This is Ruby our newest member to our Family. Ruby is a sandy coloured Cavapoo, well normally Sandy but always getting muddy!
Mum and DadSiblings
This is a photo off Rubys mummy and daddy, when we went to pick her up the other puppies were still there waiting to go to their new families.
Meeting PoppyHaving Kisses
Poppy was so surprised and shocked when I opened the car door and placed Ruby wrapped up in a blanket!
Jacks Dummy!!Cuddles From ChloeMeeting JackPlaying and Barking At Herself
I went in to my bedroom to see why Ruby was barking at, I found her looking in the mirror thinking there was another puppy in the room!!
Out For A WalkMaking MusicTurning On The LightsBeautiful
We are the perfect family for Ruby as she loves playing with toys and we have so many for her to choose from. She especially loves toys that make music and sounds.
O DearMuddy PawsIn A MessSo Cheeky Playing With ChloeDigging!
She is such a pest! if we close our eyes for one minute she is out into the garden running amok in and out of the ponds. I think she is the most showered puppy in the world!
Crosby BeachMessy Again!Loving The SeaSandy
We take her everywhere with us, the park, beach, pet friendly cafes and the Garden Centre’s. She wants to be friends with everyone and everyone loves her.
Emma has been a part off our childminding family for over ten years. We have had so many laughs, messes, fun and memorable moments together.
Emma has touched so many children and their families lives and we all wish her best in her new role and we will miss her greatly.
Here are a collection of our favourite memories picked by the children.
BowlingLaura JaneTeaching Us To ReadLooking At Out Thank you CardsSensory PlayFun in the ParkOutdoor Music Time Teddy Bears PicnicTrying Chillies We GrewSecret WitchFunny Faces St Patrick’s DayBeing SillyHorsing AroundNight OutNY Trip
Good luck Emma we will all miss you, cant wait for you to pop in and tell us how everything is going xx
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park is one of the UK’s largest animal sanctuaries. The residents are from all walks of life and from all over the world. They have an amazing array of animals which keep the keepers very busy daily, from Tigers to Parrots and lots in between!
Bengal Tiger
We had a fun packed day out walking around the park, we discovered some amazing facts and information about Parrots and learned why the Charity is so important. We listened to the wonderful sounds of the rainforest, spanning from Australia to Africa to the Americas and discovered why they are the only park that talks back!
Very Friendly Hello, Hello
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park is a well established ‘National Parrot Sanctuary’ housing over 1000 re-homed Parrots & Parakeets, covering over 100 different species. They have a third of the UK’s Parrots here, and continue to re-home those that need help. These amazing creatures come in all sizes, colours and with some colourful language to accompany them! This parrot above kept saying hello to Poppy.
We found out some interesting facts about the Reindeer pictured above. Their hoof pads soften and widen in warmer weather to walk with ease on the soft ground, in colder weather their pads shrink, exposing their sharp hooves which are able to dig into the ice for extra grip. Their antlers are like a human’s fingerprints, no reindeer’s antlers are the same! How cool is that!
TapirLemurs
We loved the Tapir which are related to the rhinoceros and have special splayed toes to help them walk through soft muddy grounds. A group of Tapir in the wild is called a candle and baby Tapir are called calves. Calves have very different markings to adults, they are striped with white bands which helps to camouflage them in the wild.
They have a variety of Turtles at the sanctuary, including Yellow Bellied Sliders, Red Eared Sliders, Cumberland Sliders and Map turtles.
Otter Rehabilitating Parots
If you would like to visit you will find the details are:
It’s the start of the Autumn term and our Little Seedlings Georgia, Fearne and Sophie have moved up to school. This means we have our new Seedlings starting.
George
This is George and his favourite activity is anything related to balls. So we will help him get to know his peers by encouraging him to join in with various ball games.
Elsie
This is Elsie and she is cute as a button. She has been coming for settling in hours over the last few weeks and this is helped both mum and herself to settle in.
All the Seedlings enjoyed making Kindness Rocks over the last term. The older children asked if they could paint some over the summer holidays as they didn’t get a chance because they were at school.
Georgia JackSophie Working Hard
We thought it would be good to extend the activity by using clay to make the shapes to paint.
MasonAlfieJacy
First we had to kneed the clay to make it malleable to roll out. Then they chose a cutter and pressed it into the clay to make the shape. It was then laid out on some card ready to dry.
We had to leave them overnight again as they hadn’t completely dried out.
Painted Rocks
The children worked hard to paint the clay rocks ready to hide.
Painted RocksLook What We FoundLook hardMarthaSpace ManIs This One? Lovely LadybirdsColourful FearneIce Cream
We found just as many as we hid! We ended up going out for three days to hide them all!
What a wet May we have all had! Its been so hard gardening because every time we go to do some, the weather changes!!
The garden has loved the wet weather and all the plants and grass are all growing lovely.
Early in the year, we sowed tomatoes in various ways to see which would grow better.
