Today the Little Seedlings all threw Fearne a big Rainbow Birthday Tea Party.
Happy Birthday
The Seedlings all decided we should have carrot and cucumber sticks, corn snacks, Jam sandwiches, pear, banana and grapes as Fearne is a plant based child and these are her favourites.
Plant Based Tea Party
When Tracie said we can’t have Birthday cake the children insisted we had to have one, not just any plain one. They all shouted “a big chocolate one” with candles!
Big Chocolate Cake with Star Candle
The Little Seedlings decorated the room with rainbows that they had made in the morning.
Luke
All the girls came in wearing rainbows on their tops to brighten up the party!
Sophie
Fearne
Selfie
Rainbows in the Window
Happy Birthday Fearne we hope you’ve had a lovely day!
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!
Theo
Fearne
Tracie and Chloe
Emma and Leo
Sophie
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!
Alfie
Alfie and Theo
Fearne
Georgia
At one point we thought Alfie was a glittery Leprechaun! Georgia thought he was a green smurf, from the Trolls movie!
Sophie
Theo
Alfie
Georgia
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!
Chloe
Poppy and Her Green Cucumbers
Mason
Even the Wildlife Rangers enjoyed taking part before and after school.
Today Tracie took Georgia for a walk in the sunshine to calm her down, she was having a tantrum while the babies slept and we didn’t want them waking up.
Winter Jasmine
We looked at all the plants and flowers to distract Georgia, her favourite flower was the Winter Jasmine, she said she loved it because it was bright yellow like the sunshine.
Peonies
New Flowers
Buddleia
Climbing Hydrangea
While we walked around the garden, Tracie showed Georgia the new shoots and buds growing on the plants. Tracie explained to Georgia that they were her favourite plants, this is because it meant everything is beginning to grow and we are going to have lovely weather soon for trips to the forest and parks.
Georgia got excited and said she wants to go to the Zoo! Tracie said that we will see how things go and when they reopen we can, we will have to all go on the train. Georgia jumped up and down so much she forgot we came out into the garden because she was having a tantrum.
Wiggly Worm
Sowing the Onions
Being Careful
Once Georgia had settled Tracie decided it was time to sow the Onion sets, so she got Georgia digging, looking for worms and sowing the Onions. What a perfect way to forget about a tantrum? Gardening is like therapy for me and I love to share that with the children.
Today we have welcomed our new friend Charlie to our setting. He has been a little ray of sunshine with his amazing smile.
Charlie
All the children have welcomed Charlie and made sure he had lots to play with.
New Friends
Free Play
Getting Stuck In
Fearne made sure that throughout the day Charlie had his rabbit and dummy nearby.
The Duplo bricks were a firm favourite and Charlie loved just swishing the bricks around making noises. It was funny because Alfie kept asking him to be ‘shhh’ but Alfie is actually the loudest off them all!
In half term, the Wildlife Wanderers used various different types of tubs from the recycling box to sow their seeds. This is how we got on.
Cauliflower Growing Strong
Chloe chose an old mince carton, as you can see they have turned out very well! Chloe sprays them with water in the morning before school and will soon be planting them into the raised beds.
Oops Not Doing Well!
These seeds were sown by Jacy in old sausage tubs, he thought that with the grooves it would be good to sow in rows. They started off really well, unfortunately the grooves were too shallow and the plants dried out too fast and wilted.
Tall Nasturtiums
These are amazing! They are Poppy’s nasturtiums and have grown so fast. We will be planting them out in the garden this week.
She used some seed trays that we brought last year, they have holes in the bottom so she has placed them in another tray without holes and waters them from the bottom. This is definitely a good way to grow seeds.
Jacy found this old Bisto tub and thought it would make a good planter for his Tomato Seed. He put the lid on the bottom to stop the water seeping through. It has so far worked very well and the tomato plant looks tall and healthy.
Jacy thinks that when the tomato is big enough he can take off the plastic lid and place the whole pot into the ground, and the roots will push through! We will have to wait until the last frost to plant out and see if he is right!
2 Cucumbers and 2 Tomatoes
Growing Strong
Martie’s Radish
Marigolds
Chillies
The Little Seedlings
In February, the little seedlings planted Chillies, Radish, cucumbers and Marigolds. Everything is growing so well, we even had some surprises!
