"Its a bear!" at Hampton Day Nursery

The older children have been out and about to the park and library. Whilst at the park the children searched for puddles to splash in. Abigail and Zach jumped very high to make the biggest splasheswhich made Zach laugh. Harry and Florence used clay to push on the trees and make some clay faces using the bark as a nice pattern for hair and using sticks and fingers to make imprints for their eyes and mouths. Harry said “Look -my eyes! ” William and Ray explored the bushes, as they went through they felt the different leaves, Ray said “This is soft” and William shouted “Look! a den” and the children began a bear hunt. The children laughed as staff member hid in one of the bushes and jumped out pretending to be a bear making them run back shouting “Bear!”.

The children have also worked on their sound of the week 'F' drawing pictures of words that have the starting sound, such as fish, fork, flamingo, fire engines and more. They also traced the letter on the light box and looked for it in the garden. Whilst in the garden they found a fly. Sienna pointed at the fly and followed it with her friends.

The babies have explored shredded paper hiding the animals underneath and playing peek-a-boo with the animals. As they pulled one out Abigail said “Boo!” whilst Thomas named some such as sheep and dog. Jonathan and Lyra enjoyed music, they smiled throughout songs whilst Jonathan stood dancing and Lyra sat on the floor shaking her body around. Jonathan gave the floaty materials to Lyra whilst shaking and waving them over her, and Lyra then took them and shook them to make a beautiful colour dance.

The babies have been playing in the sandpit looking for shiny coins under the sand. They brushed the sand away and Abigail pulled out the coins and started to collect them. When she had finished she gave some to a bunny rabbit toy. Oliver and Thomas built a sandcastle together. Oliver helped Thomas to fill the bucket up whilst Thomas tipped the sand out in a castle shape. Thomas clapped whenever Oliver filled the bucket!