Fruit picking and bugs!

This week the older children have been out exploring the world. They have started by searching for bugs and looking at them noticing the differences. Emily saw a spider and put it into the ladybug bug pots to explore with her friends. Sophia and Eve looked at the spider and they spoke about how many legs spiders have. Sienna then found an ant that she was very interested in and held it in her hand for a while asking how many legs it had, to which Eve responded that she thinks they have 6 legs not 8. In the tree stump and fallen tree they had a climb around and used magnifying glasses to look at the leaves growing and to see if they could find more insects. Sienna found a woodlouse and bought it over to her friends shouting “Look, a worm!”. She held the woodlouse very close to Zach’s face and he said ‘Yuck, that’s a woodlice, not a worm.’ before he then ran away laughing that he was then being chased by a woodlouse. When they were finished Sienna put the woodlice back and they watched it crawl away. Louis and Zayne climbed on the bark hills, standing at the top giggling to themselves before running back down, shouting with their hands in the air. George and Emma liked playing with the cars in the park, rolling them around on the mat as well as on the grass, and watched as the cars would slow down or stop on the grass but go faster on the mat.

In one of the nursery gardens, the children picked some yummy raspberries. Lyra said that the raspberries were sweet when trying them and then looked around to see what else she could find. Abigail found the tomatoes and said ‘They are green, but they are turning red , and then they will be ready’. Xanthe then found the strawberries and pointed out they were half white and half red, Lyra said that “They were not ready yet”. The children also had a yoga lesson and loved to get involved. Varun really liked to play with the pom poms and gave them a big shake shouting ‘Hooray’ whilst Louis like to hide under the pom poms and George tried out some of the moves alongside Emma.

The babies had a fantastic time learning about bugs! The babies enjoyed exploring in the woodlands with their magnifying glasses and binoculars, searching for lots of butterflies and ladybirds. “Butterfly” shouted Emma as she pointed to one flying by. Louis looked up to the bright blue sky, “Ahhhh” he exclaimed excitedly as he saw a plane fly over us. The babies created their own bug houses using lots of sticks they collected on the walk. Honor carried her basket to pick up all the sticks she could find, whilst Alex ran around on a scavenger hunt with his clipboard ready to write down all he could see. Agnes used the bug catcher, and she carefully put a leaf inside and then closed the lid to take a closer look. Edward giggled while on the hunt for some more leaves, throwing them up in the air whilst he smiled at Rouxx and laughed. Theo preferred the brown and crunchy leaves which he crumbled between his fingers to make crispy confetti. Grace, George and Sidney loved climbing over the logs and all sat on a big tree trunk pretending it was a car. “Beep beep” said George as he drove the tree truck through the woods!