Skip to content
Book a tour
Parent portal log-in
  • About Us
    • Our story
    • How we work
    • Our team
    • Join our team
    • Young Friends Tribe
  • Curriculum
    • A Unique approach to EYFS
    • Caring for the environment
    • Establishing a social consciousness
    • Economic Impact
  • Learning Approach
    • Family partnerships
    • Family groupings
    • Key person system
    • High-quality interactions
    • Characteristics of effective learning
    • SchemaPlay™
    • Risk benefit
    • Tuning into each child’s needs
  • Learning Environments
    • Kindergarten pods
    • Nature kindergarten
    • Nature workshop
    • Woodland garden
    • Kitchen garden
    • The growing patch
  • Core Information
    • Joining our community
    • Application process
    • Famly App and Parent Portal
    • Plant-based seasonal menu
    • SENDCo
    • Fees
    • FAQs
  • Our stories
  • Contact Us
Menu
  • About Us
    • Our story
    • How we work
    • Our team
    • Join our team
    • Young Friends Tribe
  • Curriculum
    • A Unique approach to EYFS
    • Caring for the environment
    • Establishing a social consciousness
    • Economic Impact
  • Learning Approach
    • Family partnerships
    • Family groupings
    • Key person system
    • High-quality interactions
    • Characteristics of effective learning
    • SchemaPlay™
    • Risk benefit
    • Tuning into each child’s needs
  • Learning Environments
    • Kindergarten pods
    • Nature kindergarten
    • Nature workshop
    • Woodland garden
    • Kitchen garden
    • The growing patch
  • Core Information
    • Joining our community
    • Application process
    • Famly App and Parent Portal
    • Plant-based seasonal menu
    • SENDCo
    • Fees
    • FAQs
  • Our stories
  • Contact Us
Parent
log-in
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • How we work
    • Our team
    • Join our team
    • Young Friends Tribe
  • Curriculum
    • A Unique approach to EYFS
    • Caring for the environment
    • Establishing a social consciousness
    • Economic Impact
  • Learning Approach
    • Family partnerships
    • Family groupings
    • Key person system
    • High-quality interactions
    • Characteristics of effective learning
    • SchemaPlay™
    • Risk Benefit
    • Tuning into each child’s needs
  • Learning environments
    • Kindergarten pods
    • Nature kindergarten
    • Nature workshop
    • Woodland garden
    • Kitchen garden
    • The growing patch
  • Core information
    • Joining our community
    • Application process
    • the Famly App and Parent Portal
    • Plant-based seasonal menu
    • SENDCo
    • Fees
    • FAQs
  • Our stories
  • Contact us
  • Book a tour
Menu
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • How we work
    • Our team
    • Join our team
    • Young Friends Tribe
  • Curriculum
    • A Unique approach to EYFS
    • Caring for the environment
    • Establishing a social consciousness
    • Economic Impact
  • Learning Approach
    • Family partnerships
    • Family groupings
    • Key person system
    • High-quality interactions
    • Characteristics of effective learning
    • SchemaPlay™
    • Risk Benefit
    • Tuning into each child’s needs
  • Learning environments
    • Kindergarten pods
    • Nature kindergarten
    • Nature workshop
    • Woodland garden
    • Kitchen garden
    • The growing patch
  • Core information
    • Joining our community
    • Application process
    • the Famly App and Parent Portal
    • Plant-based seasonal menu
    • SENDCo
    • Fees
    • FAQs
  • Our stories
  • Contact us
  • Book a tour

Week Beginning 24th April 2017

  • April 28, 2017

Make sure you take a look at the photos from this week – there are some great allotment pictures this week of the children with their new friends the frog and the slowworm – fabulous.

Mmmmm Nature soup!

What tasty soup or petals and flowers you have here, Gibbons! With watering cans and spoons, the Gibbons stirred, mixed and swished around the petals they collected and observed their nature soup come into its own. Please note the soup was not actually tasted although I’m sure the Gibbons gave it their best effort. Swinging their handbags along, the Gibbons travelled around the room collecting miscellaneous items for their shopping trip. During garden time, they picked herbs to stick into their sensory playdough. Using their hands and rolling pins, they squished, squeezed, and rolled with delight. There was also a bit of sniffing as the herbs were very aromatic. They put on a shiny show for all to see with foil wrapped toys, shiny metal spoons and utensils in foil covered baskets. The Gibbons enjoyed tearing the foil off and banging together the metal objects. A big well done to Jodie who made a sensory book using materials from around the nursery including balloons, feathers, seeds and straw. Each felt page features a different character from a scarecrow with a straw hat and a cloth shirt, to a bird with colourful feathers and a beak.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

