What a wonderful day we’ve had today (all of our days are wonderful actually!) but today was our turn to spend the day in the yurt. What’s the yurt we hear you say? Well the meaning of yurt is a round tent covered by material and used as a home for people in different countries and we are so lucky as we have our own yurt in the garden to use.

We talked together about how we could make the space warm and then we lit the wood burner. Very soon it was lovely and warm. We went outside and saw the smoke coming out of the chimney! We had toast and hot chocolate around the fire. After our snack we worked together with the lycra. We listened to different instructions and worked together to move the lycra in different ways.

After lunch we came back and continued our music and movement exploration based around the song “The Animal Boogie” We are learning about the different animals in the song and thinking about how they move. In our next session we will match musical instruments to the way the different animals move.

We also listened to favourite stories and sang together. We dressed up and used special scarves and danced to some wonderful Arabic music. What a fantastic day. We’re looking forward to our next whole day in the yurt next month.

We hope you have a good weekend.