Tea, anyone..?

The Nursery children were delighted to use our brand new tea set this week. This was a little different to our usual set as it wasn't made from plastic, instead the children had the chance to use a beautiful china tea set. First we spoke about the differences between the plastic items and the real ones, then we spoke about what we would do if something got broken. The children understood that the items were very special and needed to be handled carefully.

After this we had tea parties in small groups and learnt how to carefully pour into the cups and hold the tea pot at the right angle. It proved to be a great way of teaching children to respect property and to ensure they used equipment carefully, they were able to understand the consequence if these items ended up on the home corner floor. The children spent long periods of time creating different flavoured teas and thoroughly enjoyed the new addition. 

"It's china... be careful!" Mason

"I'll just put this in, it's lemon tea.. Mrs Ngenge has lemon!" Fariah