Amazingly some of the sunflower seeds that we planted have already started to grow so the children are beginning to bring them home where they will be able to care for them. We are checking our little seeds daily and each one will be sent home once they have sprouted so, if you do not have yours yet, hopefully it will not be too long until they are ready for the big move. We are looking forward to hearing about their progress over the next few weeks and months.
Oscar and Letti’s Mum liked the photos of the children planting their seeds:
“What brilliant photos of all the kids with their concentrating faces on!”
They did listen well and took care when planting their sunflowers and amazingly some have already started to grow.
As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children planting their sunflower seeds. They were watered on Friday to help them germinate and we are looking forward to checking them on Tuesday, when we return to Nursery, to see if any of our seeds have started to sprout.
Leah and Enid have been talking to their families at home about planting seeds this week.
“Leah told us all about planting her seed in compost. She helped her papa plant his his tomato 🍅 plants this week too. She really enjoyed gardening”
“Enid told me all about how she had been planting seeds, she looks every bit the professional in this photo.”
Well done Enid and Leah for sharing your learning at home. You both did very well with your planting. Let’s hope that your seeds start to grow and good luck to Leah’s Papa for his tomato plants. I wonder which will grow bigger, the sunflower or the tomatoes?
This week we planted sunflower seeds as we plan to look at the famous “Sunflowers” painting by Vincent Van Gogh. We talked about what the children will need to do to make their seed grow so hopefully they should be able to look after them when they bring their sunflowers home in a week or two. We look forward to hearing about some super sunflowers or even seeing a photo once they begin to grow. Fingers crossed that they can be planted outdoors and turn into a lovely burst of sunshine in a corner of everyone’s garden. Here are some of the morning children busy with their planting. We will post photos of the afternoon children soon.
The children have been enjoying an interesting sensory experience as they have experimented with some gloop. Here are some of the comments they made about how it felt and photos of their experience.
Eadie: slimy.
Archie: it feels like soup.
Safoora: squishy.
Cameron: sticky.
Devlin: like banana.
Aoife: yukky and cold.
Priya: it’s slooey. It feels like gooey, gooey.
Cali: it’s a bit warm.
Derry: it feel like alien stuff.
Crue: it’s slime.
Leah: squidgy.
Halle: all weird.
Enid: a bit chilly and jelly.
We love your ideas boys and girls. I’m sure people can imagine what if felt like by your descriptions.
For most adults, hours of heavy rain are not likely to put smiles on their faces, but for Nursery children it provides great opportunities for fun experimentation especially when we add some washing-up liquid and a few appropriate resources.
After a recent heavy deluge we had a range of objects out in the garden which produced some valuable discussions about floating and sinking as well as lots of pouring and measuring to develop numeracy skills. The children worked so well together and enjoyed investigating their ideas in a real life context. Great fun was had, for example, by our younger children experimenting to balance their little ducks on a floating piece of wood. What better way to learn some early science?
It may have been a little inconvenient for adults to use a different entrance to Nursery but the children certainly took advantage of conditions that were very exciting for them.
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As we have been talking about staying safe for Bonfire Night, we had a fire in the garden last week to support our discussions. Toasting marshmallows also gave us the opportunity to talk about what happened to them as they were heated over the fire and they certainly tasted delicious once our experiment was over. The children used some good vocabulary as they talked about how the marshmallows felt once they were cooked as they found them “sticky”, “stretchy” and “like a spider”.
As promised, we have had our first fire of the year with the afternoon children. It was a strange mix of an activity as we sat and ate ice lollies in the sun at the same time as enjoying the warmth of the fire.
However, this helped us to talk about hot and cold and we made our own little experiment as we predicted and tested what would happen if we put a piece of ice lolly on a bit of metal on the fire. We were quite surprised how long it took for the ice to melt and the children were also interested to hear the noise that it made as it melted. Good science brains boys and girls.
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The afternoon children recently found some interesting visitors in a corner of the Nursery garden as a family of snails appeared on our mural. We had some discussions about where they live and how we could look after them which led to the children deciding to make a bug hotel for any passing minibeasts.
The children showed great teamwork and perseverance to help clear the area of weeds then they gathered together pieces of wood and found a basket in the garden to build their bug hotel which now looks very welcoming for all local bugs. This has become a great area of interest for the children who have been having regular checks to see if we have any visitors in their hotel. Well done boys and girls! You can see the difference in these photos that all your hard work has made.
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