News From Baby Room 2

How does it feel? “I use all my senses… for scientific enquiry!” How does the foam smell? How does it feel? It feels different when we mix it with water, sand, mud, and sticks. It’s so slimy in the ‘tuff tray’, so gritty mixed with sand. How does it stay on our...

I know I am a great learner Children have been showing curiosity and a strong exploratory drive! Such independence and resourcefulness as they capitalise on the resources and environment around them. Such wonderful absorption and agency as they investigate how they...

Pop a little pancake into the pan! Children have really been making connections between home and here… with lots of imaginative play in the kitchen… stirring, pouring, mixing, baking. So we made our very own pancakes! Mixing up the flour and the milk together – just...

We enjoyed our visit from Drew and Paco. The babies joined in dancing and clapping to the music, and they continued to explore making sounds with the stringed instruments to see what kind of noises they could make by pulling and strumming the different chords of the...

Climbing Confidence The children in the Baby Room 2 are enjoying exploring the climbing frame. We have noticed that they are accessing the climbing frame a lot more since it was put back inside our room. It is clearly very popular with all the children. They have been...

The children in Baby Room 2 have been fascinated by holes so we have used this as a focus for learning. We have provided lots of interesting resources and spaces for the children to explore posting, filling, and tipping, poking things through, rolling things down and...

We have been noticing the children had been showing interest in the marks they had been making. We thought it would be nice to plan different provocations with mark-making set up in the morning. The children made marks independently or alongside other children.  They...

We have been introducing a range of resources for exploring bubbles as part of our provocation. The children have been enjoying how the bubble machine works by pressing buttons and noticing what happens. They are developing their hand eye coordination to blow the...