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| A day in the life
of a pre-schooler |
| When I come to
nursery I like to bring in a book from
home which I will read for a while with
some of my friends. Once I am settled
I like to do some glueing or painting
in the messy room and maybe play in
the sand pit or the water tray. By 9.15
am all of my friends are here and I’ll
go through to the garden room and play
on the computer. The snack table opens
at 9.30 ish, sometimes I will have snack
first but sometimes I will wait if I
am not hungry or if I am enjoying what
I am doing. Once I’ve had snack
I’ll have a look round the room
and see what activities are out in the
rainbow room (messy), we can choose
from painting, gluing, play dough, water
tray, gluck as well as many activities
the staff have planned to do with things
we’ve been talking about or asking
about like volcanoes, sharks, football,
hospitals. |
| We can also sit in
the dream room where we can read books,
draw pictures or write words. In the
garden room we can have jigsaw puzzles,
construction toys, small world, dressing
up, house corner, computer (we love
the cbeebies website). We also have
lots of matching, sorting and counting
activities that help me with numeracy.
Sometimes we’ll all go out in
the garden but other times only a few
of us will go out, here we can run around,
plant things, dig, climb or take part
in group activities doing art, findings
things, exploring different areas. Around
11.30 we tidy up and all get together
for a story and a chat, then have lunch
which is always very tasty. |
After lunch we all
clean our teeth, then have a wee sit
down for stories and a rest, some people
have a sleep but I don’t. We then
get to choose what we want to do again
and will carry on with things we did
in the morning or sometimes start new
things because we found something in
the garden or noticed something in a
book. Snack table opens again at 3.00
pm and again I can decide when I want
it although it closes at 4.00 pm. Then
we carry on playing till my mummy or
daddy picks me up.
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| Angus, age 5 |
| A day in the life
of a toddler |
When I arrive at nursery I’m welcomed
by the tweenie and toddler staff, they
talk to my parents about how I’ve
been and I give them a kiss goodbye,
I then race my parents to the window
and give them a big wave. I like to
have a quiet time, so I sit in the story
corner looking at books, once my tweenie
friends leave the room. When the water
tray opens I love to splash and pour,
when the messy table opens it has different
things on it everyday, paint, glueing,
junk and sometimes cutting. About ten
Fran and Kara shout out “tidy
up time in 5 minutes”, I keep
playing until they shout again.I sometimes
tidy other times I don’t, then
I sit in the story corner and I get
a big sticker if I have helped tidy
up. We sing my favourite songs, I just
love “Baa baa black sheep”
and sometimes we have a story. Then
we all then go to wash our hands; I
must use soap to get rid of all the
germs. At snack time once I got chosen
to be the helper: I handed out snack
to the children, some said thank you,
some never did. I told them “I
want never gets . After snack I played
again: with the bricks, drew a picture,
then played in the house corner, I was
a big dragon. Before I knew it was tidy
up time again. |
| At lunch I sat beside
my friends and eat up all my food. I
did feel very tired after my busy morning.
At sleep time I have my own sleep mat,
head sheet and blanket, they turned
the lights off and played classical
music. |
| When I wake up I’m
full of beans. We play in the garden
- I just love the garden, so much to
do, what will I choose: the bikes, the
sand pit, slide - it started to rain
so we had to run quickly inside. We
had another activity time and I painted
and got very dirty so did Fran and Kara.
We have another tidy up time and then
snack. I felt a little tired so I snuggled
up to Fran and had a story. |
When my friends from
tweenies come I like this time as I
see my younger friends and we get to
play with the big table top toys. Some
of my friends start to go home, I see
my parents come in and I’ll go
and hide, it’s funny they will
think I’ve gone home. Fran and
Kara talk to my mum and dad telling
them if I’ve been good, I do try
to be. I say goodbye, take my pictures
home and tell my mum and dad about my
day, Oh I feel tired zzzz.
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| Hannah, age 3 |
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