A day in the life of Amber Kindergarten

When I arrive at Amber kindergarten, I see my teacher smiling and waiting to greet me, I go and hang my bag on my peg and wash my hands.

Sometimes we go to the forest, I love forest day. I run around the trees and play with my friends; we find bugs and collect treasures and then we sit around the fire and sing songs. We even get to eat our snack around the fire!

On our way back to kindergarten we walk past the alpacas and goats, they make me laugh because they look a bit funny. When they come over to say hello - sometimes we feed them handfuls of grass, their noses feel tickly on our hands. We have two rabbits at kindergarten: Honey and Teddy, we help to take care of them every day.

In kindergarten we help to look after our garden and we even plant pumpkins, carrots, green beans and potatoes. It was really fun watching them grow and we had to remember to water them to help them get bigger and bigger until POP! we could eat them. We made vegetable soup last time for snack and it was really yummy. I love snack time in kindergarten, we all sit round a big table and sing a song to bless the meal then we eat all kinds of tasty things like crackers, hummus, fruit, cheese and on gardening day we have porridge. After snack we sing thank you for the meal and help to tidy up. Everybody joins in and we work really hard and then we go and play again. We are really lucky because our teachers understand the importance of free play and how our imaginations GROW and GROW in Kindergarten.

I love craft, in fact just yesterday I made a flag all by myself. My teacher gave me some white cloth and I cut it into a triangle and used a wooden block to bash a leaf onto the cloth to create beautiful colours. Then my teacher helped me to tie a stick onto it. I waved my flag around all afternoon! We all stick our cuttings and pictures into our Learning Journey, it is a really special book that has photos and stories all about what we have been doing and learning. The Mums and Dads and Grannies and Grandads love these and seeing all the fun we all have.