The Miners Rescue

Today at Rising Fives we had a very small group as we had two children poorly and two children on holiday.

We had a special time however with those that did come in and they all really participated in everything with much enthusiasm.

We started the afternoon by measuring the gigantic sunflowers that the morning group had dug out. Would you believe that they were twelve bricks long!

The rest of the afternoon was all about rescuing miners.

The children put the miner playpeople in the mine under the table. There was an explosion and the miners found that there was no way out. We drilled a hole through the ground in the form of a thin tube and the children found some interesting food to feed to the miners.

After that we got to the business of rescuing the miners. The children took away the thin tube and put a fatter one with a capsule in the hole instead. The miners were loaded into the capsule one at a time and they took turns to be the rescuer.

We finished the afternoon by acting out a rescue instead of PE and learning a miners song.