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

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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.