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Miss G sings a bedtime melody..... who's snoring?!!!
Good Night, Sleep tight, God Bless, Sweet dreams....

All the children at Busy Bee's came along to our bed time story event. Children were encouraged to wear their PJS and brought along a blanket, pillow and cuddly toy to share in the event. The children enjoyed a selection of activities, especially the threading activity with chocolate cheerio's, we made necklaces and the children enjoyed eating them before they relaxed for a story session with hot chocolate and marshmallows.

We celebrated World Book day at Busy Bee's.
The children joined in as we celebrated World Book Day... Each child took home a £1 book token we registered online to receive support material including the World Book Day £1 Book Tokens. A main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. Here 'B' shows off his token with dad....

Lucy returned to Busy Bee's and we enjoyed lunch as we discussed our involvement in the ERC and staffs viewpoints, suggestions and idea's. We evaluated our time on the project and had a relaxed meeting to gather important information as we near the end of our project and look forward to continuing our forward planning and place our continued ideas into practice.... A big thank-you to Lucy for joining us at Busy Bees over the past two days and sharing our views and evaluation of the ERC project and the enjoyment and enhancement it has brought to our setting... :)

Thursday 11th February : Parental/Carer, Children’s Voice, setting survey focus session.
We welcomed Lucy to our setting to deliver a focus meeting with a selection of parents. We invited parent's and guardians to join the focus group and was very pleased with the interest shown. Following the parental consultation Lucy enjoyed a colouring activity with a selection of the children as they chatted in a relaxed manner and enjoyed the activity..

The children enjoyed icing biscuits as one of our activities planned following the children's interests as we enjoyed learning and exploring about the different animals in the book months activities....

February 2010 : Book Month, the children will have the opportunity to chose their favourite story from a selection of books we have been enjoying at the setting. The most popular books will be centred through all areas of planning and activities on a weekly theme during this month. The children selected a group of stories which we enjoyed sharing during key group sessions. The children then placed stickers on a photocopy of the book choices and the most popular books were chosen to enjoy during our book month.
Here we have been enjoying the Children's Book Choice : "Here Comes The Crocodile"

Following distribution of our Active Dudley bags the children and families have had the opportunity to enjoy and share the resources at home. The Active Dudley was set up following a great opportunity provided as Dudley was awarded a grant aid of £290,000 by Sport England and The Big Lottery for a three year programme to engage people in physical activity. At Busy Bees we support the programme and we are very lucky to have been given the resources to share and lend at Busy Bees. We have found the resources to be a fun way to introduce and support Communication and Language in song, music and dance through sport and physical activity. Each key group have been enjoying sessions and we welcomed parents/carers and family members into the setting to enjoy a family session to share activities and ideas. Here Green Group is introduced to the activity bags...

We have purchased an Easy Listener at Busy Bee's to give the children the opportunity to access reading books, poetry, music and a variety of literacy and reading resources.The children have free access to the area which has been a firm favourite and they have been following their favourite stories along with CD and book. As we have observed the children at the setting we have been delighted to see the resources being increasingly popular and the opportunities to extend play into other areas within the setting has been fully met. We aim to add our own radio station in the role play area by following the childrens interests. 'E' and 'B' enjoy the Hungry Caterpillar....

Our story cases contain story books, dressing up costumes, jigsaws,toys and resources to enchance the story lines and encourage families to extend the selected story books through all areas of learning to have fun and encourage creativity into the home setting. To enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language, and readily turn it into their play and learning, to explore and experiment with sounds, words and texts and to continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn through all play opportunities.