Fun at St Mary's House!

The children went to the visit the ladies at St Mary's House. When the ladies saw the children coming, they got excited and started to wave and smile. They showed them how to join in with their activities including drawing and how to use an abacus. William walked over to one lady and noticed she was asleep. He asked, "Why is she sleeping?" William then kept on going over to her to check if she was awake. When William noticed that she had woken up, he took her a bunch of pretty daffodils. The children then started to hand out daffodils to all of the ladies. Freddie held them out to one lady, she smiled and said, "For me?" Freddie and some other children gave each of the ladies a great, big hug.

The music was put on and the children began to show the ladies their fancy dance moves. They found this very entertaining and were clapping along, much to the children’s delight!

Some children also drew beautiful pictures which they then gave to all of the ladies. The children also made bird feeders by making shapes with lard and rolling them in bird seeds. As Molly picked up her bird feeder she said, "What's this and why do birds eat it?" Isla started to giggle and said, "They get hungry". The children and ladies went out into the garden and hung them on the branches ready for the birds to nibble. Zach said, "We need binoculars to watch them" and proudly held a pair up and said "Now I can see!”. 

This week, the babies have lots of fun during some painting activities. They experimented using finger paints to make marks on the table. Oliver loved the sensory experience of mixing his fingers around the paint. He even painted some of his face, then looked around giggling. Jasper and Lyra did some large scale painting on the floor.  There seemed to be more paint on the two children as they decided to have a go at painting their legs as they had painted on paper before. Lyra said 'Uh-oh' and laughed when the staff cleaned her up.

The babies also had some fun playing with the magnetic Grippies. Lyra, Owen and Zayne played really well with the toys. Lyra rolled a ball along the flow saying “Ball”. Zayne was determined to separate two of the magnetic pillars. He stuck them together, babbling away, and then pulled them apart with a big laugh. Owen built a tall tower, stacking the shapes on top of each other. When it got so tall that it broke, he laughed and gave some of the pieces to a staff member and they built it again together.