Muddy adventures!

The preschool children have explored their new light box this week. They were mesmerised, as the light went from dim to bright with just the press of a button. The children had lots of fun, staring through the coloured paddles at the light, discussing what happened. Sophie said "Mine has turned green! Has yours?" as she asked her friends.. They all decided theirs were different colours. They have also been using various sized shapes, to build and stack. They built small towers and tall towers, looking through the point at the top to explore the colours. 

The children have also been on a walk around the lovely Imber court site, starting with the bridge and feeding the ducks, and along to the fenced fields spotting the horses to the football pitches, to practice their football skills. They ran as fast as they could, to catch the ball and were kicking them back and forth to each other. Some of the children wanted to be goalkeeper and laughed as they tried to stop the ball. Best of all was splashing about and jumping up and down in the muddy pitch puddles!

This week our toddlers joined in with the adventures while reading ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. They created a den using tables and blankets to create a dark and cosy environment for the children to hide in. At first many were reluctant to venture in but as soon as the adults got in too they couldn't wait to pile in! The children then experienced colourful snow that was falling down onto the toddlers heads which gave everyone a big laugh as they got covered in pink and blue snow. The toddlers have also started some preparation on some Christmas baubles where they glued materials onto felt baubles to give a sparkly effect. Tomas enjoyed repeating the word "Sparkly"as he made his bauble.

The children have continued to paint lots of cardboard boxes to soon reveal a Christmas surprise come December. The toddlers mixed water, flour and salt to make some salt dough which all the children throughly enjoyed! Sienna enjoyed pinching the dough and watching the mark it left. Ada and Scarlett had rolling pins and were pretending to cook some food. The toddlers had the opportunity to dress up as builders and doctors. Eloise carried round the doctors case all morning! The toddlers and babies have spent some lovely time playing together this week during our free flow play between the two rooms. It was lovely to see the toddlers looking out for the babies while playing.

The babies loved making snow pictures using cardboard tubes cut into different shapes; dabbing them onto the paper to make their snow flake pictures. Oliver loved changing his coloured roll and using the different shaped rolls and looking at his picture at the different marks that he had made. Emma really enjoyed exploring the treasure basket exploring the bath poof feeling it between her fingers, Oscar used a wooden stick to rub it against the nail brush and listening to the sound that it made. Millie, Oscar and Fabian enjoyed getting messy with the peas, squashing them in between their fingers, exploring the texture and throwing them into the messy tray watching them bounce!

They have started to get ready for Christmas and have made snowmen pictures using glue and cotton balls and exploring the garden playing with the balls and exploring the sand.