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

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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

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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

17

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

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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

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18

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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Ladybirds

This week in Ladybirds we have enjoyed a mark making theme. This included large scale collaging and mark making in the flour. Next week we are starting our Winter Wonderland theme and preparing for the Christmas season. Get your cotton wool at the ready!!

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies has been our texture theme. We have had different texture tuff trays and gluing and sticking with all sorts of different kinds of things in them. Hay, stones, wooden bark and jelly are just some of the things we explored. Next week is the start of our Christmas theme, starting to make our decorations and Christmas displays. It’s FINALLY here!

Bumblebees

Ii, 16, Circle, Gold

This week we have been looking at Winter. This has included walking in the snow (Flour!) and making fingerprint snowmen. We have also made lots of Snowflakes. Next week we will be looking at Winter sports and getting ready for Christmas.

Dragonflies

Dd, 12, Light Blue, Hexagon

This week we have been cooking rice crispies cakes which the children thought were delicious. We have also started our Christmas crafts ready for the build up to Christmas. Look out for our Christmas tree, painted and decorated by the children. Later in the week we will be carrying out some science experiments to make goo and slime.. Next week we will be making Christmas decorations to put up in our room, baking mince pies and setting up Father Christmas’s grotto in our role play area. Exciting times!

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Ladybirds

This week in ladybirds our theme has been book week and we have read We are going on a bear hunt story, a Gruffalo tuff tray, which we all loved exploring and we also had a puppet show !We have also done painting ad chalking and lots of sensory messy play with rice, lentils. Next week our theme of the week we will be painting our walls and table top painting too!

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have been looking at different textures. We had a walk in tuff tray that we could feel different textures under our feet. Some of the things in the tray made our feet tickle! We have also started doing some festive displays and decorations to get ourselves in the  mood. Angel delight, pasta, rice jelly……all just part of the fun in our room. Next week we will be looking at colours.

Bumblebees

Uu, 15, Pentagon, Light green

This week in Bumblebees we have been looking at ‘space’. We made a super space rocket and we went to the moon and other planets in our solar system. Did you know that Mars is hot and dusty and has yearlong storms? We also made planets and moon sand too. Next week our theme is Winter. We will be making snowflakes and snowmen. We will also be practising our festive songs for our concert.

Dragonflies

Mm, 11, Square, Brown, mat

This week we have been very busy with our various activities such as balloon faces, bubble painting, puzzles and much more. We have started looking at Winter, now that the colder weather has set in. We also used our body parts to make snowman and reindeer paintings. Next week we will be looking at dinosaurs before we change our theme of the month RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

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Ladybirds

This week in Ladybirds our theme of the has been music. We have been making music with pots and pans and painting and making noise shakers. Tissue paper play was fun too and we also played with pasta and rice in the tuff tray. Next week our theme is ‘The Tiger that came to Tea’. A lovely book which we are going to read along with the ‘Gruffalo’ and ‘We are going on a Bear Hunt’

Butterflies

Our theme of the week in Butterflies had been Remembrance week and we made our own poppies and decorated our display board in our room. We have also been looking at children in need and decorating our own Pudsy’s. We have been getting very messy in colourful jelly, making cakes for the cake sale and generally enjoying ourselves! Next week is our texture week where we will be exploring lots of different materials in and around the room.

Bumblebees

Gg, 13, crescent, Green

This week we have been looking at Remembrance day. We have made lots of decorations and lots of different kinds of poppies with our hands in the paint and paper plates. We also made poppies out of play dough and tissue paper and coloured them in.We made different colours using cornflour and different coloured paint and made some beautiful pictures together.Next week the fun continues as we explore space.

Dragonflies

Rr, 10, fog, Grey, circle

This week we have been very busy. We have been looking at Remembrance Sunday and we became creative by making our own poppies, using our hands in the paint. We also wore spots for our Children in need fundraiser as well as taking part in the colouring competition. Next week we will be looking at Winter and make some junk modelling models to take home

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Ladybirds

This week we have started our firework and bonfire night artwork. Creating collages, splatter painting on a large scale and making yummy chocolate, shredded wheat bonfires. We scooped and mixed, using small spoons and big spoons and had lots of fun splashing the ingredients on to the table.Nest week is our music week, with lots of dancing, singing and moving our bodies to the music. Also its our Children in Need day on Thursday!!

Butterflies

This week the Butterflies have been focussing on our Bonfire Night and Firework theme. We have made firework pictures and bonfires for our display, gluing and sticking and using different textures to make our wonderful pictures. Next week is our Remembrance theme where we will be making lots of colourful poppies and soldiers to put on our display board. Pugsy Bear day too next Thursday!!

Bumblebees

G  13  crescent  Dark Green

This week in Bumblebees we have been taking part in our bonfire and firework activities. We made fireworks out of rice, drawing the houses, bungalows and flats

that we all live in and doing our own self-portraits.

Next week we will be focussing on Remembrance day and making poppies to remember the wars. Thursday will be a Children in Need day of celebration and raising money

for this worthwhile charity.

Dragonflies

H  9  White  Rectangle

We have been very busy this week making poppies, fireworks and dinosaurs to go in our dinosaur land. We have made dinosaur pictures that we have named after us,

using our hands to make the shape of the different dinosaurs. No day is the same in our room!

Next week we will make play dough dinosaurs using pasta and spaghetti and as a work in progress we are making a large scale dinosaur, making salt dough dinosaurs,

dinosaur skeletons and dinosaur ice eggs. We will also remember those that fought in the world wars and on Thursday we will be going crazy with Pugsy bear for Children in Need

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Ladybirds

This week we had lots of spooky fun making bat pictures, pumpkin paintings and sensory activities with jelly filled pumpkins.

Next week we will be looking at bonfire night and all the beautiful colours and shapes the fireworks make. We will be making a large scale fireworks display, rockets, bright collages and splatter painting.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we have been getting creative and messy with Halloween fun. We have made lots of spooky ghosts, pumpkins and spiders. We have also had lots of spooky texture trays Next week we will be focussing on Bonfire night and fireworks. We will be doing lots of arts and crafts for our display board and also making our own bonfire pictures.

Bumblebees

This week in Bumblebees we have been in full Halloween mode by carving pumpkins, having a Halloween disco, making a witch to hang up from our ceiling with spiders too!

We have also been having lots of fun playing in our pumpkin patch.

Next week its Bonfire Night and we will be dressing up nice and warm to play Bonfire night together in the garden. Just look out for the pictures we will be doing as well.

Dragonflies

This week we have carved a pumpkin and pulled letters out of a witches cauldron. We have also cooked flapjacks that we enjoyed taking home. We have been moulding our pumpkin playdough and wearing Halloween costumes to dance a spooky dance.

Next week we are taking on a large scale project of making and painting an enormous dinosaur too!

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