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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Ladybirds

This week in ladybirds we have been focused on Halloween. We’ve got really stuck in and enjoy making paper Mache Pumpkins, exploring the textures! We’ve continued to explore textures as colours as we make a collage witches cauldrons. We’ve made the most of the weather and used the opportunity to explore the beautiful autumn leaves and vegetables in our play!

Next week we will continue with the Halloween theme, getting ready for our fun filled Halloween party where we will be dressed up as pumpkins and enjoying some party games followed by a party tea! We will be focusing on pumpkins, looking at a variety of different types and shapes of pumpkins and painting real pumpkins!

Butterflies

This week our 1 year olds have been exploring a variety of differently textures, encouraging them to engage in new experiences and explore new languages such as ‘soft’ ‘sticky’ ‘wet’ ‘dry’ ect, they’ve had a fantastic time getting stuck in and messy. They’ve explored Halloween themed Jelly play, an animal in ice tray and a textures playdough play with pasta! They’ve been building there fine and gross motor skills through pouring water into different sized containers throughout water play. Fine motor skills have been practiced whilst threading.

Our 2 years old’s have been looking as categorizing, using colour bowls to sort coloured pom poms, looking at different heights and identifying different sizes ‘big’ ‘small’ With our two year old’s we’ve also been exploring the textures alongside the little ones but in  more depth and using more vocabulary, as well as this we have also been learning about turn taking within the activities and being able to play alongside our friends.

Next week are going full force with our Halloween week, on Wednesday we will be dressing up as characters from Charlie and the chocolate factory ready for a fun filled day of arts and crafts and party games! We will also be having a spooky Halloween tea party!

Bumblebees

Letter: M

Shape: Square

Colour: Brown

Number 11

This week in bumblebees we have been getting our hands dirty and getting as messy as possible, exploring different textures as well as introducing a storyline to the small world messy play, we had a room on the broom tuff tray! We’ve been making lots of Halloween decorations to make our room as spooky as possible, practicing using our scissors to cut our our work as well as mixing colours to explore what happens.

Next week we will be getting our Halloween groove on.. ready to dress as the Adams family and go full force into our Halloween party mode! We have lots of Halloween arts and crafts, and a yummy spooky tea party! We will be putting our chefs hat on and ready to bake some Halloween treats!

Dragonflies

Letter: C

Number: 7

Colour: purple

Shape: Circle

This week in dragonflies we’ve had lots of fun getting messy with Halloween arts and crafts making spooky but wonderful decorations for the room!

We’ve been practice our motor skills of cutting out shapes such as pumpkins and looking at similar shapes within the environment. We’ve also used out smartboard to learn how pumpkins are grown! We’ve made spooky Halloween gloop, playing with friends and talking about what we feel and the spooky colours we could see changing as they mixed the cornflour together. We made some delicious Halloween shaped biscuits that we took home and enjoyed showing our Mummy and daddy!

Next week we will continue with the Halloween fun, dressing up and getting ready to party! We also have an amazing surprise of a fun filled hour session on a season Halloween special from zoo lab, looking at all the different creatures and listening to the zoo lab witch tell us a spooky story!

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Ladybirds

This week we have been looking at people who help us, we have spent a lot of time looking at transport and encouraging the babies to use their gross and fine motor skills in doing so. We have encouraged them to make the different sounds and noises of the transport. Next week we are going to be doing lots of arts and crafts based on a Halloween theme.

Butterflies

This week we have been exploring music, making our own musical instruments and seeing what sounds we can make from them. With our 2 year old’s we have incorporated these instruments and their sounds in our circle time, using our instruments we have looked and the different concepts of quiet and loud. Next week is the beginning of our Halloween themes where we will be making a new display  and the children will be getting creative in there messy play.

Bumblebees

Letter of the week M

Number of the week  11

Shape of the week Square

Colour of the week Brown

This week we have spent a lot of time within the role play, we have enjoyed being doctors, builders, pilots, police and many more, this has helped us to talk about different occupations using our imagination and with the older children talking about what we want to be when we grow up. Next week we are looking at Halloween and have lots of exciting activities and arts and crafts planned.

