Commencing 24th October 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 24th October 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 1 Autumn/Winter menu
Currently the planned changes we have next week are within the yellow boxes above.
If there are any other changes during the week, you will be notified on your child’s individual hand over sheet.
Working in partnership at Wonderland
If you would like a catch up with your child’s key carer at any time or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate in giving a member of the Management Team an email to arrange this. Our doors are always open. Corrin can arrange permanent session changes and Toni is able to book in extra sessions on your behalf. If you have any invoicing queries, please email our Accounts Team on the address below.
Accounts – accounts@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Babies – Corrin – corrin@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Toddlers – Hannah H – hannahh@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
2-3’s - Toni – toni@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
3-5’s – Emma E – emmaedwards@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Extra sessions – toni@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Changes to your child’s usual booking pattern, if your child is leaving Wonderland - bookings@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Covid-19 cases within the Wonderland Family
We currently have no more cases of COVID-19.
Booking extra sessions and requesting changes to your child’s permanent sessions
We are changing the way we would like you to communicate with us regarding increasing, decreasing and requesting changes to your child’s permanent nursery sessions.
If you would like any changes to your child’s permanent nursery sessions, please can you email the following address: bookings@wonderlandnursery.co.uk Corrin our Nursery Manager will look into your request as soon as possible.
If you would like to book extra sessions, please may we ask that these are still sent to Toni our Deputy Manager using the following address: toni@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Toni will look at the availability and will get back to you at her earliest convenience..
Childhood Illnesses Currently at Wonderland
Currently we have several children within our 3-5’s Age Group with Hand, Foot and Mouth as well as a number of ear infections and chest infections right across the nursery.
The Cultivo Giving Tree is back – Share some Christmas Joy!
Come
Come into the restaurant and pick a tag, buy and wrap a gift and return it to Cultivo by 8th December!
Free Behaviour Course
Would you like to pick up some tips on how to support your child’s behaviour then have a look at this free course run at our local Family Centre – Chestnut Tree.
Halloween
Zoo Lab - Monday 31st October
Zoo Lab are visiting to help engage with the children and staff in a safe and informative way about a range of insects and animals.
Halloween party tea – Monday 31st October
Our fabulous Kitchen Team will be creating a lovely Halloween Party Tea for the children to enjoy here at Wonderland.
Dressing up and Fancy Dress
We would also like to invite the children to dress up during the week commencing 24th October as well as the following Monday (31st October.) The children do not have to dress up every day, but the option is there throughout this time to ensure all of the children have the opportunity to dress up, no matter what sessions they attend at Wonderland.
Please remember, don’t spend a lot of money on fancy dress clothes, the children are more than welcome to wear their comfy onesies and lovely Autumnal jumpers and t shirts. Home made outfits are fab (but only if you have time!!!) Of course, if your child doesn’t want to dress up, this is okay too! We have lots of role play outfits which we can offer here at Wonderland.
However, please remember nothing too scary or gruesome for fancy dress for little ones!
Elgood Photography
It’s photo day again on Thursday 3rd November!
If your child attends Wonderland for their usual nursery session on a Thursday, no need to panic. They will have their photo taken during their nursery day.
If your child does not attend Wonderland on a Thursday, please email your Age Group Mentor (their email address’ can be found on the second page of the newsletter) to book in a time within our morning ‘drop-in slot’ for your child to still have their photograph taken.
The morning slot will be 9am – 10am.
Food deals available over the half term period
Develop a love for reading with your child
Welly Walk
The Babies have been...
Exploring how to make marks in a variety of ways, such as using sponges in water to draw on the chalk boards, rolling conkers and sticks in Autumnal paint as well as pushing cars through paint. The Babies have also gone on a bear hunt during their garden play and have been developing their communication and vocabulary by taking part in a role play party tea using our teddy bears and toy babies.
Next week the Babies will be……
Continuing to complete Autumnal and Halloween activities such as twig and leaf painting, creating playdough spiders and exploring their inset puzzle picture boards.
The Toddlers have been...
Decorating Halloween biscuits to develop their fine motor skills and learning how to incorporate health and self-care routines such as handling a spoon. They have also been creating monsters using Halloween coloured playdough such as orange and purple, talking about the legs and arms of the monsters which they used pipe cleaners for.
Next week we will be……
The Toddlers have also been exploring lovely new books this week and have been really enjoying exploring the different textures of the classic book series ‘that’s not……’
The 2-3's have been...
Continuing to explore Halloween and Autumn in a variety of ways, such as using Halloween stampers to create Halloween pictures and creating their very own spiders using playdough. The 2-3’s have also shown lots of interest in small world play this week using their cars and ramps to see which cars travelled the furthest across the floor. The children have also seemed to like building their own train tracks.
The 2-3’s story of the week has been….
Room on The Broom.
Next week we will be... Creating wildlife pictures and developing their fine motor skills using scissors to snip spaghetti.
Book of the week will be: 10 Little Pumpkins.
Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our topic is – Autumn, Halloween, Mindfulness
Our Phonics focus have been… Literacy / Phonics: Aspect 1 – General Sound Discrimination – Environmental
The aim of this aspect is to raise children’s awareness of the sounds around them and to develop their listening skills.
At nursery the children have been completing a listening walk in the nursery garden and have been playing sound lotto to identify a variety of different animals by the sounds they make.
Please check your 3-5’s Parents Memo for a way in which to support your child’s Phonics development at home.
Our Mathematical focus has been...
Continuing to develop their number sense through subitising using conkers and exploring pumpkins to see what they ‘notice’ what is the same, what is different as well as developing our vocabulary to describe the conkers such as tough, spikey, round, smooth etc.
We have also been exploring our conkers and pumpkins using our senses – touch and smell. Some of the children have been going on Autumnal walks to see what Autumnal Treasure they can find! They have then used this treasure at nursery to create a variety of Autumnal collages and paintings.
Our STEAM activities this week have been…..
Directing the programmable mouse across its track, moving through, under and over the bridges and tunnels to eat its cheese! As well as interacting with age-appropriate software on our touch screen computers.
Our Topic focus have been…
Exploring playdough to create our very own playdough spiders, investigating our Autumnal water tray using our pipettes and funnels to explore the transportation of water as well as using our caldrons and potion bottles to create a range of spooky potions!
Next week we will be…
Our topic is – Following our children’s individual interests.
Our Phonics focus will be…
Literacy / Phonics: Aspect 4 – rhythm and rhyme
Next week the children will be exploring rhythm and rhyme in a variety of ways. They will be sharing the story of ‘Funny Bones’ to identify the rhyming words or words that sound the same. As well as playing rhyming bingo with their friends.
Please check your 3-5’s Parents Memo for a way in which to support your child’s Phonics development at home.
Our Mathematical focus will be…
Will be continuing to focus and identify what we notice is the same and different whilst exploring our Autumn Treasures. The children will also be exploring a variety of leaves looking at the patterns they can see.
Our topic focus will be...
Exploring the festival of Diwali by creating our very own Diva lamps.
