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Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (4)

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 […]

Walkability workshops May 26

Ashmansworthy and Alminstone learnt all about road safety when the Walkability team visited Woolsery. We listened to a presentation and then put the Green Cross Code into action in the village. Remember to stand with your feet behind the kerb and keep looking and listening as you walk across!  

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (3)

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

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

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.

For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction

Today, we dodged the rain and had great fun exploring Newton’s First and Third Laws. We tried a penny spin, inertia tower, water pressure glass, basketball and tennis ball bounce and the chemical reaction of alkaseltzer and water.

EYFS Continuous Provision

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

In continuous provision we have enjoyed playing to learn outside in the sunshine ☀️

Sunflowers at Rosemoor

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

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.

Woolsery Schools Mini Marathon 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

This afternoon in the blustery, but sunny conditions the whole school turned out and took on the challenge of completing two miles. The week leading up to the London marathon each year, schools are given the opportunity to run a mini marathon at their schools. The children showed amazing resilience and determination and rose to […]

RNLI water safety workshop at Clovelly

This week Stroxworthy had a great time at the RNLI learning all about how to be safe at the beach and what to do if they get in danger at the coast.

Gardening project clean up

Today we planted seeds and got our weeding started.  

Continuous Provision 🐣 🐰

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed playing to learn in our outside area:-

Easter damper bread over the campfire

This morning we’ve been having fun making easter damper bread and exploring our forest school area in the spring and seeing the changes that are happening in nature now as the weather starts to warm up.

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