The children have really enjoyed the warmer weather this week and we have spent lots of time outside. 

They have: 

*been getting very muddy in the mud kitchen and have loved playing with the new water area. 

*watered our seeds.

*talked about what else they would like to grow.

*enjoyed listening to stories that we borrowed from the library van last week.

*made some yummy chocolate chip cookies!

This week we have looked at the story Oliver’s Vegetables, visited the library van and had a session of Bikeability. The children have enjoyed more outdoor play, painting outside and have shown lots of great number work and the pre-schoolers have been doing some fantastic letter formation this week!

This week has been a mixture of British Science Week and Mother’s Day. We have:

* Made Mother’s Day cards.

*Made flowers and thought about why we love our Mummy.

*Made a wormery.

*Used torches to look through our skin.

*Done some love heart threading.

*Bikeability.

We have had a lovely but busy  ‘World Book Day Week’. 

*On Monday our focus story was ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We had fun in the messy tuff tray, made a Bear Hunt map using the story, did some Bear Hunt yoga and went on an outdoor bear hunt of our own!

* Tuesday – The Very Hungry Caterpillar and we made some beautiful butterflies and had some snacks that the caterpillar ate in the story.

*Wednesday – Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we went to Forest School to find the characters. In the afternoon we had some lovely warm porridge and tried some different toppings.

*Thursday – World Book Day: We had a bear shaped snack (mini pancakes with fruit), Three Little Pigs tuff tray and did some great character and setting cutting which the children then stuck on to boxes.

In the afternoon we had a ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ themed Forest school with Mrs. T and even got to toast some marshmallows!

*Friday – Gruffalo and we made a Gruffalo crumble and some tree themed place names.

We have had a lovely first week back! Lots of great play which the children have initiated themselves. 

We have also:

*Looked for signs of Spring.

*Enjoyed a very muddy Forest School session.

*Learnt about St. David’s Day and Wales, eating leek and potato soup, Welsh Rarebit and Welsh cakes. The children even learnt to count to five in Welsh!

This half term our topic will be Spring. This is the basis of our planning for the next five weeks, however they are not steadfast plans and may change according to the children’s interests. As well as the plans below we will of course also be celebrating World Book Day!

Another busy week this week! We continued our topic of Dinosaurs and the ‘How to Look After Your Dinosaur’ story.

Here’s what we’ve been up to!

*Finding things that help us to look after a dinosaur (in Forest School).

*Sowing seeds to grow dinosaur food.

*Drawing parts of the story on big paper.

*Making dinosaur masks.

*Making banana pancakes.