Excitements at Annesley!

A few days working with Foundation Stage children at Annesley Primary School, Nottinghamshire.

With a theme "Children in other countries", we set off on expeditions to make new friends:

            We could fly in a 'plane

            We could drive in a car

            We could ride on a donkey

            Or hang onto a motorbike

            We could sail in a boat

            Or gallop in a horse

            We could squeeze all of us onto one elephant

            Or have an elephant each

            Or we could sit on a flying carpet

Children went off exploring, finding other adventures, other animals, other children

            One group went to cold places and made a tent and a campfire. They cuddled up with polar bears at night to keep warm. They met wolves and bears and many friendly animals

 (Arctic camp with a couple of vagrant penguins!)

            In Africa. another group saw lions, but were not afraid, although one person was scared of elephant noises

           

Working in the school garden, we made those tents, built those shelters, found homes for monkeys, frogs and crabs, assembled that picnic ( nuts, apples, leaf-ice-cream), photographing and drawing the results. Eventually we made friends with other children and recorded our adventures on pop-up cards with grown-ups doing the writing because when you are 4 years old it's useful to have minions to do those sort of things….

And Jack (3 years old) said:
            The eagle and the owl are friends,

            And beavers make dams,

            Whales swim in the sea,

            And squirrels climb trees,           

            But the eagle flies

            High in the sky.