Ladybirds

This week we have been looking at transport with lots of vehicle play, creating collages and digging in the dry and wet sand. The babies created lots of different tracks in the sand and paint using all the different toys that they have to play with. It was lots of fun and we got very messy! Next week we will be celebrating Shrove Tuesday and making our own collage pancakes, lots of role play with mixing and patting and eating pour own pancakes too.

Butterflies

This week we have been exploring different textures such as jelly, gloop (corn flour mixed with water), oats, lentils and damp sand. We talked about how the different textures felt and used words like “bumpy” and “scratchy” to describe them. We explored using words like “rough” and “smooth” and “wet” and “dry”. Our 2 year old’s have been mark making using different objects and we spoke about what shapes and patterns they made. Next week we will be dressing up as our favourite character from our favourite stories for World Book Day.

Bumblebees

This week the Bumblebees have been doing lots of activities based on our theme, which was DIY! We have made playdough houses, played with the doll house and pretended to be builders that could fix the houses. We were very good at using a hammer and managed to hammer all the bits of our house together. We talked about how we could build a house and what our houses look like at home. Next week we will be starting to Spring into life with some Spring activities and celebrate World Book Day.

Dragonflies

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Orange

Pentagon

Yy

This week we have been very busy doing various activities. Spring is almost here and we have started looking at growth and what plants and flowers need to grow. We have been planting and experimenting with lettuce to see how we can change its colour. We have been cooking again and using our fine motor skills to knead and mould the dough. Next week we will be having a flipping good time and having a pancake race for Shrove Tuesday and seeing who wins the race. We will also be dressing up for World Book Day. Don’t forget to bring your favourite soft toy and story to read!

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Ladybirds

This week I Ladybirds our theme of the week was senses. We did some fun activities, making smoothies, touching different textures such as oats, lentils, flour and lentils and a lot more fun things! Next week our theme of the week is transport and St David’s day. Lots of bright Daffodils will be decorating our room. We will be painting Daffodils, and using collage to make emergency vehicles.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we been doing lots of art work for our new displays including flowers, spiders, using a variety of textures, to make our art area look amazing. We have also been enjoying the warmer weather and spending lots of time in the garden. Next week we are hoping that the good weather continues so that we can go on another walk, whilst also focusing on our colours for our colour themed week.

Bumblebees

This week we have welcomed our new furniture in the room and had lots of time in the garden whilst the sun had got his hat on. We have also started to learn about new colours for our new theme. Next week we will be constructing lots of 3d structures using our small and large scale blocks.

Dragonflies

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Blue

Oval

Qq

This week we have been out on a walk together which was lots of fun. We have also been using our senses to touch, smell and taste various fruit and vegetables. This the links in nicely with our healthy eating theme Next week we will be putting on our gardening aprons and planting various seed to watch them start to grow and tidying up our garden for the start of Spring.

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Ladybirds

This week we’ve created lots of lovely valentines activities including painting love heart bunting, painting our little toes to create hearts, pink spaghetti play which got very messy and cooking heart shaped biscuits! They were very yummy and the babies seemed to enjoy them! Next week we are exploring our senses through different tough trays, scented texture and taste play.

Butterflies

This week has been our valentines themed week, we made cards for our mummy’s and daddy’s, cooked heart shaped biscuits, valentine jelly play and scented valentines play dough. We have also had lots of creative mark making out and have been encouraging our Butterflies to talk about what they have drew, it’s been fantastic listening to there imagination! With our over two’s we took them to the smart board in Dragonflies to have fun mark making! Next week is Vehicle themed week, we will be doing many activities with all kinds of transport including painting, truck muddy tuff trays and cars in the sand!

Bumblebees

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Purple

Circle

K

In bumblebee’s this week we’ve continued to look at Chinese new year reading stories, Chinese tuff trays and colouring! We’ve also made some beautiful valentines cards for our mummy’s and daddy’s and talking about what valentines day is. Little bee’s made moon sand, played hop scotch and we went to the field to play ball games. Big bee’s (3+) have also learnt a story on the smartboard about Chinese new year traditions. We also looked at matching numerals and quantity. We also had great fun in a fantastic science activity using Mento’s and coke science experiment to make predictions on what reaction we might see. Next week we are having colours week! We will be looking at numbers, recognizing numbers and going on a number hunt. We will also look at another reaction, bicarb and vinegar!

