This week we had our fun and festive Santa Dashes! The children and adults dressed up, listened to some Christmas music, played games, ran together and enjoyed some Christmas cheer! This was a wonderful opportunity to promote both physical activity and holiday spirit! Here are some pictures!

This week in the malleable area, the children have been exploring different seasonal smells that you might smell more of at this time of year. We have been exploring these smells within our play dough, so far we have had vanilla and cinnamon, salted caramel, ground ginger and hot chocolate play dough. We have had lots of fun using our problem solving and critical thinking skills when guessing the different smells. 

“Look my gingerbread man, he has eyes and a smile” RJ

“Chocolate – decorate the leaf now” QC-I

“It looks like a sausage roll, but smells like chocolate” SS

“I’m making cookies for Santa” BF

“1 cookie, 2 cookies,3 cookies, 4 cookies, 5 cookies, 6 cookies, 7 cookies, 8 cookies, 9 cookies, 10 cookies!” AR

“I added the flour… it feels quite hot” ES

“Cinnamon” ES

“I made a snowman” ES

“ I want to make a Christmas tree… I want to make a baby Christmas tree” KQ

“My mummy has a Christmas tree” KQ