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Healthy eating.
Posted on April 25, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Today in SCARF Cranford and Sunflowers joined together to learn about healthy eating. We talked about why we need to eat, what foods we eat, the different food groups and how that helps our bodies work. Then we made a banana smoothy, strawberry smoothy and a smoothy made with both strawberries and bananas. At the […]
Bugs, bugs and more bugs!
Posted on April 24, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In forest school this week we went on a search for minibeasts. We made a list of the bugs we found for our writing. Today we started to design our own bug ready for us to find some interesting facts about it. Then hopefully we will be on the BBC like David Attenborough. Using our […]
A Fun Visit from Story Bears
Posted on April 24, 2024 | By soyarzabal | 1 response
Sunflowers enjoyed a fun visit from Story Bears. We joined in with singing and played musical instruments. We played the musical instruments slowly, fast, loudly and quietly. Sunflowers also performed the action song “Hop Little Bunnies Hop, Hop, Hop”. We then acted out the story – we moved fast like the hare and slowly like […]
Fossils
Posted on April 23, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Today we learnt all about fossils. Sir David loved to search out fossils in his younger days. We found out animals and insects can make fossils but also plants can make fossils. We learnt how they are formed. The animal dies, they are then covered in mud and over 1000’s of years more mud/sand covers […]
A Super Start to the Summer Term
Posted on April 22, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In continuous provision, we have had a great time playing to learn at the water tray. It has been fun filling jugs and watering cans with water and then pouring into tubes and down pipes. All these activities help develop our gross motor skills. We communicated with each other to find the best way to […]
Sir David Attenborough
Posted on April 16, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
We are learning about David Attenborough as an inspirational person for our history. We learnt that it was this dream to go and see the animals in their habitat rather than bringing them into the BBC production studio. We found out that David grew up in Leicester with his two brothers. HIs father was […]
What does a plant look like?
Posted on March 27, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In science this term we have been learning about plants and we have finished off our topic using our art to make a plant and label it. We know all the parts of the plant from our forest school sessions, so using that knowledge we used different materials to make our collage.
Happy Easter!
Posted on March 27, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed lots of Easter themed activities.
The Life Cycle of a Frog
Posted on March 25, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In continuous provision we have had the opportunity to learn about the life cycle of a frog and we now understand the key features. It has been interesting to observe the changes in the frogspawn and watch closely the tadpoles and froglets as they move around the curiosity box or outside tuff tray. We enjoyed […]
Hunting Hinges
Posted on March 25, 2024 | By soyarzabal | 1 response
Experimenting with mechanisms such as hinges and catches. We are good at finding hinges in the classroom and outside.
Play to Learn
Posted on March 14, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed lots of activities to strengthen our fine motor skills and improve our hand eye coordination. The activities have also encouraged us to use our imagination and communicate with each other.
Little Wandle Love of Reading : Lulu Loves the Library (2)
Posted on March 12, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Lulu knows all the words and the actions for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and in order to connect to the book, Sunflowers have enjoyed singing and performing the actions to this nursery rhyme.
Little Wandle Love of Reading : Lulu Loves the Library (1)
Posted on March 12, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Sunflowers are enjoying participating in the fun activities connected to this book which help bring the language and storyline alive. It was fun taking part in a library role play which gave us the opportunity to use and act out the verbs and nouns in the book. We have also explored the sensory aspect of […]
Planting and Growing
Posted on March 11, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In Understanding the World we have been planting seeds and learning how to care for plants. We planted carrot and cosmos seeds and we are caring for them by making sure they have light and water. We are excited to observe the changes as the seeds begin to grow.
World Book Day : Guess my Book
Posted on March 7, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Sunflowers were very excited to bring in their wrapped books, props and clues for World Book Day. It was fun guessing what book our friends had brought in and then watching them unwrap their book.
A slow worm
Posted on March 7, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
‘A slow worm. I can touch it’ After experiencing and seeing the Really wild man last week. This boy was brave enough to touch the slow worm today. Well done
Tennis fun with Lottie
Posted on March 6, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Today Lottie from tennis ARC came and taught us some skills to help us play tennis.
A morning of fun with Lego
Posted on March 4, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
Today Nick brought his enormous collection of Lego. We talked about our learning in class and told him all about the planets. When we went off on an adventure to build some great creations . We built a rocket to get us to the moon. We built some moon buggy’s. They went fast. Thank you […]
Exploring Space
Posted on February 29, 2024 | By soyarzabal | Leave a response
In continuous provision we have enjoyed exploring lots of space themed activities which as well as being fun, developed our fine motor skills and introduced new vocabulary.
Little Wandle Love of Reading : Monster Clothes
Posted on February 23, 2024 | By soyarzabal
Little Wandle Foundations for a Love of Reading provides an opportunity to engage in the text of a book. It gives children language development opportunities, enjoyment and a chance to learn key verbs and nouns. Sunflowers had fun bringing the language alive by building in actions as the story was read, learning a new rhyme […]