HONEYPOTS

Welcome to Honeypots. 

We are aged between 2 ½ and 3 years old. 

Most of us have by now mastered the use of toilet and tend not to wet ourselves (unless we just get too purely excited!). 

We are able to pour our own drinks and have our snack bar. This means we can choose when to have a snack which is usually fruit or vegetable sticks. We sit quietly and happily chatting with our friends and we learn to use our manners nicely! We sometimes have to be reminded about sharing but know we can’t always be first and have to wait our turn.

We are getting better at sitting in a circle and listening to others talking. 

We gain confidence to talk ourselves too. Some of us can recognise our names to go on the special little helpers board!

We have a really busy day with different toys and games to play with.  We love messy play and enjoy among other things,  painting, cutting, sticking, water and sand as well as dough, clay, shredded paper and gloop.

We like to go outside and play on the climbing frame where we can land if we choose to stumble on special soft play surfacing. 

We also love to join in sports activities and probably at this age really become quite competitive so we have to learn to let others come first (not always easy!).

We have dance lessons once a week where we are encouraged to listen to different sounds and experiment with movements. We don’t always enjoy doing this but our teacher makes sure we have lots of variety so at least we get to enjoy some of it. We like to make noise you see, rather than listen!!

Playing for us is great fun, but we are learning so much too. 

Our key workers plan to make sure we are developing in lots of ways while we enjoy playing, and they keep records showing how we are doing for our parents to see when they visit our room and find out what sociable little girls and boys we are (or aren’t sometimes!)

We are at a particularly funny stage of development, sometimes the big grown up and at others the little meek ones, but our key workers are really good because they sense our feelings and let us explore as and when we are ready to. 

We are learning to become confident in all sorts of ways really and it’s at this age that sometimes we think adults expect too much of us because we are now “bigger”!!

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