F.S. Blog

We’ve had a fantastic week preparing for the celebrations and learning about the Queen and the Jubilee.

We have been observing our caterpillars closely and had the excitement of arriving on Tuesday to our first butterfly. We moved them into their butterfly garden and gave them food and sugary water. By Wednesday we had 3 butterflies and on Thursday we released them. We have loved watching their lifecycle.

We enjoyed lots of outdoor play – working on our gross motor physical development skills.

We all had a fantastic day on Friday for our whole school History day to celebrate the Jubilee.

We made sandwiches for the whole school picnic!!

Have a lovely half term holiday.

We started the week by hearing the story ’Mad About Minibeasts’. We have been busy with lots of different activities linked to minibeasts. FS2’s have all written a page for our minibeast fact file ’the biggest book ever’, some children even wanted to write more pages about minibeasts. We have been using our creative skills…

We went on a nature hunt to collect bits to make a minibeast collage.

We also went on a minibeast hunt to see what we could find and observe.

We planted some potatoes and made our own signs for the bag.

We had great fun making minibeast biscuits!!

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!