Jacy’s Tomato Sowed Early in the Year
Jacy sowed his tomato seed in a Bisto pot, he thought it would protect the roots when he potted it on. Eventually the Bisto pot will disintegrate when the plant is placed in the grow bag giving the roots extra space to grow.
What a fantastic idea Jacy had. His tomato plant is the strongest, tallest and has a tomato already growing on it! We are so impressed that we are collecting Bisto pots now!
The pictures below are of Tracie holding Jacy’s tomato plant up so you can see the amazingly strong roots!
The middle picture is a tomato plant we grew in the green house in a plastic pot. As you can see there are less roots and they are wonky (we do love wonky veg so thats ok!) they are much smaller, thin and scraggly. The bottom pictures (above) are of our other seedlings which we are growing in toilet rolls and they seem nice and strong! We will start hardening them off soon, ready to be planted among our flowers.
Above is our pot we sowed the Melon seeds in. We have no idea how but we have a tomato plant and weeds! No sign of a melon!
We have tried to grow cucumbers as we had a bumper crop last year. Unfortunately they didn’t grow even though we sowed 6!
We decided to go to the garden centre and buy one already established. Within 2 days they had slug damage! So back to the garden centre we went. This time we have put a water marker on it, covered the pot rim with copper (to keep slugs away) and placed it on gravel. We will see how they go in our next garden post.
At the beginning of May, Gemma sent us some pictures of her garden vegetable raised beds that she had made. They have come on so well and are all starting to grow nice and strong.
Its mid-May now and only two weeks since the above pictures and the raised beds have grown so much! Gemma and the children are doing so well, they must all have green fingers!!
Chloe has been helping Gemma after school with watering and trying to keep Cooper their dog from jumping on them! All our pets want to join in with gardening!
Today the seedlings and Tracie went over to the greenhouse to check on their strawberry seeds.
Georgia said she thought there will be loads of strawberries all ready to eat! Tracie said it was too early in the year for strawberry picking, we just want strong healthy plants at the moment.
Over Crowded
We opened the door and peaked in, Georgia huffed, “No strawberries in here!”
Tracie took a tray from the side and showed everyone. These are the seedlings we sowed and they have all grown really well, in fact, so well we need to re-pot them so they can get bigger!
Tracie explained to a disappointed Georgia and Sophie that the plants need to grow big and strong. When it’s June and we have lovely hot weather little white flowers will appear, then the strawberry fruit will soon be here.
Cut Toilet Rolls
Filling them with Soil
Pots for the Strawberries
Tracie took the trays of strawberry plants over to the table where she had prepared soil, toilet roll inserts, scissors and gardening tools ready for repotting the growing plants.
First the seedlings cut each toilet roll inserts into 3 pieces. Then they carefully placed them all into a tray. The seedlings took turns to fill each roll with soil.
Using a fork tool, Tracie carefully moved each seedling into a roll. The Seedlings took turns to gently push them down into the soil.
The plants now have little individual pots to give them space to grow.
All the seedlings worked hard together as a team to re-pot them and are really looking forward to the summer when we can all eat strawberries for afternoon tea. Maybe a game of tennis too!!
Today we have all been on a trip to Croxteth Park Hall and joined in the ‘Liverpool Kindness Rocks’ challenge. We had to look high and low for painted rocks hidden around our parks.
Some stones have been placed with paint for you to take home and decorate yourself. Once decorated you then hide them in a different park. I wonder who will find the most, seedlings, rangers or wanderers?
Emma
Thank you George and Oliver
Everyone said Emma would win! We were all right, she found not one but two! A lovely shiny leaf and a ‘Thank You NHS’, they were both in a tree stump.
Thank You Lisa
Jacy found the next one, he remembered he had seen something a week ago when he was in the park with his mum. He didn’t go and investigate it then, but he went over to the place he thought he had seen it and it was was still there! One to the Rangers!
Sparkling Leaf by JJO
Georgia from the Seedlings found this beautiful ladybird rock near the playground, one to the Seedlings!
Georgia Left One on a Log
Beautiful Ladybird
Georgia loved the shine on the ladybird and said it was really smooth and pretty.
We Left These Stones For Someone to FindWhere’s This One We Hid? Good Luck Finding it! Rocks We Found at Walton Hall and Hid in Croxteth Park
Exercise in the Park
Pasta Salad
Georgia Loved the Cake
Emma Filling her Face
Jack and Jacy
Tracie Camara Shy
Mason Looked High
Camp Making
Climbing Trees
Jacy was a Caveman
Jacy and Jack
It was soon time for lunch and we all sat next to the park and the older children went on the exercise equipment and worked up a hunger so came back and had lunch.
The Rangers loved climbing the trees and getting stuck, luckily they were able to help each other to get over and off them. They worked well together and made treehouses.
We all thought Jacy’s was the biggest and brightest of all.
Cooling Marshmallows
Last but not least we went home and ended our day by the campfire roasting marshmallows nom nom.
Tracie's Treasures 