Over the next few weeks we will be celebrating Easter. We started the celebrations by having a tray activity.
We put together a tray of colourful items that we think of when talking about Easter time. We added a rainbow because the weather is rainy and sunny. We added a plant lifecycle so we could see how a plant grows from a seed to an adult plant.
You cant have an Easter tray without eggs, we added blue, purple, green, yellow and red ones.
Elliott made the hen a lovely nest, he also used the shredded paper to play hide and seek with the bumble bees.
Alba and Elliott played in the sand, digging for hidden eggs. They found other Easter shaped craft items such as pastel coloured shapes, flowers and stencils .
Alba said she enjoyed making mini Easter sand castles.
We are going to extend this activity by adding our farm animals, farm house and farmer. We will have sing and Rhyme time to include ‘10 big easter eggs’, ‘humpty Dumpty’ and ‘old McDonald’
Today when we all woke up we had a lovely surprise… snow! White fluffy snow.
Lottie
Poppy was not very happy because she wanted to stay home and play in the snow! She had to walk to school as the bus was cancelled, but she enjoyed walking in the snow. When she got to school there was a big fun snowball fight.
Poppy Went To SchoolTracks And FeetLots Of SnowOn Way To School
Chloe was happy because her school was closed, she went to the park with her mum and brothers. Ben loved the Canada Geese, one went up to him and ate the bread from his hand. Jack and Chloe loved snow ball fighting, but didn’t like getting so cold.
Ben And The Geese Chloe, Jack And BenChloeAt The Park
After breakfast we all got our coats, scarves and gloves on and went for a walk in the back garden.
We have had such a fun few weeks getting ready for Christmas. The house has been well and truly glitter bombed!
Holly
Holly is looking forward to her first Christmas. She has grown so much this year and been such a good girl, Father Christmas will definitely be bringing her something nice.
BenJack
Ben and Jack absolutely loved these star shaped doughnuts, who doesn’t love Christian treats!
Jack, George And ElsieElsies SnowmanJacks SnowmanEyes, Nose And Mouth
We have made so many different crafts over the last few weeks for our parents and grandparents. We loved making our Snowmen, let’s hope it really snows so we can make a real one.
Below are some photos Tracie has taken over the last few weeks.
Phyllis, Jack And ChloePhyllis And JackTracie And BenGeorgeElliottElsieMable And ElliottHolly, Debbie And ElliottElliott And Lottie
We looked at some old photos of Chloe, Poppy and Tracie. We could see how big they have grown! can you see who is who?
Chloe, Poppy And Poppy Poppy Aged 2 Tracie And PoppyPoppy
These are a few Photos sent to Tracie over the festive holidays. George looks super lucky standing with all his Presents, Father Christmas has left him! Tracie had a lovely meal out with her family and has enjoyed the festive time off to re charge her batteries for the New year’s activities.
Gemma And BenGeorge PoppyBen And TracieTracie’s FamilyPhyllis, Poppy And Chloe
Ben and his mum look super excited to open their presents.
Look at our Debbie, she scrubs up well. I bet Father Christmas leaves her something lovely for Christmas.
Elsie and Evie are very happy with their lovely gifts. I particularly love her Spider Girl outfit! Wonder if she can climb up the walls? Let’s hope she wears a bungie rope for safety.
We wish everyone an amazing Christening and a Happy Healthy New Year.
We started off the week making a ginger bread house and Christmas trees.
Gingerbread House Made By PoppyAdding The RoofLottie And Mables Creation
Unfortunately the house kept falling apart so the children decided to eat it instead!
Elliott and George’s Tree
We decided to make gingerbread men instead to decorate, it was far easier for the children. However the end result was the same… they ate them and took one home for someone special, nom nom
Rolling Cutting Shapes Being Careful Taking TurnsDecorate Or Eat? Nom Nom
Everyone was in the festive mood when we had Christmas Jumper day.
BenLottie and Holly Jack And HollyGeorge Elsie
Fun was had trying to learn how to balance penguins and polar bears on the floating icebergs. The children enjoyed the activity so much we played it four times in one day!
Balancing Building TowersSlippery PenguinsBubbles
What fun we had on week 2, Christmas party week next week, Exciting!
Welcome HollyLovely Dancing To DannyMableMaking MusicLovely Song ElliottLottie Joining In Martie too!This is Holly Wow!So Relaxing Holly Fell AsleepLoving The Changing ColoursLearning Patience Shapes
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
Jack Exploring In The Half Barrel Pond
George and the girls walk around the garden to check for bugs, George sings ‘Barbie Girl’ all the way around.
George Singing Barbie GirlMr Black Bird Having A Bath
This funny clip George is singing again as usual. This time he is singing to a Snail about being gorgeous.
George Singing ‘Your Beautiful’ To A Snail
My favourite time of day, looking in the greenhouses to see whats growing.
Elsie, Grace and Georgia Looking In The Greenhouse
Hope you enjoyed the films, the children here are amazing.
Starting A Fire Fire Getting GoingToasting Marshmallows Smores Cool Dude YummyPeacock StruttingLooking Like A StatueChloeHigh In The Trees The Net WalkTree HoppingRope LaddersGoing Higher Zip WireTeam WorkTaking Turns For All AgesHi Chelsea and ChloeScreaming Loud!Back Down To EarthArt AttackPlayingRuby Chilling After Long WalkRescuing A DragonflyTidying Up To LeaveRecycling Night Night RubyOur View Beddgelert Lovely PoolsLaburnum Arch Ruby BedgelertLittle Mermaid Cute BridgeWaterfalls Worked Up An Appetite
It was lovely having Emma come and help Tracie care for us, we miss her so much during term time. It was also lovely to catch up with leo and Martie who came and spent the day with us, they have grown up so much!
The weather has been so kind for us, We have spent lots of time in the garden playing, planting, hiding and relaxing.
Emma, Martie and Mable
Our Jack took advantage of the lovely summer day to play out in the front garden, he loved this hot poker flower, he pretended it was a microphone and kept us all entertained with funny rap songs.
Jack
The long flowers were an amazing yellow colour which went with his t-shirt.
Jack practiced his ball skills, we tried to have a game but the table was to small. Next time we go to the park we will take our rackets and balls as they have a tennis table there!
Jack Showing off his Ball SkillsLottieInflatables
Lottie had a lovely time playing at Sector8 in the bouncy little ones play area. The big kids Georgia, Leo, Jack and Chloe played for a whopping 2 hours in the ‘big kids’ area.
LottieMable
We went for numerous walks around Stanly park. We took picnics, balls and got to play in the playground as it was very quiet.
Georgia Martie
Georgia loved playing with the Ello bricks and shapes. She made a lovely flower garden. She also made lots of crafts, this one was a pre printed princess dress, hair, shoes and gloves. Georgia then had to draw the princess’s face and join the arms and legs. It was so good she wanted to display it on the wall and make another one to take home. Georgia was so clever writing her full name on the top of the picture all by herself.
Georgia’s GarsenPrincess
While walking around the park we kept an eye out for ‘Liverpool Kindness Rocks’ we were just about to give up when Tracie found one! She screamed and had to jump high to reach it.
Liverpool Kindness Rocks
We finished the week off starting our ‘30 Days Wild’ campaign by putting up bee and insects houses .we made sure the wild birds have enough clean water and seeds.
Tracie's Treasures 