The children have been learning how to keep their bodies healthy and active.  They have created a fruit and vegetable shop in the playroom and have visited local shops to buy healthy produce. The children have been exploring  and tasting some of these new fruits by making fruit salad for snack.  Children have also been taking part in lots of physical activities including Mini Kickers sessions, visiting the local football pitches to practice their football skills, Play on Pedals family sessions, cycling, climbing, badminton and races.

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The children within the Early Level Playroom are continuing to develop their understanding of size and amount by observing, exploring and communicating with others. Through the context of mini-beasts the children have had opportunities to participate in matching, sorting and comparing games, exploring numbers and understanding that they represent quantities. Visits to the Nature Park have inspired children’s creativity and imagination in the creation of a bug hotel within the outdoor garden which we are all hoping will attract some bugs, birds and bunnies in the coming future, with a scarecrow ready to protect the seeds and plants.

Children are independently  accessing the creative art area and have been supported in sharing their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design, creating their own representations of beautiful butterflies, wriggly worms and scary spiders.

Within Together Time all children  have been learning  new songs to support the learning of life cycles, mini beasts and  planting and growing, some favourites include, Tiny caterpillar on a leaf, Wiggly Woo, Mary Mary and Incy Wincey Spider. Why not ask your child to teach you a few.

The children will be exploring these exciting stories during Nurturing Early Readers over the forthcoming weeks.  They will be looking at the different characters, setting and problems within each story. They will also be introduced to new vocabulary within the story,  which is identified below in the photographs. Why not ask your child to share elements of the story with you.

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The children within the early level playroom continue to learn about life cycles, and how living things depend each other. There has been lots of discussions about the various types of fruits and vegetables which grow from bulbs and seeds, with the children using these as a visual stimulus during creative experiences and having a taste at the snack table.  The children’s interests are now naturally moving on to other living things such as minibeasts, including worms, caterpillars and butterflies. Using fact books , they have been finding out new information about where to find these creatures and  have been searching for them in the nursery garden.