Freya 19.10.11

Freya arrived ready to start her day. We started with a visit to the mulberry tree and picked
lots of juicy-sweet mulberries. We also collected extras to bake mulberry
muffins. We then fed the horses and visited the dogs. As it was such a lovely
morning we spent it in the garden, greeting the plants and holding our little
guinea.

After morning tea Freya was happy to play inside. Together Freya and Ahliah looked at books
and then I directed the children to a large cardboard box in the lounge room.

 
Freya was very excited as it makes an excellent cubby house. Soon we took out
the crayons and the house was being decorated from top to bottom. Freya has so
much strength and will – she poured it into her work and soon we had a beautiful
cubby. This became our midday activity. A window was added and the two girls
giggled as they went in and out – opening and closing windows and doors.

After lunch we played outside in the sandpit – Freya built sandcastles over and over again,
squashing them to the ground. Once again showing her strong will and
perseverance. Freya seems to be experiencing herself and the world in a very
outgoing manner.

 
 20.10.11

Freya arrived bearing a flower for Ahliah and mum.

We picked more mulberries and fed the horses just as Jasmine arrived. Before long we found ourselves looking for
seeds and checking our little plants in the back garden. Freya began to dig
with the big garden tools, soon the other children joined her. I directed them
into a corner of the garden where we are planning a new garden. All morning the
children worked digging over the garden. Soon it was time to go inside to bake
sunny buns, we added some mulberries to colour them – they added a good flavour
too.

After morning tea the children played inside. They started in the cardboard cubby house and
coloured the walls – Freya preferred to ride her horse around and soon found
another game with the toy bunnies in the playroom. Just as she began to build
them a little home, Denzil had the idea to build another cubby. I helped and
soon we had a cubby house with blue dolphin printed cloth. Freya and Jasmine
set themselves up inside – it was their 'house in the sea'. Freya read books
and rested, the girls played quietly together. Every now and then Ahliah or
Denzil would visit.

 For our midday activity we painted flower pots. Jasmine carefully coloured each side of
hers, each colour had its own place. Tomorrow we will plant some flower seeds
in them.

 
 Freya was in a very positive space today. She loves to play chasing with the other
children and ran around in the heat until her face was red – even when I
encouraged cooler games, Freya was determined to run and wrestle. I introduced
tug-of-war, but Freya was unclear about which way to pull and preferred to just
run!

21.10.11

Freya arrived with smiles. Jasmine was already here, Ferya quickly chose her favourite seat
at the table and went riding out into the back garden. Freya's favourite game
has been chasing and soon she invited Jasmine to chase her. When Freya plays it
is more about running and laughing together – the older children often add in
extra rules. Today Jasmine wanted to play 'tip', where one person has to tip
another and then that person becomes the chaser, who then tips another. I'm not
sure if Freya understood the game or whether she just wanted to run and laugh –
as she was already having so much fun. The tip game never quite eventuated.

For baking we made mulberry pancakes topped with yoghurt – which everyone thoroughly enjoyed
for afternoon tea – Freya enjoyed hers with yoghurt.

We had a story about how giving Mother Mulberry tree is. She becomes one of the happiest
trees in the garden as she always has happy visitors enjoying her gifts of
sweet mulberries and shade green leaves.

Just before lunch we filled our flower pots and chose three different kinds of flower seeds to plant.

We will keep them here until there are some happy strong plants growing and then we will
send them home. Our morning circle is all about the little seeds sleeping and
waking up to push up shoots and wriggle down little roots. With the help of
Sunny Sun and the Water drops there grows a beautiful garden. This theme has
filled the children as they play and sing in the garden.

 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Freya learning to say 'No' in a positive way. There are
times when Freya all of a sudden stops playing with the other children and
stops talking to them. I have noticed this is often when Freya no longer wants
to play or something has happened which Freya doesn't like. I have been trying
to help Freya with communicating 'No thank you' to the other children, or
helping freya to find a positive way of solving the problem.

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