Charity Shop Visit & Animals!

Last week in the Toddler Room, the children went on a very exciting walk to different charity shops on a mission to find some more books for the nursery. Friday morning, they wrapped up warm before setting off on their journey from the nursery heading off towards Esher high street. As they crossed under the bridge a train passed over above them, “Choo Choo” Youcef called out as he heard the loud rattling of the bridge. They continued on their journey waving by all the cars they saw before finally reaching their first Charity shop on the high street which lit up the toddlers eyes, “Look, shop!” Sophie told Jasper next to her with a enthusiastic look on her face. Once they had arrived outside, the toddlers paired up and took it in turns to go into the shop and choose a couple of books that took their interest. Up first were Sophie and Cleo, Sophie took hold of Cleo’s hand and guided them into the shop towards the massive wall of books! They chose their books and headed out waving goodbye to the lady at the till. Up next were Margot and Jasper and it didn’t take long before Margot found a Gruffalo book, “Gruffalo! Mouse!” she shouted as she took it over the till. Oliver grabbed a couple others and followed her to the till, smiling to himself. Margot did great at remembering her manners “Thank you” she whispered while the lady passed over a big bag full of books. They marched out to meet their friends back at the buggies for a well deserved snack before heading back. “Oooo!” Ellie giggled as she saw the big bag, Successful trip!

Over the past week, the toddlers have enjoyed taking part in lots of activities based around our theme of the week ‘Wild habitats and hibernation’.  To begin the week they watched a few short clips on birds in their natural habitat, “Birdie, tweet tweet!” Cecilia clapped when she saw the bird appear. The children have also been creative with different textures in their artwork. They made their very own hedgehog out of colourful match sticks to create their own prickly friend. Kitty absolutely loved picking out various colours such as yellow and purple and covering her paper, carefully recalling each colour as she did so. They then got creative with shredded felt to make their version of a cosy nest just like the one they saw in their video clip! Esmèralda and Freddie found it hilarious to throw bundles of colourful foam at each other watching it float down slowly. Sebastian and Otto spent a morning hibernating in their own den made out of tables and blankets, “Oh Basti hide hiding” Otto would tell his friends who came to explore inside. 

The under twos have been really busy since the Christmas holidays, focusing on nursery rhymes and making lots of different things to represent the nursery rhymes. The children have been singing during circle times, and Oliver stood up and did his own actions when singing ‘Incy wincy spider’, and Rose started to clap and wiggle to the song.

They’ve had lots of fun using the tray as a farmyard, with pigs rolling around in the mud! Eva shouted and pointed as Amelie picked up the buried sheep under crushed weetabix. Rose picked out the cereal in the tray and enjoyed eating them, with a big happy smile when asked what she was doing. Great fun was had when mark making using paper plates and pink crayons to make pig faces, whilst trying to make pig sounds, which made Iris laugh with excitement. The under twos have also really enjoyed story time, with Matilda and Gabriel were really focused on the story and looking intently at the different animals on the pages.

They have been on some lovely winter walks around the amazing grounds of the nursery to see nature and any animals and birds they could see. Blair got really excited in the pushchair when she saw some of the horses that were in fields, Harry saw Blair getting excited and started to smile.