Garden fun!

This week, the children have been making their own campfires. They scooped up some bark and collected small sticks. Florence found a stick and said “Mix it up, make a campfire. We can cook some soup!” Eve joined in by finding her own stick and saying, “We’re making muddy soup.” Xanthe grabbed a stick and started to dig around in the mud saying, “I’m looking for treasure.” Using the sticks, the children also wrote their sound of the week “P” in the mud. While writing, William said “P is for pirate”. Some of the younger children joined in by making various letter sounds. James very excitedly said “James” when he heard the letter J. Freddie picked up the letter “F” and said “It’s mine! Freddie!”.

The children made their own den. They crawled inside and sang songs loudly together. They have also been showing an interest in soup making this week. Using some herbs, fruit and vegetables, they had great fun thinking up different soups to make. Isla picked up a herb pot and said “It smells like flowers. Would you like to smell?” Isla then offered it to a friend. Using scissors Roma started to snip off pieces of the herb and placed them in a bowl for Douglas to mix together. “I’m mixing lettuce soup. We have lettuce in our garden.” she told him.

This week, the babies have shown a great interest in playing with the balls. On a walk to the park, we took the balls and the babies had a lot of fun kicking the balls around on the green, running after them and trying to sit on them. Oliver went straight for the orange ball, babbling as he pointed to the ball, before kicking it to Finlay. The babies used the balls to experiment with water. They found it funny when the balls were pushed under the water and bounced straight back up! Adeline threw the ball into water saying 'Ball! Splash!' then started pushing the ball around. She noticed the bubbles it made and started shouting happily 'Bubbles!'. Zayne started to copy her and then used his fingers to pop the bubbles saying, 'Pop!'.

Owen and Bodie found a cosy, little hideaway den to read some stories together. Bodie liked to push the buttons on the book listening to sounds. Owen pointed to different pictures and opened his mouth saying, 'Ooo'.