Good morning and Happy Easter  We had a great short week back together. Some of the week's highlights were lots of easter art with oversize eggs at the paint easel and on the art tables. The children painted eggs with watercolour paints to add to our easter art tree and did their first directed draw on paper. We planted peas in the garden with Char and potatoes in the classroom which is perfect timing for our upcoming measurement study.   We did a vinegar and egg experiment on Tuesday and watched as the egg lost it's shell and turned to a bouncy egg over the rest of the week. In the forest the children enjoyed an Easter Egg hunt. Miss McDonald hid the eggs while we played the sleeping bunny game and read Going On An Easter Egg Hunt. Then the children searched in the forest for a plastic egg. The egg had a little surprise for them and then then the children traded it in for a Kinder egg.  In the classroom I have continued to refresh the Loose Parts shelves with pastel......

SPRING STORY PLAY IN KINDERGARTEN Signs of spring are popping up everywhere and now is a great time to talk about this with your students and add some spring loose parts to your story play or small world play shelves.      Our spring story play shelves have new baby animals, birds & nests and lots of fresh flowers. I have replaced all of the wintery materials such as our blue trees, arctic animals, snowflakes and snow crystals with pastel trees, butterflies and frogs.  I have also refreshed our art materials using an art grant with potters clay, gel crayons, oil pastels and new spring coloured water colours alongside thick watercolour paper. I often include art materials during Story Workshop.  Our primary coloured lego has been replaced with pastel lego and I have added some fairy and unicorn characters to the lego character basket. I don't know about you but fairies and spring always seem to go together. I have removed some of the play materials like our l......