Dragonflies

Letter of the week N

Number of the week  6

Shape of the week Pentagon

Colour of the week Orange

This week in dragonflies we have been baking biscuits ready for Halloween using our creativity to designs different patterns. In PE we have been exploring the different ways of movement using an obstacle course and working together to complete different physical activities. Within science this week we had a lot of fun creating ‘fuzzy foam’ looking at chemical reactions of lemon juice and bi-carbonate of soda, we also added new colours each time!

Next week we will continue with Halloween arts and crafts, getting ready for our Halloween party. We will also be looking at lots of group games, learning to work together in pairs and encouraging one another, for example next week we are having a three legged race!

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Ladybirds

This week has been our ‘All around the World’ theme. We have made colourful flags, colourful sensory trays, personal passports and noodle play all the way through the week. Next week is about the ‘ People that help us’. Firemen, policeman, nurses, doctors, ambulance crew are just some of the people that w are going to be looking at.

Butterflies

This week our 1 year old Butterflies have been focussing on preparing our room for our Halloween celebrations. We have made spiders, ghosts, and a big pumpkin! Next week we will be continuing to make our Halloween decorations and will make some Halloween biscuits. This week the 2 year old Butterflies have been looking at different animals. We did a sea life tuff tray and identified the animals and spoke  about where we live and what our houses look like. We all live in very different houses! As well as this we have started to look at baby animals and what they are called.

Bumblebees

Number of the week 10 , Colour is Grey, Shape is Triangle and our sound is Mm

This week we have started our Halloween displays and decorations. We have made bats, ghosts, pumpkins and all things spooky. Next week we will be making a ig pumpkin with all of our little hand prints and maybe some spooky treat ideas for our Halloween party. We have got lots of Halloween ideas for the Halloween party, along with a spooky song that helps us practice our sounds.

Dragonflies

Number of the week 4, Colour is Blue, Shape is crescent and our sound is Pp

This week we have been preparing for Halloween. We have done fruit stamping to make a ghoulish background for our display. Using these stamps we have made pumpkins, witches hats and also glitter pumpkins. We made jam tarts and enjoyed our French lesson with Nadine.

Next week we will be baking spooky Halloween biscuits and fizzing foam in our Science experiment.

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Ladybirds

This week has been our seasons of the year week, with lots of sensory play to represent Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Collages meant that we were got very  messy and we also went out to get some Autumnal fresh air. Next week is our ‘Around the World’ week and we will be making flags of the different countries, suitcase collages, making our own passports ,but most of all having lots of fun!

Butterflies

This week with our 1 year old Butterflies we have been focussing on our nature theme by looking through animal books and talking about where the different animals live. We have also made different  animal pictures about hedgehogs and foxes for our display board. Our 2 year old Butterflies have been looking at volcanoes and we made a volcano tuff tray which we all played with and we even watched it explode! We talked about volcanoes and the sounds that they make too.

We enjoyed it so much that we have decided to do it for another week!

Bumblebees

This week we have been doing lots of Autumn activities, using sticks, leaves and branches that we have collected. We also made windmills to show us how they work and talked about the way they move, how they work and the sounds they might make.

Although it’s a little bit early we have started to prepare ourselves for the Halloween, making lots of pumpkin paintings and colouring in bats.

Dragonflies

This week we carried out a fun experiment by looking at paper cups, string and wet paper towels. The children were fascinated and amused by the quacking noise that it made as they ran the paper up and down the string.

We have also started to make some Halloweeny pictures and objects to decorate our room for our Halloween party.

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Ladybirds

This week in ladybirds we’ve had a ‘bug’ filled week! We’ve made lovely bug pictures, explored bug books, built bug house and even hunted the bug from the sticky jelly, we loved getting messy and stuck in! We’ve made the most of the garden this week exploring the different resources and wrapping up warn in the cold mornings and even using the tents and tunnels!

Next week our theme of the week is looking at the different season changes,  making different season pictures, making nests, handprint hedge hogs, stick pictures and lots more.

Butterflies

This week in our butterflies we have continued with our autumn theme. We’ve made beautiful autnm themed pictures and have created a beautiful display. We’ve also had our chef hats on this week and got stuck into some cooking, preparing of the bake off we made cheese straws and biscuits.

Next week we will be looking at nature, exploring with different natural objects and looking at the things around us. We will be looking at where animals live and making some beautiful art work as well as reading lots of books on nature and animals.

Bumblebees

In bumblebees this we we’ve had some amazing autumn activies, be brought some natural objects in such as sticks to create stick men and made a real portrait of the stick man!

