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Week Commencing 21st March 2022
Wonderland Day Nursery • April 22, 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 21st March 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 4 Autumn/Winter menu.
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
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
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.
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...
Celebrating St Patrick’s Day by creating paintings and prints using a clover carved apple printer, exploring crazy foam and developing their awareness of how objects can travel and move.
Next week we will be...
Creating Spring cotton wool bunnies, bulidng towers to explore number language as well as identifying symbolic noises animals make when playing in the small world animal farm and sharing a range of animal books.
The Toddlers
The Toddlers have been...
Looking at the live caterpillars to see how they have grown and then reading the story of the hungry caterpillar to see how they will change into butterflies. They have also been learning to be independent with washing their hands and drinking from an open cup as well as playing with technological toys.
Next week we will be...
Developing their balancing whilst taking part in obstacle courses and playing with the soft play. The children will be joining in with rhyme time and trying to complete the nursery rhymes and join in with the actions as well as taking part in their fortnightly tiny mites singalong on Wednesday.
The 2-3's have been...
Spending time exploring the cars and vehicles and creating their own ramps and tunnels as part of their play. They have also been pretending to feed dinosaurs coloured rice using spoons as part of a roleplay game.
Next week we will be...
Focusing on number activities and including numbers in play when taking part in shop keeper games, counting jumps in the garden and numbering cars and car parking spaces.
Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our new topic is – Signing Week, Spring & Young Carers Day & British Science Week.
Our Phonics focus have been…
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 have also been fishing for initial sounds within our water tray and having a go at segmenting and blending a range of CVC words.
Our Mathematical focus have been…
Becoming Scientists and creating our very own potions within our mud kitchen and water trays. The children have also been exploring capacity and having a go at measuring using numerals on the sides of jugs.
The children have also been learning about positional language through directing a programmable mouse around it’s maze!
Our Topic focus have been…
Becoming Scientists throughout taking part in a range of Scientific experiments such as creating their very own Rainbows. They have also been planting their very own Sunflowers.
The children have continued 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.
Next week we will be...
Our new topic are – Holi, Neurodiversity Celebration Week & Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week.
Our Phonics focus will be…
Creating pictures of our Mummies and answering the question, ‘My Mummy is magic because… The children will be encouraged to write their own name and the letter ‘m’ for Mummy onto their picture.
Our Mathematical focus will be…
Creating a range of 2d Shape patterns, linking to Holi Festival.
Our Topic focus will be….
The children will be learning about the festival of colour ‘Holi.’ Including creating their very own Jackson Pollock abstract art pictures using his technique of ‘dip painting’ and ‘scatter painting.’ The children will be creating small versions of this and then a large version of Jackson’s creation during their garden play.
Thank you for your continuing support.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Wonderland Management Team
