Flying Start @ Marjon’s Baby Trip to the Library
The babies enjoyed a trip to the library recently, where they found lots of exciting books to look at!
The children looked at the book shelves themselves, and choose stories to look at. They pointed at pictures and babbled about what they could see!
The babies really loved the giant bean bags, and story time with their friends!
Flying Start @ Marjon’s Toddlers Explore …
The open ended play with balls, tubes, pine cones and other parts they found in the garden and nursery encouraged the Toddler’s to transport, investigation and explore!
They used the tubes to stack and make towers, before exploring rolling the tubes.
When they added balls into their play, the children started to put them inside the tubes – demonstrating an enveloping schema. They then tried with pine cones and other small objects, exploring how the different items fitted and rolled!
The children then used saucepans and equipment from the mud kitchen to mix, stir and combine.
Play with resources like this is open ended as there is no right or wrong way to play … however we have found it allows the children to be really active and curious in their play!
Flying Start @ Marjon Sing, Play and Puzzle With Residents At Down House
Visiting the residential home, the children brought great joy and smiles!
Exploring play dough together, doing puzzles and reading stories were the favourite activities of the children with the residents. Then together they joined the children for a sing song with actions!
These visits bring such fun to both children and residents!
Flying Start @ Marjon’s Toddler Exploration In Their Learning
Schemas are repeated patterns of play which the staff have been supplying opportunities for at Marjon to support the children’s learning.
A posting schema involves children posting objects, this is a current repetitive play often seen in the toddler’s play so the key workers provided specific opportunities to channel this repetition.
Here they were posting fur cones into the pipes watching how they dropped and exploring where they went.
The children then adapted this activity to see if they could see through the pipes, as well as using them as musical instruments.
Great fun had with something as simply as some tubes… why not try using usual house hold items at home for your child to freely explore, just see what their imaginations lead them to do!
Flying Start @ Marjon Babies Explore Heuristic Play!
The baby department at Flying Start @ Marjon have been learning and exploring through heuristic play, in their revamped heuristic area of their baby room!
The babies particularly enjoyed transporting the baubles into bowls, rolling them around and sharing them with their friends!
They were all very curious to investigate all of the exciting new treasure baskets too – as you can see from the photos!
What brilliant exploring and discovering!
Flying Start @ Marjon Babies Enjoy All Weather Play!
The baby department at Flying Start @ Marjon aren’t going to be put off by the January weather… they have been out enjoying the garden, wearing their puddlesuits in the rain!
They’ve had lots of fun playing in the mud kitchen, kicking and throwing the balls, and zipping down the wet slides!
They were especially fascinated by making footprints in the mud, some of the children even rolled around in the wet grass in their puddle suits!
What brilliant rainy fun!
Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Outdoor Mark Making!
The children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been doing some very exciting outdoor art, making marks using brightly coloured paints outside in the nursery garden!
The children used a whole variety of tools to make different marks, and different effects!
The children really enjoyed using the funnels, cylinders, and rollers to make exciting shapes, and were encouraged to really show their personalities in their artwork!
What great expression through mark making!
Flying Start @ Marjon Collect Donations For Local Food Bank
In December, Flying Start @ Marjon were collecting items for their local food bank, which they successfully delivered.
The Marjon team would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents that helped them collect items for their local food bank – it was very much appreciated!
Happy New Year from Flying Start Nurseries!
Happy New Year from all at Flying Start Nurseries!
The nurseries are now all re-opened as of today (2nd January) for 2019 and are looking forward to welcoming all of the children & their families back!
We hope you all had a wonderful break with your children!
