Taster Sessions
Maisie is our newest Preschooler this week, moving up from our baby wing. She has done so well and couldn’t wait to join the ‘big boys and girls’ this morning! Our Preschoolers are so welcoming and have loved having a new friend
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Outdoor learning
Children can be more active, attentive and engaged in learning when it takes place using the outdoor environment. All areas of the curriculum can be delivered using the outdoors. Using the outdoors for teaching, learning and play helps children to adopt positive life long learning skills, taking the emphasis away from education happening only in…
Collecting natural resources
Our Little Trekkers have been out in the glen gathering natural materials to explore and create with. We will be using the beautiful things we found for our artwork, maths activities, and as open-ended resources to use over the next few days
Pirate play
After a shower of rain in the Forest our little cherubs decided a plank was needed to cross the ‘swamp’. This quickly developed into some fantastic creative outdoor play about pirates! Our Preschool group have been using the knot book and some guidance from Miss Rianne and Miss Beth to create their own swords. They…
Bluebell questions
We have been looking at the changes to our Forest over time. Over the past few weeks the bluebells have sprouted and we want to keep them flourishing, and so we have been discussing how we can look after them. We have had many suggestions; ‘don’t stand on them cause the fairies houses will get…
The Great Manx Woodland Bake Off
The Great Manx Woodland Bake Off 🙂 Little Cherubs participated in Sport Relief 2016 to raise cash that will help to transform people’s lives across the UK and the world’s poorest communities. To do this little cherubs got creative by making mud pies in a woodland setting using only natural ingredients 🙂 Little Cherubs had…
Baby Farm
And our baby farm for our baby cherubs
Home made Farm
On the farm today 🙂 with Easter and the lambing season just around the corner Little Cherubs home made farm is a lovely way to bring the spring indoors
The Woodland in Spring
Spring is one of the most exciting times to be in the woods, with signs of bluebells and daffodils and birds building their nests our Little Trekkers had a fantastic time last week, and what great weather we had to explore all that nature has to give!
Our Woodland Garden
Little Cherubs Nature Kindergarten are delighted to confirm we have been fortunate in acquiring the use of some private land to continue our outdoor learning and forthcoming Forest School sessions. Today’s session involved exploring their new surroundings, establishing boundaries by carefully placing red tape in areas the children helped identify as unsafe and the associated…
Save your Scrap
Dear Parents At Little Cherubs we are always looking for new idea’s to capture your child’s imagination and love of learning through play. To help them become more creative and develop new skills we need your help in providing the following We are looking for material, sheets you no longer use, plastic pots and containers,…
Fire safety training
A great fire training session on Sat up at Castletown fire station! Little Cherubs are committed to the health and safety of all our children and staff, both indoors and out. A big thank you to Nick and Chris for delivering a very interesting hands on session
Visit from Santa
Santa Post
Forest School Training
Congratulations to Miss Rianne on completion of her OCN accredited Forest School level 3 training. As you know Rianne has spent some time this year training with MindStretchers, a centre of excellence in Scotland with the fabulous Claire Warden who has just been awarded the grand title of “Exceptional Master Leader”. Forest School qualification is…
Log chair
A big thank you to Heartwood Tree Surgery and Landscape Management for the very generous supply of logs and for our very first “Log Chair” amazing! thank you. Our Little Cherubs will have great fun putting that to good us.
Halloween
So! what did your little cherubs get up to over Halloween? partying, face painting and a scary walk through the woods to find a witches cauldron :-0 did they find one? have a look and see
Getting Creative with Natural Resources
This week at Little Cherubs we will be embarking upon an exciting play based experiment! As you know, our passion is outdoor learning and the use of natural objects within play, which is why we have decided to dedicate a week to precisely this! There will be no conventional toys being used at Little Cherubs…
Upcycled garden furniture
I love my girls 🙂 definitely have the best team of EYFS Practitioners, who would work long hours and then stay after work to do some up cycling so our little cherubs can have some fab tables and stools? bit more sanding and painting to do but cannot wait to post the finished product 🙂…
Happy Birthday Little Cherubs
Happy Birthday Little Cherubs 🙂 What a fantastic day we have all had, and what a successful year it has been too. One year ago today we opened our doors to 12 children and 12 months on, with no advertising, and just recommendation’s Little Cherubs is proud to say we are full until Sept 2017!…
Science exploration
Miss Michaela’s homemade ice chalk is the perfect art, sensory, and science activity. Bringing indoor and outdoor learning and exploration together keeps our little cherubs stimulated and interested
Enabling Environments
Being outdoors has a positive impact on children’s sense of well-being and helps all aspects of children’s development. At Little Cherubs we encourage our children to appreciate nature, plants, insects, animals and the natural world in order to understand its processes and the patterns of the seasons. The use of natural materials in play and…
Graduation
Congratulation’s to Elif & Graihagh. Your big day is almost here! and we know you are both really excited about your new adventure. School opens the door of knowledge and builds the foundation for the future. Have a memorable first day at school and we wish you every success. From all at Little Cherubs xxxxx
Learning with mud
At Little Cherubs we focus on making our activities fun, interesting and totally hands-on!… Collecting and measuring rain water offers opportunities for learning about numbers, counting and calculating through practical experiences and at the same time developing their understanding of the world around them.
Numeracy
Developing a mathematically rich learning environment both indoors and outdoors provides children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting and to understand Shape, Space and Measuring. Natural materials that are found outdoors, such as twigs, conkers, chestnuts, shells and pebbles can be sorted and graded according to size or shape. At Little…
Summer fun
Our summer fun continued incorporating many of the early years learning goals. Creative & expressive arts by creating roll play area’s for the children to play in and use their imagination. Trips to the park that promote physical development that is inventive, adventurous and stimulating and lastly hands on activities that help our children to…
Minibeasts and their habitats
What’s more exciting to children than minibeasts and their habitats? During our mini beast topic in June the children used their senses to look, listen and touch their way around their outdoor space – encouraging a sense of curiosity that could lead to adventures and imaginative play. We took a range of pictures to show…
TT Practice week
Practice week! and a lot of excitable children watching the bikes pass by the nursery. A trip to the grandstand to see all the action proved to be a roaring success
What are kindergarten Forest Sessions?
Kindergarten Forest Sessions allow young children daily opportunities in a woodland or natural setting in all weathers throughout the year to learn outside, embracing all that nature has to offer. Children are encouraged to play, explore and learn in a forest or natural environment where a forest school trained practioner will assist the child led…
Animals in the Jungle
Our forest school out door learning for this month also incorporated our animal theme. The children had so much fun expressing their feelings and imagination through role play as animals in the jungle.
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