Dragonflies

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Pink

Crescent

V

In Dragonflies we have continued to do activities relating to Chinese new year. We have learnt how Chinese new year started with villagers scaring away the monster Nian, with noise light and the colour red. We have made pigs using tanagrams and made a Chinese palace from junk modelling. To celebrate valentines day the children have been making cards for their families and baked lovely heart shaped biscuits. Next week we will be looking at different foods that we eat and doing some tasting sessions!

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Ladybirds

This week we have had a fantastic time exploring Chinese New year. We looked at gold and red tissue paper play and decorated paper lanterns to hang up. Noodles were the order of the day for a sensory experience and we made yummy spring rolls to nibble on. Next week we are going to be celebrating Valentine’s day with lots of lovely activities to take part in.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have been doing lots of Chinese New Year activities including making lanterns, fortune cookies and our own ‘Year of the pig’ biscuits! We have also begun making our Valentines cards (shhhh it’s a secret!) and also making some heart shaped arts and crafts surprises too. Next week we will continue with the Valentines activities and we will also do some more cooking, including making Valentines biscuits and chocolate rice crispies cakes.

Bumblebees

This week in Bumblebees we have been doing lots of Chinese New Year related activities. We have made lanterns, dragon masks and messed about in noodle play. We have also read some Chinese stories. Next week we will be continuing with the Chinese New Year and getting ready for Valentine’s Day too.

Dragonflies

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Yellow

Hexagon

Cat

This week we have been learning about other Celebrations from Around the World by looking at our books in the role play area. We have been looking at Chinese New Year by making a Dragon, fans, Pigs for the animal of the year, lanterns and flags. Next week we will be looking at Valentine’s day and using some of our body parts to make pictures too.

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Ladybirds

This week we’ve been looking at natural materials. We’ve had so much fun exploring the world around us and using all our senses, listening to nature’s noises, rubbing with leaves to create a pattern and feeling the texture of twigs. We’ve been leaf painting, looking at the colours we may use for leaves. On Friday we also made biscuits for Burns Night and the staff read us a poem. Next week: our theme is Mark Making, this gives us lots of opportunities to get busy and messy, participating in large scale mark making using our whole bodies, as well as making marks to music and chalking on the ground outside.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we’ve got messy with lots of sensory play, making and exploring playdough as well as feeling the individual ingredient within the play dough. Dry pasta play and listening to the noise it makes when you pour it and creating marks within slimy cornflour! Our two-year olds have been very focus on self-care, exploring this using our role play, dressing and undressing babies as well as bathing and feeding them. We’ve got into character a few times and even pretended to be ‘Mummies’ On Friday we made Scottish flags to celebrate Burn’s night! Next week: Next week we are looking at the different weather, using the outside area to play some fun winter games to keep us warm, as well as exploring the leaves and going for a bug hunt! We’re also starting to look at Chinese New Year which is fast approaching and will make lots of art work for.

Bumblebees

Ii

4

Pink

Crescent

This week in Bumblebees we’ve had so much fun looking at the artic weather conditions and the animals which survive in these environments. We’ve had many messy tuff trays with arctic animals, using flour as snow mountains and exploring with ice play. We’ve also experimented to see how long the ice takes to melt as well as an ice cube tower competition! We’ve used the smartboard to look at facts about artic animals and arctic weather. Bumblebees have also enjoyed watching a poem for Burns Night on the smart board as well as becoming very creative when decorating out Scottish flags! Next week: Our theme is tropical rainforest where we will be creating beautiful pictures based on the animals that we find there. We’ve got lovely sensory tuff trays as well as books to use to learn more about the rainforest.

Dragonflies

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Red

Triangle

POT

This week in Dragonflies we’ve been learning everybody is unique. Looking at different people around the world, exploring what’s different between people, talking and learning about cultures, traditions and jobs. As well as this we looked a different skin colour, eye colour, hair colour etc. Creating beautiful arts and crafts for our Around the World board. Dragonflies have loved learning about new and different people. We’ve also baked vegetable samosas we made ourselves. For Burns Night we listened to a poem as well as a short video that told us all about what Burns Night was. We also encouraged children to draw their own flags! Next week we will use our smartboard to learn about Chinese New Year, the year of the pig! Learning about why we have Chinese New Year and the different traditions that come with it. We will also be creating beautiful lanterns, which we will need to follow instructions very carefully to do using out fine motor skills.

