Sandra Buyze

Recently at Carrot Seed Preschool, this young rower built herself a boat and set off on an adventure singing…’Row, row, row your boat’!  

  P says as she’s approaching our outdoor ‘car’, “I’ll be the big sister, you (M) be the Dad and you (Q) be the Mom. Okay?”          Q answers, “Yes!” and M smiles. “Let’s go”, says P.    The drivers change seats and N approaches the car and climbs aboard.  P says, “you can be the little sister, okay?”  N smiles.  “Let’s eat,”
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Finger painting is a pleasurable, messy and creative art activity.  This activity, which involves much more than merely spreading paint with the fingers, should more accurately be called hand painting.   Finger/hand painting encourages children to make direct contact with the medium, there is no brush to separate the artist from paint. Children enjoy the cool, slimy texture!  

A few friends gathered food for their new home.   After eating their ‘lettuce’, B decided that they needed an oven in their new house. So he moved an oven in! “Now we need a tunnel entrance” declared T. T & T built the tunnel entrance, and then tried it out. Our new house!

The movement of sand and stones….digging, filling, pushing, emptying and moving – the wonder of it all!                  

At Carrot Seed children enjoy swinging on their own, having a friend give them a push, or piling two, three or four children onto one swing for a ride!    

  Many children took the opportunity to experiment with the fine art of balance!