Week commencing 4th June 2018:

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely half term. We will be continuing with the theme of Life Cycles and Vets. Please can we ask you to bring in junk modelling (recycling) and if possible a shoe box this week for making pets and animals.

We would like to highlight a new addition to the quiet room, the ‘Wow Wall’. Each week pictures will be rotated depending on the theme to show what we have been doing each week.

Week commencing 21/05/18. We will:

• Make birthday Cakes using different resources (EAD, M)
• ‘Dear Zoo’ story basket (L)
• Vets practice role play (EAD)
• Animals in the sand/water – sorting and counting (M, UotW)
• Use sand timers to measure physical activities (PD, M)
• Baking cupcakes, where do we get our ingredients? (UotW)
• Make animals with Tap-a-shape (M, PD)
• Zoo Lab will be visiting us on Monday 21st.

Week Commencing 14/5/18. This week we will:

• Build homes using different Media (UotW, EAD, PD)
• Draw pictures of ‘My Family’ (M, EAD, PD)
• Make marks in the shaving foam (L)
• Use our mud kitchen for Home role play (EAD)
• Continue our theme of ‘growing’ (UotW)
• Use CD player for different sounds for stories (CL, L)
• Move, dance in different ways with ribbons (PD, EAD)

Week commencing 30th April 2018:

• Looking at the life cycle of a frog (UotW)
• Exploring our garden centre role play (EAD)
• Make a mini garden in tuff spot (Uotw)
• Find beans in the  compost using tweezers (PD)
• Make speckled frogs with play dough (EAD, M)
• Look at seeds using magnifying glasses (UotW)
• Make flowers using cotton wool and card (EAD)
• The Teeny Ween Tadpole (L)

Week commencing 23rd April 2018:

• Playing hopscotch on plants (M,PD)
• Planting our own beans/new seeds in pots (UotW)
• Sequencing a seeds development (UotW)
• Farm shop role play (M, EAD, PS, ED)
• Looking inside our snack – what does our fruit and vegetables have inside?(UotW)
• Looking at the parts of a flower. Can we paint our own? (EAD)
• Making flowers using scissors and pipe cleaners (EAD, PD)

Lisa has been on a spending spree with the fundraising money and has purchased:

• a new basketball net
• some new wheel barrows
• new tables and chairs for the outside ‘home’ (shed) and for writing and crafts.
• a new water tray coming soon
• new china for the home area and new food
• some lovely new coat pegs one for inside and one for out for our painting and water aprons.