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!