Exploring our local environment during our PE sessions with Phil has been an exciting adventure! We love to embark on little journeys into our community, where we take risks, develop our gross motor skills, and enhance our social skills.
The children have been learning important safety skills, such as how to cross a road safely. We practise looking both ways and listening for cars, ensuring we stay safe while exploring.
During our adventures, we have visited the local park, where we enjoyed trying out the different equipment. The big slide, roundabout, and swings were particular favourites!
As the children develop their independence, they are learning to take risks and do things for themselves, knowing that an adult is always close by if they need help.
We also took a lovely walk to the local nature trail, where we explored our surroundings. This has helped us with colour recognition and counting as we observed the beautiful sights around us.
We were thrilled to see deer, dogs, and many friendly faces in our community. After all the excitement, we felt very tired when we returned to nursery!
ELmer the Elephant
This term, we have been focusing on Elmer, the colourful elephant, which has been a great fit for our PE sessions. One of our lovely children has a particular love for elephants, inspiring a variety of activities around this topic.
Creative Activities
The children have been engaged in several creative activities. They have created elephants using collage materials, drawn their own versions, and collectively decorated a large elephant. These artistic endeavours have allowed them to explore colours and textures and build on their social skills.
Physical Activities
In line with our theme, the children have been developing their physical skills by moving like elephants. We've incorporated yoga into our sessions and ventured into our local environment to discover different colours. The children even constructed an elephant using sticks and leaves, building on each other's ideas.
Storytelling and Music
The children enjoy storytelling and have embraced listening to Elmer and other elephant-themed tales. To enhance their experience, we've also explored creating various musical sounds inspired by the stories. Our Mighty Minis group is always busy with exciting and engaging activities!
Winter Fun
Wow, what a lot of fun we have had learning all about the season of Winter in the Mighty Minis. Through a wide variety of activities, we have developed our learning further by exploring ice and how it changes from water to ice. The children loved exploring the change and how it melts back into water.
We love animals, so we have been learning all about Arctic animals and their habitats. Our favourites were penguins, polar bears, Arctic hares, and reindeer. The children have been showing their creative skills by creating amazing Arctic animals from a wide range of tools and materials.
We have been creating snowmen; it is a shame we didn't get lots of snow to make our very own one. The children have enjoyed listening to and retelling winter stories and joining in learning new winter songs.
The Mighty Minis have been super busy learning, and no day is the same.
18th May 2025
Through out the week we have been developing our understanding of number through a variety of fun filled activities. The children have enjoyed mark making on a smaller and larger scale, building with different materials, counting up to 20 and even beyond. We love to have fun whilst promoting children's learning further and developing their mathematical development.
12th May 2025
The children have taken an interest in our planet Earth so this week in nursery we have been learning all about space and the different planets. The children have loved learning about our solar system and did amazing remembering all the planets. We have been creating planets from paper mache, dressing up as astronauts, creating and decorating our own space rockets/ships. The children have been working together using large cardboard boxes to create a big rocket to take us to space, we use tin foil on different objects within our environment as space helmets. The children have fantastic imagination and have enjoyed role playing going to space. At snack time we have been having a picnic on the moon and loved a space themed snack and was pretending to look out for aliens and flying saucers. Overall, we have had a busy fun filled week in the Mighty Mini's, 5,4,3,2,1, blast off into our next week of learning.
5th May 2025
Wow what a busy week we have had in the Mighty Mini's, where we have been exploring Europe and have begun to learn some new languages. The children have been learning French with Mrs McKinnon, Portuguese with Mrs Aspinall and German with Mrs Scales. Through these little lessons we have been developing our learning through play and have learnt colours, numbers, hello, bye, thank you and songs in the languages. One of our friends in Mini's Oliwia has been teaching us some Polish and did super well sharing her home language. At snack time we have tried some tradition foods from France, Poland, Germany and Portugal. Well done Mini's you did amazing learning new languages.
25th April 2025
What a busy first week back from Easter, we have welcomed some new friends to the Mighty Minis family. We have been exploring both the indoor and outdoor environments, had lots of fun with Phil in our PE sessions and we have been learning lots about dinosaurs. Through our activities we have been developing our fine and gross motor skills, turn taking, listening skills and practising our counting and identifying numerals 1-10.
4th April 2025
The Mighty Mini's have been developing their knowledge and learning about Easter and church. We had the opportunity to go and have a look around our church. The children loved sharing this with their friends and there was lots of learning opportunities to develop our knowledge through seeing the church and talking about what we can see. The children have been talking about Jesus, the cross and some of the children have talked about going to church with their family. We love to explore new environments and build on children's interest and knowledge.
Mighty Minis Nursery
Our Mini's had a great time doing yoga in our school hall.
