This week in the Warren we have had three learning intentions, like every week the learning intentions come from our learning wheels and they are based on our next steps.  The cells on our wheels which are not highlighted green or are orange, means that we are working towards the desired learning outcome. 

This week in the Warren we have been getting creative making cards and bird feeders for our Mummy’s. Last week the children had a high interest in mark making using the pens. Cat decided to take this interest and provide a heart template for the children to decorate.

This week we have been spending lots of time in our baby garden enjoying the mud. We have been exploring our mud kitchen using our fine motor skills, scooping up the mud and placing it into our bowls with both metal and wooden spoons to stir it around.

Some of you may have seen our Hungry Caterpillar on the far wall in The Warren. The Caterpillar is made out of colourful balloons. The Caterpillar has been our main focus for Forest School this week. Firstly, we got suited and booted ready to go out into the paddock. Some children were able to find our own coats and even able to put our wellies on.

This week as Early Years Practitioners’ we have been focusing on supporting our little ones, in feeling safe and secure in their new environment. We have been guiding and encouraging them to explore their new surroundings, being able to freely access and find their own individual choice of toys.

The Early Years Practitioners of the Warren would like to welcome all of the Warren and Nest movers to join us for a Christmas stay and play. This will be held in The Warren on the 4th of December.

This week we have been focusing on mark marking, our focused learning intention has been “makes connections between their movements and marks they make” The learning intention is found in the Early Years Foundation Stages section Physical Development: Moving and Handling.

For the past couples of weeks in the Warren we have been looking at emotions and how we are feeling. As you may have all seen in our room we have a new display, showing faces with different emotions.

This week in the Warren we provided the babies with lots and lots of shredded paper, we hid a range of animals in among the paper. The babies explored the shredded paper, using both of their hands to search through it to find the different animals, the babies picked up the animals and were able to make the noises.

In the Warren snack time is an important part of our day, where we fill our tummies with a healthy treat. Snack time is also a time when we can learn lots of skills, hand  and eye-coordination when feeding our self as well as being able to hold our cups steady when drinking from it.

This week in the Warren we have been getting very creative for our mummy’s to thank them for all their hard work. We have been helping Cat mix up salt dough, and then we have been creating individual hand print as a keepsake for our mummy’s to remember us in our early years.