Streams in the woods!

The older children have had a wonderful time exploring in the woodlands. On the first of several woodland walks this week the children focused on finding different animals. The stopped at the first part of the trail where they say some horses and ducks. Abigail spotted one of the horses was lying down and she pointed and said it was sleeping. Jessie and Isla made some duck noises as they were more focused on watching the ducks. Further into the woods they found some lovely stumps that they climbed on and over like a mini nature obstacle course, Sophia stood up nice and tall and encouraged her friends to join her, and she was happy that she was taller. After climbing the children then used the stumps as little tables and drew the nature and animals around them. Emily and Xanthe made some nature explorer bracelets; they found different natural objects on the walk and stuck them on, Emily found a big leaf and said ‘Look, a big one!’ Xanthe then quickly ran around and looked for something similar, and when she found it she laughed and said ‘Me too!’ The children then and a nice big splash in the muddy puddles! When they saw all the messy mud splashing marks, they laughed and made more! Eve suggested splashing everyone would be funny. They then went paddling in the stream and were pond dipping for insects and fish , but sadly only found little stones and pretty pebbles on this occasion.. William was particularly pleased with the ones he found, and Sienna then found some and they looked for similarities and differences between them.

Back at the nursery the children watered all the crops and picked some apples! Lyra and Isla filled up the wheelbarrows and pushed them over to their friends, and they all sat down and shared all the fruit and made different tasty meals. Hlenhaze made apple pie! They found a beautiful butterfly in the garden and took it safely for a closer look. Zach said ‘It looks like a zebra pattern!’ and James remembered when we raised our own butterflies from caterpillars. After catching the butterfly they looked for some more insects in the woodlands and found a spider, some ants and woodlice to examine before returning to the woods.

The babies became construction workers this week and participated in a wide variety of activities! Inside the babies used their construction tools to create masterpieces using different colours of their choice! Emma shouted “Blueee” as she saw the option to have blue paper on the table! The babies used their great technique of rolling the paint onto the paper mixing the colours to make very pretty concrete! Theo decided the tools took too long to use and decided to get his hands stuck in instead! Louis adopted a dabbing technique using sponges. Sidney shouted “There!” and pointed to the yellow paint. Rouxx drove his roller over the paper creating bright orange tracks, saying “Ta” as he shared his tools with his friends!

Outside the babies drove their big yellow diggers around the garden collecting resources for their building works. Agnes used the big wooden blocks to create a tower until Rouxx decided it wasn’t quite right and knocked it down! Edward and Emma came over to give a helping hand and decided to use the mega blocks to create their own construction! At the woodlands the babies used spades to dig up some mud and create mounds. Sidney piled up the mud and then used leaves to decorate! Honor investigated, saying “Tree, tree” as she found lots of different sticks to build with!