Midweek hello!

Hi everyone.  Hope you're all having a lovely holiday with your children! 

Diggers and building

The children played with the toy diggers, trucks and dumpers today.  We provided the wooden blocks for the children to transport and build and later brought in a basket of conkers, which they incorporated into their play.  We also had to work bench out with all the tools.  What a busy day!

Hope you all have a lovely holiday with your children next week and we'll see some of you on Friday!

Cars down a ramp!

The children were playing with the toy cars this afternoon and started to roll them down a lid, belonging to a small box.  To extend their learning we provided them with a long length of guttering, which they used to push the cars down.  We explored how we could make the cars go faster or slower, by lifting or lowering the guttering. 

Chris took a great photo of them all but unfortunately I've managed to delete it somehow.  Sorry......

Outdoor play and fruit salad again

We spent a lot of time outdoors today.  The children played with the stones, transporting them in trolleys etc, and they played in the cars and trucks, giving each other a ride. 

Later, the children made their own fruit salads again.  This time I remembered the clementines! 

Fruit salad

The children made their own fruit salad today.  We gave them various pieces of fruit, including melon, strawberries, grapes and apples from our own apple tree, and they chose what they wanted to go into their fruit salad.  The children then used knives to cut their fruit into pieces.  They ate their own fruit salad for their morning snack and enjoyed every mouthful!

Painting autumn leaves

We collected some leaves from our garden and talked about the colours.  The children decided what colour paints we would need to paint a picture of the leaves and then painted their own picture, using the various colours. 

Duck pond and autumn trees

We went to the duck pond this morning to feed the ducks.  We looked again for signs of autumn - there were lots of leaves on the floor today.

When we got back, we made some autumn tree pictures, using handprints for the branches and autumn-coloured foam leaves.  The children really enjoyed creating their pictures and couldn't wait to take them home.  

Fire engines and firefighters!

The children are really enjoying playing with some new 'Fireman Sam' engines we bought at the weekend.  They've had all the fire engines out and have been building houses and fire stations out of wooden blocks.  We got out the dressing up clothes today and they wore the firefighters helmets and role-played, using the tent as a house on fire!

Happy birthday Charlotte

Just to wish our very special daughter a happy 17th birthday today!  With lots of love xxxxxxxx

Menu, week beginning 4th October 2010

Monday - Corned beef hash
Tuesday - Shepherds Pie
Wednesday - Cheesy turkey and ham pasta with vegetables
Thursday - Chicken curry and rice
Friday - Fish fingers, wedges, beans