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.

This week we have been learning all about space with our zoom to the moon story. We made our own rocket in the role play area, made aliens in the play dough and explored making night sky pictures using the chalks and the glitter.