From caterpillar to butterfly...

We began our week reading ' The Very Hungry Caterpillar' which many children knew the story from home and enjoyed

re-telling using the repetitive language. Nursery class enjoyed cutting, sticking and making their own hungry caterpillar segments for our giant caterpillar and we discussed what a heathy or treat food choice could be. In maths we continued to explore repeating patterns using a variety of resources such as our mini bear counters, unifix cubes even the nursery children and finished the week making our repeating pattern caterpillars. 

As part of Understanding our World - We explored the life cycle of a caterpillar , the children were brilliant at using words such as 'cocoon'. We explored this further with our investigation tuff tray and the children enjoyed exploring other minibeasts using magnify glasses and minibeast non fiction books to find out more information. We also looked at a butterfly and talked about how its wings are symmetrical, what this means and what else could be. The children loved our bright green playdough this week and we had some amazing caterpillars made as well as other minibeasts ! 

Nursery class also went on a 'spring walk' this week! The children were excited to put on their wellies and explore our Forest School where we saw lots of daffodils, tulips and blossom in bloom. We looked at all the plants and trees growing new buds and leaves as they awaken after winter. We used this inspiration to make our flower mothers day cards which we hope you will like . We was really impressed with all the children's confidence in their name writing.

We wish all our lovely mummies, nans, aunties and all the wonderful women who look after and take care of us this Mothering Sunday. 

Well done to our stars of the week Jasper and Aylin and Alexander who took home our reading Trunki today 

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Vinci & Mrs Direnzo