It has been a while since you have heard from us here on the blog.
We had a lovely summer which started off well with two weeks of holiday project fun. Then it was time to say goodbye to a few children in each group who were either ready to move on or up into an older group.
After that it was already time to prepare and get ready to start again with three new group of children and volunteers in the last week of August.
It was hard not to smile when meeting new friends and reuniting with old ones:
OnTuesday morning a group of children worked together as firemen to put out "fires" whilst (re)discovering the big green space we play in every week at Murtle Estate:
Others went down to the stream for the very first time before it was time for fruit, marshmallows and hot chocolate around the fire:
Tuesday afternoon our tiniest friends came back to play in the Nature Nurture woods. All of them had done quite a bit of growing so we started off by finding bigger pairs of wellies for all the little feet before taking a new route to the woods. The weather kept changing and one of the children wondered if the rain could please make up its mind!
It was dry and cosy in our snack area at snack time and there was plenty of food for both children and their teddies:
After snack there was time for a spontaneous game of hide and seek:
..and a rest in the hammock before returning to Mica to get changed and go back home:
Thursday morning one of the 8-11 year old children felt brave enough to try eating a nasturtium for the first time and found discovered that "it is spicy!"
Others climbed trees:
Before it was time to walk (run/jump/get a piggyback or a wheelbarrow ride) back to the room, the children had a quick game of piggy in the middle on the balancing logs altogether:
This is how you look just before returning to school after a morning in Nature Nurture:
We are happy to be back and looking forward to next week's sessions
