Obstacle Course & Ducks!

Last week the toddlers got to take part in a sports day where they were able to run races, take part in a bean bag toss, play football, scale obstacle courses and of course, win a medal for all of the their hard work. Henry made his way to the football set up, immediately kicking a ball across the field. As he spotted the goal he picked up the ball and took it as close to the goal as possible before placing it down and kicking it into the net, scoring a goal, which he celebrated by raising both arms into the air and shouting, “Yeah”. Evelyn instigated lots of running and approached Cara asking, “Can I chase you? Yeah? Okay, run! Go! Run fast!” And began running after her in circles around the field. As they collapsed into giggles Evelyn was quick to jump up and said, “Now you chase me”, before running away. This drew in a few other children and soon there was a small group all running around giggling together. The toddlers were so proud of their medals some continued to wear them to nursery for the rest of the week!

The toddlers have been delving into lots of different roles recently, exploring the different role play toys, ranging from cleaning tools, hair dressing kits, and office equipment. The hairdressing set up was a big hit with children sitting in front of the mirrors straight away to either do their own hair, or their friends. Halle picked up the pretend hair straighteners and snapped them together a couple of times before bringing them to Madeleines hair, “do you hair Maddie, stay still”. Madeleine kept her head very still and looked up at Halle moving around her with a smile on her face. Halle then picked up the small hand held mirror and held it up to Madeleine, “look it Maddie”. Madeleine quickly hopped up and said, “My turn” and picked the comb up off of the table and began to move it through Halle’s hair. Leo approached with a spray bottle, “I get your hair” and began pretending to spray Madeleine’s hair while she was tending to Halle, “it’s working I doing your hair”.

When the same area was turned into an office with monitors, keyboards, phones, a laptop and a mouse a few children were quick to approach. Sebastian sat himself in front of the monitor and began typing with his index finger before moving onto scrolling on the mouse, stopping suddenly with an, “Oh” as he quickly picked up the phone and held it to his ear, “Hello…. Yes..mmm” before resuming typing with his other hand as he continued on the phone. Theo, next to him, typed enthusiastically on the keyboard, giggling and quickly clicking the mouse. He turned to Sebastian, seeing that he was on the phone and picked up a phone too, bringing it to his ear.

Over the last few weeks, the under two’s have been embarking on loads of exciting activities throughout their time at nursery. The children let their imaginations run wild when they had the opportunity to play with a mountain of bright blue crazy foam. As soon as Lydia saw the mountain of foam appear, she gasped in amazement and loudly said “Wow” as she jumped up and down before she came over to play with all of her friends. Zakariya loved the bubbly sensation of the foam and used bowls and spoons to scoop up the foam before deciding that it would be a fun idea to place it upon his head! Maddie and Wilfred were spotted placing pieces of foam and blowing it off of their hands together, giggling away as the foam fell around them like snow. 

 The children were very excited to have encountered a swan on one of their recent walks too! The swan decided to walk over and a huge welcoming of “hello!’ said by a number of the under two’s, as the swan flapped its wings in response. It was smiles all round for the children, as they then seemed to love having a chance to see the swan, alongside the regular friendly ducks too, and having the chance to feed them. Emilia made sure to give ducks a big wave as she fed them peas and corn while Freya mimicked the ducks by going “quack,quack,quack” as they waddled closer to her, hoping for more tasty treats.