Muddy Fun!

The children went on a walk to Bushy Park and came across a rather large puddle. Eve started to giggle with excitement and said “I’m jumping, I’m jumping in”. Douglas shouted loudly “Let’s go!” and then some children started to run towards the puddle. Hlenhaze placed his hands into water and started to flick the water up in the air smiling as he did so. As Zach ran through the puddle, he started to chuckle and said “It’s splashing everywhere!”. Xanthe began to stamp her feet in the water watching as she made big splashes. All of the children started to join in with squeals of excitement and happy chatter. They even had water race to see who could run through the puddle the fastest. Great fun!

The children have also been looking at planting and growing this week. William picked up a handful of seeds and said “I’m planting. It’s going to be big”. Some of the children then started to discuss where vegetables and fruits grow. Roma pointed out that some fruits grow on trees. Freddie picked up an onion, held it to his nose and said “Smelly” and started to chuckle and pull a funny face. Ines picked up a spade and began to dig in the soil. She picked up a carrot and said “It’s orange”. This sparked a conversation between the children about different colours and what their favourite colour is. The children then began to match the name the colours of vegetables they were playing with.

This week the babies have been taking part in mark making activities. Lyra and Adeline enjoyed a sticking activity together as they glued string and orange zest to paper. Lyra smelt the fruity zest and said 'yum' after copying a staff member. Adeline waved her string around laughing when she dropped it on the paper. Oliver made some footprints after dipping his foot into paint. When he first felt the paint, he was a little unsure and blew bubbles and wiggled his toes. He soon decided that he liked it and was happy moving his foot around on the paper and putting it back in the paint again.

Zayne and Abigail did some mark making with crayons. Hlenhaze came in to help and he drew around an animal stencil. Abigail had a go at doing this as well and proudly showed us where she had coloured in the stencil. Zayne and Jasper had a sensory dance together, listening to music from around the world while bubbles were blowing around the room. They held hands and started jumping to the music before popping bubbles together. Some of the other babies joined in and were fascinated watching the bubbles floating around.

The babies have also been to the park. They had lots of fun in the muddy puddles, copying the older children. They found some daffodils and sat amongst them looking and feeling them. Abigail and Lyra smelt the growing flowers and said 'pretty flower'.