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Tehya is leaving us at the end of the year and feeling very emotional about it, unable to express herself except in questions of routines. Tehya loves books and sharing a book with an adult helps to settle her. Tehya and I walked to the library to choose some flower/plant/insect life books together. This at least gave her something happy to finish the day with so she can - hopefully - feel good to talk about something positive in school later at home.

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Children are also interested in Lego. Collect Lego flowers from my own home to construct with them. Make printables to see if we can explore some Lego flowers, so children can build to follow instructions.

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F3 are looking at cut flowers from a flower shop. Have a look at their flowers or provide flower shops flowers to talk about the difference.

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Questions/adult comments for flower soup

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Questions/adult comments for flower soup

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What ingredients are in your soup? What can you taste? Can you tell me about the smell? I wonder what soup we eat? When did you eat soup? What is your favourite soup? How shall we make soup

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Lily asked for paper and pencils. I was ready to put out the paint tray but read the blog on the child and the rose and decided to start with observational drawings. Lots of the children drew flowers as children might often draw them rather than by really noticing so I sat with them to count and name petals and stems, to talk about the colours and the shape of the petals and to wonder what they could see

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I put the flower tray with kitchen items around. The children asked for more water so we filled up some pots and buckets. Lily gave me "flower soup... You can drink it". Saya gave me some and told me I should say thank you, Long explored mixing without words but after a while gave me "some more soup

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This emerging curriculum has many possibilities and i need to think creatively not just to limit it to representation. One of the stories we read today had insects in and Jamie asked some great questions including "what kind of bee is that?" Showing his awareness of different kinds of bees. He is 3 and a half years old and extremely emotionally immature so this was a wonderful moment for us to try and explore that further. Arlo told me "do you know Ms Maria the things flowers have is nectar", again a wonderful topic and exploring point. We will taste honey in class next week as a mean to explore more about bees and perhaps helps learning evolve in that direction. The children have drawn or mark made with pencils and we will introduce colour next week. We used a 'special' new box of coloured chalk today and this was motivating for Tehya. She does not usually mark make and has weak fine motor skills. Tomorrow we will have a topic summit meeting for me to listen to the children and for them to initiate ideas about next weeks' activities. Today we looked at the yellow hibiscus flower a day after it had been picked. Children (Felicia and Hayley) talked about it being broken, so we talked about when you cut or pick flowers they die, they are not alive any more. Chris said "because we don't give them water". An immediate next step - tomorrow - since F3 have got cut flowers in class - is to take some of the wilting flowers to observe and promote talk about what happens when we cut plants and flowers. I hope to lead the children in the summit towards planting and caring for plants next week. I wonder how long a flower seed takes to grow will be a question to pose. Children might like the food colouring/carnation experiment. Lots of ideas... And Jamie looking at the bee book.

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Tyler was so interested in the flower tray - keen to comment and look and smell. He told me "so yummy ... Do you know I have a garden in my home". He started to draw a non thoughtful flower with 8 petals. I suggested we look closely at the flower. We counted the petals, then he redrew the flower, then repeating it many times.

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How do you hold the scissors when we are walking?
Can you see how Felicia is holding her scissors?
How do we smell? What does it smell like? Does the smell make you think of something? Where do you think we will find more flowers? Look up/look down and think. What do we know about flowers? Where else do we see flowers? Who likes flowers? How many different coloured flowers can we see? I wonder if we should have a go at planting flower seeds? What do flowers need to grow? What will happen to the flowers when we cut them? What do we notice about the flowers after a day

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We cut the flowers, talking about colours, talking about cutting the stem and not the leaf or petals, naming petals. Rufus, Felicia, Tharini, Sunny, Tehya all keen to join, sharing scissors,collecting flowers and commenting to each other.

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The flower walk provoked a conversation about safe handing of scissors as we walk

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Felicia found a yellow flower Winnie and Daphne had left in class. Wanted to look at it. Lily asked for paper. I suggested we go to the garden and look for others flowers to cut and bring back to draw.