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Happy St Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Posted on 17th Mar 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today we all had a lovely sunny day for our St Patrick’s Celebrations. Sophie’s mum brought in some lovely decorations and fancy dress accessories, the Little Seedlings had fun taking turns wearing them. Even Tracie and Emma had a go!

Emma designed and created these lovely hats and the Little Seedlings enjoyed painting and sticking on some green glitter. We had glitter everywhere all over the tables, our clothes, in the hall, bathroom and all over Alfie!

At one point we thought Alfie was a glittery Leprechaun! Georgia thought he was a green smurf, from the Trolls movie!

The Little Seedlings loved colouring in the masks. Tracie asked the children to choose any pen to colour the face in, but not to colour the eyes as we are cutting them out.

What’s the first part they all coloured? Yes the eyes!

Even the Wildlife Rangers enjoyed taking part before and after school.

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Happy Mother’s Day 2021

Posted on 14th Mar 202120th Mar 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Emma and the children have made these wonderful Mother’s Day cards for Sunday.

They made lovely prints and cards, Emma made templates of the word ‘Mum’ and placed them on-top of pink card. The children then used their fingers (some hands!) to make dots around the template so when it was removed the word Mum was highlighted with colour.

Emma adapted the prints for each child, Theo wasn’t too keen on finger painting so he used a paint brush.

Emma Wrote this Poem on the Back of the Prints

Charlie and Sophie chose to make a mosaic card by sticking coloured paper strips into a heart shape and colouring in the front with pre-drawn heart shapes.

The children loved this activity and were all very proud to give them to their mummies. They proved this by asking every day since making them if they could take them home.

Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mummies!

Garden Classroom, Seedlings

Icy Outdoor Play

Posted on 8th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

On our walk around the garden today we found everything had turned to ice! Theo pointed to the spade and Fearne tried to pick it up. When we carefully moved the spade we saw it had left a print in the ice in the shape of a spade!

We decided to look around the garden and find different shapes and frozen solid items.

While we were looking for frozen areas around the garden, Fearne found:

Theo copied Fearne, looking around and found:

Its lovely to find winter treasures in our garden! What have you got growing or freezing in your garden this winter?

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Valentine’s Hooting Owls

Posted on 2nd Feb 20215th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today we made some lovely Hooting Valentine’s Day Owls for our loved ones. While we were making the owls we talked about who we love, Georgia shouted “I love you, Tracie” and Tracie explained it made her feel happy knowing that. We talked about how we all love each other, because we are a childminding family.

Fearne said “I love my mummy because I do”, then Georgia said “my daddy is my best friend.” When we asked Theo who he loved he didn’t make a peep. So Emma asked “do you love Mummy? Daddy? Pearl?” When Emma got to Thomas, Theo giggled out loud! We revisited the emotions we covered in an activity last week to explain how we express ourselves. Here are some of the finished Hooting Owls!

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Storytime Workshop with Izzy on Zoom

Posted on 1st Feb 202112th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We had a lovely Zoom workshop today with Izzy and our friends.

The Seedlings loved being on ‘Tracie’s Laptop’ and joining in. We cant wait to see everyone again next week!

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Recognising Numbers

Posted on 19th Jan 20212nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today Georgia showed Emma how well she has become at counting and recognising her numbers. Georgia even counted backward from five.

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Creative Afternoon

Posted on 12th Dec 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

The boys came home from school in a creative mood. Jacey had been learning about Romans in history class, this gave him the idea to make a sword and shield. On his shield he has a dragons face to scare fighters away and a sword for protection. We took a picture and added it to his class twitter page for all to see.

Mason was funny building a block wall that he could hide behind. Would have worked better if the wall wasn’t see through!

Mason also created a whole family using the Mr Potato head bodies and clothing parts. He said they should all star in the next Toy Story film.

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Mystic Pizza

Posted on 6th Aug 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Today Martha and Ivor asked nicely for Pizza. Unfortunately we didn’t have any, so Martha thought it would be good to make one from scratch! This is how they did it…