Autumn season continues to provide wonderful opportunities for rich sensory play experiences from crunchy leaves to conkers and pumpkins. Children love reciting the poem ‘Leaves are Falling’ whilst collecting autumn leaves, sticks and twigs. Children have drawn and painted pictures of sticks, stems and leaves. They’ve done colourful leaf rubbings…

This term, children have been settling into Rainforest Classroom. We have been reading ‘Owl Babies.’ Children built homes for their owl babies using sticks, twigs and blocks. They explored how the owlets would have felt when they woke up in their tree trunk to find their mother gone. “1,2,3,4. 4…

The children in Mountain Room are now well-settled into our routine of interventions and group times. The children are really enjoying our sensory songs especially – watching balloons fly away and being sprayed with water. They are also learning to make choices during these sessions – for example between the…

In Mountain Room the children are settling in well to the room. We are supporting this by following the children’s interests – particularly using lots of letters and numbers in their play as these are something most of our children are really motivated by. We have also been washing dinosaurs after…

Children have been planting runner beans, observing how shoots emerge after a few days of watering plants and then watching how the seedling continues to grow with the stem getting taller and many leaves appearing. They have learnt about the vital role roots play in helping plants grow strong. They…

We’ve been thinking through ideas of how we can be kind to our planet and look after creatures in our environment. Today, children set off building a Mini Bug Hotel by collecting twigs, bark, sticks, leaves and stones into tins before carefully placing them in the nature garden. “I put…