Summer Term Week 9

One of our favourite weeks of the year – our butterflies appeared over the weekend with the warm weather and we released them into the Forest School garden on Tuesday afternoon, with a lovely party and picnic and story and face paint! The children absolutely loved watching the butterflies fly away and there are extra videos and photos on Tapestry for you to have a look at with the children too, so sorry to anyone who missed out on that afternoon but once they emerge the butterflies have to be released in a couple of days.

Our circle focus has been numbers this week, and we have created lots of different games and activities to support learning and we have lots of brilliant observations to share with the key workers as they start to complete the special book ready for giving to families at the graduation celebration at the end of the term.

The Sun and Moon groups have been representing numbers, counting and subitising, linking numerals to amounts, tricky bingo, shape and number cutting games, making and adding big numbers using numicon, knocking down a tower and counting how many bricks fell and adding two totals together and also looking at how clocks use numbers too.

The Star children have also been working on their number skills too, they have had a number hunt, shape and number sorting tray in foam, counting wooden blocks, and number songs! The Stars have had Forest School sessions on Thurs and Fri am and the photos are so wonderful!

We have visited St Andrew’s School this week for a lovely trip which the children enjoyed and two teachers from Willowbank have also visited us too so the feeling of a transition ahead is real!

We have been building rivers with planks and gutters and tubes all week which has been great for imaginative play and solving problems and for getting very wet!

Inside we have been exploring colour and making rainbows all week, ready to use in our display for the fete on Saturday! Come along and support us – 11.30am – 2pm – so much to do and eat and drink and enjoy and we hear the weather will be great too!