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SCARF- Healthy eating

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

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed activities linked to our topic book; Superworm

Lots of Fun in the Sun

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)

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)

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.

Forest school with Sunflowers was exciting we looked at different birds through our binoculars and then decided to make a nest to keep an aggressive safe. We discussed what the egg would need. Then put it in a tree to test its how durable it was.  

Happy Easter!🐣

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed:-

We Love Fruit & Vegetables

Today we had a visit from the Asda man who advised us that we need seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day. This is because they are full of vitamins and minerals which keeps our body healthy. We were lucky enough to try a variety of fruits; advocado, blueberries, pomegranate, honeydew melon, dragonfruit, passion […]

We Love Continuous Provision

We love playing to learn in continuous provision and this week we have experimented using different containers and resources at the outside water tray 💦. There was lots of language of size and great communication with each other. Pouring, filling, carrying buckets, filling jugs and using watering cans helps develop our gross motor skills. “Let’s […]

DT Split pins ….Spring has sprung

We used split pins to make a beautiful spring daffodil.

RE Easter eggs

We learnt that Easter eggs are a symbol of new life…… then we designed our own

Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (4)

We used the dressing up box to discuss the verbs in this book; “puts on”, “is wearing” and “tries on”. It was great fun.

DT: Adding a flap to a picture

Today in DT we read ‘Everyone hide from Wibbly Pig’ there are lots of pigs in the book hidden behind flaps. We coloured in our picture, then decided where the flap should go! Here they are!

Playing to Learn in EYFS

Cranford and Sunflowers have explored many exciting activities in continuous provision:-

Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (3)

In order to explore the sensory aspects of the story, we used our eyes to look at a tomato, ears to listen to a tomato, hands to feel and our mouth to taste a tomato.

DT sliders and levers

We learnt about sliders and how to make them next we are going to try ! Flaps are also a type of lever We have made our slider pictures

DT what is a mechanism ?

We learnt that a mechanism is something that lets us open and close things or helps things move .

Love of Reading : Monster Clothes (2)

In order to connect to this Love of Reading Book, Sunflowers were very creative and designed their own clothes. We used our scissor skills to cut fabric and add them to our designs.

World book day.

Today on world book day the children came dressed in their P.J’s, brought in their favourite bedtime story and joined classes to share their books together.

RE PALM SUNDAY

We learnt about Jesus as a baby at Christmas and now as a man he rode on a donkey on a bed of palm leaves ,we learnt the song Sing Hosanna and painted and decorated palm leaves over the last 2 weeks.

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