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**We still have limited spaces for Pre-school and Nursery for September 2026. Please call for more information 01353 664742**

Summer

Week 1

This week our topic has been to Explore and talk about different forces that the children can feel. 

We have been reading "Commotion in the Ocean" and have been practicing many songs such as "Five little fishes" ready to sing to our parents at rhyme time.

We have been using different forces such as pushing painted bubble warp onto paper to create patterns on our starfish. Dropping Lego from a height to observe gravity pulling it down. We have stretched, twisted and pulled playdough to make an ocean scene, showing how applied force can change its appearance. We have been wrapping wool around some fish templates, pulling it tight as we go. 

We have worked out that objects can not move on their own and have watched a car roll down a ramp due to gravity, and pushed a ball to our friends using our pushing force. 

Our tuff tray contained lots of goo and we used tweezers and nets to rescure the animals that were stuck.

Week2

This week our topic has been to explore and talk about different forces the children can feel. 

We have continued to read "Commotion in the Ocean" and learning songs such as " Marine Mammal Boogie song" which the children have found extremly funny. 

This week we created an Ocean themed drawing space under the table to encourage the children to mark make and draw the different Animals that they have been learning about. 

Within our role play area we had a Tea party with different Ocean animals, sharing our food wth Jelly fish, sharks and Angel fish.

In our craft area we used cup cake cases and wool to create Jelly fish, counting the tenticals that we added along the way.

We used our playdough and coloured pasta to make our own versions of a coral reef, talking about the patterns we were making as we created them. 

We explored how different materials react to a magnet, and discussed magnetic force.

Week 3

This week our topic has been to talk about differences between materials and changes they notice.

We have been reading "Sharing a Shell" and have been practicing many songs such as 1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a Fish alive ready to sing to our parents at rhyme time.

There have been many fun activities this week, such as using a magnifying glass and our fingers to discover different patterents and different wyas the shells feel. We have then used our mark making skills to draw a picture of these shells. We used the plaughdough to see if we could make a crab that would fit inside a shell, we added different materials into our small world area as we decided that all materals feel different. We used paper plates and water colours to create and decorate our own shells. 

Outside in our sand pit we created a beach role play area, adding beach balls, plam trees and buckets and spades to build sand castles.

Week 4  

This week our topic has been to talk about the differences between materials and chnages they notice.

We have continued to read "Sharing a Shell" and learning songs such as "The waves in the sea"

This week our focus as been looking at reversible and irreversible changes. We have experimented by freezing water and observing that when it melts, it turns back into water which is a reversible change. When looking at irreversible changes we have mixed the ingredients together to make playdough, but realised that once they are mixed, we cant seperate them back to our individual ingredients again. We also screwed up some paper, and tried to smooth it back aout again, realising that we can not return it too its origional state.

Within our classroom we have created an ice cream shop. Using paper to make different flavours of ice cream, we created our own money and the children enjoyed counting out their money to pay for their ice creams.

Our loose parts were used to create animals that we would find in the Ocean, such as making a Jelly fish from a large shell, stones and sticks. We were able to count the correct amount of Shells to place in our buckets, matching the shells to the number on the bucket.

While outside we continued to enjoy our role play beach area, and used some of the sand to mix with glue, to create a realsitic sand castle painting.  

Rhyme Time words
 Week 1-
Our topic for this week and next week is to learn that different animals live in different habitats, compare and contrast.   
 
This week we have been reading the "Monkey Puzzle" story and learning that different plants and animals live in different habitats. We have been talking about the woodlands and the children have recognised that there are lots of trees and plants that grow in the woodlands. We have discussed that some of the animals such as owls, foxes, bats and hedgehogs are Nocturnal and that means that when we are asleep, they are awake. 
We have been using our cutting and sticking skills to create woodland pictures at night time, and the children picked which animal they had included in their picture. 
 
We have been using various materials, such as grass, moss, straw and fabric to create our own small world habitats and discuss the differences between a farm and the woodlands. 
 
As the weather has been nice this week we have enjoyed being outside playing group games such as "Duck duck goose", supporting their listening skills and ability to follow instructions and their gross motor skills.
 
Thank you to those of you that joined us for our rhyme time session on Friday. For those who couldn't make it we have been sending our song sheets home so that you can join in with your child's learning at home.