On the 1st March, we had Sally and Den visit us to help plant some apple 🍏 🍎 trees in huge pots donated by Deepdale trees Ltd.
Working how big a hole we needed to dig to be able to put the roots in comfortably. Den was really helpful at suggesting ideas to the children and we used lots of mathematical language.
Magic root growing sprinkles. The children took it in turns to sprinkle the powder on saying the magic words.
The apple trees all secure, just got to wait for the buds to start growing. We’re hoping to plant them in Potton Apple 🍏 🍎 orchard in November.
To celebrate world book week, we started visiting the library 📚 on a Tuesday morning with a few of our older children. 
Laura read us a few lovely stories.
A lady made out of play doh.
Fire engine play.
I like how the children work together to build their cars and trucks and every time they look different but they are more intricate with the children using ideas from all the differing experiences.
Tower building with the instruments.
A very intricate town built by 2 children. They added a ‘laptop’ later made out of bricks.
Story making time. The children used these props to make a story up. Kathryn wrote down their story and then they acted them out at story time.
We woke the snails 🐌 up from their sleep. They needed a bit of warm water and some heat from the heat mat to wake them up.
you could hear the operculum cracking as Sparkle started to come out.
Coming out to say hello to the children. Every day a child is responsible for feeding and ‘squirting’ the snails with water. The children get very excited to be a helper.
Den building with a difference. Everything was put in the den today. Lots of working together, sharing ideas and listening to each other.
A very smiley face made with masking tape. We have discovered masking tape is sooooo easy to tear and it’s also great for developing these pre writing muscles.
Rather fantastic cutting through quite tough card and in a straight line.
Tea party anyone?
Woodentops take on rocket building.
Various laptops and our own work station with 3 laptops. The children supported each other by describing what they were doing and why.
Celebrating Red Nose Day with painted on noses and wearing our pyjamas which was very exciting as far as the children were concerned.
We had red Nose cakes and flapjacks.
We really like constructing and building at Woodentops. I think we may have many engineers in the making.
Bonfire 🔥 We had a discussion about what would burn and what would melt- ‘well plastic of course Jackie’.
Adding a new dimension to building, using many boxes to see if we could reach the ceiling. We were so close with help of one of our little ones older sibling.
Fantastic drawing from 2 of our 4 year olds.
Some beautiful pictures made for special people to celebrate Mothering Sunday.
These poor dinosaurs were feeling really poorly so they were wrapped up in bandages and left to ‘rest’.
A rather huge screen for his laptop. The wooden brick is his ‘mouse’.
Mother’s Day treats made by our lovely children.
This was fascinating watching this little one draw his grandparents, parents, an uncle and his 2 cousins before adding himself on the bottom of the page with ‘huge’ muscles.
Mother’s Day morning where our special ladies joined us and had some breakfast rolls and drinks. They had yummy iced biscuits made by their children and a bag full of goodies for Sunday.
The fairy reel and fairies have gone down a treat. The children added small squares of material (from the craft area) to make beds for their sleeping fairies. 
Preschool Childcare. 