On Monday we had some lemons, potatoes and carrots in the home area. “I want to make lemon juice” said Leo. This sparked the question of how can we make lemon juice? What do we need? We discussed this and decided to gather our knifes and chopping boards. The children enjoyed discovering how to break through the skin of the lemon and squeeze the juice out. “Can we make orange juice too?” Sonny asked? We compared the two fruits and how much juice came from them. There was lots of discovering how to cut, what way is best to open the fruit up and get the juice out. This interest has continued and we now have a cutting station in the home area to further develop the children’s understanding about fruit and vegetables.

 “Squeeze”  “Its spicy”-Jazmin  “This is hard”- Kalyn

 “I can do it!”-Leo

“Squeeze! This has loads of juice”-Tilly

“The orange is more because the orange is bigger than the lemon”- Sonny

Could all returning children please return their book bag to nursery, we are in the process of setting up our new bags for the lending library and have a few unaccounted for. Thanks.