the green man and a bouncing tigger

Fitting in our ongoing road safety topic this afternoon, we talked about pelican crossings, and experimented with the waterproofness of wax by creating our own red and green man in crayon and covering with black waterpaint. Couldn't see much of the red or green bit, so am sure the children thought I was mad...but in theory it should have worked! With a little bit of wet kitchen towel rubbing over their red and green circles, I was able to magic them back again, and thus turned the event around somewhat and myself into a magician :-)

It was clearly wet at playtimes today, as they were all a little wired this afternoon! Sitting round to play Bounce bounce tigger didn't help, so the solution to much niggling and getting at each other was a 15 minute musical statues competition. They all loved it, and amazingly even Lauren understood to stop when the music stopped. I also got to sing along to my old Bewitched album, which made me feel very old when I realised they (and probably most of you) wouldn't have a clue who they were! Still they didn't seem to mind and bopped away to them all the same.