Mini Beasts and Fun with Water!

Over the last week, the toddlers have been looking at mini beasts exploring what they look like, how they move and where they live. The toddlers started by making ladybirds where they choose which colour they wanted to use and how many spots their ladybird should have. Finley lined up four spots in a line to ensure his ladybird was symmetrical where Rafferty asked for two spots and stuck these on, he then noticed his friends had more than him so asked politely for “Two more please!”. 

Outside, the toddlers have been enjoying the hot weather by taking part in many water activities including searching for bugs in ice and fishing for newts. The toddlers loved watching the ice melt and feeling the icy water on their hands. Chloe particularly enjoyed putting her freezing hands on her bare belly and shouting “It’s COOOOLD!”. Towards the end of day, the children decided to collect water in different containers and pour water on themselves and their friends to cool down. Sadie enjoyed collecting the water in a saucepan, lifting it up to her head and pouring it all over herself. She would then say “Look, I’m all wet!” as if she was surprised! 

Back inside, the toddlers worked together to build the bees a new beehive. They used lots of different cereals including weetabix, shreddies and Cheerios to create texture and a lifelike look to their beehive. Youcef enjoyed placing one Cheerio on the beehive and then trying his hardest to eat the other without being seen. Blake made sure to cover every single gap in the beehive to ensure the “Bees can’t leave through holes” she said. 

This week, the under twos have enjoyed experiencing different textures. As we make our beach theme board. Kitty and Esmé had fun using the sand shakes to make their sandcastles. As the sand fell from the shaker, Esmé shouted “Wow!” while Luciano and Amélie made fabulous strokes using their glue spreaders, before adding their coloured sand to make the sandcastles. Whilst playing with the playdough, Sebastian and Sophie enjoyed pressing the dough cutters into the playdough, while Cecilia was having fun squeezing and squashing it between her fingers, when Kitty saw what she was doing she copied and began to laugh as she squeezed the dough between her fingers.

Out in the garden, Otto and Amélie have been using the sand to make sandcastles. Jack crawled over to the sandpit and sat inside, he reached forwards for a spade and smiled as he scooped the sand onto his spade and watched it fall off. Sebastian was enjoying using the plastic sieve, filling it with sand and watching it fall from the bottom whilst Otto was looking intrigued at what he was doing and followed along, this made Otto laugh which in turn made Sebastian smile.

It was a beautiful warm day, so we had an exciting time playing with the water tray with lots of sea animals floating in the water. Freddie found it funny to splash water using his hands, which made Sophie laugh and began to copy, making each other laugh as the water splashed their faces. Sophie was loving splashing the water getting wetter and wetter, she was laughing so much she that she fell onto her bottom. Margot was a little unsure at first, but soon enjoyed splashing around with the water, joining in so the water was going all over the place!