Just a quick reminder.....

if you're working from home or send your child to us when you're off work, please don't forget to let us know where you will be in case of illness or emergency. 

Thank you.

Training this evening

Siobhan is on a training course from 6.30 to 8.30 this evening, at the City Learning Centre, regarding the two year check which is to be carried out by all childcare professionals. 

Week 2 this week

Evaluation sheets

We are sending out our evaluation sheets this week and we would be very grateful if you would complete and return them to us.  Any comments are welcome!

Sad post :(

Just to let you know that we had to have our beautiful cat, Jasper, put to sleep on Wednesday evening.  He had an abdominal tumor and unfortunately deteriorated very quickly overnight so we had to make the awful decision to have him put to sleep.  As you can imagine, we are all very upset.  We have buried him in the garden with his 'brothers and sisters'. 

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Week 1 this week

Birth to Five Timeline

Below is a link to the NHS birth to five timeline, which might be of interest to you:

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/birthtofive.aspx#close

Red playdoh

We made red playdoh yesterday (ingredients below) and the children had a great time playing with it today. 

Playdoh recipe (really easy and no cooking required!)

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
• 2 cups boiling water

Combine all dry ingredients together.  Add oil and mix together.  Add boiling water and food colouring or natural fragrance, i.e. peppermint, lemon. Mix together.  If too wet, add more flour, if too dry add more water.  To make a chocolatey dough you can also add cocoa to the dry mix before adding oil and water. 

This makes quite a lot of dough so for just one child I'm sure half would be plenty. 

Week 3 this week

Please label your child's clothes

We have nearly all girls now and they are all a similar age.  Please label their clothes - the ones that are removeable, such as hoodies, cardigans, coats etc.  Thank you.

Number one and the colour red

The children coloured-in a number 1.  With the older children, we looked for a red crayon to use.  The younger children chose their own colours and made marks on the paper. 

Eszme and Tyler took photographs of red items in the garden:

 

 

We practised representing number 1 with our fingers.  We called it 'wiggly one' and wiggled our pointy finger.



We've made a start......

....on our 'red' display!

Week 2 of our menus this week

Some info that I found very interesting

It is an article on drowning and something that I wasn't really aware of.  It may be of interest to you.

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

Play food

The children have had lots of fun playing with the play food today.  Alice and I have had lots of delicious meals made for us!

Pizza

We made our own pizzas yesterday, using ham, sausages, tomatoes and cheese.

Olympic Games

We had our own Olympic Games on Friday.  We did running races, long jump, throwing and lots more!

I have put some photos on the private blog for you to look at :).

Happy Mount Park

We had lots of fun at Happy Mount Park yesterday!

More photos on private blog.

Olympic medals

The children made some Olympic medals today.  They painted some circles yellow and then sprinkled gold glitter all over them. 

We are going to have our own Olympic Games on Friday, weather permitting.

More water play