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Fruit or Vegetables?

The girls loved reading and finding out about fruit and vegetables. They loved playing 5 a day bingo so much we had to play it twice! We’ve made our Vegetables book into an interactive story sack for you to play with, learn and grow with your children.

After we read the book, we looked on the internet for different types of fruit and Vegetables, Fearne said she loves carrots and Georgia said she didn’t like potatoes.

We played the ‘Fruit or Vegetables’ game by looking at the pictures and putting them on to the correct pile. The girls went on to ask us for peas and carrots for lunch and for pudding fruit salad. I told them they were very good choices, I encouraged Georgia to have some mashed potato with the vegetables. She was very brave and tried it, and she said she loved it!

If you’d like to learn more about Vegetables, we’ve made our very on story sack full with Veggie games and information for your children to learn and grow!

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Wildlife Wanderers and the Garden Classroom

We have been so busy in the Garden Classroom getting ready for Spring and the good weather.

We started germinating the seeds in the warmth of the house as its so cold outside. In a couple of weeks we can put them in the frame to grow lots of strong roots and harden off before growing outdoors. The children have enjoyed using old milk cartons and juice bottles to sow the seeds in or repot them individually so they can watch the growth on the roots.

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Half Term with the Wonderful Wanderers and Wildlife Rangers

It was so good to spend extra time with the Rangers this week. We don’t always get time for fun activities after school so we made the most of the week.

The Wildlife Rangers enjoyed potting on their seedlings they sowed a few weeks ago. They are already getting big and strong, before we plant them outside we need to acclimatise them in the cold frames.

The Rangers especially enjoyed the junk modelling activities and made some lovely creations. Jacy made a sloth as he says he’s ‘obsessed with them!’ Tracie has suggested he do a project on them as he could find out some interesting facts about them.

We talked about the noises they make Jacy shouted out, “Hey Google, what noise does a sloth make?” and Google said “huff, I don’t have a sound for that at the moment, but ask me again as I am learning more and more every day!” This made everyone laugh.

The children went on to ask Google lots of funny questions, “Hey Google, what sound does a pig make? “A pig says, Oink oink, would you like to hear the sound of a horse?” Everyone shouted “Yes please” it was all very funny.

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Garden Challenge 2021: Gemma’s February Update

It is now the end of February and Gemma, Chloe and baby Jack have been working hard in the garden. Even Micky got stuck in removing a tree stump.

Gemma had these packing cartons and decided to recycle them into plant pots for her seedings.

After a week, the seeds have started to grow. The lid of the meal dishes make a great ecosystem keeping them self watered.

Chloe has been busy with her growing plants. The Pink pot has won by having seedlings growing well!

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Queen Bee

Today while Gemma was digging her borders she watched this cute bumble bee come out of the ground.

Queen Bee

Gemma stopped what she was doing, so she didn’t disturb her. Gemma looked up different types of Bees and found out it was a Queen Bee.

Gemma is hoping she will build a beehive somewhere in the garden so she can watch what happens. But she will keep away from her as she doesn’t want to get stung!

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Chinese Dragons

This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We all decided to make dragons like the ones we see on the television and in our books.

We spent the whole day making dragons and all felt proud of them. The wanderers and wildlife rangers all took them home to show their mums and dads.

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Exercise in Lockdown

We all made the most of our hours exercise today in Stanley Park. Jacey made everyone laugh pricking his bottom on a Yucca bush.

The children went on a treasure hunt and they found some Snowdrops, Purple Crocuses, lovely Red Dogwood and a Mugo Pinewood which looked very prickly.

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Recycling and Growing Seeds

It was wet and windy today so we decided to stay indoors to sow our seeds. We used items out of our Recycling bin to fill up with soil and sow the seeds.

Martha found this egg box and said she thought it would be good to sow individual seeds. Ivor said we might be able to see the roots grow too! The children loved the marks the egg box made in the soil.