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Ladybirds

This week has been all about shapes! We have done shape collages, had a shape hunt around the garden and painted some beautiful shape pictures. We Have also been on a Winter walk to blow away the cobwebs. Next week is nature week. We’ll be doing lots of leaf painting, twig painting, nature exploring and sensory trays.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have been looking at lots of different textures. We had a dinosaur tuff tray with lots of messy textures and practised our roaring too! We have also done texture collages to put up around the room to make it look smart. Next week we will be doing junk modelling, making our own animals, structures or anything else we want to do.

Bumblebees

Tt

3

Yellow

Hexagon

This week we have been looking at under the sea. We have made lots of fish and sea creatures from under the sea. We even made a giant octopus that has long tentacles coming out towards you. We also made a puppet aquarium to play with and sing lots of fishy songs as we do it.

Dragonflies

Ff

17

Silver

Star

This week we have continued with our occupation them, talking about what different jobs entail and making some creative collages too. Cooking this week was banana Cake which cooked beautifully for us. Next week we will be looking at the topic ‘People Around the World’, talking about how different peoples lives are and what different clothes they wear and the food that they eat as well. We may even cook something different from a different continent too.

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Ladybirds

This week in our Ladybird room we have had lots of new year fun, getting out and about in the garden to get some VERY fresh air! We have been looking at different colours and using our artistic skills to produce some fine works of art. Tissue paper collages and lots of different textures to explore too. Next week we will be looking at shapes, using painting, shape sticking and lots more messy things to play with.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have had lots of fun creating our own insects on bugs. We have also been getting messy with corn flour play and dinosaur tuff trays. We have been exploring a sensory tray with lots of different textures in it and using our feet as well as our hands to touch it with. Next week we will be looking at mark making using different objects.

Bumblebees

This week in Bumblebees we have been learning all about all the different dinosaurs that there were. Did you know that there were flying dinosaurs as well as walking and swimming ones too! We have been reading books about dinosaurs and learning all the facts about them. It’s very interesting and we even did a lovely display that we are showing all our parents they come to pick us up.

Dragonflies

Ff

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Silver

Star

This week in Dragonflies we have been focusing on our parents and what their occupations are. We would love to invite our parents in to talk about their jobs and so we can learn about what they do in the working day. We built a large lorry using cardboard and drove it around while we played. We have learnt about people that help us and and carrying on with our jolly phonics, Math’s and Literacy. We will be continuing with occupations next week and doing some baking too!

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Ladybirds

This week in Ladybirds we have been focusing on Christmas activities, such as finger print snowballs, Christmas dinner collage, rice crispies cakes and lots more festive fun. We have been having lots of outdoor fun in our garden, climbing on our climbing frame and rolling the ball to one another. All of our babies are enjoying the Christmas songs Next Monday we are having a pajama day with party food to have at lunchtime!!

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies has been our Christmas planning week and we have enjoyed making animal shapes in the snow play, exploring the different textures on our sensory table and making Christmas decorations and gifts to give to our Mummies and Daddies. We have also been getting creative and made Father Christmas hand prints, Christmas cottages and snowy footprint paintings. Next week we will be leading up to Christmas with our party lunch and games and don’t forget to wear your PJ’s on Christmas Eve.

Bumblebees

Ff

17

Star

Silver

We have had an amazing build up to Christmas day, making lots of presents for our Mummies and Daddies, making decorations for the room and not 1 but 2 festive music sessions with Jo. Next week will be a bit more relaxed with a pajama party on Monday and some party games to finish off the festive fun.

Dragonflies

Uu

15

Light green

Pentagon

This week we have been making salt dough shapes, nativity scenes and baking and icing Christmas cakes. Jo has visited us TWICE this week and we have been dancing to lots of Christmas songs. Slow songs, fast songs and imbetweeny songs to boogey to .Look out for your Christmas presents and cards that that we have made for you. We have concentrated very hard to make sure that our presents are the very best we can do Next week we will be having a Christmas party at lunchtime as we dance in our pajamas together.

