Fairy Lane has Re-Opened

Yay, after a long winter working with our city Fairy Lane has been re-opened.  I posted back in early April that the city had created signs and they have now been posted, one at each end of the Lane.

I invited adults into the centre one evening to make new doors as the first homes.

They were so creative and we ended the evening with thirteen wonderful doors.

 They are now tucked away behind stumps and at the bottom of trees waiting for Fairy Believers to find them.

When the city posted the signs they also cleared away a few trees that had fallen across the path.  They were thoughtful to leave the stumps so we could create a meeting place.   Looking forward to celebrating International Fairy Day on June 24th. 

I hope you can take some time to visit Lerwick Woods and the magic of Fairy Lane.

StoryRide

Last week during our Bike at the Playground we did a StoryRide.  It's like a StoryWalk but instead of walking we rode our bikes from page to page reading the story.

I chose Duck on a Bike by David Shannon.

The pages of the book were set up around our school.

As they rode they stopped and waited for a grown up to read it.

By riding around the school the children experienced a variety of surfaces.

Riding on pavement, loose rocks and grass.

The children became confident with riding ahead and 'reading' the page while they waited for the grown ups to arrive.

We ended up back at the playground for a snack.

Biking at the Playground

It's Bike to Work week and we took part by organizing fun events at our school playground.

The families started by decorating their bikes with balloons, ribbons, and license plates.

Or they washed their bikes.  I noticed most of the children washed only the wheels.

Then they were ready to ride the figure 8 course.

Some of the children recognized and knew what to do at a STOP sign.  

Not everyone though.

The video shows some near misses so we started to give a bit of direction and instruction to keep traffic moving safely.

The most popular part was riding through the bike 'wash'.

Around and around they went.

Make-a-Snack Rice Pudding

This week we made an easy recipe of rice pudding that I found at 

B-inspired Mama.

It uses Minute Rice and Vanilla Pudding.  All premade so little prep work.

I added raisins and cinnamon sugar (the pudding was sugar free).

The children were encouraged to read each step and follow the directions.

It was one spoon of rice, one spoon of pudding, one spoon of raisins and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Everyone tried it and only a couple didn't like it.

The majority really did.

Even a child who doesn't like rice ate it.

Expressing Observations through Art

It’s that time of year that we raise butterflies.  Our caterpillars arrived almost two weeks ago and we’ve been watching them grow.
 

                    At the art table we tried to replicate what we saw.

We painted egg carton caterpillars. Sorry I didn’t get any pictures of the process.

                      We also made leaves for our caterpillars to crawl on.

Yesterday we noticed a few of the caterpillars forming their chrysalis.

 

   

At the art table we made chrysalis for our egg carton caterpillars.

 

 We used paper bags and oil pastels to decorate our chrysalis.

After decorating the paper bag chrysalis we took them out to the bulletin board and picked a caterpillar to go in the bag.

Next week our butterflies should start emerging.  Stay tuned for more art work. 

What is your favourite way to make a butterfly with children?