Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Stanway

5 days ago

Pumpkin patch: Wow what an amazing day we are going to have, the children in Preschool got the opportunity to go on a journey to the pumpkin patch at Marsh Farm. The children have been so excited that some of the children had been talking about it the previous day and waking up during the night with excitement asking is it time yet! As the preschool children got ready putting their high viz on, we walked safely to the coach, and put our seat belts on, which was then checked by our teachers for safety. As we were travelling to Marsh farm, we talked abut what we could see out the window, signs, animals, KFC, allotment etc. As the coach approached Marsh farm the children were so excited, they waited till the bus driver parked the bus and to a complete stop for us to take are seat belts off. We all went to a designated spot for snack. As we entered the pumpkin reception, we noticed lots of pumpkins, skeletons, buckets and a piano. The children had a go at playing the piano, on walking through to the patch the children were so amazed. Their expression was "WOW." Whilst walking around the patch the children got to climb into a very large pumpkin and then notice, different size's which they used the vocabulary of big and small, we talked about the pumpkin that was in the middle size was medium. The children found a hut to sit down comfortable in and have a discussion, to what else they are going to see. The children found the trollies and collect one for us to collect pumpkins. On our journey through the patch we notice a sign post where we read which direction to go, on our journey their were lots of crates with different size, colour and shapes of pumpkins. We went in a hut and noticed various pumpkins with different colours, sizes and the shapes were not sphere some looked like a cone shape and very small with the stalk being long. The children got to have a go on a swing, went in to tree house decorated with Halloween props and surrounded by pumpkins, they went into a house with a ghost, noticing that it matched their clothing. As the children walked thorough the maze they noticed that the pumpkins were different sizes and colours to make the path and on the outer side their were shapes made out of the pumpkins. As travelling around the maze we came to a bridge, the children really enjoyed the bridge as they found it as a slide going down as they used the word slippery. The children got to play various throwing games and balancing games. We even met a very tall skeleton on stills. We collected a pumpkin each to take back to nursery and were really happy showing our parents and careers at the end of the day. ... See MoreSee Less