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Week Commencing 24th January 2022
Wonderland Day Nursery • March 16, 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 24th January 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 4 Autumn/Winter menu.
There are no planned changes to this week's Autumn/Winter Menu.
If there are changes during the week, you will be notified on your child’s individual hand over sheet.
Staff holiday
Monday 24th January – Kelly C, Sarah B (pm), Kelsie(pm)
Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th, Friday 28th January – Ashleigh
Friday 28th January – Emma E, Tasha, Florrie
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.
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
Luna New Year
To ensure that Wonderland continues to promote culturally sensitive activities, and are inclusive to everyone within our community, we will be celebrating Lunar New Year, rather than Chinese New Year.
Lunar New Year is celebrated all over the world, and in China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines, Lunar New Year is a national holiday. This year, Lunar New Year starts on 1st February, and lasts for fifteen days, so expect 2 weeks of different activities from the children right across the nursery.
Our fantastic Kitchen Team will be preparing a special Chinese Lunch for the children to enjoy on
Monday 31st January.
Story telling week - Week Commencing 31st January 2022
Throughout the week of 31st January 2022 the entire nursery will be celebrating Story Telling Week in a range of ways.
If your child would like to dress up as their favourite from one of their favourite story books during this week they are more than welcome to do so!
Current COVID-19 cases at Wonderland
Babies - No cases.
Toddlers - No cases.
2-3’s – No cases.
3-5’s – No cases.
Please can we ask all of our parents and carers to continue wearing face coverings (unless exempt) when dropping off or collecting your children until the isolation rules are no longer in place.
Week of 7th February 2022
Throughout the week of 7th February 2022 the entire nursery will be raising money for the NSPCC in a variety of ways by supporting Number Day 2022. Here are a few ways the children can support Number Day 2022.
- Dress up as your favourite number.
- Complete a number hunt of home / nursery environment.
- Singing a range of number songs.
- Exploring numbers in play dough and textured sensory trays.
- Dress up as a Number Bot Day.
Complete a number hunt at home and enter our competition with a £2 donation to have a chance of winning a number activity game.
Please print off or ask for a copy from a Wonderland Team Member and return this to nursery before Friday 11th February 2022.
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.
The Babies have been...
Celebrating Winnie The Pooh Day by listening to Winnie The Pooh Stories whilst decorating pictures of Winnie The Pooh, exploring how their bodies can move whilst pushing themselves along on the large scuttle bugs inside as well as moving across the soft play blocks with support from their adults. The babies have also been placing animals into trays of paint to explore how they can make marks and prints on their paper.
Next week we will be...
Creating a range of Burns night crafts, developing their vocabulary whilst taking part in their Tiny Mites Music session and share a range of stories with our adults.
The Toddlers have been...
Sharing stories about Winnie The Pooh and decorating their very own Winnie The Pooh pictures to celebrate Winnie The Pooh Day, showing interest in the connecting shape tiles, using a range of resources to create their very own crowns and moving in a range of ways to instruments and music with their peers.
Next week we will be...
Going on a bear hunt around the nursery garden and Toddler Areas, creating Burns Night Flags, mixing colours, creating and exploring playdough as well as moving acorss an obstacle course during our garden play in a rang of ways.
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The 2-3's have been...
Taking part in parachute games as well as a range of ring games that involve listening to and following simple instructions. They have been practicing cutting skills when cutting up cooked spaghetti. They have been hunting for Winnie the Pooh characters and have also been creating marks with fingers and tools in flour.
Next week we will be...
Bubble wrap painting using a range of rainbow colours. We will be measuring each other and objects and will be discussing sizes and height in play. We will also be learning about emotions and talking about our feelings when looking at the book ‘Colour Monster’.
Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our new topic is – following our children’s interests.
Our Phonics focus has been… Continuing to develop our interests in mark making by creating marks in a range ways such as completing our food orders within our café, designing our own models within our building site as well as creating our very own dreams and wishes to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
Our Mathematical focus has been… Identifying the days of the week whilst exploring our Hungry Caterpillar station. The children have also been touch counting and sorting the food the caterpillar ate within the story. During their Child Initiated learning the children have also been ordering numbers 0 – 10 and creating tap tap shape pictures to develop their fine motor development and shape recognition.
Our Topic focus has been... Celebrating Martin Luther King Day by sharing a story about Martin Luther King and creating our own dreams on our very own crafted worlds.
Next week we will be...
Our new topic is – following our children’s interests, as well as learning about Burns Night.
Our Phonics focus will be… Continuing to recognise our names when taking part in our morning circle time when finding our named leaf. The children will also be exploring their listening skills and concentration skills when playing ‘Kim’s game’ with musical instruments.
Our Mathematical focus will be…
Continuing to develop our numeral awareness by singing a range of number rhymes and songs as well as completing our very own number lines.
Thank you for your continuing support.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Wonderland Management Team
