A week of exciting Easter activities enabled the children to practice their fine and gross motor skills. Making nests, rolling play dough, hiding eggs and using scissors helps the growth and strengthening of children’s bones, muscles and ability to move and touch their surroundings. Some children loved the new stepping stones at the allotments and […]
Following on from the children’s interest in boats after Marj read them a story, a ‘boat’ was built at the allotments. Lots of fish were caught, mainly sharks. Noticing that the church bells were ringing the children observed the minute silence after we explained about the National Day of Reflection on anniversary of first lock
At Forest school this week the children found some sticks and collected different natural items from the floor. After attaching their items on the end of the stick with string, elastic bands or ribbon they made wands. A very long fat worm captured the children’s interest and they carefully made a home for it. Through
Children filled buckets up with flowers, leaves and feathers this week to make cards and pictures for the special people in their lives. They also cut out pictures of flowers to stick on, and painted and printed daffodils. It was great to see everyone back this week and get to know a few new children.
Eager to show off their costumes and excited to share their books we celebrated World Book Day with lots of stories and activities. Focussing on ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ our role play area was set up with a table, chairs, plates, cups and saucers. The children wrote an invitation to their friends and
Milder weather this week allowed us to spend more time outside. In the garden the children enjoyed digging in the sand and using chalk to draw. At the allotments the children played hide and seek, buried their feet in the pebbles, pushed wheelbarrows and washed themselves down with the hosepipe. One afternoon was spent playing
With so many celebrations happening over half term we had to start early! Friday 12th February is the start of the Lunar New Year and the children enjoyed activities such as red rice and chopsticks, matching gold coins and red envelopes, and acting out ‘The Great Race: The story of the Chinese Zodiac’. Sunday 14th
To celebrate National Hedgehog Day on Tuesday 2nd February the children observed photo’s, statues and models of hedgehogs, then made their own. Using a range of different materials such as bread, pears, plasticine and playdough they made lovely unique figures to take home (including a shark and a dinosaur!). Other nocturnal wildlife models in a
To celebrate the Big Garden Birdwatch the children made fat balls to hang up at the allotments, chopped up fruit to put in the garden bird feeders and made birds nests out of spaghetti. On our walk along the railway line we found lots of ice, mud and puddles to explore. Marj helped the children
This weeks outdoor activities included a number hunt, hide the teddy, posting letters and tennis. Back inside the children painted foil fish for the frozen display and listened to a ‘bed time’ story. Using their fine physical skills the children used tongs to pick pom poms up with, and later their mathematical skills to sort
