Blog Post
Week Commencing 3rd October 2022
Wonderland Day Nursery • October 3, 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 3rd October 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 2 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
Staff holiday
Emma B – Monday 3rd October
Kelly C – Tuesday 4th October
Jade – Wednesday 5th October
Ellie D –
Friday 7th October
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..
Teaching Internet Safety
More and more Pre-schoolers are getting their own tablets or borrowing their parents’ devices to play games, use apps, and watch their favourite TV shows. Watch the link below to find out how to support safe online journey of your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3OF-NWDzGo
There is also a handy internet safety checklist for your information to continue to support your child in accessing the digital world around them as they grow, by following the link below to the Internet Matters website.
The Babies have been...
Exploring lots of our sensory toys this week. The Babies have been exploring their hand-held mirrors, sensory light up cog board, sensory texture tubes and their light up board.
The Babies have also been building towers and exploring their Royal Family/London interest tray.
Next week the Babies will be……
Using conkers to create Autumnal paintings. If you see any conkers when on any walks this weekend, please do bring these into nursery next week.
The Babies will also be exploring squishy paint to develop their interest in textures whilst creating an Autumn tree as well as exploring a range of different coloured cooked pasta.
The Toddlers have been...
This week the Toddlers have been exploring different textures and learning new words such as ‘squishy, soft, hard, slimy’ as well as learning about facial features using the song ‘head shoulders knees and toes. They have also been going on an animal hunt around the nursery developing their observational and counting skills.
Next week we will be……
The Toddlers will be learning about different types of vehicles and their sounds and using these in a variety of ways during play. They will also be creating their own recipes and learning about various foods through a baby's picnic role play.
The 2-3's have been...
Developing their fine motor skills when making playdough hedgehogs with glitter and spaghetti. They have been threading cheerios and have been practicing their cutting skills using the scissors. They have also taken part in a range of Autumn craft activities such as leaf printing.
The 2-3’s story of the week has been ‘Squasherella’.
Next week we will be... Next week we will be making vegetable Halloween potions exploring scents.
We will continue to learn about the changes that Autumn brings to our natural world. We will also be developing our gross motor skills when climbing on our apparatus outside.
Their book of the week will be: Ten Little Pumpkins.
Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our topic is – Following our children’s individual interests.
Our Phonics focus have been… Literacy / Phonics: Aspect 6 – Voice sounds
The children have been exploring the initial sounds of words by arranging a range of objects into groups of the following sounds, s,a,t,p,I,n. We have also been trying to create our very own alliterative story such as, Simon the snake, slide down the slide!
Please check your 3-5’s Parents Memo for a way in which to support your child’s Phonics development at home.
The children have also been using their talking conversation toy phones to develop their speech and listening skills, creating marks on their new light up mark making board, recording their favourite songs on their sound buttons, and using their new dinosaur puppets to begin to interact imaginatively with their peers.
Our Mathematical focus has been...
Continuing to explore a range of natural objects to continue developing our number sense and subitizing as well as exploring the heights of ourselves and our sunflower!
As well as taking part in STEM activities (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) such as exploring our sunflowers to share what we notice. The children seemed to really enjoy investigating the sunflower and its seeds.
Our Topic focus have been…
Exploring our emotions in a variety of ways. Such as using emotion rollers within playdough, using scissors to cut spaghetti to pretend we are cutting hair, exploring our sensory tent and developing our imaginative play skills by playing in our dinosaur valley!
Next week we will be…
Our topic is – Following our children’s individual interests.
Our Phonics focus will be…
Literacy / Phonics: Aspect 5 – Oral Blending
It is so important for the children to have plenty of experience of listening to adults modelling oral blending before they are introduced to grapheme and phoneme correspondences.
Therefore, at nursery we are practicing our oral blending words such as c-u-p at snack times and h-a-t when putting on our outdoor clothing for the garden.
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…
Continuing to explore our amazing environment to develop our number sense. By using our computer to explore Number Street, interacting with a range of number stories, natural objects and describing what we can see in our curiosity cube!
Our topic focus will be...
Exploring and learning about space and Astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day and World Space Week in a variety of ways. Such as sharing the story ‘What Ever Next,’ taking part in a craters on the moon experiment and a bubbling planet experiment and creating their own rockets.
The children will also be continuing their development of everything Autumnal by creating Autumnal trees using paints and broccoli!
Thank you for your continuing support.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Wonderland Management Team
