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Flying Start @ Penryn’s baby department love to bake!

Each week Linda and Kim in the baby department provide cooking club opportunities for the children to participate in.

They started to do a cooking club with babies as a suggestion from a parent, who noticed other departments do cooking club and queried why the babies weren’t… and the Penryn Team agreed! So a cooking club was born and now lots of lovely baking happens as well as exctiting learning opportunities for the children.

The children have chopped fruit for fruit salads, explored different textured fruit and vegetables and made their own dips to try them with, baked small bread rolls kneading the dough themselves and here the children made chocolate chip cookies as a treat!

The children love getting involved and have been practicing using child safe knives, mixing with spoons, different sized bowls, small pouring jugs and of course the most important tool their hands and fingers!

The children take their cooking home to enjoy or sometimes eat it for a mid afternoon snack!

Keep your eyes peeled for our Parent Baking Event on the blog! The plan is for parents, relatives and friends to join the babies to make pizza’s and cheese straws and then enjoy for a late morning snack!

Flying Start @ Helston learn a new song about brushing their teeth!

The children sing a song as they demonstrate the action of brushing their teeth!

Here the toddlers then could look into each other mouths, count lots of teeth and check they were all healthy!

Every day the children brush their teeth after lunch time, if your child does not have a toothbrush or needs a new one then please provide one to your keyworker.

Flying Start @ Penryn visited their local town library this week for a morning of stories and crafts!

A big thankyou must be sent to Caroline Atkins for Penryn Library for being so kind and creating a morning of fun for the preschool children! They thoroughly enjoyed finding lots of books they had never read before and then a very speciall Giraffe Story before using the story to create Giraffe Masks!

It was a great opportunity for the preschoolers to further develop their leraning with in the ‘Reading’ aspect in the curriculum the EYFS. The children used the story books to explain the pictures and recreate stories, find out information, and start to follow the words from left to right across the page aware of when to join in and when to turn the page! Fantastic learning from an exciting outing.
All Penryn preschool children will now be recieving a Penryn Library Card to go to the library and activate, this will then mean the children can borrow books for up to three weeks at a time and enjoy new and exciting stories at home.

Flying Start @ Penryn will also be offering a borrow scheme to parents of parenting books regarding healthy eating, toddler behaviour and parental support – if there is a particular topic you would like to borrow a book from then please let Sophia know and she will endeavour to source the relevant material for you.

Flying Start @ Saltash have created this beautiful Celebration Tree!

The tree is in the nursery hall way by the front door, and will be used to celebrate the festivals of the world throughout the year!

Last month the tree had crafts the children had made representing Chinese New Year, and for February there are beautiful hearts to celebrate the forthcoming Valentines Day!

If you are a parent or friend of Saltash nursery why don’t you recommend a March celebration to decorate the tree?

Flying Start @ Helston preschool children enjoy some small group time where they listen and talk to Sam ‘the puppet’.

This small circle time allows the preschool children to listen to each other, start to ask each other questions to explore meanings and thoughts and also grow in confidence by sharing their feelings and sentences with Sam the puppet, who is everybodies friend!