A Trip to the Supermarket!

This week a group of pre school children had a visit to the local shops to buy some fruit and vegetables. When they got to the shops, Olivia told her friends, “This is where we can do lots of shopping for our families”. Sophie then started to list off what she would like to buy from the shops, “We could get some pancakes, some apples, some strawberries and maybe some bread”. When they got in to the shop, Finley was so excited to check the list to see what they needed to find. First they went off to the fruit section and helping to fill up the basked, Sophie said, “This is so much fun. It’s the best day ever” which gained the smiles from all of her friends. At the checkout, the children carefully placed the food items on to the till and Olivia even asked the shop assistant, “How much moneys?” The children couldn’t wait to get back to nursery to show their friends what they had purchased, and excited they would be eating the produce later!

 Over the last couple of weeks, the pre school children have been very observant, noticing the buds that have started to grow on some of the trees around the garden. Luna was the first one to notice and was very intrigued by them asking, “Is that because it is spring now?” Flo informed Luna that, “We still need to wait a couple of more weeks until it’s spring”. Rowan laughed and said, “But it’s sunny today so it must be spring!”. They all went around the garden, searching for more trees that had started to grow their buds, collecting some friends on their way who were all very interested as to what was going on. After they had finished their investigations, Chloe decided it was a good point to have a relaxing time and suggested to her friends, “Why don’t we sit in our den and draw some of the trees and flowers?” This was a very popular idea and the children worked together to gather some paper alongside some pencils and rulers and positioned themselves in the new den that they had helped to make in the garden. Luna wasn’t quite ready to give up with her investigations and encouraged Rowan and Alfie to continue with her. Alfie very quickly discovered that the bird feeder had run out of food and was keen to get it topped up. The children all took it in turns, waiting very patiently to scoop some food in to both bird feeders. They were also very excited to help to hang them back up on to the trees with Cleo directing her friends exactly where they should be hung.

The pre schoolers have also taking part in a height measuring activity on the chalk board. They were taking it in to turns to guide each other slowly backwards until they were steady at the chalk board, Madan advising Caiden, “You’re feet and head need to be on the wall!”. Once Caiden was in position, Madan then drew a line above his head, which was very quickly followed by several other children lining their friends up to do the same. Once they were satisfied that they had all been measured by each other, Olivia examined the board for a moment and realised, “Caiden is the tallest, but Finley is very tall too”. The pre school children were very keen to show their teachers their height measurements.