This week we read the story of the very busy spider. We spent the week making spiders and their webs using different materials. We caught and counted spiders in our tuff spot web and even had a go with a remote control spider called Harry.

This week we read the story of the runaway pea.

We had a go at catching peas in the water tray and counting how many we caught with our nets. We made different vegetables from the story using the paints and the playdough and even made some funny pea faces.

The children also practiced their ball skills, rolling and catching them down the pipes in the garden.

This week we welcomed our parents and carers into Daycare for a stay and play session. The activities were all based around our story of the week ‘The runaway pea’. The children and their adults had a lovely afternoon exploring the different activities and catching some runaway peas.

This week we read Titch. The children have been focusing their learning on size, looking at big and small and full and empty. We have been exploring the jugs and cups in the water tray, building towers in construction and threaded hoops on spaghetti to see how tall we could make them.

The children have also been painting sunflowers and we had lots of fun planting our own sunflowers this week, ready to take home.

This week we read ‘From the garden’ and learned all about the different fruits and vegetables that grow in the garden. The children had a go at identifying different produce, chopping it and made their own salad to eat for snack.

We also did printing with the vegetables and explored the different shapes they make.

The children continued to explore the garden centre roleplay and made their own flowers to go inside.

This week we have started our garden topic. We have been exploring flowers and insects that we might find in the garden.

We have been organising seeds and petals by colour and counting how many we have. The children have made their own flowers using pom poms dipped in paints and we have made insects in the playdough.

We had a great time exploring forest school this week looking at all the flowers and plants and we even found some worms!

This week we read the story of Higgly hen. We did activities based around Easter and eggs.

The children explored the Easter tuff spot, sorted and counted eggs and we even had an Easter egg hunt in forest school. The children took a particular interest in the different colours and patterns we could see on the Easter eggs.

This week we invited the parents from day care to come and join us for a stay and play session. This session fell on world book day so we had lots of exciting activities based around our favourite stories!

We celebrated world book day this week with a Julia Donaldson themed day.

We set up activities based on our favourite books and the children came dressed up as some of their favourite book characters. We also shared some of our favourite stories together on the carpet.