This week we have been reading ‘Up in the garden and down in the dirt’ by Kate Messner. We made edible vegetable gardens by crushing up oreo biscuits for the soil and planting vegetables and making worms out of fondant icing. Yummy! The children have also been using the saw to make wood cookies and […]
We’ve had a lovely 3 days at preschool. To celebrate the beginning of May the children enjoyed taking part in a May day dance. We watched children dancing around a maypole and then with ribbons and some Maypole dancing music we did our interpretation. The children listened really well to the instructions and clapping to […]
We started the week with a Muslim story about a boy called Bilal who finds a butterfly. The butterfly explains how he used to be a caterpillar and Bilal has lots of questions. The butterfly explains that it is Allah who makes all of life’s wonderful things happen. We’ve been watching our own caterpillars and […]
Welcome back to the Summer Term and also a big welcome to our new starters. This week we have been enjoying the April story, where the two children meet all sorts of animals during their day, including birds, ducks, frogs and caterpillars. Each animal has a song and the children enjoyed singing and acting out […]
This week we have been talking about new life as the meaning of Easter and thinking about some of the symbols of Easter. We heard the Christian story of Easter and made Easter gardens and crosses with flowers on. We’ve been using rollers to make patterns on our Easter eggs and enjoying drawing our families.
We’ve been reading the book ‘We’re going on an egg hunt’ (very similar idea to we’re going on a bear hunt!). We’ve been on a few egg hunts, told the story using the PE equipment to help and been creating our own beautiful eggs. We’ve been thinking about birds making their nests and the children […]
In the hall we were practising lots of skills – throwing snowballs through hoops, jumping off apparatus, climbing along ladders and rolling on the mats. We’ve also been exploring insects, drawing and creating amazing train tracks!
We have been learning about Holi, the Hindu festival of colour. We had great fun throwing powder paints at a sheet and generally getting messy with paints, exploring what happened when we added water to it. We also painted rangoli patterns and danced with streamers. We’ve been learning about 2D shapes. Playing in the snow […]
As it’s Fairtrade Fortnight, on Monday we learned about where our food comes from and what it means if it is Fairtrade. We looked at the logo and explored the journey of a banana. We went in the hall and made the journey of a banana. The children were banana trees, chopped down, transported, put […]
This week the children began to look for signs of early Spring and loved celebrating their books on World Book day. Early signs of Spring World Book day It was lovely for the children to share their books with an adult, and they enjoyed using tools to help them design characters from potatoes . In […]
