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Nige took over today with the help of Laura and Ronnie and did a circle time followed by apple ring grabbing-with-teeth (is there a word for this?) and different-apple-tasting.
Paula arrived at the end to do a story about the Peddlar of Swaffham who found treasure under his apple tree and we had an apple map of Britain as if we hadn’t rammed apples and apple-themed things down their poor unsuspecting metaphorical throats enough!
It was quite manic today but very productive – we had 3 stations, one manufacturing lavendar bath salts (initially to sell at the table top sale but I couldn’t face telling the kids they couldn’t take them home!), a Sparkling Seahorse poster with lots of sparkling things stuck on, decorating posters for the table top sale, tying their T-shirts up. I did a story about a crafty pedlar buying the shade of a grumpy merchants’ tree and teaching him a lesson and we sang our song.
Circle time was great with everyone sharing their problems and worries, quite profound! Everyone listened to each other as well which was lovely.
It was a fairly mellow one today with paper aeroplane making, flying, repairing then flying again. Somebody (we couldn’t work out who) managed to get a plane right across the room and nearly into Noah and Felix’s mum’s eye, well done and beware at the same time!
Another round of Giants, Elves and Wizards and a dance to Coming Round the Mountain, a story about how the Robin got his Red Breast and a round of Sparkling Seahorses. Circle time was brilliant with everyone listening to each other and talking in turn.
We also found out what the kids wanted to do: did some voting on activities, decided we needed to celebrate birthdays and also have a space to be able to bring in stuff to show each other so we’ll do this every few weeks with an extended circle time for everyone to bring something in to show (otherwise it’ll take over a year to do individually!).
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php
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