This week we headed back to one of our favourite places, the care village. We were excited to see all our friends and tell them all about what we did over Christmas. They were very excited to see us too and we all chatted about spending time with our families and exchanging gifts. As we engaged in activities with our older friends, we noticed it was beginning to snow again. The children were very excited and immediately ran to the windows to watch the snow come down. Some of the children perched themselves on chairs and peeked over the top to get a different view. We knew we would have to keep a close eye on the weather as the care village is at the very top of a rather steep hill!

One of the residents showed the children a game someone had given to us as a present. It was draughts. The children took it in turns to move the pieces and learned how to capture each other’s pieces. The children and residents are really enjoying engaging in jigsaws, games and dominoes at the minute. One matching game in particular, was proving to be quite tricky to complete so we decided to change the rules and make up our own. Our older friends decided to turn over four cards instead of two!

This week we introduced the wooden construction blocks and everyone really enjoyed building their own structures. We do need to keep an eye on some of our more competitive residents who try to build bigger and taller than everyone else!