Building Dens & Reading Books!

The pre-school children have been very interested in making dens outside in the garden. They used the fabric to make covers to protect them from the rain and Jonathan made sure they had blankets for the ground so they didn’t get wet sitting down. After they had set up their shelter, the children all worked together very well to collect the wooden planks to put around the bottoms of the tree. Eloise told her friends, “It’s just like a real campfire now!”. Amelia and Isabelle enjoyed looking for bugs and insects around the bottom of the trees, Amelia telling everyone, “We need to keep the bugs nice and warm too”. The children also enjoyed taking some story books in to their den as well as in to the tree house when the rain was poring down to look at the books together., which was very cosy! They were discussing what they could see in the books and also made up their own stories, Henry telling them, “I’m using my imagination to tell you this story, I’m just like an author”. William asked, “Are you Julia Donaldson?” And started to laugh.

 The children have also been busy designing buildings with the various sized wooden blocks. Sammy built a house and Joshua built a hotel. He told his friends, “I’m building a house so that I can go on a super sunny holiday”. Salvador went on to constructing a tall building and when Fabian asked what he was building, he told him, “I’m building a very, very tall tower”. Fabian laughed and said, “But now it is way too tall, it’s even taller than you”. Salvador said, “I know because towers are taller than people”. The children were then talking about their own homes and what their bedrooms looked like. Some had dinosaurs whilst others had lots of toys and teddies.