a typical day

“When Mummy takes me to the front entrance I meet my teacher, and I show Mummy where I hang
my coat and put my bag away. I’m from green square group, which is where I go to meet all my
friends. I can recognise my name card now and sit where I find it. When Jonathan and Lucy arrive I
chat about what I did at the weekend until we are all ready. I show them my new blue elephant toy,
because this week we are learning blue things.

We share news with
each other: Lucy’s
has a new sister and
Jonathan’s grandma
has come from
Canada. I then go to
the Montessori room.
Today I want to find
out about ‘the pink
tower’. You have to
put each bit in exactly
the right order, so I
have to look at the
size of each block
very carefully.

Then I want to have a
look at the sandpaper
letters, (but I put the
pink tower away first).
I like the letter ‘s’
because it has two
curves in it! Then I try
writing the two curves
in the sand tray. I like
painting too in the
small room and I
splash the paint all
over the paper and
even on me - oops!

Today we are looking at these things our teacher called ‘slugs’ – I like them because they are all
slimy. (Tomorrow we are going to decorate gingerbread men with icing.) Then I notice Wendy needs
help with the railway, so I go and help her. Then I hear the ‘tidy up’ music and we all join in to put things
away. We all go and sit on the carpet in a big circle and today we are doing fun yoga, but yesterday
we did singing.

Afterwards, we wash our hands and open our lunch boxes. There are three others in my group. We all
go out to play and I like to water the strawberries – they are almost red. Can I eat them yet? Today we
played running under the ‘parachute’. You have to catch the person in front of you. (I am very good at
it!) Now it is time to go in, which means it is story time. We listen to ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’. We all sing
the good-bye song loudly. When I see Mummy waiting for me I give her a big wave, and run and hug
her.”