Mother's Day 2017

We have used Mothering Sunday as a good excuse to engage our creative sides as well as an opportunity to plants some seeds and learn about plant growth with a variety of kitchen herbs. 

The children all love painting and were able to experiment with different forms of mark making, using their fingers to create flowers on pots and then brushes to create some beautiful watercolours which we later cut into flowers. Our eldest mindee decided he would like to paint his mum some flowers and carefully picked the colours and washed his brush after each colour. 

To plant seeds we made use of expanding soil. The children all took turns in pouring water on to their soil and then moving the soil into pots. We introduced language to describe the change in size and texture of the soil. 

Children had great fun pressing the seeds down into the soil and watering them. All the children were very impressed with their efforts, let's hope the mums like them just as much! 

Apple Trail

Today we enjoyed the Autumn trail set out within the gardens of Saltram House. We had a lovely morning where children of all age ranges (1 to 4) were able to get involved. The older children enjoyed following the map on the trail, practising their number identification and pen holding skills through joining up the apples on the sheet. 

The younger children were able to explore the woodland areas, using the tree trunks to help them practise their standing as well as investigating the ground around them while the others engaged in den building and general exploration.

In order to continue the apple and autumn theme we later used some apples to create some autumn coloured paintings. The younger children enjoyed sliding the apples around while those with more strength examined the apple and did more detailed printing.