BUSY BUSY BEES !

Some of the children have been busy making clay models, one child made a hedgehog. With some adult assistant some of the children have been creating some super models in the junk modelling area, learning different ways to construct and connect with tape, split pins, glue and pegs. Among the creations are houses, a boat, giraffe and a bin lorry.

The caterpillars arrived and at being carefully watched to see how much they grow .........

The children have really enjoyed playing and exploring all the different musical instruments - some Playschool percussion ones, some ones we have made including rhythm sticks and shakers.

Also we all made the best of the nice weather on Wednesday and set up an obstacle course outside to practice hopping, jumping, balancing and throwing bean bags. This was done as an adult led  whole group activity in the morning and some children continued doing it, helping each other, in the afternoon.  

 There has been some really imaginative role play happening, mostly outside. There have been children putting out fires with buckets of pebbles, wearing helmets & looking for fires with binoculars & also chasing other children to put them in jail! Some children were Queens & Princesses, dressing up and helping or chasing firefighters  back to put out their fires with their 'freezing' fingers/hands & warning them to be careful they don t get 'frozen'! 

Two of the boys played for about 15mins with the cardboard  box & tyre sitting on  the tyre & falling forwards & backwards into the box .... no words but lots of whooping & laughing. These actions were repeated many times until one of them played hide & seek in the box as he did last week   Indoors some children made up pretend 'lunch boxes' with play food & boxes so they could have a 'picnic lunch' .

The children at Broadway Playschool  (2-3 group)  have been enjoying the music instruments and exploring the different sounds each make inside and out.  There has been some lovely singing and good rhythm making. The fascination with the buckets, pulleys ands stones continues.