Jungle Exploration & Picnics!

Down in the jungle where nobody goes, the toddlers made a lion using paints, tissue paper and googley eyes. James carefully placed each piece of tissue paper around the edge of his paper plate ensuring not to leave any gaps. Rafferty shouted “It’s a lion! Roar!”. While the toddlers were walking through the jungle they saw elephants washing their clothes in a mud bath. As Isaac spotted the elephants he stopped in his tracks bent down putting his hands on the floor, lifted one arm up as a long trunk and made an elephant noise, “Brrrrrruuppp!”. Meanwhile, Olivia, Lana and Finley stomped the ground as hard as they could. Suddenly Sophie shouted ““What’s that! Listen!” whilst holding her ear, she heard the snakes slithering through the jungle. These snakes had the most beautiful textured skin from the toddlers using bubble wrap to make prints and marks on their creations. 

Outside, the toddlers ran into the tree house collecting any leaves they found on the floor on there way ready for the giraffes feeding time. The toddlers waited patiently for the digital clock to hit ‘11’ on the iPad. As soon as the clock hit eleven the tall giraffes walked towards the tree house for feeding. Reegan demonstrated to his friends how giraffes eat by poking out his tongue and licking all round his top and bottom lips! Blake laughed nervously as she quickly dropped the leaves on the floor so the “Giraffes don’t lick me!”. 

After the toddlers had returned from their jungle run, they all went to sit down in the cosy corner for a story. With no surprise after a week in the jungle the toddlers voted for the story ‘Walking through the jungle’. The toddlers sat listening carefully to the story, joining in when they knew the words. ‘Walking through the jungle what do you see’, Emily shouted “A tiger!”, “Looking for his tea” finished Tommy. The toddlers are very excited and looking forward to their next trip to the jungle! 

The under twos really enjoyed being out on the big field, after going on a long walk around the grounds to look for the horses and the ducks. They found some ducks as they walked across the bridge, Sophie began to shout “Quack Quack!”. They saw a big white horse eating the grass, Isabelle and Sophie were pointing at the horse and Amélie tried making ‘clip clop’ sounds. The children had a great time eating their morning snack outside sitting on a picnic rug. Afterwards they played running games, Freddie and Youcef found it funny when running after one another, while Kitty and Esmé were looking at the daisies and dandelions, saying “Ooh” and picking them. Otto held them in his hands and smelled them, offering them to his friends to also smell.

When out in the garden, the children have been having fun with water play, using their hands to make lots of splashes and were fishing for the colour fruity tea bags. Otto and Amélie were using the utensils to pick up the water and squeezing the tea bags in their fists. Luciano was making lots of splashes making the water go everywhere, which made him and Jack laugh to which Jack then began to splash and both were laughing at one another.

During time inside, the under twos have been using using glue and feathers to make chick pictures. Youcef and Esmé waved their glue spreaders in the air as the feathers got stuck, while Otto laughed at the feathers that were stuck to his fingers, waving them around trying to get them to fall off.