The ECC children continue to spend a large amount of their sessions in the outdoor areas of our setting. This week we have been exploring the ‘Wee Gardens’ area in Dunlop. The children are developing their skills of recreating stories in a wide variety of situations. As always we started our adventure by discussing  our safety rules, as this is a new area for the children to explore we discussed road and water safety prior to, during the journey and onsite. The PM children made some imaginative amendments to our rules as we discussed different things we need to look for, to help keep us safe – “The Graffalo – because he is spikey,” “Dragons – because they swoop down to pick you up,” “The Beast,” “Wolves” and “Killer Tomatoes!!!!”

The children spent time in the area exploring the large tyres finding small insects underneath the wooden mushrooms. They enjoyed watching the seed pods flying across the area as they were caught by the breeze. We had our snack in the walled area of the ‘Wee Gardens’ before returning the ECC, following the positive responses of the children we will return to this area frequently. “Liked it because it was FUN,” “It had climbing trees,” “Mud,” “‘cos of the swing,” “Had so much trees” “‘cos I like it,” “‘cos there was so many trees,” and “I don’t like slugs, I like snails.” We will need to go on a snail hunt next time with our magnifying glasses.

Mrs Gray