This week’s activities

Spring Celebration Egg Hunt

Thank you to everyone who donated towards the cost of our Egg Hunt this week. The monies raised will be used to directly provide experiences/resources for your children. We will let you know the final amount raised from our recent fundraising next week. Thank you.

The children were excited to take their Egg Hunt list up to the woodland area in search of the clues that were hidden amongst the trees. They searched through the woods looking for each clue. Once they had found one they ticked it off on their list and carried on searching until they had found all of them. Once they had all found each clue they returned to the building to receive their prize of a yummy chocolate egg. Whilst this was a fun activity, there were still lots of areas of learning that happened. The children had to listen carefully to the instructions of the teachers to first of all know how to walk safely to the woods. They then had to listen to how to find the clues amongst the trees. All good for listening and paying attention and following instructions. They also had to use their observational skills to find the clues hidden amongst the trees. Once they had found the clues, they had to make a mark next to each clue on their piece of paper. Great for fine motor skills and knowing that marks can carry meaning. Lovely.

Rhubarb tasting

As you may have noticed, we have a lovely rhubarb plant in our allotment garden that gives us a supply of rhubarb year after year. Rhubarb is an early harvesting plant and some of the children learnt how to pull it from the ground, rather than cutting it, to allow the plant to continue growing and producing more stems. The rhubarb that the children may have seen in the shops does not have the large leaves that it does when it is growing and so the children were a little unfamiliar with which part of the plant they could eat. They took their harvest inside and first of all cut off the huge leaves, learning that this part of the plant is not edible. The leaves went into the compost bin. They then noticed that some of the stalks looked dirty. As with all fruit and vegetables, it is important to wash them before eating/cooking and, whilst we do not use chemicals on our garden, they need to be cleaned to get rid of any dirt or insects. Once they were nice and clean the children washed their hands, as they learnt that it is important to wash your hands before cooking to get rid of any germs that might be on them, even if they can’t be seen. Finally, the children used our safety knives to cut the rhubarb into bite sized pieces ready for cooking. The teacher explained that she had to do the next stage as it involved using the hob and that this is very hot. Once the rhubarb had cooked and cooled down, the children got to taste it. Yummy. There were lots and lots of learning opportunities in this activity. Growing, nurturing, harvesting, preparing, cooking and tasting your own food is very rewarding and helps the children understand where some of their food comes from.

There are photos of the above activities on our website, www.anthonyroperpreschool.co.uk, and Facebook page.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

The Pre-school Team