In the Warren, we have decided to have a total change around of furniture in order to make the room more engaging for the children. We quite often have change arounds in our room.
Read moreSettling in to the Warren
Over the last two weeks, we have had lots of new children start in the Warren. Some coming down from the Nest and new children coming from outside of Free Rangers. To help the children settle in and make the transition as easy as we can for them, we have been basing most of our activities on their interests.
Read moreExploring the Warren
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.
Read moreFestive Fun In The Warren
This week in the Warren we have been celebrating Christmas week. We have set out lots of activities for the children to participate in such as bauble decorating, Christmas cracker colouring and making our own Christmas cards.
Read moreChristmas Stay and Play
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.
Read moreFloating away
Last week In the Warren we got very creative, using glue, crayons and glitter to decorate sails for our tinfoil boats. Firstly our Early Year’s Practitioners Lou, Abbie and Cat cut out tiny triangles for the children to use.
Read moreMuddy Puddles!
Free Rangers have been enjoying the British weather this week! Myself and Madi were looking out into the Carpark on a wet and soggy Monday morning and decided it would be a great day to go puddle jumping! But not any normal puddle jumping...
Read moreObstacle course and getting ready for Halloween!
This week in the Warren, we decided to rearrange the baby garden and create an obstacle course for the babies. We have created stepping stones with tree stumps and crates, a balancing beam which is just off the ground, and then they were able to walk over the bridge before going down the slide.
Read moreI See
This week we have been focusing on a story called “I See”. This is a book written by Charlotte and Jayne, who are the founders of our lovely nursery. Charlotte and Jayne grew up on a farm and think highly of what the farm environment can give to young children growing up.
Read moreForest School and the benefits of Risk Taking
Here at Free Rangers we believe that the great outdoors provides the children with high stimulating experiences, and gives them a great opportunity to develop their learning further. The Forest School ethos underpins all that we do here at Free Rangers.
Read moreSensory Experiences
This week in the Warren we have been exploring sensory toys. We have been looking at sensory bottles and exploring the textures of shredded paper.
Read moreMark making and Exploring our New Surroundings
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.
Read moreAutumn is on its way
This week in the Warren we have been putting on our wetsuits, wellie boots and coats, so that we can go outside and have fun in the rain. This is the time of year when the weather is starts to become colder and the leaves start to fall from the trees. Here at Free Rangers, we love this time of year. The weather is ever changing and with this, it brings new experiences.
Read moreBlackberry Mess!
The babies in the Warren enjoyed blackberry picking so much last week that we decided to carry on going blackberry picking again this week. Instead of eating them for snack, we decided to create blackberry paint and create some pictures for a new display.
Read moreWild at Heart
This week in the Warren, we have been very interested in animals. We have been going on adventures around the farm both looking at what animals we can find, as well as hunting for blackberries so that we can eat them for snack.
Read moreA Walk Amongst the Farm Animals
This week on our Forest School sessions, we have been on long walks around the farm, visiting all the animals. We’ve been focussing our ability to manage our own risks, carefully walking around the farm yard on the uneven ground without falling over, steadily walking up the steps to the office to visit Bobby bird and navigating around the kissing gate on the way to visit the chickens.
Read moreThis week in the Warren
This week in the Warren we have been busy with a range of various activities. Some of these include going for a walk along the cycle track on a hunt for some mini beasts, drawing on a sheet of paper on the floor having tummy time, going for a walk along the cycle track to the park and bouncing on the bouncy castle in our room.
Read moreFree Rangers Children Fleeing the Nest….Warren…..Burrow and…… Den
So the time has come when our little Free Rangers are leaving us to start their new venture of Primary School Education. Some of our children joined us in the Nest and have had a positive journey throughout Free Rangers and finalising their time in the Den.
Read moreHow are you feeling?
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.
Read moreThe sun has got his hat on!
This week in the Warren we have been enjoying the lovely sunshine and the beautiful weather. We have gone out as much as we can, ensuring we have put on lots of sun cream to protect ourselves from the sun.
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