Christmas Preparations & Hail!

The pre school children have been very imaginative whilst building with the wooden blocks outside in the garden. They were exploring different types of transport that they could make. At first Joshua suggested “Let’s make an aeroplane so that we can go somewhere on our holiday”. Tomas replied, “That’s a great idea, we should go somewhere where it’s sunny and hot on our aeroplane!”. Riley sat at the front and called out, “I’m the driver of the aeroplane, it’s called a pilot”. The children then went on to designing a boat using the blocks and the balancing beams and posts. They worked together really well to maneuver the blocks around the garden and Fabian and Ari worked really hard to lift the block on the top of another, Fabian laughing and saying to Ari, “We have got very strong muscles, haven’t we?”

The children have been very excited on the build up to Christmas. They have been taking part in lots of art and creative activities including creating their own paper plate Christmas trees, holly wreaths and even helping to decorate the Christmas tree in the room. They have been talking lots about their Christmas trees at home too. The children made their own letters to Santa and enjoyed posting them in our very own postbox. Eloise very excitedly told her friends, “Father Christmas is going to be so happy with our letters, I think he will bring us lots of presents!”.

Over the past couple of weeks, the toddlers have been busy getting ready for Christmas with lots of artwork, messy play and writing letters to Santa and his elves. The toddlers loved playing on the climbing frame which had been transformed into Santa’s sleigh! The toddlers spent lots of time exploring the sleigh and talking about the presents they could see in Santa’s sack. Sadie said “Look! Tom tom presents” while Flo said “Found presents on the roof”. The home corner was turned into a Christmas post office which gave the toddlers the chance to write some letters to Santa’s elves. Reegan and Rafferty posted lots of letters to the elves while Sophie spent lots of time writing out her letter carefully. Finley was so proud of his letter he didn’t want to post it so carried it around for the rest of the morning.

Outside, the toddlers loved experiencing the different weather throughout the week. Lowri ran straight out into the rain with her arms open wide so she could feel the big splashes where as Lana stayed under the shelter covering her ears. Sophie was splashing in puddles when all of a sudden it started to hail! She pointed down at the fallen hail and commented on the “Small snow balls!”. 

Back inside, the toddlers have been singing their hearts out to some new Christmas songs they have been learning at circle time. Rowan now requests ‘When Santa got stuck up the chimney ‘ by saying “Santa chimney” and Chloe and Olivia join in with the actions. The toddlers also got to make their own reindeer food to sprinkle on their gardens on Christmas Eve so they know where to land. Zack carefully labelled his reindeer food into the bag, saying “Oh dear!” when any spilled out.

The under twos have also been busy getting ready for Christmas! Otto, Amélie and Esmé enjoyed spreading glue over their Christmas stocking pictures, adding tinsel and cotton wool whilst shaking their hands and using their fingers to try and get it cotton wool off of their fingers. Margot and Kitty have been exploring sticking with glue and buttons, pushing them around their paper.

Youcef, Margot and Esmé got stuck into the cereal messy play, crumbing it between their fingers and listening to the sound that it made and tasted each one. Kitty picked up a play spoon and started spooning the cereal into her mouth babbling and wriggling her body to show her excitement. The under twos have been exploring the kitchen utensil box banging the spoons on the metal pots and pans laughing at each other seeing who could make the loudest sound.

While playing in the garden, Amélie found the magnifying glass she pressed it up to her face then pulled it down laughing, playing peek a boo with Sophie continuing the game for most of the time outside. Otto discovered the different sized and shaped balls showing them to everyone, babbling to them telling them what he had found. Ada discovered the ramp bottom shuffling up one side then sliding down on her bottom down the other. Great fun!