Growing area and hoop games!

Over the last couple of weeks, the pre school children have been observing the vegetables growing in the patches. After the weekend, Ollie went outside to take a look at them and very quickly noticed that the tomatoes had grown lots. He called his friends over and said, “Guys, take a look, the tomatoes have grown bigger and bigger”. A few of the children gathered round to take a look and Phoebe quickly realised that more vegetables had started to sprout. Phoebe asked her friends, “Do you think it could be garlic, or carrots, or cress?” Looking at the labels, Freddie said, “I think that says it’s cress, C, cress”. Izzy agreed, “Yes, you are right, look, c-r-e-ssss”. 

Basti, Otto and River engaged in some observational drawings of the vegetables. Otto started to draw the tomato plants and said, “Look, there are real tomatoes, tomatoes that we can eat for our lunch”. River continued with his drawing before going on to drawing a lunch box, letting his friends know, “This is going to be my school lunch box, and I am going to out the tomatoes in there”. 

Finley, Arthur and Megan enjoyed a bean bag and hoop colour matching game. Arthur collected all of the hoops and lay them in a line whilst Megan collected the bean bags. Megan shared the bags between them and Finley threw the blue one in to the blue hoop with Arthur cheering him on, “Well done, that’s right”. They all took it in turns to throw the correct colour bag in to the hoop, clapping each time it went in to the hoop. A few more friends went over to play and India said, “I have a good idea, I will lift the hoop and you have to throw it through, it will be fun”. This got the attention of even more friends who took it in turns to throw the bean bags brought the hole.