We’ve also become little chefs this week, learning to make cheese straws and talking about where our food comes from. Learning about where cheese comes from!

With our little pre school bee’s we’ve worked really hard on our letter, number, shape and colour of the week. We’ve also spent some time using the smartboard to learn our phonics.

Next week:

We will be venturing into looking into haloween, starting to get a little spooky and start to make some beautiful art work ready to transform our room into a haloween house.

Little pre schools number will be 8, letter will be E, Colour will be Black, Star!

Dragonflies

Last week we celebrated harvest Festival at the church with the children – it was a lovely service and the children performed beautifully.

We became little investigates this week, For our science experiments we made some floating paper flowers and had a go at growing crystals from sugar, water and colouring – with some success! This week we have been talking about Autumn and all the changes that we will see in nature. We have planted some alfalfa seeds on different materials and will be watching with interest to see which side grows the best. The children are practicing changing into their PE kits and have been running races in the garden

Next week we will continue with our Autumn theme doing some leaf rubbings and going on an Autumn walk.

Next week:

shape: square

colour: green

letter: A

Number 2

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Ladybirds

This week we have had lots of fun during our Harvest Festival week. The children have been painting with various root vegetables and we had a lovely early Autumn walk to our local fruit and veg shop where we brought lots of food for the Harvest Festival Celebration. We also brought some bright Sunflowers to make the Harvest Festival display look cheerful.

Next week is bug week and we will be looking at mini beasts in and around the garden. We will be making bug jelly and lots of beastie activities!

Butterflies

This week we have been focussing on getting really messy making Autumn collages, pine cone painting, decorating our own leaves and being generally Autumny. We have also been getting stuck into lots of messy sensory play such as jelly, angel delight, and rainbow cornflour play. Next week we will be exploring more Autumn colours and wrapping up in the colder weather!

Bumblebees

Letter:C
Number:  7
Colour: Purple
Shape: Circle

This week we have been looking at Autumn and especially our Harvest Festival Ceremony at our local church. Our older Bumblebee pre-schoolers performed their songs to the Parents and families and did so well using their big voices in the church. Our little Bumblebees made a Harvest tree using their hands and fingers to make the different coloured leaves. Science experiments will include measuring sound and floating flowers!

Next week we will continue the theme and work on our Autumn display, using our imagination and different objects to make marks. Oh and we will also be making cheese straws!

Dragonflies

Letter: Ss
Number: 1
Colour: Red
Shape: Triangle/
Word of the week is ‘hat’

This week we have been doing lots of singing to prepare for  our Harvest Festival  which went really well. (That’s what all the parents have said!)We have also been getting creative with various arts and crafts.

Next week we will be putting on our Science heads and looking at growing cress and we will also be starting to look at Autumn and how that changes the world around us

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Ladybirds

This week in Ladybirds we have been exploring Autumn colours and textures. We used leaves and sticks as our paintbrushes to make our Autumnal masterpieces. Our pictures look beautiful and we are very proud of them. We used oranges, greens, browns and yellows and had lots of fun mixing them up.

Next week we will looking at the Harvest festival celebration, singing our Harvest Festival songs and exploring different foods in our craft and sensory play.

Butterflies

This week in Butterflies we began our Autumn theme. We have been using dark Autumn colours, leaf painting and talking about the changes in the weather around us. We think the weather is getting colder and we are wearing our coats when we come in first thing in the morning.

Next week we will continue with the Autumn theme and getting out on an Autumn walk, seeing early signs of Autumn, collecting our own leaves to use in our craft activities and generally enjoying the fresh air!

Bumblebees

This week all of the Bumblebees have been looking at rhythm and music and getting our bodies moving! We really enjoyed playing musical statues and showed our teachers good listening ears by freezing when the music stopped. We also played musical bumps which was lots of fun too because we had to sit down as soon as the music stopped.

Next week we will be doing more weather based activities to get us ready for the change in the seasons form Summer to Autumn and talking about the colder weather and what we wear.

Dragonflies

This week we have been practicing for our Harvest Festival Celebration and singing all about the different vegetables that grow in the garden. We have been practicing how to sing loudly and quietly at different parts of the songs. A warm welcome to all the Bumblebee pre-schoolers that have moved through too!

Next week we will continue with our Harvest Festival Celebration that is happening on the 20^th September at St Pauls and Peters Church in Godalming.

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