Where the learning begins!
The children are thoroughly enjoying our ‘All creatures great and small’ theme and this week we have continued with the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have been observing our caterpillars and talking about their life cycle.
We have been sorting types of food in various ways and we even used numicon to represent the different amounts in each group.
Lots of fun in the classroom….
Fun in PE this week practising ball skills…
Its been a short but busy week in FS. On Wednesday we had a visit from Amy the Vet. We loved hearing all about Amy’s job and what she does, we even got to dress up.
We also looked at the story of ’The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Our very own caterpillars have arrived so we will keeping a close eye on them and how they grow. We have been busy making and creating…
We had fun making our own caterpillar cakes too!
And another fun and active PE lesson in the sunshine!
We have had a great week exploring animal life cycles and learning how to look after animals in our vets role play area. We have also been looking at pictures and watching videos of our chicks, talking about how much they have grown and writing about them.
We had great fun doing multi skills in PE on the field!
We had a visit from Shellington the tortoise!
We have had a great week doing lots of fun Easter activities. We have made chicks, bunnies, Easter nests, decorated eggs and decorated biscuits. We have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming our chicks into the world and learning about them. They will be back after the holidays so you can see how much they have grown.
You should receive an email with an update of this term and also some activity ideas for over Easter if you would like them. We hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.
We have had a great week planting and growing and learning all about what plants need to grow.
We have been counting in 2’s in Maths and exploring the sounds air and ure.
We had fun in PE playing games to practice our ball control.
Another busy week in EYFS, we have been sharing equally, exploring our new sounds ’ear’ and ’air’ and completing lots of challenges!
We had fin planting our beans today and can’t wait to watch them grow!
We have had a great week exploring all things Science!
This week we have begun to learn about how things grow, beginning with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and lots of activities linked to this. Counting beans, acting out the story, measuring the giants footprints and exploring our garden centre role play.
It has been lovely to get out in the sunshine this week!
We really enjoyed using the equipment in PE this week. The children really challenged themselves to climb to the top and then climb over the top of the climbing frame!
We had some excitement on Friday when we came into the classroom…..
Some of our amazing writing…
And finally some doubling in Maths. We had to fond our double partner using the numbered stickers we had!
We have had a fantastic week with so many fun activities linked to Dear Zoo!
We wrote letters to the zoo asking for a pet, we designed our own zoo, created enclosures for the animals and retold the story.
We used the balance scales to weigh and compare the weight of the Dear Zoo animals. The children used fantastic mathematical language ‘heavier, lighter, tallest and smallest’.
We retold the story of Dear Zoo….
We had a great start to our Foundation Stage family library mornings. The children loved being able to show their parent/grandparent around our classroom. We look forward to continuing with these on a Wednesday morning.
We have had a great week this week making and tasting porridge, writing instructions and messy play porridge…
We have had lots of fun outside too…
We have been so busy doing lots of activities linked to Goldilocks and the 3 bears.
We have also been looking at repeating patterns this week…
We would like to say a big thank you for all your support this half term. We hope you all have a lovely break and we look forward to seeing you all after half term.