Bocketts Farm Trip!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been very excited on the build up to their trip to Bocketts Farm. The children have been taking part in many activities including engaging in imaginative play whilst playing with a farm animal set up. Ollie collected as many wooden blocks as he could possibly carry from one side of the garden to the other and started to build a little den for the animals. Tilly was intrigued and asked Ollie, “What are you making now Ollie?” To which Ollie went on to explain, “I have already made some houses for the horses but these animals need shelter from the hot sunshine, so I need to make a den to keep them safe”. This very quickly gained the attention of many others who all worked together to help make various home for different types of farm animals.

The children have also enjoyed a matching animal game where they were pairing the offspring to the adults. India found the piglet picture and instantly placed it with the pig, whilst Cora correctly identified that the kid was to match with the goat. When the children were satisfied that all of the animals were correctly together, they then enjoyed a phonics session, learning the first letter of all of the animals. When learning that a babies horse was called a foal and pronouncing the sound ‘F’, Francis excitedly called out, “F is for my name and Freddie and Finley!”.

On the day of the farm trip, the children were so excited about the whole day, but mostly about the tractor ride. As soon as the fun adventures of the coach were over, with many songs sung on the way, we arrived at the farm and the children were keen to see where we were going to have lunch. Gabriel straight away asked, “Is it lunch time now?” Which made his friends laugh. The tractor ride was lots of fun for the children, all of them looking around almost in amazement at everything could see around them. When getting to the pigs and piglets, Joseph said to Joshua, “They are so cute and small aren’t they!”. Jasper and Margot loved feeding the goats their animal food and each time the goat licked their hands to get the food, they were giggling away. Sienna was amazed by the baby goats, smiling at them each time they did something funny. The coach journey home was much quieter after a busy, fun packed day, with many children taking a short nap before getting back to nursery and discussing their favourite parts of the day with each other during afternoon tea.