Windsor Centre

The children have enjoyed looking at the flowers and trees around and about at nursery. They captured how they felt in some paintings. While they were sitting so still some birds landed close by. They commando crawled to get a closer look at them – nature provides such rich learning opportunities.

The children were exploring today finding their favourite things in nature. The gathered some of them and attached them to their crowns. A lovely way to take a closer look at the beautiful things we can find in nature.

The weather has been beautiful and the children have taken their wellies off to explore the garden. Being able to feel with your feet stimulate the senses and helps children develop their sense of balance and proprioception. There is nothing better than having your toes in the sand and  then adding water – just like being on the beach.

The children love our guinea pigs – Pumpkin and Poppy and are learning so much about how to care for them, what keeps them clean and healthy, how to make sure they are happy. This really helps develop their understanding about what we need to do to look after and care for someone special.

The children love handling them

Sharon and the children have found out that they like grass and daisies. The children have been over to forest school to collect grass to feed them.

Look at the joy on the children’s faces

The children are loving exploring – looking for signs of spring and enjoying splashing in puddles. This really helps develop their love & respect of the world around them

Then the children used secateurs to trim some branches so they could make walking sticks – which they then decorated

The environment outdoors at Windsor provides the ideal place to explore movement – whether that is moving yourself or moving objects. It also provides rich opportunities for the children to help each other to achieve the ‘I can do it’ moments

Finding ice in the garden motivated the children to explore how ice is made and how it can be changed – it just had to be felt, tasted and explored. Interestingly the children were keen to see how it changed when it was held under running cold water and amazed as it melted in two

The children have been very busy in the mud kitchen – take a look at how they mix, stir, combine, work together, use their imagination, share and laugh!

Mud play is full of rich, real opportunities that are essential for young children’s physical, social, emotional and communication development