This week’s activities Ice experiment Simple science experiments offer lots of opportunities for hands-on exploration and investigation. Hands-on experiences help children’s cognitive development far more than being told about something. Linking cause and effect has huge benefits in embedding learning. This week the children had lots of fun experimenting with ice. We had made icecubes...Read More
This week’s activities As you know, we have two gardens, Robin and Wren. Wren has always been our more natural and wild garden, allowing us to explore nature on our doorstep. We are adapting Robin Garden to allow the children to have some of the experiences offered in Wren Garden in Robin Garden. We have...Read More
This week’s activities Woodworking We have a ‘woodworking’ area available for the children to use, under close supervision, and this week the children have been enjoying using the real tools. This is only carried out with a small number of children at a time and they have to get a ‘woodwork’ badge to show the...Read More
This week’s activities Noticing similarities and differences Some of the children were talking about who was the tallest and who had the longest hair. This led to a discussion about differences and similarities, initially in appearance. For example, eye and hair colour. Their seemed to be particular interest around who had the longest hair. The...Read More
This week’s activities As some of you will know, we are currently engaged in Kent County Council’s Education for Sustainable Development Award scheme. Our ethos at the setting is to re-use, re-purpose and recycle as much as possible. We take care of our local environment, consider our impact on the local wildlife, compost our waste...Read More
This week’s activities Snow! How wonderful for the children to experience the snow this week. Many of them will have never seen snow before (or will not remember having seen it). They went over to the Primary School fields to explore the landscape, as well as Wren Garden, where they built a lovely snowman. They...Read More
This week’s activities Making and posting Christmas cards Over the last couple of weeks the children have been making Christmas cards. We do not believe in production-line crafts. We provide the resources for the children to make their own interpretation of a Christmas card and talk to them about why we send Christmas cards and...Read More
This week’s activities Windy day and environment walk The children have been exploring the effect of wind recently. Noticing how it makes the trees move, they re-enacted the movements using their bodies. They thought about how they can’t see the wind but if they puff up their cheeks and blow out, they can pretend that...Read More
