Spring Screen Prints!

Fun in the sun!

Today we played outside and had a great time!!!
One activity that captured the attention of the children was making volcanoes in the sandpit. Vanessa sat in the sandpit with the children and made green volcanoes!


The children thought it was cool when the 'lava' flowed out of the volcano! Lots of ohhhs and ahhhhs! They enjoyed exploring with their fingers learning about temperature, wet or dry and liquid or solid.

We could also smell the vinegar (one the prime ingredients for a volcano) which some of the children screwed their noses up at...

Natural Collage

This afternoon, while it was nice and quiet, we did some natural collage on the deck.
First we walked around the garden and found some leaves, petals, seed pods and flowers for our collage. Then we put some glue on our paper and chose which petal we wanted to put on the paper. Some of the things wouldn't stick on the paper very well so we had to put heaps of glue on the paper and the leaves!
Our collages looked so cool, we can't wait to share them with everyone!

3+ is easy!

Today we sat and threaded with our new threading fruits. On the box it said for ages 3+ but that didn't seem to matter as our children used their fine motor skills and developing co-ordination skills to thread the worms through the holes.
I was so impressed with the concentration that our children used as they worked hard to thread and how proud they were of themselves when they succeeded!
Well done Little Moreporks!!! Age doesn't matter ;)

What we did today? 18/08/2011

Monday Morning 15.08.2011

Addison's 1st Birthday

We love the animal song!!!

This is one of our favourite songs at the moment!!! Look at our children watching and learning as the song shows the children what each animal sounds like.

Mandarin Candles

After our 'festering foam' yesterday, I thought it would be cool to do some more science experiments!
I searched the fruit bowl for a mandarin and found one that I thought would work.

I cut the mandarin in half and we scooped the fruit out. While having a nibble on the fruit, I filled the skins with some oil.

We waited a little bit for the oil to soak up the pith and then we lit it. It took a couple of goes before our candles lit but when they did, they burnt for ages!

So we did the other half. We nibble on the fruit while the oil soaked the pith and then we lit it. This candle worked better because the pith was longer than the first pith.


The children were very good at using there eyes to watch the candles.
What a fun way to introduce science concepts to the children, and we got to have a nibble to!

Fresh Rolls and Rainbow butter!!!

Monday Morning

This morning started off freezing cold with a very icy frost. Once the sun came out the children decided to go out to play having lots to do as the day warmed up. In the sandpit were children busy digging. We filled up buckets and made castles; testing out some basic maths concepts like volume and weight. There were also baking tins which gave the children the idea to cook some delicious cakes and bake them in our oven. I saw some really neat dramatic play as they added ingredients and stirred their pans of sand.
On the grass we had some neat climbing challenges set up. The favourite climbing equipment of the morning was the little yellow bridge. It is rather tricky and involves a lot of thinking and practice to climb over it. The children were very kind and caring helping each other walk across the bridge by holding hands for support. The little yellow bridge provides the children with an opportunity to practice and test their bodies abilities and learn to become confident in their bodies movements.
Hopefully tomorrow will bring another sunny day so we can play outside in the sun and practice our climbing skills.