This month we have been growing and planting inside and
outside. We extended on this topic from last month when the children were
interested in fruits and vegetables, looking at how they grow.
Before we started to get into the gardening theme, we took a small group of children on a trip to
Homebase to collect the tools we needed
to do our gardening . We bought bags of
soil, seeds, spades etc. Children enjoyed smelling the flowers at the garden
centre, especially after finding the strawberry
plant! The children looked at the different gardening clothes we might
use, trying on gloves to protect our hands.
After collecting our equipment we got into the full swing of
things by planting sunflower seeds. Children enjoyed placing gloves on their
hands to protect from the soil. Over the month we started to watch our plants
and flowers grow and sprout up. Children enjoyed looking everyday to see if there
were any changes. The job the children
loved the most was using the watering can to water the plants, and using them in the water-play.
This month we also created a mud area in the garden, the
children enjoyed digging and exploring their senses through finger play.
The children planted ‘peas’ and watched them sprout, they
then got to take them home to continue to watch them grow.
Children created fruit and vegetable pictures, exploring the
textures of the fruit by touching and feeling.
This helped to add new words into their play.
