St Mary's House Visit

The children went to visit St Mary's house to visit the elderly residents this week. They took a variety of activities to share with the ladies there. On arrival Emily waved to everyone and said "Hello, hello!" as she walked along which made all the ladies smile. Douglas was very eager to show everyone his drawing skills, and the children handed out pens to the ladies in order to join in! Sami began to cheer "They are doing it" when he noticed that everyone was drawing along with him. William proudly gave one of the ladies and a picture, he smiled and said "it's a duck" he then held his arms out to give her a great big hug. This week the children explored shapes and structures during their sparkle time. Ines placed shapes on top of one mother to build a tower, and giggled and said "All fall down". Molly began to name each of the colours she could see and stated to sing the rainbow song; everyone started to join in and helped Molly to finish the rest of the song. Zach picked up a shape and looked through the bottom, he started to chuckle and said "Everything is green, I can see green, green and green!’ Everyone found their own shape to look through this prompted a lot of laughter.

This week the babies have been exploring paint and the marks they are able to make. Jonny waved his hands through the paint, and every time the paint moved around the table he banged his hands on the table with excitement. They have also been exploring different texture from oats, foam and sand. Lyra began to fill her bucket up with sand using her hands, she then tipped the sand out of the bucket and kick her feet through the sand giggling away. Jasper used a spade to fill up his bucket, before an older friend helped him to tip it out into a sandcastle, with Jasper started over again giggling at his friend. When they were finished Jasper gave Hlenhaze a big hug.