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.

What can we do today?

Let's fly!

After lunch we had a small group of children up.
As we filled in notebooks, Callan and Logan had their pens and paper and they were 'writing' to!
This evolved into something else - making paper planes!
Callan loved to try and fly them and Lilly joined in the fun!
We tried lots of different designs and some flew better than others. And sometimes it depended on how fast or hard they were thrown.







The children are learning about the properties of paper and how when it is folded different ways it has different effects on the way the paper planes fly.
What a fun way to introduce scientific concepts such as physics to the children.

Soup glorious soup!

Lets make some soup!

We have been collecting vegetables for our soup day! Bex and Kirsty bought in their slowcookers and Amanda bought in her stock pot so we decided we could make 3 soups; a pumpkin soup, a minestrone soup and a vegetable soup.
This afternoon we started to prepare the vegetables and the children were able to help us!
Hannah, Charlie, Logan, Callan and Lilly all had a butter knife each and they had a try at cutting the celery.
Now this is a very difficult skill for the children to master but they gave it a really good go and I am sure we will have more practice soon.
We can't wait until tomorrow when we make our bread rolls and taste our yummy soup!

Our new worms!

We are so excited because we finally have our new worms for our worm cafe!
We took the bag down to their new home and Bex opened the bag. We were very curious so took the opportunity to have a really good look at the worms!
Bex broke up the dirt and we saw heaps of worms! She did try to find some egg casings for us to see but we couldn't find any.
Louise has been feeding the worms daily with the food scraps from our lunches so hopefully we will have lots of 'liquid gold' to put on our gardens so our vegetables grow big and delicious!

Our messy morning!

Today it was raining! What can we do? We made gloop and we had a messy morning!

The children loved running their fingers through the gloop and picking it up! Lily was really good at catching the gloop in her hands and Elizabeth loved to use her finger and push through the gloop.




Amanda then put some glitter in it and Callan, Libby and Hannah tried to pick up the glitter.



They had so much fun this morning, aren't we lucky this activity isn't limited to wet weather!!!!

Organic snail bait...

This afternoon we laid our organic snail bait. Louise saved the peels from our mandarins and eggs from our baking and Bex brought in some saw dust from home. I wonder if it will work?