Outdoor fun at Molesey!

The pre school children worked really hard together to make a car using the wooden building blocks. Millie used the circular shaped block, telling her friends. "This is what I need to drive the car, it's my steering wheel". She then asked all of her friends to sit down in the car. Oscar called out, "We need to remember our seatbelt though!". They pretended to drive to the shops and when they had arrived, Ada suggested, "How about we go and buy some soup for our lunch and then we can have some worms for pudding". Ella called out, "No, not worms, we can't eat them" and everyone laughed.

The children have also taken part in a science experiment this week, learning about planets and making their own paper mache balloon planets, Ezra very confidently told his friends, "I know which planet we live on, we live on planet Earth". They also investigated how to make their own lava lamps, mixing vegetable oil, water, food colouring and helping to add spoonfuls of salt and watching the lava bubbles form. Max started singing, “Bubble, bubble bubble, pop!” Parker said whilst laughing, “But they won’t pop, because they will pop up on to us and that won’t be funny”. They also watched how to make it rain through shaving foam clouds and using blue food colouring for the rain effect.

A walk to splash in puddles and feed the ducks was great fun and the children learn about the weather, and how the birds welcome a little help with food at this time of year.

This week in Toddler room the children have been keeping very busy inside and outside. They have been taking part in Joe Wicks's PE lessons online to keep us all fit and the children find this so exciting. Harry and Tristan really love any sort of dance or exercise and were really trying to keep up with the exercises, along with Eve and Zachary who were also copying. They have taken on the role of scientists this week and have helped create various experiments and then watch in amazement. One experiment was a homemade volcano which included, vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and food colouring of the children's choice. Once the bicarbonate of soda was added, the volcano foamed up out of the cup and into the tray! Harry and Tristan announced "Wow, look, wow!". Harry then wanted to smell the volcano and said, "Errr, that's yuk", and not impressed! The little ones have also been mark making this week using a wide variety of tools to create different effects. A particular favourite are the dabber pens. Connie showed great concentration and carefully dotted the paint about her paper, correctly naming the colours that she was using- well done!

This week in the under two’s room they have been exploring natural materials out in the garden. Chloe and Alastair enjoyed playing with the stacking pebbles in the garden, making small towers and knocking them down over and over, laughing with each other. Rafferty Billie and Chloe enjoyed exploring the treasure basket, picking up the wooden sticks and fabric balls squishing them in their hands .They have also been exploring different textures during art and craft activities. Sophie, Sam and Sadie particularly liked the paint dabbers, and bashed them down on their paper repeatedly, fascinated by the marks and sounds that they made. They also explored them with their fingers , feeling the cold wet texture, and Sadie briefly tasted the paint but decided it wasn’t nice! The under two’s are working towards making an Elmer the elephant board which will be revealed soon!