31/01/2026
This week we started planting seeds - this is such a good learning opportunity,
Counting, scooping, pressing the seeds into the soil, talking about sunlight and watering, and generally making a huge mess! Later in the pics you will see that seeds planted Monday have started sprouting already much to the absolute excitement of the bigger kids.
We made it to one of our groups with our childminder friends and made lady bird pictures as it was national ladybird day this week.
We checked on the seeds each day and used a water sprayer to water them - this is great for those little muscles developing in the children’s hands.
We were donated a load of wildlife books. One of the children said “ZoZo that’s my Amberswood” I hadn’t even noticed the heading but yes, F was correct and the magazine had a 2 page spread and photos of one of our favourite places.
As there’s so many magazines, we used them to make a wildlife collage, this involved scissor use, selecting the pics we most wanted (though some grown up help was needed and I had pre cut a few pics just in case) then the big kids glued the pictures down.
Obviously where there’s an empty box there’s a child too- they had a lot of fun in the Amazon box 🤣🤣🤣
Lovely week had by all! Next week is national story telling week so each family is sending their favourite book in and I’ll be sharing our favourite with them too!
