Freya 30.11.11

Freya arrived ready to start her day.

Freya was especially delighted with all the new flowers which have bloomed over the past week.

Freya and Ahliah enjoyed each other's company out in the garden. Together they explored all the new flowers, sat in
the penny royal and inhaled its perfume, and collected flowers in their wheel-barrows.

 We came inside to bake honey biscuits, Freya helped me to carry all the ingredients to
the table and both the girls did lots of very careful mixing. Later when we
were eating the honey biscuits – Freya recalled all the ingredients we put into
the yummy baking.

 During inside play Freya showed Ahliah how to put a bridal on the rocking horse and carefully
'led' Ahliah along. Next it was Ferya's turn on the horse and Ahliah led Freya
along. I have seen how Freya's communication skills have been improving; during
the game I observed how she was able to tell Ahliah what to do in a way Ahliah
could follow – this made both Freya and Ahliah happy.

For our midday activity we wrapped some butterfly mobile craft kits to donate to
the wishing tree (salvation army), Freya asked 'who is that present for?' I
explained it would go under the wishing tree and wait for a special child who
needs a special gift. Freya then said 'I could have that present.' I assured
her she would receive a special gift, but this one was to give away. All this
week we will be focussing on the giving aspect of Christmas.

01.12.11

 Freya arrived
with a smile. Freya is always happy to hear that Denzil and Jasmine will be
coming to play. Today Jamine brought a baby bird with her. All the children
were very curios and watched as I fed it throughout the day.

Freya enjoyed the outdoors, it lovely to have so many flowers in the garden for the children
to pick. Freya and Jasmine used some for decorating the basil plants and the
vegetable garden. The Freya wanted Jasmine to chase her saying 'You have to
chase me Jasmine!' This is one of Freya's favourite outside games to play with
the older children.

For our midday activity the children heard a story about a girl with very little, who
didn't get  Christmas presents, until one
special year when someone noticed Mirrianna with her kind heart and helping
hands. They wrapped a special gift and secretly left it at her front door with
a little anonymous note. From that day onwards Mirrianna enjoyed Christmas and
today she carefully makes gifts for the children who need a special surprise
and secretly leaves it on their door steps. The children eagerly started their
work and we felted coloured balls to give away. Everyone worked diligently.

 Freya became more withdrawn during the afternoon, when I approached her to try help, she
couldn't tell me what was wrong. Later I realised she needed to poo, there is a
lot of anxiety around using the toilet for poos. I tried using her success with
peeing on the toilet as a motivation – explaining once it was hard to wee on
the toilet but now she can do it so well.

02.12.11

Freya arrived happy and well. But seemed to go up and down with her emotions; sometimes
withdrawn or upset over minor misunderstanding with the other children and
other times really extroverted as she joked and laughed. I tried to support
Freya by being calm and reassuring and not allowing her to get too over excited
and being sympathetic when needed.

 It has become quite a routine on arrival to greet the garden and look at all the new flowers,
shoots and any other surprises. Today we found some millipedes; Jasmine's very
good at handling little garden friends and quickly befriended one on her hand.
The other children soon followed and all the millipedes were introduced to each
other and made 'good friends'.

 In the past couple of weeks our morning circle has been filled with songs and verses about the
garden and little helping insects. Freya now knows all the songs and delights
in singing along, it seems many of the songs have inspired more interest in the
garden, which is wonderful.

Our midday activity was drawing; We carefully drew cards to go with our felt ball gifts to
go under the wishing tree.

Freya took lots of time with her card; she filled
the card with colours of the rainbow, we tied the cards to the roly-poly balls
with a gold ribbon and put them into our basket. A gift to make a special child
happy on Christmas day!

 In general the day was filled with excitement and lots of energy – after lunch we went out
for a run and found that Roxy and Sammy our little dogs had come out to play.
The children had lots of fun throwing the stick for Roxy. Freya gave Sammy lots
of gentle pats – his favourite thing in the world, by the end Roxy was
exhausted and we put her back in her yard to rest; just as we too went inside
for our rest.

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