Due to popular demand Red Group did colour mixing again this week, but this time using 5 colours; red, blue, yellow, black and white. The children worked very well and produced amazing shades, such as raspberry pink and light greys.
This week we closely observed some tadpoles on the light box. We read a story about how they change into frogs, so the children check each day to see if there has been a change.
Lego has still been hugely popular so we got it out as a small group with some small world resources. We did some weeding on Thursday and collected some leaves for our new rabbit. It ate them straight away.
We have been exploring the block area. The children give their ideas of what we could build using the blocks then we voted for the best idea which was to build a haunted house to tell stories in. We hid under the material and used a torch to tell our stories. We chopped carrots for our new fluffy friend, who we will name next week. The children have been exploring play dough “making pancakes” – they flipped them in the pans.
A big thank you to all the parents who came to our Forest School Stay and Play last week. A good time was had by all! This week we had our Sponsored walk in aid of school funds, which was a great success. Again thank you to all the people who took part and donated.
Red Group have been doing two of their favourite Small Group Times this week. The children were really excited when we had a letter treasure hunt in the sand. The children had to find objects with the initial letters ‘p’ and ‘s’ and sort them on to the appropriate cards. They were very good! Another favourite is colour mixing. I told the children we could do magic by making new colours from just red, blue and yellow. They were amazed when they produced different shades of green, purple, orange and brown.
This week the sun finally appeared so we have spent a lot of time outside in the garden. The children have all been sensible and kept their sun hats on, worn sun cream and helped themselves to water if they got hot.
Writing and Drawing is still a big interest so we carried out a large scale writing activity. Jools was really interested in the numbers and even wrote One Thousand! We also did a transient art activity, the children had their own bags with natural resources in and could make a picture of their choice. Some of them used the camera to take a picture of their piece of art.
Welcome back everyone!!
What a busy week we have had. We have explored shapes and numbers through mark making, Max said “I’ve made the number 4, I’m 4. I’ll be 5 on my next birthday”. We have used musical instruments this week; Lucy said “can we do the band again”. We had a boy band – they sang Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar and the girls sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We have also explored Forest School – it was lovely to be out in the sun shine. We used lots of water for filling and emptying, we painted the house and even had time for tasty strawberry milkshake.
Red Group are so good identifying letter sounds, I have been using a matching sounds with pictures activity at planning time. The children love it! As it is Spring, we have been putting beans on damp paper in jars in the group room and watching roots and shoots grow. It’s so exciting! One of our Small Group Times involved making pictures with matchsticks. The children were so creative. They produced a variety of things, such as ladders, train tracks, robots and jails!
This week we used small wooden sticks to make the letters v w and z. Whilst creating the letters, some of the Blue Group thought of words that begun with each of the letter sounds. We also created shapes and patterns such as crosses and train tracks.
This week has been a super sunny and fun we back. The children took turns sharing all their lovely experiences from the Easter holidays and how many chocolate eggs they all gobbled up!
We had some fun in the sun which was finally showing signs of a warm Spring to come!
We explored and talked about what to expect in the Spring season using our Talking Tub. The children shared lots of things from all the flowers that will be growing and caterpillars becoming butterflies. We even explored how frog spawn turns into frogs.
Example of children describing what happens…..
