REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER Principal’s Message
18th November 2022
By Mrs Simone Cooke
Dear Parents, We have been taking full advantage of the sunshine this week to enjoy some Spring planting with the children. Our Stage 4 children under the guidance of Miss Lili decided which plants we should grow and enjoyed the responsibility of weeding, replanting and watering their plants and watching them grow. The Stage 3 children this week planted their sunflower seeds and it has been delightful watching them staring eagerly at the soil each day enquiring where the flowers are. Fortunately, it only took a few days for the first sprouts to emerge and there were many excited shouts of joy on discovering the first shoots of green, it was as if we had unearthed a buried treasure! The Stage 2 children have been loving the independence of using the watering cans and are taking their responsibilities of caring for the garden very seriously. Involving children in gardening is a wonderful way of teaching them about cause and effect, as they learn that without soil or water plants will not grow and if they receive too much sunshine they can even get burnt, just as we can if we do not wear our sunscreen. The children love digging in the soil, planting the seeds and getting their hands dirty. It was important that the children had the chance to plan and design the garden beds and worked together as a team. They decided to include flowering plants that attract butterflies and birds to our playground and were very happy to find a little ladybird had come to investigate the new flowers.
REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL | ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER
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