We love learning outside and this week the weather has been wonderful. We have managed to get outside every day and had lots of fun with the Butterflies in the nursery garden, the Wildlife garden and the Woodies. It is so nice for the children to be able to play and learn alongside their peers who may be in their P1 classes after summer! The children had lots of fun playing with a ‘froggy’ game which Kathleen found at a car boot sale. They had to match pairs of animals and then try to catch the frog as it flew up in the air. So much fun and lots of learning about matching and thinking skills!

We also had some other new resources to play with, children who are usually reluctant to mark make were enjoying spending time drawing with our fun chalk holders!

We have been encouraging the children to help with potting on plants which we hope will grow in the nursery garden. We also planted lots of sunflower seeds in little pots. The children are so enthusiastic and knowledgable and many of them are able to tell the staff about other things they have been planting at home.

At the Woodies the children made musical shakers. These were decorated and filled with natural objects. We played our shakers as we sang some songs, singing outside is so much fun!

For snack we baked green cupcakes and decorated them with ‘froggy icing’. The children then had to make their own frog face. You can see our cakes below!

We finished the week by sharing a book entitled ‘How Are You Peeling?’ A book with beautiful photographs of fruits and vegetables which made the children laugh. We talked about feelings and how we can tell by our facial expressions how someone is feeling. Look at our faces below and see if you can guess how we are feeling!! 😀😬😠🙁