Forest Week

Pond dipping and looking for signs of Spring

Going on a 'Signs of Spring' hunt.

Building 'hides' to watch the animals from.

Hunting for mini beasts and looking at them under magnifying glasses.

Making homes for animals.

Thinking about the sounds we can hear outside and making musical instruments.

Mud kitchen.

Making up recipes for animals that have just woken from their winter sleep...

We found 30 newts in our pond today!

Pond dipping.

Den building.

Mud kitchen.

'Chocolate cake!'

'Spaghetti bolognaise!'

Homes for animals.

Making bug hotels.

Hunting for signs of Spring.

Pond dipping.

More bug hotels!

Mud kitchen fun!

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Digging for treasure!

Looking closely at the creatures we found in our pond.

Shadow puppets

We had a visit from the Hand to Mouth theatre company who showed
us how to make shadow puppets. 

PE - hooray!

At last!  We changed into our PE kits and did some stretches to warm up.

We practised different balances.

We worked with a partner to mirror our balances.

Some photos of Book Week so far...

The children have been enjoying book week so far. We have had some really interesting visits from authors and it was great to meet Paul Geraghty! We are looking forward to our theatre workshops tomorrow.

Going on a Book Week parade...

Finding unusual and different places to share poems!

Meeting 'Alfie' (the tortoise from Esio Trot!) and reading his secret message.

Favourite books

Some photos of our Teddy Bear Day!

We read stories to our bears...

We built models and home for them...

We played games with them...

...and drew pictures for them!

Making vehicles for the bears to travel on!

One activity that we did was to make close observational drawings of our Teddy Bears. Here are some of them...

We loved bringing our bears to school!



A bear 'snow mobile!'

Teddy Bear maths- solving real life problems involving sorting, counting, adding and measuring.

Teddy Bear Day!

Dear Parents                                   10.2.16

As our theme for the first two weeks of next half term is ‘teddy bears’, we would like to ask the children to bring in one of their teddy bears to show the class, on Monday 22^nd February  (the first Monday back at school). The item should be clearly named.

 Many Thanks

Early Years Staff