Spring Term Week 7

Welcome back to the second half of the Spring Term! Another very busy time for us with lots of trips and visits and fun plans ahead.

We will be celebrating World Book Day next week by wearing pyjamas for Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday and we will be taking the Moons to the library on Tuesday and the Sun group on Wednesday which will be lovely.

Our planning next week has a lovely literacy focus with fairy tale play outside and exploring books inside, along with circle times that promote a love of reading and stories and some dressing up and role paly too.

This week we have been learning all about growth and change –

Sun and Moon groups – have planted cress and sunflowers, learnt about plant sequencing and life cycles, read books about the garden and how plants grow, frog life cycle and spring yoga and how we grow from being a baby to being old – some very funny conversations about being old and who is old! Two very sweet drawings of me – with grey hair!

The Star group have enjoyed stories about growth such as Jasper’s beanstalk and the Hungry Caterpillar, looked at animal matching cards with the baby animals and parents, enjoyed a butterfly dance and looked at chickens hatching too.

It has been great fun outside, tidying and sorting the garden, planting some bulbs and having a sort out.

Forest School has returned with some nice warm weather and we are so excited that we have two hedgehogs in our little home who are hibernating – and the children could hear them snoring!

We also had a lovely visit from Robot Reg who is a delightful little character who comes along with his lady Rebecca to visit and give a little phonics session – the sessions are great for introducing phonics but are about so much more than that too. It is about meeting new people, learning their rules for the session, being engaged and excited by something new and the children LOVED it! Rebecca was also very complimentary about the children and how they listened and took part and their skills impressed her very much!

Robot Reg will be coming back every Thursday and Friday afternoon for 4 weeks.