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Our class Butterflies
Posted on May 22, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We started with tiny caterpillars that we watched turn into chrysalis and then hatch into butterflies. Then Cranford and Sunflowers went out onto the field to set them free before the holiday.
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (4)
Posted on May 20, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In this book, a noun that we discussed was ‘lift’. Errol used a lift to get to the roof in the block of flats. Sunflowers really enjoyed listening to the poem “Uplifting” by Joseph Coelho and we are learning the words and actions to this poem. In order to understand what a lift was, there […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (3)
Posted on May 18, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In order to connect to this book, Sunflowers walked around the School and we talked about all the different plants and flowers we saw.
Teeny Weeny Tadpole in story dough
Posted on May 15, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In Story dough we made ponds, frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets and frogs out of play dough and we talked about the life cycle of a frog. We are developing our pretend play, creativity and understanding the world.
Making Patterns Together in Maths
Posted on May 15, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In maths we have been talking about identifying patterns eg. Stripes on clothes and wallpaper designs. We have created and tried to extend an ABAB pattern showing some organisation and regularity. We have experimented with two or three repeating items or colours.
EYFS Continuous Provision
Posted on May 14, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We were very excited to find real visitors in our tuff tray. We learnt that they were likely to be toads as they were brown with a bumpy skin. At the maths table we had the challenge of making ladybugs and then counting their spots.
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (2)
Posted on May 14, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In this Love of Reading Book, Errol was sad because he lived in a block of flats and had no garden🪴 . Sunflowers decided that they would make Errol a window box full of beautiful flowers 🌷 🌺 🌹.
Music in sunflowers
Posted on May 13, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Today we had music in sunflowers. The children chose different instruments to play and tried really hard to play in time with the music, we really enjoyed singing along too.
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (1)
Posted on May 8, 2026 | By soyarzabal
The action words (verbs) that Sunflowers learnt in this Love of Reading Book were “grow“ , “water” and “dreamed”. The seeds then began to ‘grow’ and we imagined the different coloured flowers the seeds would grow into pink, yellow, red and purple. Errol “dreamed” of a garden. We pretended to ‘dream’ of a garden with […]
Story dough ~ The very hungry caterpillar
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By soyarzabal
This week in story dough our story is the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We learned about life cycles. We made a tiny egg on a leaf, then a caterpillar, then a cocoon, then a beautiful butterfly.
Story dough ~Fran’s Flower
Posted on May 1, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Last week in story dough our story was Fran’s Flower. We learned to roll and shape petals and leaves, using our fine and gross motor skills. Some of us made plant pots with soil in, out of play dough. We also mixed colours, talking about what colours we could make out of play dough.
Welcome Summer Term
Posted on April 30, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision we have enjoyed playing to learn outside in the sunshine ☀️
Sunflowers at Rosemoor
Posted on April 29, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers had a lovely time exploring the gardens of Rosemoor and it was great fun using the play equipment :- In the afternoon Sunflowers took part in a workshop where we planted peas and learnt all about bees 🐝:-
Rosemoor trip – Cranford Class
Posted on April 28, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Cranford and Sunflowers visited Rosemoor today. We learnt all about bumble bees. We looked around the beautiful gardens and had fun in the parks. We had a great day.
Continuous Provision 🐣 🐰
Posted on April 1, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed playing to learn in our outside area:-
Baby lambs
Posted on March 26, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Today Farmer Samuel took us to his Grandparent’s farm. We had an amazing time. They showed us around the sheep with their lambs, we collected the eggs from the chickens. The calves loved sucking our fingers. We went for a walk to see the sheep and lambs in the fields. Finally we fed some of […]
Story dough Beegu
Posted on March 24, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Last week in story dough our story was Beegu. We created Beegu and her spaceship using our fine motor and gross motor skills. We retold the story and talked about friendship and kindness. Some of our new words we learned were: lonely, scared, earth, people, happy, kind.
Exploring Continuous Provision
Posted on March 19, 2026 | By soyarzabal
Anyone for golf ⛳️ ? We had fun having a game of golf and creating a golf course. This activity helped to improve our hand eye coordination and we are good at taking it in turns.
Playing to Learn
Posted on March 16, 2026 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision whilst we have been playing to learn, we have enjoyed using our imagination and communicating with each other.
Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (2)
Posted on March 12, 2026 | By soyarzabal
We had fun finding nouns in the book and then we had the challenge of creating a sentence using the noun which we all repeated. “Dylan says you eat ‘tomatoes’” “Ella has a ‘dress’ in her drawer” “Phoebe says she’s seen a hat at her house and in the shops” We had great fun “trying […]