Week beginning 7th July 2025
Teddy Bears Picnic and more fun and exploration.
This week we have joined in with Bear Force and their Teddy bears picnic week. Bear Force UK is a children's mental health charity that aims to build positive mental well-being in children by encouraging them to express their feelings and teaching adults how to respond in a supportive way. We had lots of bear themed activities and role play activities available including a special trail mix style snack where children were free to make their own choices and talk about their likes and dislikes. Other non bear activities on offer included a car paint ramp, the children placed the wheels of the car in paint before zooming it down a cardboard ramp creating amazing art. We made paper towel and peg butterflies as our real butterflies have finally emerged from their chrysalis. We used 2d shapes to make rockets and other pictures and also looked at some different shapes with our shape car tracks, carefully guiding the cars around the shapes helps children to focus on the shapes properties. We had some colour mixing with coloured water and the most well used and enjoyed activity was the blue chia seed slime….. the simplest of activities but one that the children found fascinating.
Week beginning 14th July 2025
Our last week together before the summer holidays.
This week we collapsed our curriculum and focused on activities and experiences that are child led and based on children’s interests. It’s a week where children get to think about and choose exactly how they’d like to spend their time. It’s great to hear what the children would like to explore from unicorn kinetic sand right down to good old role play, where we pretended we were camping, became wild animals and cats and also spent time looking after the playgroup dolls. The dinosaur tuff tray and bug exploration were requested several times and of course lots of outside play including our last Fun Factory Football session for the school year. We also said goodbye to our playgroup butterflies as we released them into our garden ……And just like the butterflies our rising fives have grown and are ready to spread their wings as they move onto the next steps of their educational journey. We would like to wish them all the very best of luck and much happiness, it’s been a privilege to be part of their early learning story, we cant wait to share our special leavers celebration and lunch with you all. We are also really looking forward to welcoming back those children who are staying with us for another year, hearing all about what they get up to over the summer holidays, and also all of the new children joining us in September, we can’t wait to begin playing, learning and exploring together.
Have a great summer from Fiona, Sarah, Becca, Lizzy, Kate, Emma and everyone at Community Playgroup
