Week 1
This term our topic is 'Growing and Changing'. This week we have been reading the story 'The Runaway Pancake'. We have been making faces on pictures of pancakes and colouring in pictures of the story.
The children have all set some cress seeds in their own pot and are checking them daily to see if they need more water and to see if there is any change to the seeds. We have started to prepare our garden area outside. Children helped to pull up the weeds and then on one area we sprinkled wildflower seeds.
Week 2
This week we started our new reading book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children have used potatoes dipped in paint to print their own caterpillars, they then added googly eyes and drew on some legs. We have had some caterpillars delivered and keep checking them regularly to see how much they have grown. At carpet time we have been talking about what the children can do now that they couldn't do when they were babies.
On Wednesday we joined an online story 'Ten Tiny Squirrels' which was read by the author who wrote the book Kael Tudor.
Week 3
This week we have continued to read 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children are really enjoying the story and have been acting out the story with the stick puppets. We have continued to talk about how they have changed since they were born and what they can do now that they couldn't do when they were babies.
This week we noticed that the sunflowers were starting to grow so we talked about what they need to help them grow, the children were able to tell us that they needed water and light. We have some caterpillars in our class and the children like to look at them daily to see how much they have grown and are eager for them to change.
In forest school this week the children made some seed bombs that have now been added to our wildflower garden. They also had a lot of fun on the rope swing.
