Superheroes

Albie, T and H were all playing "goodies and baddies" - this is a favourite game at the moment that is played most days.  The boys take it in turns being the goodies and the baddies, they add imaginary "forcefields, jail, prison and dens" to their play, it is lovely to listen to them playing very nicely with each other.  


I am going to put some thought in as to how I can extend and enhance their play over the half term holidays.

Happy Valentines Day!

The children have made some lovely Valentines crafts and gifts for their families....


The older children made hearts and wrote 'why I love you' messages to each of their family members.

They decorated jars with glitter glue and lots of glitter, put their hearts inside and sealed their 'Why I Love You' jars with a kiss for their special families.

The younger children made lovely handprint pictures for their families.

Last week J and M got very messy painting with credit cards!!  This was a new thing for us, I splurged some paint onto white card, and gave each of them a credit card.  I showed them how to scrape the paint around the paper and they had a good go, although after a while M gave up on the credit card and used his fingers instead, which prompted J to do the same.  Scraping the paint over the card produced a really pretty effect, and this is something we will definitely do again.

Today we turned the credit card paintings into valentines hearts.  I cut the heart shapes and Albie and J glued scrunched up tissue paper around the edges of the hearts, aren't they pretty?

H was off school today as it is half term, as such she became my assistant and supervised J and M in making these adorable valentine butterflies.  The children painted the cardboard tubes, then when they were dry they glued on wings, eyes and antennae.  Well done H on being a wonderful assistant, you did a great job!

Happy valentines day everyone!

(Frozen) Mud Kitchen

I'm not sure why, but on Thursday the three boys all seemed to have far too much energy to be cooped up in the house, they were running about the coffee table 'nee-nawing' like fire engines and being far too giddy - giving me a headache!!!


It was time to play outside in the back garden!


The children were drawn to the mud kitchen, however it was frozen!  I managed to find a spoon that wasn't frozen and using that I levered the other utensils off the frozen table.  


The top of the sandpit had a big frozen puddle on it, the children had great fun smashing the ice up, standing and slipping on it, and then cooking with it at the kitchen.


A big thick circle of ice was retrieved from the bird feeder, it was good to show J as we have been learning shapes this week.


After an hour the children had got rid of some of their energy (and it started raining) so we came inside and had a lovely hot chocolate!