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Ladybirds

This week it’s been all about tinsel, lots of painting, tinsel gluing and sparkly tinsel to play with. Our babies loved the different colours, the sparkles and the soft textures. Did you know that tinsel is very tickly?! Next week is our cooking week and we will be making lots of yummy Christmas treats to send home. The Ladybird team are even having our own festive bake off!

Butterflies

This week has been our Winter theme. We have done Winter Wonderland trays, talking about the different types of weather that we get in Winter. Frost, fog, cold wind, snow and sleet are just some of the weathers that we talked about in our circle time. We also had lots of fine motor skills for our 2 year old Butterflies, including picking up different natural resources e.g. pinecones and leaves with tweezers. Next week is the beginning of our Christmas theme we are having lots of Christmas tuff trays , including flour and animals, an arctic tray with icing sugar and a different texture tray, using Christmas decorations.

Bumblebees

Bb

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Rectangle

Bronze

This week has been all about Christmas. We have sung our hearts out for our performance at the bandstand. We will be meeting Father Christmas and have made lots of presents to take home next week. Next week we will keep up with the festive spirit, by making more Christmas decorations, tree building and Winter role play.

Dragonflies

Oo

14

Dark Blue

Oval

This week we are exploring the new layout of our classroom and been making our surprises for Mummies and Daddies, ready for Christmas. We are still being visited by the elf, who is getting up to all sorts of mischief. We are also very excited about our Nativity this week and have made an extra effort to sing our songs the very best that we can. Oh and Father Christmas is coming too!

Next week we will be cooking Christmas cakes, making salt dough decoration’s for our trees at home and doing lots of fun festive activities as well.

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Ladybirds

This week in ladybirds we have had  lot of fun being creative and have created lots of Christmas artwork for our displays for you to see. We have made beautiful Robin collages, painted stockings for the chimney and have made some very Christmassy wreaths. Please do make sure you take a look when picking your little ones up.

Next week is our tinsel week, we will not only be painting with tinsel but also looking at the different texture of pictures it can make along with the sensory feel of it.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have had lots of fun getting Christmassy. We’ve created lots of beautiful art work including making snowmen, beautiful Christmas wreaths and ball balls for our displays! Our over 2 years have also joined in with the Christmas cheer participating in the arts and crafts as well as counting snowflakes and starting to count beyond 5!

Next week we will be continuing with our Christmas theme and you never know we may even be making some little surprises for you for Christmas. We also have a Christmas stay and play on Tuesday with lots of fun Christmas music, activities and games, we look forward too seeing you all there!

Bumblebees

Letter of the week is F

Number of the weeks is 17

Shape of the week is star

Colour of the week: Gold

This week we have been looking at winter sports Olympics, learning about the variety of sports such as skiing and sledging. We’ve used the smartboard to watch video’s of the different sporting events. We used small world people in an ice tray to role play skiing, the children used there imagination and got stuck in!

We’ve also had lots of fun getting creative with Christmas decorations such as, Christmas trees, snowflakes and Santa’s. We cant wait for father Christmas to see our beautiful work next Friday when he comes to visit!

In our science this week we’ve made bird feeders and have also made our own musical instruments to see what different sounds we can create!

Dragonflies

Letter of the week: G

Shape of the week: Cresent

Number of the week: 13

Colour of the week: Green

In dragonflies this week we’ve begun to transform our room with our beautiful Christmas art work, we’ve become little artists, creating the most wonderful Christmas wreaths and tree’s. We’ve also made very cute pictures of gingerbread men, candy canes and Christmas crackers. We continued with our Christmas spirit when cooking mince pies, we made the pastry ourselves, learning about where the different ingredients come from. Science this week we made our own bubbles using socks to create patterns and looking at the different shapes we could make! We also added different food dye to milk, watching it all separates once we’ve added a drop of washing us liquid, we found this very fascinating!

We’ve also continued to work very hard on our Christmas play and can’t wait for you all to watch next Friday!

Next week we are continuing with our Christmas cheer, making lots more decorations, becoming little elf’s in our soon to be Christmas grotto and meeting father Christmas on Friday! We will also be making special little gifts for Mums and Dads as well as performing our amazing Christmas play we have worked so hard on!

Our science next week we will be making some beautiful salt crystals and looking at melting objects such as ice, making predictions!

We will get our chefs hats on next week and create some marshmallow snowmen biscuits to take home!

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