The seasons at Molesey

This week pre school have been talking about the seasons, including different types of weather and created their own seasons chart. Ida drew a picture of a snowman and Sophie started to chuckle and said "it's not Christmas yet, the leaves have to fall off the trees!". Camilla was very intrigued with the conversation and joined in, "It's not raining, you need rain Camilla responded. This sparked various discussions from fireworks, Christmas and growing pumpkins! Some of the children decided to explore the vegetable garden to see if they could find any pumpkins , and to their surprise they found courgettes! The letter of the week was ‘F’ and the children have drawn pictures of things such as feet and even a flamingo! the did a tour of the garden and Thomas noticed ‘Flowers!’.

The toddlers have been focusing on nature. They went for a nice long walk and searched for natural objects to collect to go in the nature basket back in the toddler room. The children loved searching for sticks, leaves and stones. Henry loved collecting the sticks and counted them each time he added one. In total he had ten sticks!! While on the walk they played football, catch and even had some time catching bubbles which all the children enjoyed. The toddlers loved having the natural items they collected in the room and they even added some pretend insects to play with, which made Lorenzo laugh every time he found one.

In the baby room this week they have been exploring lots of sensory activities. They had feely bags filled with pasta, cornflour and shaving foam to squash and squeeze. They also did some potato printing with potatoes cut into different shapes and dipped into black and white paint and got messy with some coloured cooked pasta.