This week we were joined by new friends from the local community; children who turned 4 between September and December. Our established children showed their warmth, understanding and skills as they guided others to settle in the nursery room and modelled how to enjoy our resources and apparatus with care and safety.
Ice in the mud kitchen meant there was something new on the menu as lumps, sheets and blocks of ice were explored; observed, touched, dropped and stepped on… smashed and crushed using a variety of tools. Exploring the world and our own abilities to physically interact with it.
Ice also played havoc with the nursery plumbing this week, with a burst pipe providing a fountain to observe and dodge in the back garden, and another providing a flooded landscape in our courtyard garden. Wellies were donned as the children waded through the torrent, noting the path of the pipes and learning that water will “expand” when frozen… just like the bubbles in our bubble bread dough do when heated.
More friends shall be joining us next week, with bubble bread on the menu we shall be training the next generation of Thornton Heath bakers!