We sprinkled at least 20 seeds in the seed tray but again like last year only 2 have grown! And a second surprise was 2 tomatoes have grown in their tray, Mason said that maybe they are ‘cuematos’! Maybe we have made a new salad crop!!
We will keep you updated at the end of March about how our project is going.
Tracie and the Seedlings have been working hard sowing seeds ready for planting out in the veg trugs. We have ordered a ton of peat-free compost and look forward to it arriving and getting stuck in filling the trugs.
Tomatoes
Fast Growing
Veg Trugs
Growing Tall
At half term the Wanderers got stuck in and sowed strawberries, thyme, coriander and peppers.
Ivor Sowing the Seeds
Martha Filling the Eggboxes
Ivor Using the Trowl
Jacey from the Wildlife Rangers sowed the cucumbers. Last year we had only two plants survive and gave us about nine good sized cucumbers. This year we want a bumper crop so hoping for good germination, so keeping them under glass.
Its only 9.45am and the Little Seedlings have had a ball this morning! We are celebrating World Book day and everyone has come as a Character. Emma came in as Matilda a lovely story by Roald Dahl, about a little girl who lives with her parents and brother who do not appreciate her. When her principal tortures her and her kind-hearted class teacher, she uses her telekinetic powers to settle scores.
Tracie Emma and Georgia
Emma chose this as it was one of her favourite books/films when she was much much younger.
Tracie loves the story “The Little Christmas Tree” written by Scott Edge. Tracie chose this story because “The Christmas Tree Story” is an attempt to help you and your children reclaim a beautiful, enduring symbol of the season, The Christmas Tree! It is one of her favourite Christmas time stories.
Georgia came in dressed as Snow White a story written in 1812 by The Brothers Grimm and retold in a film by Walt Disney in 1937. This is Georgia’s favourite Character. (She’s not as light footed as Snow White!!)
The story is about Snow White, a beautiful princess, who is exiled by her stepmother, an evil queen who wants to kill her, she runs into a forest. Soon, she is rescued by seven dwarfs who form a friendship with her.
Fearne and Martie
Marty came in as a cute Lion from Madagascar, a film made by DreamWorks. It’s a story about the New York Zoo, where all the animals lived. This was fine until one of them decided that he wanted to go wild.
Fearne came in as Hermione Granger from ‘Harry Potter’ written by JK Rowling. The story is set in Hogwarts, a school for young witches and wizards. The main theme of the mystical story is about a group of friends Harry, Ron and Hermione who get into some scary situations.
Who’s This?
We had a surprise guest pop in to celebrate with us! Can you guess who it is?? It’s our Emma! Dressed up as Super Mario from Leo’s Nintendo game!
The Grufflo’s Child
Our little Seedling Alfie wanted to join in so we looked in the dressing up box and up popped somebody we all know! He had knobby knee’s, turned out toes, a small baby wart at the end of his nose, purple prickles all over his back. Could it be? Possibly be! “O no! O yes it’s the Grufflo’s Child.’
We all sat down after lunch and watched Madagascar the movie and it was the perfect end to our day.
The children loved making the puppets which encouraged them to work as a group whilst also doing independent work.
Sophie Proud of Her Puppets
Georgia Concentrating Hard
Alfie Having a Go
Sophie loved looking through the book finding the numbers. While playing with the number card, Georgia made her own game up by tracing the numbers with her finger instead of using the white board marker. She beamed when she said, “I can write like mummy!”
Baby Jack loved The Puppets
Sophie Recognised Number 8
Sophie found it on the number chart too!
The Activity Sack
Baby Jack didn’t miss out, he joined in by his big sister and the others using the puppets to make up other stories. Jack cooed and enjoyed the attention.
I asked the children after the activity if they enjoyed it and they all shouted a big ‘Yes’ and they played for the rest of the day with the puppets. We have a range of story sacks for sale including this one The Hungry Caterpillar 1 2 3. Just click the link to see our full store.
Today we all read the story about a piglet with a prickly bottom problem. We opened up our Oww! story sack and the children loved the story, they joined in along with the story using the puppets and masks they made.
Number Sequence and Recognition
Our Donkey
Colouring Activity
Ducklings
Georgia knew all her numbers and put the piglets all in order. Fearne read the numbers down from 7 and Alfie enjoyed messing them up, but that was ok as Georgia put them in the right sequence again.
Tracie's Treasures 