Our Trip to Bockett's Farm!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been focusing on farm animals on the build up to a very exciting Bockett’s farm trip! The children have been discussing which type of animals live on a farm, as well as exploring Jungle, Sea and Safari animals by participating in a range of animal themed activities. Chloe, Alfie, Isaac and Caiden enjoyed making some houses for the horses using the wooden blocks, with Isaac quizzing his friends, “Do you know what a horses house is called?” When his friends thought for a moment at what Isaac had asked, he gently reminded them, “Remember it’s called a stable.”. Chloe was using a ruler to measure up their stable and, when it was at the right height, suggested to her friends, “I think we can put the roof on now”. Next it was time to make more houses for other animals and very quickly, many more friends were helping out, using rulers and tape measures to get the correct measurements. Max had a guess, “I think it needs to be two hundred, thousand, million long”, which made his friends laugh a lot. 

On the day of the farm trip, the children were so excited to show each other their lunch boxes and eagerly waited for the coach to turn up to nursery. Sadie calmly reminding some of her friends, “We need to be patient guys, it will soon be here!”. The coach trip was very exciting for the children, with Florence and Ada pointing out the directions to their houses. Once getting to the farm, Madan and Tom were very keen to get to see the pig race. Iris, Jude and Oliver jumped up and down with excitement when seeing the tractor and Freddie asking, “Is it lunch time now?” The tractor ride was a great opportunity for the children to be able to see the animals that were deeper in to the farm fields, with many of the children looking around in amazement, big smiles on their faces and taking in all of the information the tractor driver was giving about the animals they could see. When it was time for the pig race, Sadie and Iris were cheering the pigs on, clapping and calling out, “Come on piggies!”. 

On the coach journey back and at nursery, the children were all talking to each other about their favourite part of the day with Ada letting Alfie know that, “The piglets were so small and cute and I loved them” and Ollie telling Amelie, “I really really liked the pig race, it was fun”. Sadie, Lana and Chloe went on to draw their own farm pictures, Lana adding some of her preschool friends on to her farm picture and when Rowan came to investigate what they were doing, he then went off to collect the farm animal toys for his friends to be able to draw.