A bit nippy!

One of our favourite things to do as a family is to go crabbing! We live just a half hour drive from the seaside town of Walberswick, which is famous for its annual crabbing competition. It was a sunny (but slightly chilly) day, so we wrapped up warm, got the bacon out the fridge, picked up our friends Katie and Rob (plus Maisy the dog) and set off!

With a little bit of help, George tied the bacon to the end of his line.The crabs love bacon, so it's defiantly the top choice of bait for us!

After dropping the line over the edge of the bridge, he waited patiently for the

Crabs to bite!

Still waiting patiently, Katie and George played a guessing game about how many crabs they think will be on the line when they pull it up! This inspired mathmatical language by using numbers and critical thinking by estimating.

"I think we've got something" Katie helps George to pull up the line!

George was very excited to see thathe had caught some crabs in his net!
"Look we got some"

George gets his catch out of the net and puts it into his bucket. He was happy to just put his hand in a grab the crabs, stimulating his personal and emotional development. Funnily enough George was the bravest at getting the crabs out of the net!

Our bucket load of Crabs....what a haul!

Katie looking a bit scared of the crab as Robbie  points it in her direction!

What a catch! Think i caught the biggest one.

Ready to unload the bucket full of crabs....

After filling up our bucket full of crabs, we released them pack into the water. As we did this we counted them as they scurried along the pebbles! George joined in the counting with us until we got to numbers that he doesn't yet know. From then on he listened to us count and then counted along, repeating the numbers as we said them.

  

A bit of role play to finish the afternoon off. Here we're on our boot, looking out to sea, to see what we can see, see, see! Imaginative play with a bit of balancing thrown in. Creative and Physical Development all in one!

Ahoy there.... The Pattersons on look out!