In the summer holidays we went on a mini break to Wales and had lots of fun.
We went in a boat through the underwater river and looked at scenes and listened to the story of King Arthur. We walked a few miles through winding caves then returned to the boat for our journey back out into the bright daylight. Fun was had by all.
We had fun this week with the Pumpkin’s, heres a little gallery of our activities.
We went to Teds Farm Pumpkin Patch to choose some Big ones to carve out.
We all had a fun day out and can’t wait to go again next year.
We have so much fun learning and playing in our garden at Tracie’s Treasures. I want to share some of my favourite films from the last couple of months.
In this film Jack is looking in our small barrel pond he is investigating what lives in there. He finds YUK
George and the girls walk around the garden to check for bugs, George sings ‘Barbie Girl’ all the way around.
This funny clip George is singing again as usual. This time he is singing to a Snail about being gorgeous.
My favourite time of day, looking in the greenhouses to see whats growing.
Hope you enjoyed the films, the children here are amazing.
Today we have been focusing on communication, what better place to use questioning then our garden!
Walking along the path Elsie noticed some Strawberries which we had grown in one of our pots.
I asked the children “what do you think they will taste like? Else’s answer was “delicious, can I have one?” As I gave her the strawberry “ I asked “ what does it feel like?” Jack said “ yum yum” and took it out of my hand and popped it in his mouth. Else’s response was “squidgy “.
“Jack is the strawberry blue?” Jack shook his head to say no Elsie shouted from over her shoulder to me “it’s red silly”
I asked the children if they could find a flower that was red too. Elsie went one way and Jack the other.
Else’s found hers first, I asked her if she knew what it was called and she said “ it’s a Poppies, we sow the seeds yesterday! I explained “we sowed them in Springtime and it takes a long time for them to flower” I asked her if she could remember the parts of a flower she said “Petals and leaves”
When Jack found a leaf with holes in he stopped and looked at it for some time then turned to me and said “o no, o no“ I said “looks like a bug has had his dinner Jack. What type of bug could it be? Elsie thinks it’s a spider, Jack a ladybird and Tracie thinks a bee, we will have to keep watching to see if we can find the culprit. Jack then pointed at a very tall sunflower, “b, b” and signed the words ‘big Flower’ I showed Jack that the Sunflower was taller than me!
We went for a wonder, I asked the children “ how many different colours of flowers can we find in our garden? Jack found one first “blue, blue” well done Jack “ you found a blue flower” can you say flower? “Blue blue” that’s such a fantastic flower Jack can you smell it? Jack put his nose right into the flower and the pollen went on the the tip of his nose. He started wiping it saying “yuck yuck”
Else’s found yellow, orange, blue, purple, brown, pink and green flowers. “Wow Elsie well done finding all the colours of the rainbow”
I picked out a beautiful flower and asked Elsie “ how many petals does the flower have?
Elsie counted to 11 in sequence then kept missing out some numbers then said “to many!” I explained I would have trouble counting them too as there where so many. I asked Elsie what colours she could see in the flower, she said “ yellow, purple and white” I asked her what do you think the middle colour will be when it’s fully open? Elsie thinks it’s going to be Green, we will have to look again tomorrow and see.
What a lovely garden activity we had lots of new words, descriptive words, colours, conversations and fun.
The first 10 Days….
Can we do one wild thing everyday for the month of June! A whole 30 days? We are involving Our Childminding Family to join us in the challenge! Why don’t you join us too? Have a go be Wild for June with us and the Wild Life Trust.
Day one: Chloe Camping and making a wild 3D picture with sticks and stones.
Day 2: While out on a walk Chloe found and rescued a dragon fly
Day 3: Tracie, Chelsea, Chloe and Ruby went for an amazing walk in Snowdonia and came across a Waterfall and went Swimming.
Day 4: Elsie And Jack was looking for wildlife outside of the front window.
They saw flowers, Butterfly’s, Poppies and Incy Wincy Spider.
Day 5: Chloe went Tree Hopping at Zip World, she was high up in the trees and saw Birds, Rabbits, Bees, Dragon Flys and squirrels
Day 6: We found A Wasps Nest!
The nest consists of around 8,000-10,000 hexagonal (six sided) cells arranged in 8-10 tiers of about 20cm in diameter. The building material is paper-like and made of “chewed” rotting wood mixed with the wasp’s saliva. Construction is begun by a queen wasp but completed by workers (sterile females)
Day 7: watching the swifts going in and out of the barn and listening to their song was amazing.
Day 8: Identifying wild plants around our garden and looking in the barrel pool.
Day 9: Elsie planted some wildflowers in her plant pot at home. She sent me a picture to add to our blog.
Day 10: we put some crushed up crisps on the bench at the park. We sat still for a while and a Robbin and Black Bird came to have a feed.
This week we have been very busy getting ready to celebrate the King and Queen’s Coronation.
before school the wonderers and Rangers joined in and made some crafts before school. They had a non school uniform day to celebrate, so Tracie painted flags on their hands and faces and made Coronation dress up for them to wear.
We then made lots off different crafts to decorate the room. The children loved colouring in the felt Royal jewels and family.
Phyllis knitted an amazing crown for everyone, the children all looked so cute wearing it.
The children asked if they could make their own crown, they used card, paint, pens and stickers to make bright shiny crowns just like the king and Queen will be wearing.
The babies didn’t miss out, they took part in activities involving mark making, practising their fine manipulative skills, messy and sensory play.
The younger children asked if they could have their face painted like the big kids. They were all so good standing still while Tracie painted the flags.
We had so much fun chatting away learning new words, while making the crafts. We learnt facts about the royal family, looked at pictures of castles and looked on the internet at the Crown Jewels.
We enjoyed a lovely tea party we invited Becky and her mindee’s to join us with the party. We wore our crowns, made cakes, had sausage rolls, sandwiches and corn snacks. George said he loved the cakes the best, grace, Elsie, Fifi and Jack loved wearing the crowns and taking part in the activities. Charlotte loved eating everything she could get her hands on and Ben made a lovely mess while enjoying a cup cake.
After the party we made pictures using foam stickers of the Royal family, corgis, London icons and Royal buildings. We ended the day singing songs and dancing to music which was Royal themed.
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