This week we have harvested and carved our pumpkins and the children have loved getting their hands in a huge tub of the “slimy”, “gooey”, “awesome” pumpkin flesh. They have been very creative with construction and junk modelling and we have some budding ‘conductors’ of our percussion orchestra. They have also tested out our new waterproof trousers, purchased with a grant from PATA Gloucester, and found out that they can shoot down the slide.

Another super week at playgroup when we have welcomed two more new children. There have been lots of 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' activities and the children have loved acting out the story using Peppa Pig and friends. Recycling has also been a big hit this week. The children have been very resourceful, finding things to use as bins and they even made a recycling lorry! At the end of last week we took our recycling to the big bins in the car park.

We have been writing letters to the Zoo and drawing some super pictures. Our fingers get a wiggly workout to warm up for counting and we are always practising with taking off and putting on coats and shoes. Please support your children at home with this too. This week we have gone a bit ‘bonkers, cookers’, we have ‘gone fishing’, danced and sung along to ‘The Yellow Submarine’, please ask the children they will tell you all about it.

The children have been negotiating the one way system on bikes and in cars and stopping off to get petrol, no fuel crisis here! We have doing lots of Dear Zoo activities including weight and measure and experimenting with moving like different animals. A huge thank you to Cherril’s daughter Leanne and her 4 year old corn snake Misty who came to visit. We have also laughed so much at the story of ‘The Hairy Toe’.