Author: Vaila Wallace

Today we started to get ready for Christmas and make a postbox for our Santie letters and cards.  The boys helped paint up the box ready and then when it was all dry we set up a letter writing station.   This was a great opportunity for the children to practice their mark making and letter… Continue reading Thursday 27th November 2025

The children have been showing a growing interest in den building, leading us to extend their play by adding a dark den to the porch area.  We made it warm and inviting with the cosy blankets and the children were immediately drawn to the new space. Inside the den the children asked to have the… Continue reading Friday 21st November 2025

After our snow day we decided to try and make some snowflake spin pictures. to add to the setting.  Everyone worked hard at cutting out their circle and then adding it to the salad spinner and adding in our icy colours.  We loved seeing the different patterns that the paint made and then had load… Continue reading Thursday 20th November 2025

Today we took the Lino printing materials up into our trip up to the garden   The children carefully chose some leaves they found around the garden and then we pressed them and rolled them to make some prints.   We also looked for some other patterns in the environment.   We took some prints of the tyres… Continue reading Thursday 13th November 2025

Today we used some of the left over pumpkins from Halloween to make some feeders for the birds.  Together we scooped out the seeds from the pumpkins and made some holes to thread through some string to hang the feeders in the trees. We talked about how with the colder weather there is not as… Continue reading Thursday 6th November 2025

Today at snack the children started talking about animals that go to sleep over winter.  This sparked lots of questions and as a group we did some investigating and found out that this is called hibernation. Together we went on to explore what animals hibernated and looked at pictures of where some of the animals… Continue reading Friday 31st October 2025

Welcome back after the October Holidays.  We hope  you have all had a lovely break. This term we have introduced clay into the setting. Clay offers a different sensory experience to playdough with it being more firm but still malleable for the children to use. There was lots of super descriptive language used as they… Continue reading Thursday 30th October

Today we have been getting Halloween ready.  Drawing some spooky pictures and making some potions in the sensory trays.  The children went around trick or treating with the cauldrons.   We were also practicing our fine motor skills, hammering the nails into the pumpkins.  SIMOA was reminding us to stay safe by wearing our safety goggles… Continue reading Thursday 9th October 2025

This morning we all headed down to the beach to make the most of the calm day.  We took some paint with us and the children had lots of fun painting stones and bits of pottery.  Before we left everyone hid their stones on the beach for other people to find when they visited. Of… Continue reading Thursday 2nd October 2025

After snack today we all headed up to the garden for an explore and play.  The children really enjoyed spending some of the time with the older children in the school, exploring around the garden.  The grassy hill was a favourite sport with the children sliding down again and again. Some of the children found… Continue reading Friday 26th September 2025