Ava’s family has been looking at the photos of the stones and shells that the children painted:
“All the Shells and stones look great. Ava said she enjoyed painting some of them.”
Ava and lots of other children did a great job. We think that they have brightened up the outdoor area and we hope that the fairies like them in their garden.
“Autumn Walk to School Week” will begin today, Monday 26th September, until Friday 30th September. The underlying intention of the initiative is to encourage children to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school and Nursery to promote the obvious health benefits that these activities bring. Our Junior Road Safety Officers will assist in recording the numbers taking part. Bikes or scooters brought to Nursery can be stored in the small shed nearest to the car park in our outdoor area. We hope that everyone enjoys this great health initiative.
As part of the children’s work on the outdoor environment, they decorated shells and stones to put in the fairy garden and around our sensory plants. There was lots of discussion about which colours and patterns to decorate them with and it is lovely to see what super ideas the children have had, creating a variety of designs. Once the stones and shells were decorated, some Maths skills had to be used as we needed to sort the blue ones into a separate pile to be used as part of the fairy garden’s little river. All the decorated stones and shells are now on display in the Nursery garden so we hope that you can find time to have a look at them with your children. We think that they have made a brilliant job of their artwork.
Harvey M’s family like the photo of him planting:
“Harvey said he had great fun planting his lavender in the big box. Happy to see him joining in.”
Looking after the new plants has been a great activity to bring all the children together. I’m glad that Harvey has been enjoying it.
Some of you have been enjoying the photos of the children planting in their newly decorated planter:
“This looks fun! Gardening is one of Olivia’s favourite things to do with her daddy! She told me she was digging a huge hole to put a plant in!”
“Its nice to see Harvey settling in and enjoying doing some planting 🙂”
The children are taking their responsibilities very seriously and are looking after the new plants with great care so far.
After our graph work to help us choose which type of plants we wanted to buy, our plants arrived and the children tried to guess which scent each one had which was quite a challenge and produced lots of discussion. They helped to plant them all and have added some of the shells and stones that they decorated to the planter. We are encouraging the children to gently rub the leaves then smell their fingers to help work out which smell each plant has. We hope that you agree that this makes a useful addition to the garden. Why not have a walk round the sensory planter with your child and see if you can find the chocolate mint plant or the curry one? As you can see from the photos, one little boy has already been showing his Mummy what he has been busy with. The children are now thinking about how to look after their new plants and are very keen to help with the watering.
It seems that lots of our families have been enjoying the photos of the outdoor activities we have been doing recently. Noah, Joshua H. and Kobe have all been talking about playing in the Nursery garden to their families.
“Look at that wee face-deep in concentration! Noah really enjoys playing outside at nursery with his friends!”
“Joshua looks so content & hard at work here. I remember this day he come home & said he had been cleaning & playing with water.”
“Good to see the kids outside playing. Kobe says he really enjoys playing in the nursery garden.”
Come sun or rain, most children seem to love outdoor play so it’s lovely to hear that they are talking to their families about it at home. Thank you for leaving comments. It’s great to know that you are looking at our blog and that the children are enjoying our outdoor play activities.
Quinn’s family has been looking at the photo of her painting the planter in the garden:
“Great photos and fantastic to see Quinn outside enjoying herself. Quinn said it was fun painting. Keep up the good work. X”
We hope that you like the finished planter which is sitting near the door. We think that the children have done a super job.
As part of our outdoor work with the children, we have begun preparations for a fairy garden. Obviously every little fairy needs a home and we think that they would be very happy in our garden if we made them feel welcome so the children have been cleaning logs and slabs of wood as a starting point. More work will need to be done to prepare for our fairies but we think that the children made a super start with these logs.
As the renovations continued last week in the mud kitchen area, it was decided that we needed to paint one of our big, wooden boxes before we chose some plants for it. It was a messy job that required suits and gloves, despite the warm weather, but there were plenty of willing helpers to make their mark. As you can see, it got the ‘thumbs up’ from some interested onlookers and you may have noticed the children’s newly decorated box in the garden waiting for some plants. We think that they did a great job.
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