Archive | Sunflowers
Continuous Provision This Week
Posted on July 3, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Love of Reading : Hello Friend (2)
Posted on July 2, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In this Love of Reading book we have been discussing quiet and noisy activities at Sunflowers and we talked about different activities and whether they were quiet or noisy. We had fun with the music instruments and played them quietly and noisily. In order to explore the sensory aspect of this story book, we spent […]
Fun Beach Themed Activities
Posted on June 27, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision we have enjoyed exploring more fun, beach themed activities:- It was great fun scooping, filling and pouring water into pipes using different containers. This activity is good for developing our gross motor skills and hand eye coordination💦 💧💦💧
Love of Reading : Hello Friend! (1)
Posted on June 19, 2025 | By soyarzabal
We have been discussing the action words in this book. We all know what to do when asked to “jump”! We also know what to do when asked to “shake” our hands We also discussed and created sentences with nouns from the book; Lexy says you are kind to your ‘friends’ Imogen says it is […]
At The Beach 🏖️
Posted on June 19, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision, we had fun using our imagination and creating a puppet show for our friends.
The Beach in Continuous Provision
Posted on June 12, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Playing to Learn
Posted on May 23, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week we have been busy playing to learn :-
Science week ~ ruler hit
Posted on May 22, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we put a ruler on the table and had to pluck it! We experimented moving the ruler further off the table to make it longer or shorter. It made a louder sound when the ruler was extended further off the table and a quieter sound when the majority of the ruler was on the […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (2)
Posted on May 22, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In order to connect to this book, we sang the nursery rhymes; Round and Round the garden and Mary Mary Quite Contrary. We also sang Lavenders Blue and using our senses we explored the lavender in our Welly Garden.
Science week ~ making musical instruments
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we used boxes and rubber bands to make musical instruments. We worked in pairs and used 3 rubber bands. We then played our instruments separately and all together as a group. We found out that different thicknesses of rubber bands made different sounds!
Science week ~ “jumping” Cheerios, rice and salt!
Posted on May 21, 2025 | By soyarzabal
We covered 3 different sized bowls with clingfilm, put them on top of a speaker then tested to see what happened when we put Cheerios on top and put the music on. Then we tried it with rice, then the salt. Our conclusion was that the Cheerios “jumped” the highest and the best sound to […]
Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden 🪴
Posted on May 20, 2025 | By soyarzabal
This Love of Reading Book is about a little boy called Errol who loves gardening but he doesn’t have a real garden. One of our action words was ‘grow”. We pretended to be a seed and then grow into our favourite flower. We talked about and then created the insects Errol might find in his […]
Science week ~ learning about sound waves
Posted on May 19, 2025 | By soyarzabal
This afternoon we banged our tuning forks and then carefully placed them in water to see how sound travels. The vibrations made the water splash, sometimes in our faces!
Music
Posted on May 14, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today in music Cranford and Sunflowers joined together. We sang Big her funk, If you’re happy and you know it clap and 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed. The children had to sing, dance ,we introduced musical instruments they we all amazing at joining in with the beat😊
PE outside
Posted on May 14, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we did our PE outside. We set up an obstacle course where we had to hop and jump in the hoops, go over or under the hurdles, weave in between the cones, balance along the outside of the sandpit and finally the stepping stones ~ all while holding the small hoops in their hands!
SCARF- Healthy eating
Posted on May 8, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Today we talked about healthy eating, why we need to eat food, what food we like and we made some smoothies. The children tried all different flavours and voted on what they liked the best.
Superworm
Posted on May 8, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed activities linked to our topic book; Superworm
Lots of Fun in the Sun
Posted on May 1, 2025 | By soyarzabal
In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed playing to learn together outside in the mud kitchen, sand pit and at the water tray 💦 🚿
Our Trip to Rosemoor (2)
Posted on April 29, 2025 | By soyarzabal
After enjoying a picnic lunch, we attended the educational workshop and we learnt what an apple tree needed to grow. We were also shown different types of seeds. We were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to plant a radish seed. It was fun exploring the gardens with our buckets to find leaves, petals […]
Our Trip to Rosemoor (1)
Posted on April 29, 2025 | By soyarzabal
Sunflowers had a wonderful visit to Rosemoor. After an exciting journey on a big, blue bus, we followed a trail through the woods to find a play area.