This term we introduced the children to their natural world. We planted vegetables, flowers and seeds. We supported the children, giving them the information they needed to look after the plants and flowers and explained how they will change over time. The children have had such fun helping to look after them and talking about the changes they have observed week after week. They are very proud of what they have achieved, as are we. This week the children picked the spring onions. We smelled them, touched them and talked about how they had changed from a tiny brown bulb. We offered the children to taste them and they weren’t very keen, so we explored them in other ways, such as adding them to our home corner and painting with them.
Next to pick is our potatoes and watch as the pumpkins start to grow from little green bulbs into big round orange pumpkins.