The Baboons dressed up as princesses, builders and witches trying on different hats and jewellery and acted out their characters. They were flying around on pretend broomsticks, fixing the tables and shelves and turning children into frogs. The Baboons painted penne pasta and threaded onto green ribbons to fashion necklaces and room decorations to hang. The Baboons crafted playdough body parts and playdough people and gave them names and talked about the different body parts. Munching on various fruits and vegetables at snack time, the Baboons talked about the Hungry Caterpillar from the story bag during their snack time, identifying the different fruits and pretending to feed the caterpillar in the room. The children enjoyed cutting out tissue paper shapes in numerous colours and fitting them together on paper to make shape collages. The Baboons talked about how shapes can fit together in lines and gaps and enjoyed glue spreading. But not just on the paper!

Dinosaurs take over the Gorillas…

There was stomping and loud noises coming from the Gorilla room all week as the Gorillas transformed into roaring dinosaurs. With a grassy small world area full of rocks and sand to look like their land the Gorillas stomped and roamed up and down the stairs, hungry for their meals. We had a visit from Kaila the persona doll to talk to the pre-schoolers about playing with everyone regardless of their differences. She talked to them about the ways in which she looked different from the group and the Gorillas shared the ways they looked different from Kaila and each other. They also spoke about all the things they have in common, too. Kaila asked the children about times they were upset and how they became happy again. Kaila also talked to them about how excited she was to be going to school in September. The Gorillas have been creating some beautiful hanging artwork of flowers, which they traced and drew at the Reggio table. They used a wonderful assortment of colours to recall the lovely spring flowers that have bloomed and they’ve collected for us. With all the birthdays they’ve been celebrating this week, the Gorillas have not only been blowing out candles on our ‘fake cake’ and having birthday parties, but they’ve also been recognising the numbers ‘3’ and ‘4’ using the ‘Find the Star Fish’ game. Using role play to play ‘mums and dads’, the Gorillas made homes using the furniture in the room and dressed their babies while talking about what they remember when they were babies. This week, the Nature Kids made an insect trap to deter the little munchers from our produce. They tended to everything that we have growing and also planted some potatoes that one of our parents kindly donated to us.

[AFG_gallery id=’297′]

Related news

Young Friends Kindergarten SchemaPlay
  • February 14, 2022

How does Young Friends Kindergarten work?

We take a genuine child-initiated play approach, which nurtures your

1min Watch

Young Friends Kindergarten SchemaPlay
  • February 14, 2022

How does Young Friends Kindergarten work?

We take a genuine child-initiated play approach, which nurtures your child’s interests in an autonomous but stage-appropriate way.

1min Watch

Social Consciousness
  • July 9, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 9th July

Let’s breathe the sea in and breathe the sea out.

5min Read

Social Consciousness
  • July 9, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 9th July

Let’s breathe the sea in and breathe the sea out. The calming breathes started the Foxes’ session. They did a quick weather check and wondered down to the beach.

5min Read

KG 11
  • July 2, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 2nd July 2021

Beach School began with the usual deep, meditative breaths of

6min Read

KG 11
  • July 2, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 2nd July 2021

Beach School began with the usual deep, meditative breaths of air, sea, clouds and grass. This has become a pivotal moment for the children as they transition from walking along the roads down to the beach.

6min Read

Forest-2-225x300
  • June 25, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 25th June 2021

Winter had returned for the Foxes' Beach School session.

5min Read

Forest-2-225x300
  • June 25, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 25th June 2021

Winter had returned for the Foxes' Beach School session.

5min Read

Forest 9
  • June 19, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 18th June 2021

Forest 9
  • June 19, 2021

Outdoor Chronicles 18th June 2021

Follow us on Instagram

Young Friends Kindergarten

89 Holland Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 1JP
t: 01273 735 100
e: enquiries@youngfriends.co.uk

  • Our story
  • How we work
  • Application Process
  • FAQs
  • Join our team
  • Contact us

Follow us on Social

Facebook-f Instagram Twitter
Book a tour
Parent portal log-in

© 2022 Young Friends Kindergarten

Cookie Policy

Terms & Conditions

Privacy Policy

Website by me&you

Cookie Policy

Terms & Conditions

Privacy Policy

© 2022 Young Friends Kindergarten

Website by me&you

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkCookie policy