre-school on the climbing equipment learning to climb with confidence. Look how fab we was at pulling ourselves up onto the climbing equipment. Well done everyone!!
We also have been praticing walking up and down the stairs again all children are becoming superstars at this. High five
The children loved exploring the coloured spaghetti and used chopsticks to show control over picking up the spaghetti. They have also enjoyed using tools in the play-dough. Take a peek.........
To celebrate Chinese new year we have been doing lots of activites in nursery. We changed our role play area into a restaurant and the children enjoyed trying noodles with the chopsticks. We also tried different chinese foods for snack. The children was really good at expressing their likes and dislikes and exploring new tastes and textures. YUM YUM
Our focused activity this week was mark making, praticing drawing lines/circles ....... The children was encouraged to give meanings to marks they made. Take a look what fantastic pitcures they did
Hall time - the children have been balancing on the benches this week the children was super. Well Done Everyone
This week the children have showed control over tools in the play-dough. They've made marks and enjoyed cutting the play-dough up using the knives.
Take a peek what we've been doing.........
Big welcome to the Sunflower Room Rocco, Annie and Rio.
They all have settled into the nursery routine really well so big high five
Christmas Party Day
We had a fab morning we played party games, had yummy party food , we went in the hall and did lots of dancing with the entertainer and had a surprise visit from Father Christmas. The children really enjoyed themselves.
What a fab time we all had at Winter Wonderland, the children all was good as gold and all really enjoyed themselves. High Five Everyone!! 
We have been very busy doing lots of Christmas crafts , we also went on the bus to Wigan to look at the Christmas decorations and tree , it was beautiful.
CHRISTMAS TIME
This week our focused activity was for all the children to go to the post office to send letters to Father Christmas. The children had lots of fun choosing toys out of the catalogues beforehand and sticking them to their own letters.
We also changed our home corner into a Santa's Grotto and the children helped to decorate pictures to display and they also helped to decorate the Christmas tree.
This weeks focused activities was prompting the children to build with blocks to build a small tower, we also did a language activity through painting with familiar objects i.e. train, car, cow, dog, to develop children to use single words and to start putting two words together- for example yellow car, big, train. The children have thoroughly enjoyed both activities this week take a peak.....
Learning through play...............
This week the children have been using scissors to develop cutting skills and also learning how we use them safely they have shown good control over the scissors and demonstrated good skills. Well done everyone
We have had a busy week outdoors we have been walking around the environment leaf kicking and exploring our surroundings, we have also been practicing aiming and kicking with the balls and enjoyed singing ring games and action songs. Take a look......
This week we have also been encouraging the children to become independent during snack. Take a peak ...........
This week we have focused on baking cakes each day to raise money for children in need we also came into nursery wearing our pyjamas so we would like to say a big thank you for everyone that contributed.
This week we have been on the bus each day to visit the war memorial in Wigan. Children laid poppies what they made to show respect for the fallen soldiers for Remembrance day.
Fun times at nursery
Children have been on the stairs practicing walking up and down independently. Take a look at how children are getting more and more confident even if they need some support at times.
Well done everyone
Fun times at the park practicing our climbing skills. The children are all growing in confidence.
Take a peak......
Well done to Amber, Calin and Logan who have moved into the toddler room. They have settled in lovely.
High Five
This week we celebrated Halloween doing lots of crafts, baking and sensory activities.
The children made scary Halloween pizzas for snack
Yum Yum
We love to get messy!
The children have lots of sensory experiences with a range of different media. This week we have been leaf painting, gluing and sticking bits and bobs, exploring foam, gel and corn flour.
Toddler Talk Activity this week was "Playing with Teddy" the children who took part all did very well in modelling actions with teddy i.e. feeding teddy, washing teddy and so on. The children listened and followed simple instructions developing their understanding.
Well done to Charlie putting his shoes on all by himself High Five!!
The children taking part were really engrossed with bathing the dolls they participated in this child initiated activity for a long period of time, and had so much fun washing and drying the dolls.
The children once again have had a fun week exploring different areas of the provision.
Holly really enjoyed mark making outdoors with the chalks. Fab drawings Holly.
Lexie and Theo enjoyed the challenge of trying to pedal the bikes. Good effort guys
Other children enjoyed carpet time and exploring heuristic play equipment.
We are taking part in the tooth brushing scheme within the Sunflower Room, promoting healthy smiles.
Your child will be able to brush their teeth daily at nursery unless you wish your child not to participate then please notify a staff member.
The children enjoyed this and did excellent brushing.
The children have been exploring the continuous provision and enjoyed going to the park.
Bubble fun!
The children enjoyed exploring the bubble foam and using the jugs to fill and pour.
This week the children have been tasting different fruits for snack developing their likes and dislikes. We have also been learning the children how to pour their own drinks and feed themselves with a spoon.
September 2016
A very warm welcome to the Sunflower Blog
Please keep checking for updates.
The children have settled in lovely and are getting used to the nursery environment and routine.
Have a look at the children exploring their new surroundings ......
The children have thoroughly enjoyed themselves at nursery
The children have been developing their physical skills by playing ball games... throwing , kicking , catching and we have also been practising walking up and down stairs within the school. Well done everyone
