It's raining, it's pouring ...

Well today it rained, and it rained, and it rained ... until the playground was so flooded that the parents couldn't get to the nursery door!

It's been a very busy day - I've worked with almost 40 children (in ones and twos) on handprint leaves, and we also talked about autumn trees, conkers, etc - and opened a huge bag full of conkers which Clair & I collected at the weekend. Great fun was had by all - and the wonder displayed by some of the children who hadn't ever opened conkers before was just great to see.

I was also using the hidden pictures in the sand today - I was initially a bit disappointed because nobody seemed to find them - or if they did, they just ignored them as too boring to be worthy of mention. Then suddenly someone shouted out that they had found a picture - and immediately another 2 children were searching in the sand to see what they could find. They started showing me pictures, telling me what weather they were showing, and counting them - perfect :-)

I did together time at the end of each session too (no wonder I'm tired now!) and it went well too - and we sang a very appropriate song: It's raining, it's pouring ...

Now off to read Monkey Puzzle as I'm doing story time tomorrow as well as introducing the autumn display table, autumn box and sensory bag - oh, and continuing work on my autumn wall display of course! I think it'll be another busy day ...