Writing Letters & Searching for Animals!

The toddlers have been having a great time focussing on the book of the month, ‘Dear Zoo’, over the last week, where they have been able to explore some of their favourite animals! To make sure the children were familiar with the story. they have been to reading it at circle times, and many of them knew it by heart! Clara called out each animal she could see, before the flap was even lifted, “Elephant… giraffe….camel!” and Sebastian shouted out one of the repeated lines, “I sent him back!”. When it came to doing some activities, Evelyn enjoyed using a mixture of match sticks, lolly sticks and cardboard to make a crate for the animals, “This is for the monkey and the snake!”. Meanwhile, Phoebe used her hands to make a handprint elephant, she painted her hand with the brush, letting out a few giggles along the way before splatting it onto her paper. She picked up two eyes and stuck them on her elephant, before saying, “I making an elephant…Can I have two more eyes?”.

In the garden the children were able to write letters to the zoo, like in the story, and post them in the nursery letter box. Jenson picked a green pencils and began making circles across his paper, “Lion….Rawr!”, while Leo asked the zoo for his favourite thing, “A tractor!” which he quickly followed up with a request for “A camel!”. Halle made lots of lines across her paper whilst babbling and making some animal sounds.

Over the last couple of weeks the under 2s have loved getting outside and making the most of the lovely weather, especially running and playing on the fields on their daily walks! Whilst sat on the field having their snack, something caught Lowen’s attention; he pointed towards the river where he saw some ducks making their way over. He excitedly shouted out, “Duck” as he realised what he was seeing, and indicated to his friends to look over and see them. After Calvin had spotted them, he began making ‘quack’ sounds, while Wilfred let out a quiet ‘Ooo!’. Once the children had finished their snack, they chose to run around the field, excitingly chasing each other back and forth, with Isabella letting out a happy squeal as they did so. 

Whilst inside the room, the children have been playing with a mix of different textures and materials. One texture they all particularly seemed to enjoy was paint, during a finger painting activity! Freya ran over to the table as she saw the paint getting laid out, clapping her hands in anticipation and watching intently. Giulia wandered over as she saw her friends painting, and warily dipped her finger onto the sponge. She appeared unsure what to do next, and Zakariya kindly showed her what to do, showing her how to place her hands onto the paper to transfer the paint onto it, leading to big smiles from both of them and beautiful pictures being created!