Exploring and Drawing in the Park with our Teddy Bears!

The children had a teddy bears picnic, they enjoyed their delicious picnic food and made a lovely story of the teddy bears eating the food. Thomas’ elephant liked the sandwiches whilst Lyra’s bear ate her salad for her. On a messy tray the teddy bears had a picnic in the woods. William hid his teddy bear under a tree waiting for Maxwell’s teddy to walk past and say ‘Boo!’. Maxwell had great fun, running far away with his teddy to hide, waiting to be found. Oliver and Sophia had a throwing competition with the teddy bears to see who could get it the furthest away. Oliver decided to throw his up high and tried to throw it the highest whilst Sophia practised her throwing so she could get her bear to fly past the highest number on the floor. After Sophia threw the teddy, she celebrated it going past all the numbers by shouting “Yay!”. Oliver joined in the celebration and before long, everyone was shouting “Yay!” trying to be the loudest. Jessie and Zayne drew some teddy bears in the park and Zayne enjoyed colouring it in. After Jessie was done, she did not like the chalk being all over her hands and she clapped them together making a nice big cloud, which made Zayne laugh and he joined in clapping his hands to add to the mess.

Playing hide and seek in dens is so much fun! Zach and Emily helped make a den in the garden which everyone loved to hide in. When Ritika and Varun made them jump, they laughed and the ran away so Zach and Emily could catch them before they got back into the den for safety. This turned into a lovely fun game and lots more children got involved, it led to lots of laughter all round. James and Isla choose to read in the den to their teddies. They then choose to build a fun obstacle course, with stepping stones, balance beams and a water trap. When they children fell into the water, they all laughed at the big splashes. In the park the children looked at the wildlife whilst out on a nature hunt with leaves and bugs. Hlenhaze pointed out so many of the list, he found the leaves and a squirrel by looking down his binoculars with Xanthe. When Xanthe found a woodlouse, they gently scooped it up and put it in a pot to investigate it further before the children released it back into the wild.

Last week in baby room, the babies were mathematicians and explored numbers and shapes. In the cosy corner, the babies enjoyed reading about numbers and opposites. “Ooo ahhh ahh” George said when he saw “10 monkeys” displayed on the page. Ciana giggled at the butterflies and Emma became a loud and scary crocodile, snapping her hands at everyone in the room. Once the babies had gathered important information from their books, they used the light-box to look at a variety of colourful shapes. Grace held up the red cube, “Red!” she said with a huge grin on her face. Alex had found some squishy numbers and watched the glitter inside them swim round and round.  Sidney and Louis worked together to create a tall, looming tower, with both concentrating to gently stack each shape carefully. However, Grace and Theo preferred to demolish their towers making everyone giggle and squeal. Edward decided he should be the main attraction, sitting in the middle of the light box and waving his hands. The babies clapped along to a range of number songs. Agnes swayed her body left and right to the rhythm whilst Honor banged her shapes on the floor for a louder beat.

In the garden, the babies listened to the story of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” which inspired them to stomp and crawl over our bridge to get to the other side, where the grass was greener. Rouxx enjoyed when the goats “trip trapped” and wiggled his body with excitement. Emma ran around the bridge to show the troll she was not scared! Eesa gently tip toed over the bridge, so he did not wake the troll up and Louis was extra brave and leant over the bridge to babble to the troll. The babies loved playing on the bridge and created an obstacle course out of it using tunnels and wooden planks.