CATERPILLARS
Age 0-2 Years Old
Welcome To Our Caterpillar Room
By holding close relationships with parents our nursery carers try to provide a home from home atmosphere for each child. Playtime activities are planned each day from sand exploration to play dough textures and water play each creating new and exciting learning skills.
0-2 year Old Nursery Shipley
The Caterpillar room has four key areas of learning:
Book & Cosy Area
We have a variety of colourful books for babies and toddlers to enjoy.
- Touch and feel books
- Musical books
- Puppets
Our cosy area has lots of cushions and blankets to make story time a comfortable and enjoyable time for all ages. We love reading stories as well as singing and even create mini discos that the children enjoy moving and grooving to the different sounds.
Messy Area
In this area the children have access to sand and water with a variety of tools and resources to play with. We set up different messy activities for the children to explore and experiment with. Messy activities include shaving foam, playdough, cornflour, slime and cereal play.
The children experiment and explore using their hands, feet and whole bodies as well as tools and resources. This area gives children the opportunity to learn through their senses and improve their fine motor skills e.g squeeze, pinch, pour, press etc.
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Domestic Play Area
In this area we have resources that children can recognise and use to imitate what they have witnessed. This area has a variety of resources to develop and improve a sense of belonging.
In domestic play we often witness a child’s schema this been a repetitive schematic play such as:
- Filling
- Opening and closing
- Lining up their toys/collecting their toys
Such resources within or domestic play area include:
- Doll play: dolls, nappies, prams, cups, cots etc
- Home resources: plates, bowls, pans, cutlery etc
- Dressing up
- Mirrors
Investigation & Discovery Play
This area is based around learning through curiosity. It allows the children to explore an experiment across the area following their natural instinct.
The area has a variety of resources which help the children learn and improve their hand to eye co-ordination.
Such resources include:
- Small world: people, cars, animals etc
- Large ans small building/wooden blocks
- Musical instruments
- Treasure baskets
- Heuristic play resources
As each baby/child learns/grows and develops at their own pace, every baby/child develops their own interests. Whether they be their own or the same as those around them the babies/children will all have their own learning and development folder along with a child’s interest sheet which is updated daily, weekly, monthly as needs be.
