Little Blossoms

Science is 'my thing' but I didn't realise until recently what a gift it was to understand it easily and how many other parents ...

We had some fun with these last week - it was an idea that I 'pinned' to my pinterest board  (which was the only reason I joined ...

Eve is always very interested in Oceans and their wildlife and prompted by a trio of recent BBC programmes about Whales and dolphins, we emb...

When we were away at Easter at the coast, the girls were playing in the sea and Eve was talking about the Atlantic Ocean (I think she has pi...

We started by listening to Jack and the Beanstalk from the BBC site . We listened three times then the children came up with the main charac...

This is Eve and I playing a 'states of matter' bingo game that I made up. She really got to grips with the three states and their ba...

We went to see 'George's Marvellous Medicine' at the theatre this morning, adapted from the book of the same name by Roald Dahl....

I was inspired to make this activity after watching how interested the children are in rolling vehicles down slopes during their block play....

This week I have learned how special it is to feel well and have vowed to appreciate it more when I am better!  One thing I have really noti...

I am doing a Montessori Early Years Teaching Qualification and my latest assignment requires that I write a planning web for a topic before ...

We tried this out last week and it worked really well, the children were fascinated with the process and because it took time and we did it ...

You can do all of these activities outside on a much larger, messier scale if you want to! Use all natural found materials - you could do t...

I have been planning to extend some of the Montessori cultural ideas into my setting for a while now and organised myself to do it last nig...