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Week Commencing 14th March 2022
Wonderland Day Nursery • March 16, 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 14th March 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 3 Autumn/Winter menu.
If there are any 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 – Nichola (M-Thurs)– nichola@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
2-3’s – Toni – toni@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
3-5’s – Emma E – emmaedwards@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Important dates for your diary
Thursday 17th March – St Patricks Day.
Monday 21st March – World Poetry Day.
Tuesday 22nd March – World Water Day.
Wednesday 23rd March – World Mathematics Day.
Friday 25th March – Mother’s Day Breakfast – If your child attends Wonderland on a Friday morning and you would like to book a place to have Mother’s Day Breakfast with your child please email emmaedwards@wonderlandnursery.co.uk to book a space. Mother’s Day breakfast will run from 8 – 9am.
Book your space by 18th March 2022.
ERIC – The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity
ERIC have a variety of helpful resoruces, ways of communicating with other parents and professionals for advice to support your children in beginning and continuing on their potty training journey. There is also guidance when dealing with constipation in children and much much more.
Free Weaning Recipes – Better Health, Start for Life
Need advice or ideas for healthy meals or weaning ideas for your baby or toddler? Look no further than the NHS Better Health, Start For Life Website as shown below.
https://www.nhs.uk/start4life/weaning/safe-weaning/choking/#anchor-tabs
Free Online Speech and Language Stimulation Education Sessions
First Words - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/first-words-supporting-children-to-say-their-first-words-tickets-253858867707
Phrases and Sentences - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phrases-and-sentences-supporting-children-to-develop-speech-and-language-tickets-255955087557
If you are concerned about your child’s speech in any way, please do give a member of the Wonderland Management Team a call or email.
Supporting Transitions to ‘Big school!’
The time is fast approaching where some of our 3-5 children will be beginning their transition onto ‘big school.’ All of the children who we know will be making this transition will receive a transition document to provided by Wonderland to give a range of ideas and ways to support this transition.
If you have not yet received a copy, please ask one of the 3-5’s Team and we will sort this for you. We have also attached an electronic copy to this email.
Bringing food and drink into nursery
Could we please take this opportunity in reminding all our parents and carers to not send their children into nursery with any food or drink. As well as ensuring your children’s clothing and faces are also clean. At Wonderland we have many children who have several life-threatening allergies to a variety of foods and drinks. Not only can some of these children be allergic to ingesting certain foods they also have touch sensitive allergies to these foods and drinks too. Therefore, it is imperative that we all do our best to keep all the children at Wonderland safe.
Naming children’s clothing
Recently we have had a number of items of clothing that have gone missing within the nursery. As you can imagine we have so many items of clothing which are all very similar.
Please could we kindly ask for your children’s items to be named. This will really support the staff team trying to locate the missing items and returning these to you. Thank you with your cooperation.
Late collections
We completely understand that on occasion you may be late to collect your child due to being held up at work or another unplanned change. As a one off you will not be charged. However, if this becomes a regular occurrence you will be charged a late collection fee due to our staff having to stay later than the end of their shift time. Our staff already work a long day so please could we ask you all to try your best to collect your children at the end of their nursery time.
The Babies have been...
Making the most of the sunshine by exploring their garden in a variety of ways. They have been traveling up and down the slide, crawling through their tunnel, making marks using chubby chalks and going on walks of the local environment. The Babies have also been playing Peek-A-Boo and Roll The Ball to develop their social interaction. Finally, the Babies have also been taking part in dip tasting where they explored their likes and dislikes with a range of dips, such as hummus.
Next week we will be...
Having fun during their Tiny Mites music and dance session, exploring a range of signs when singing Old MacDonald had a farm, going on a walk to explore the world around them, sharing a range of pop up and lift up flap books as well as developing their physical skills by pulling themselves up onto the bikes and trikes as well as the rainbow slide.
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The Toddlers have been...
Exploring a range of textures and objects when exploring the slime tray, creating a sensory path and exploring their role play area. The Toddlers have appeared to like pretending to feed the toy babies and having a teddy bears picnic. The Toddlers have also been sharing the story ‘Dear Zoo.’
Next week we will be...
Going on a bear hunt in the garden, moving over and under obstacles whilst moving over an obstacle course, exploring a range of inset puzzles, singing songs with animal puppets, and exploring textures in a range of ways.
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The 2-3's have been...
Exploring what happens when colours are mixed during painting activities and by mixing paint into crazy foam. They have been having lots of fun singing and dancing on the stage as well as exploring instruments.
Next week we will be...
Painting and printing with flowers whilst learning about Spring flowers and the changes Spring brings to the natural world. We will also be keeping active when taking part in running races outside.
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Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our new topic is – Spring and St Patrick’s Day.
Our Phonics focus has been… Creating our very own named rainbows and creating our own initial letter of our names out of shining gems!
Our Mathematical focus has been… Exploring capacity in the water and sand trays using a range of tools, jugs, bowls and funnels as well as using the spray bottles to spray away numerals written on the ground.
Our Topic focus has been... Beginning to develop our understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly by looking after our very own caterpillars. The children have also been learning about David Attenborough and creating their very own Shamrock Art paintings. During their garden play the children have also been playing cricket whilst learning about the Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Next week we will be...
Our new topic is – Signing Week, Spring & Young Carers Day & British Science Week.
Our Phonics focus will be… Continuing to develop our awareness of initial sounds of the most common letter sounds within the English language; s, a, t, p, I, n, g, o, ck as well as signing our Jolly Phonics letter songs. Some of the children will also be fishing for initial sounds within our water tray and having a go at segmenting and blending a range of CVC words.
Our Mathematical focus will be… Becoming Scientists and creating our very own potions within our mud kitchen and water trays. The children will be exploring capacity and having a go at measuring using numerals on the sides of jugs.
Our Topic focus will be... Our 3-5 children becoming Scientists throughout the week when taking part in a range of Scientific experiments such as creating their very own Rainbows. They will also be planting their very own Sunflowers.
The children will also be continuing to develop their signing skills by singing and signing a range of nursery rhymes such as, The Wheels On The Bus and Five Little Speckled Frogs.
Thank you for your continuing support.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Wonderland Management Team
