It has been a very active summery July month in Starfish.
We have spent a lot of time outside enjoying the summer weather and when it has not been feeling quite so summery, we have still carried on our outdoor summer time. We have enjoyed being outside watering our pansies which have continued to grow (we do have green fingers after all!). We have even been able to pick some of the flowers that have grown.
The teachers and children have taken several trips to our local park to play in the playground and enjoyed being out in the community.
We have made some lovely seaside artwork and the children chose the coloured sand they liked best to sprinkle on their art work as well as some waves to stick on.
In our garden, we made some kites to fly. The children had so much fun running up and down with their little kites blowing behind them.
On a very wet (and not very summery day) we had to accept that it was an inside day, so we put some Brazilian lounge music up loud and grooved away to the music as we bounced on our indoor bouncy castle.
Jenny, our teacher in the Dolphin room has been teaching some of the older children how to belly dance and they had made belly dancing belts with fabric and bottle tops. We were really lucky to have her offer to come into our Starfish room to do some belly dancing with the toddlers. She had three very enthusiastic followers and the rest of the children just enjoyed dancing away with their own rhythm.
And of course, we have been playing with all our messy activities and creating lots of art and having a fun and busy little time.
We have spent a lot of time outside enjoying the summer weather and when it has not been feeling quite so summery, we have still carried on our outdoor summer time. We have enjoyed being outside watering our pansies which have continued to grow (we do have green fingers after all!). We have even been able to pick some of the flowers that have grown.
The teachers and children have taken several trips to our local park to play in the playground and enjoyed being out in the community.
We have made some lovely seaside artwork and the children chose the coloured sand they liked best to sprinkle on their art work as well as some waves to stick on.
In our garden, we made some kites to fly. The children had so much fun running up and down with their little kites blowing behind them.
On a very wet (and not very summery day) we had to accept that it was an inside day, so we put some Brazilian lounge music up loud and grooved away to the music as we bounced on our indoor bouncy castle.
Jenny, our teacher in the Dolphin room has been teaching some of the older children how to belly dance and they had made belly dancing belts with fabric and bottle tops. We were really lucky to have her offer to come into our Starfish room to do some belly dancing with the toddlers. She had three very enthusiastic followers and the rest of the children just enjoyed dancing away with their own rhythm.
And of course, we have been playing with all our messy activities and creating lots of art and having a fun and busy little time.
