In March 2015...

In March...a visit to M's farm

I had a group time in which the children engaged in conversation about visiting a farm or any other farm. We looked at photo's of cows and calves, pigs and piglets and sheep and lambs. The children recalled how we met little chicks and that they would be on a farm too, growing bigger as they ran around in the fresh air and ate seeds and chicken food. We spoke about washing hands to keep ourselves from getting 'poorly' and how important hand washing was on a farm. The children are looking forward to farms this summer.

On another day...
The group of boys coudn't wait to leave the early morning group time to play at the tray filled with exciting small bricks, cars and other items. They hurriedly set about making 'things to play with'.
One boy declared that ' I am making a hill for my car'. Another boy was happily working on his' amazing flying car with a rocket engine' while ? creation was a 'crocodiles house, of course!'. ? watched and listened and declared, 'I am making a ostrich' and laughed and laughed. We have so many giggles every day!

Song time...
At group time today, we sang some familiar songs doing the actions. Our songs had counting and clapping to the beat. We did stretching, and used our arms and legs. Some songs were not so familiar and we need more practice singing them to get to know then better. We had fun singing and doing the actions though.