Playdough Recipe

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

1/2 cup water

1 tablespoon of oil

A few drops of green food colouring if you want

Mix flour, salt and oil in a bowl, using your hands can be easier and fun!  Remember to add  a little water at a time to get the desired consistency.

I wonder what your your creation will look like…please share a photo with us.

Let’s get moving with Jaime at Cosmic Kids yoga to wake up all of our muscles in our body. I hope you enjoy meeting Frank the Frog!

We are missing reading you stories and there are a lot of stories and songs about frogs so sit back, listen and enjoy!

Can you remember all the different characters/animals in the story?

I remember reading this fun story to some of you.  You were so good at guessing the rhyming words…see if you can do it again?!  What do frogs sit on?

Our families have been baking loads of yummy treats to eat.  Mrs Kay’s girls love to bake brownies and Mrs A-C’s boys loves to bake lemon drizzle cake and cupcakes.  What have you been baking? Here’s an easy cupcake recipe for you to try at home:-

Ingredients 110g softened butter 110g golden caster sugar 2 large eggs ½ tsp vanilla extract 110g self-raising flour

For the buttercream 150g softened butter 300g icing sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 3 tbsp milk food colouring paste of your choic

Method Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and fill a 12 cupcake tray with cases. Using an electric whisk beat 110g softened butter and 110g golden caster sugar together until pale and fluffy then whisk in 2 large eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Add ½ tsp vanilla extract, 110g self-raising flour and a pinch of salt, whisk until just combined then spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases. Bake for 15 mins until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack. To make the buttercream, whisk 150g softened butter until super soft then add 300g icing sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. Whisk together until smooth (start off slowly to avoid an icing sugar cloud) then beat in 3 tbsp milk.

If you’re still peckish perhaps Mrs Ross’ song will make you all full up!

If you are out exploring nature there are so many wonderful things to see and do, from counting petals on flowers or how many bees you can see buzzing from one flower to the next.  Last week Mrs Kay was talking about pattern and this week I thought I could show you symmetry in nature. Something is symmetrical when it is the same on both sides. A shape has symmetry if a central dividing line (a mirror line) can be drawn on it, to show that both sides of the shape are exactly the same.

Have a Iook at pictures above. Can you see why they are symmetrical? Can you have a go at decorating this butterfly below so it’s symmetrical?

T-T-27948-Create-a-Symmetrical-Butterfly-Pattern-Fingerprint-Activity-Sheet

Since we have been focussing on frogs and they love water! I thought we could have a little look at this water cycle experiment.

Remember that when you’re out and about near water you have to remember to be safe. Please make sure there’s an adult nearby making sure that you are safe.  Do not swim in ponds, rivers or the sea without a grown up’s permission and never swim alone.  If you’re in a boat you should always wear a life jacket.

I wonder if you would like to do this week’s Sticky Kids workout 7. Get your blood pumping and your heart racing!

https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-a9upn-dc30b6

Track List
I Jump Out Of Bed; Seaside Song; Shake Your Fingers; Beanbag Song; Sitting Rhyme; Stand Up, Sit Down; The Giant Says.

We wanted to share how all of our plants have grown in the last few weeks…some are quite small but some have grown so big.

We hope that you found this blog about fabulous frogs and water fun!  We miss you all very much and would love to see what you’re doing at home.  Please share your comments, photos, drawings and ideas in the Comments section or send us an email at newportps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk.  We’ll share these with all your nursery friends.

It’s time to sing goodbye with Bookbug!