Our Fairytale Fixers are still busy helping characters who need a hand. This week, we read Sleeping Beauty. The children loved the idea of a long, cosy sleep, but we all agreed that Sleeping Beauty needed our help to wake up!
We started our work during our Read, Play, Connect session — a big thank‑you to the parents who joined us to support the children.
After our exciting launch, we took a closer look at the pesky vines growing around Sleeping Beauty’s castle. We noticed they were all curvy! The children walked along curvy vine paths and then tried drawing the same pattern — an important early writing skill.
Writing skills don’t just grow from putting pen to paper. Each day, we offer a range of fine‑motor activities to help strengthen little hands. This week, the children took on a playdough challenge to make flowers for Sleeping Beauty’s castle, used tiny stickers to create crowns or wands, tried threading tasks, and enjoyed sensory play with small rice grains.
It’s been wonderful to see all the imaginative play inspired by our stories. Below, you can see that we are still revisiting last week’s tale, The Three Little Pigs — I’ve loved hearing the children shout, “I’ll huff and I’ll puff!” The middle photo shows a fantastic team effort to build Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Isn’t it brilliant?
Our dance teacher took the children on a wonderful adventure this week, dancing as princesses and pirates. Afterwards, we brought out the costumes so the children could continue their imaginative play.
We really love stories in Nursery, and the children are thriving with all their fairytale learning. We visited the library to browse books, and it’s been lovely to see (and hear!) the children pointing to the pictures and ‘reading’ the stories themselves. You might even catch a few phrases at home, like “Once upon a time…” and “Happily ever after!”
Please feel free to come and join us for our story time next week. It means so much to the children to see their parents as ‘readers’ too. Thank you!