This month was jam packed with celebrations for us here at monkey puzzle. We celebrated world book day, Mother’s Day, St David’s day, St Patrick day, red nose day and Ramadan. For Mother’s Day we had a large celebration inviting all of our special people to come and spend the afternoon at nursery with us enjoying a tea party. We had little tea cakes, scones, cups of tea and biscuits. We enjoyed making and decorating our own biscuits with our special people as well as making our own flower printing art and our own paper flowers to gift them.

Bumblebees

In our baby room we have been building and constructing with a variety of resources such us A-Z wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and shiny shapes. This has helped us practice our hand eye coordination, fine and gross motor skills and balancing skills as well as practicing cause and effect. We absolutely love learning new games and have recently been learning and playing roll the ball, it allows us to follow directions and learn our friends’ names.

Ladybirds

In ladybirds this month we have been focusing on our mindfulness and relaxation which led us on to enjoying a full pamper day at our very own spa. The lights were turned down and we listed to some calming spa music whilst having facials, pedicures and manicures and a foot scrub. All the children enjoyed getting involved and taking turns to be pampered and pamper each other. It was great relaxing fun!

Butterflies

This month in butterflies we have been really interested in the Gruffalo, so we made our own Gruffalo Crumble. We went for a walk down the Alban Way, to see if we could find the Gruffalo or any of the other animals from the book. We found lots of sticks, leaves, and squirrels! We have also been diving deeper into oral health and We explored the dentist kit and spoke about how important it is to look after our teeth and to get them checked at the dentist. We spoke about our own experiences at the dentist and used the different dental tools on the dolls and the role play teeth. We used the floss, toothbrushes, toothpaste and mirrors, while reading the books about the dentist to find out lots of facts.