Butterflies and Bushy Park!

This week the older children have said goodbye to their butterflies. They watched them fly around their enclosure before guessing where they would go. Sophia suggested they might fly away really high. The butterflies took their time and didn’t fly out straight away, but when the first one did they all cheered and laughed. One butterfly flew out and landed right next to Hlenhaze’s foot, and he was very excited but stayed very still and quiet simply watching it. After a short while the butterfly began to move and Hlenhaze positioned his hand and gently picked it up. The other children watched as more butterflies were released and landed on different children and surfaces. Eve and Xanthe noticed their brightly coloured wings. Eve said ‘look Xanthe, this one has Orange dots’, Xanthe said ‘So does mine’. The Butterflies got used to being in the garden by firstly walking along the ground. The children were trying to decide where the butterflies would like to be, and William suggested the flowers would be a great home for them and they were gently put on the flowers. William turned to his friends and asked ‘Where will they go now?’, as more butterflies flew around with the children following them. James pointed to one and held Zachs hand to show him where it had gone shouting excitedly ‘Here, the butterfly is in the tree’!. Zach suggested that the tree could be the butterflies new home.

Maxwell and Varun played with the dinosaurs chasing with them around the garden and hiding them away in little places, Maxwell gave the dinosaur colour names and used this to identify the dinosaurs. They even let them live in the tree. Whilst in the park the children looked at trees and searched for different animals and found some birds, squirrels and bugs in the tress, and in the park they also spotted deer, dogs, ducks, swans and lots more bugs. Lyra pointed at a tree stump and said ‘The spider’s home.’. The children saw a fallen log and used it to turn into a snake. Back at Nursery the children drew a magic tree together. It had everything a real tree would have. Ines helped draw a bird to live in it, Jasper and Oliver made the leaves and Nyra and Isla coloured in the tree stump and drew some bugs.

The youngest children have been very interested in their story books. Sidney pulled them all off the bookshelf which encouraged Edward to take a look. The little ones listened to Dear Zoo as they looked and tried to guess all the animals. George helped read the big book as he lifted up the hiding flaps to reveal different animals, Emma copied some of the animal actions such as using claws. Jessie chose her favourite book ‘Moo’, and pointed at some of the animals and said ‘Sheep’. When we showed Jessie her favourite animal (the cow) she laughed and said ‘Moo, cow!’ Alex and Ciana played with the animals with moving them around the room, they also hid them in the shredded paper, when they picked one up they were informed of the name, Alex responded with some lovely meaningful babble as he is beginning to learn new words. Honor helped to make some animal crafts as she painted her bowl to make a pig and duck face whilst trying to make the sounds. Theo and Grace joined in with song time, singing Old MacDonald, making lots of fun noises and copying moves such waving hands for a monkey.

Sidney and Grace had a wonderful time in the garden building delightful towers, Sidney built his tower up nice and tall before he accidentally knocked it over making himself and Grace laugh. Grace used two blocks to hit together and made lots of noise. Alex and Ciana liked the noise, and they choose to add to it using musical instruments using the shakers. Edward also helped make a lovely tune playing with the bell sensory bottle.  George and Ciana played with the football in the park pushing it back and forth. if it went to far away Jessie would chase after the football and kick it around before running back to give it to her friends. Jessie kicked it towards Emma before shouting ‘Ball’.