Friday, 24 August 2012

Apple Picking 
with
Babies and Toddlers

On the 23rd of August the babies and toddlers went outside to see how our very own apple tree was doing. When we looked we notice that the apples were ready to eat, so we decided to pick them. We took it in turns to pick the apples and placed them in a bowl.

Once they were picked we washed them and chopped them into slices ready to eat. We think they tasted delicious! We are also very proud that we grew them all ourselves by planting the seeds and making sure we watered and looked after them.


 Diana begins and picks out her apple

 
 Carrie-Ann and Nia both have a go at picking their apples from the tree. 


 Jack places his apple into the bucket and Ewan picks his red apple


 
Elsa enjoyed pulling her apple from the tree and used all of her strength as they were very well attached!

She then dropped her apple into the bucket being held carefully by Carrie-Ann.
Lucinda needed Claire's help to lift her up as she chose an apple very near to the top.
Seren also had fun pulling her apple from the tree and Diana carried the bucket back into nursery for us.

Time to eat our homegrown apples!

 

Diana and Lucinda choose their freshly washed apples from the bucket.
Sam is enjoying eating his apple
So is Lucinda
 

















Carrie-Ann and Diana look very happy with their apples.
Club 0-14 is very proud of the children for taking such good care of the garden and the apple tree and we will be planting more trees soon.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Monday's Photo Competition

To celebrate the 125th year of the Shrewsbury Flower Show we went to the Dingle in the Quarry to hold a photography contest.

The winner was Lewis with the photograph below

Lewis' view of the Dingle garden
Runner-up Eleri, with the Dingle pond

Lake Vyrnwy


 On Friday we went on a trip to Lake Vyrnwy - to read more abou the Lake and it's origins, please see the Wikipedia article.

We had a picnic lunch and then hiked up the valley to the Rhiwagor Falls.