What do they do????

[fairydust]

What sort of things do little ones do at nursery?

How old?
In general, Painting, sticking, getting read stories, building and sticking things together, group games (if old enough), learning numbers, learning letters, watch a bit of TV, dressing up (if old enough), planting seeds (if old enough), making displays about themselves (more painting & sticking).

My ds is 20 months and his activities include: painting, drawing, singing, dancing, stories, nursery rhymes, free play, hollistic play, outside play (weather permitting), play do, water play, structered play, eating and sleeping.

well today was DS1's second session and he:-
painted
cut paper with play scissors
did building blocks
palydough
cars
generally roamed around from table to table doing whatever took his fancy plus the nursery has one special supervised activity each day. Today was tasting things and talking about the taste senstations (marmite, jam, peanut butter etc)
ate fruit and drank milk on a table iwth his group and keyworker
ran around in the playroom area
sat with the others for story time
sang a song
came home

HTH

Agree it depends on age. dd does all listed by Zebra (that she can at her age) but without TV and they have MEssy play to with water sand and flourry-water etc + a sensory room, trampoline, rocking horse, outside activities and walks to the park

In our room (2-3years), we paint, glueing and sticking, "craft", play-doh, free-play, outdoor play, "cutting out", singing, stories, cars, building blocks, Farm/zoo animals, water play, sand play, heuristic play.

In the other 2 rooms (3-5years) slightly more structured although include all the above. Also learning numbers/letters and have special "one-to-one" with keyworker to complete "work" to put in their portfolios/write newsbooks (child tells KW their "news" which is added into a little book and they draw pictures etc).

A video is put on about 10 minutes before parents collect as it's easier to have all children in one area watching TV away from the door and parents wandering in and out.

DD is 21 months and has been at nursery since ashe was about 20 weeks.

She is in the todler room and they do a range of activities, following a basic stucture each day. It includes things like:

painting/colouring
glueing/sticking
play doh
gloop (some flour/water mix)
reading and story time
singing and dancing
TV/video
outdoor play
action/nursery songs
water and sand play
dressing up
'real life' play - house/kitchen/dollies, etc
building
jigsaws and ppuzzles
general play (with and without toys)
free time
eating
sleeping

And possibly other things that I just haven't picked up on yet...

Oh, and every other week or so (may be more often for others in class but DD only there 2 times a week) - walk outside to the park/little woods/library. And last summer they had a class visit to the farm.

well we have decided that dd will attend a private nursery when she is 3
-21 months at the mo

• but are thinking about putting her into the nursery one mornnig a week to ween her into it - and also so i can possible do a part time course.

So i was just wondering what they do - so thanks for all that

Slinky - I meant herustic play. I wrote hollistic! LOL!