Planting Seeds!

As part of World Book Day, the children have taken part in various activities based around books. They have created their own fish number line with Eve declaring “I can count all my numbers” and proceeded to count from 1 to 10. They also looked at the Gruffalo’s paw prints and compared the difference in size. Zach pointed to one paw print and said, “It’s big like me”. The children took a trip to Squires Garden Centre to look at the different types of vegetable seeds they could find. Ines became very excited when she saw all the seed packets and said, “Too many” and giggled. Thomas picked up some tomato seeds and started shaking the packet with excitement.

Back at the nursery, the children planted the seeds that they had chosen in the growing area. Xanthe dug a hole in the soil and carefully placed her seeds in. She smiled and said, “I’m planting”. Roma was interested in the large plant pots and asked, “What are these for?” She also noticed a big bag of potatoes and studied the pictures on the front of the bag. The children helped to plant the potatoes making sure they were all covered in soil. Zach started to giggle and wave his hands in the air and said “My hands are really muddy”.

This week the babies have had fun working on their motor skills. They really enjoyed chasing and popping bubbles as well as waving floaty scarves around. Oliver used his fingers to poke at some bubbles before deciding to have a go using a scarf to pop them. Zayne and Abigail were very focussed playing with the large pegs and boards. Abigail tried to put the pegs into all the holes while Zayne decided he wanted to try to stack the pegs on top of each other. When Zayne’s tower fell over, Abigail laughed with him before helping to build it again, handing pieces saying 'Ta' each time.

The babies enjoyed the sensory experience of playing with flour and herbs mixed with different scents. Lyra crumbed the flour between her fingers and squashed some in her palms before bringing it to her face to smell. Lyra and Jasper laughed while giving did some floury high fives, spreading flour everywhere. Owen and Bodie built some towers together. Owen helped Bodie to straighten his tower and tried to stop it wobbling. Owen took some bricks to the park with him and, with his friend, built some towers to be as tall as the flowers.