Rain & Rockets!

Over the past couple of weeks, the preschool children have ventured up in to space in their new role play space ship. When coming in to preschool, Youcef noticed that the space ship was ready and stood mesmerised, looking at all of the tin foil walls. As he looked he whispered, “Wow”, with a big smile across his face. Once the children were inside the spaceship, Rowan was very eager to get the headphones on, offering a set to Lana too. Whilst they were attempting to get the headphones working, laughing at the muffled voices, Olivia got herself comfortable at the keyboard advising her friends, “You need to sit down now, I am the pilot”. Rowan giggled at Olivia and said, “But we aren’t in a aeroplane, you are an Astronaut!” Olivia smiled at Rowan and agreed “Yes, an Astronaut”. Lana, Amèlie and Alfie discovered the masks and put them over their heads and were using the spinning dial to turn to show Olivia the direction of where to go. Iris was encouraging her friends, “We need to go this way now”. Once the children were happy that they had arrived in space, Flo remembered a very important fact to tell her friends that the children had learnt the previous week. She reminded them, “Remember there is no gravity in space, we might float away, we need to be careful!”. This then prompted the children to recall parts of a Pip and Posy story book, explaining the difference between helium and gravity.

Outside, the preschoolers have seemed to have really embraced the colder, wet weather and have not been phased by this at all. Getting their wellies and wet suits on, Isaac encouraged his friends, “Look, there is the biggest puddle to splash in!”. His friends were of course very keen to join him and made the biggest splashes they possibly could which made everyone laugh and very wet. Over on the field, the children loved a football game, taking it in turns to let each other be the goal keeper and taking shots at the goal keeper. The children were very encouraging to each other, cheering on both the goal keeper to save the goal as well as the striker. Joshua and Jasper enjoyed their own made up game which involved throwing the ball through the hoop as the hoop was tossed in to the air. Again, cheering each other on at each attempt.