Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to our weekly blog, we aim to send out an update of events, developments, news and activities throughout each week.

Snails and Caterpillars

The children will be looking at Water and Sand play this week. They will be exploring ice cubes with sand, building sand castles with wet sand, exploring coloured sand with different tools, sand and water play in the garden, creating sand paintings and exploring textures using sand and cornflour.

Days Off Jenni – Thursday     Jamie – Friday

Ladybirds

This week the children will be looking at Animals. They will be making a farm using happy land toys, reading animal stories such as ‘Monkey Puzzle’, ‘Bear Hunt’ and ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’, creating animal masks using different textures and colours and exploring the animal puppets - can you make the sounds the animal makes?

 Days off   Julie – Thursday    Abi – Monday

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at Air and Sea Transport, they will be looking at rescue books, making flight and boat ferry tickets, looking at the sky in the garden for helicopters and aeroplanes, making boats for the water tray, painting pictures of the helicopters and counting boats in the water tray.

Days off    Krissi – Monday      Tash – Friday      Nikki – Monday

Butterflies

The children will continue to centre their activities around the environment, they will be watering and caring for their newly planted seeds, creating forest fairies using wooden pegs and explore the wooden logs. They will also design a rules poster for our forest school, practice listening using hidden and visible  musical instruments which will enable them to see which two sound the same, creating environments from around the world such as desert, swamp, forest and town using small world and completing their recycling puzzle to prompt discussion about where our rubbish goes and how we respect our environment.

Days off   Jo – Tuesday    

Please may we remind parents to sign their children in and out, this is a legal requirement.

Lee would like to remind you all that the Forest School taster session will take place this Saturday at 10am.

We would like to remind parents that we will be holding our Spring Parents evening on Thursday 18^th April 7-9pm.