Winter..Our Rainy Season

What has happened to our Seasons? Day after day it rains.  The children have become aware of time passing by their daily ritual of changing the date,day and today a new month but our weather picture never changes. We have the rainy day picture up continually. It is difficult for the children to understand what Winter is when we cannot put up the typical picture of frost and snow! And then to add to their confusion,our daffodils our peeping up at the wrong time. Nature should still be sleeping but something strange is happening ! I try to explain the confusion by saying that Spring is trying to come early and is having a fight with Winter but I am afraid that Winter might win and come back with vengeance! The goldfinches ,tits of all kinds and sparrows are hungrily feeding on the feeders and blackbirds,robins and wagtails still search the lawn for invertebrates. Children and families have produced the most beautiful bird projects which adorn our walls and each child can tell you about his bird and everyone else s too!!!They just love their birds and get such pleasure from observing them in the garden!

There is a great atmosphere of work in the room and at it is lovely to see the older children helping the younger ones. The first term we spent much time on practical life exercises and this has really laid down great foundations. It has given them a sense of order,taught them  how to wait for something,  how one must finish  an exercise one starts and thus they have developed concentration. They are moving on so fast and each day new work. Most of the children have finished their letters and are at various stages of movable alphabet and reading boxes. Number work and sensorial exercises provide new challenges and at the moment the binomal cube is very popular. As always ,the culture area is a great favourite.  I particularly like to share my love of our natural world with the children  and this area allows me to do this in a very exciting way.I have introduced our jigsaw map of the world and our continent globe so we are starting on an exciting journey together of moving around our world. At the moment we are exploring Africa and once again animal projects are being produced.They are so beautiful and amazing work involving all members of the family.Our projects really do light up these dreary ,wet days!Thank you, Mums and Dads