Zoom!...........We're going to the moon!

This week the children have been exploring and learning about Space. They looked at planets and made marks representing the terrain using different spices. Orange colour was a favourite for Mars as they used toothbrushes to spread the spice dyed water along the paper.

They have also been name writing and moulding shapes in moon sand. Damon moulded a ball and told us proudly it was the Moon, whilst Douglas happily identified the letter D and wrote it saying ‘Look, it's my name'. Hlenhaze and Eve used some play foam to hide and find stars, Xanthe got involved using a spoon to scoop it all up and cleverly found the most stars! The staff also hid poms poms, (planets), and stars for the children to find and they tried to make a solar system. William and Isla pulled out the poms poms giving them a squeeze as they collected them. Avy and Dawid made a good attempt at making a rocket shop, and coloured in the ship, and Avy said ‘We need fire to make it fly!’ before taking it around the room pretending it was flying.

This week the babies have played with some bouncy balls, bouncy them around the room catching and throwing to each other, Lyra often crawled over the ball to catch it and stop it from rolling away, Ines put her hand over her mouth and said 'Oh'. Jonathan and Oliver had a try at building a marble run with Zach supporting them, as Jonathan built it up Oliver knocked it over, other making both boys laugh.