Spring Term Week 2

We have been learning about being healthy this week, looking at exercise and healthy foods. The children love chatting about the exercise you do as parents in the gym! We have a fantastic set of ideas from Sporty Mini’s – really fun games to promote fun active sessions. We will be sharing a few of these on our facebook page and here is the website if you would like to have a look at the video ideas too – www.sportymini’s.com/on-demand

Outside you will be able to see our wonderful Garden Centre, it has been rather drenched by all the rain so we will be keeping it out next week as well before moving into some farm role play too. We love to take care of our garden and will be planting lots of bulbs and veggies again this term. We have also been working hard on being fit outside, playing football and chasing balloons and bubbles, bean bag target games and brushing bubbles and colour into the puddles!

Inside we have been learning about fruit, making fruit art, trying interesting fruits such as figs and passion fruits, we have made smoothies together and fruit kebabs and mini pizzas as well which we enjoyed for snack time too. We have counted all the fruit each day in the lunchboxes and please do try to include one little bit of fruit a day if you can. We have recently attended a First Aid course which covers choking in great detail and there are a couple of new pieces of info that we need to share – mini marshmallows and popcorn are now on the foods to avoid list for packed lunches for us as they are a choking hazard. We may mention this to you if they are in a lunchbox so that we can avoid any potential risks to your child, lunch is supervised very carefully indeed with choking being at the top of our worry list, when a child chokes it can be silent and hard to initially spot so we take every precaution – cutting grapes into quarter lengthways and cutting blueberries, cherry tomatoes and sausages.

The stars have been really happy in their circle time and there are some wonderful photos on the gallery, they have been exploring being healthy and clean and mark making. Activities have included painting on foil, foam painting, mark making in coloured salt, washing babies, talking about showers and baths and brushing teeth and hair and cutting up and trying broccoli and apple and then using those for painting.

The Sun and Moon groups have been very active, balancing, jumping, moving, yoga and exercise competitions, talking about brushing teeth and treat foods and healthy foods too, learning about fruit and drawing fruit and trying fruits too. It is part of the Department of Education’s curriculum that we teach the children these topics but please do chat to us if you have any questions at all.

Forest School was a little wet on Thursday but sunny and beautiful on Friday, learning about butterflies. Amazing facts from the session – butterflies can see colours that humans cannot see! They have 4 wings and not 2, they don’t live for very long – some species only live for 10 days and the largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra and has wings that are over 25cm wingspan.

Next week we continue with our exploration of food, counting items that are dairy based in lunchboxes. More exercise and garden role play outside and cafe role play inside – please send us photos of your food! We laminate them and use them in our cafe for the role play and the children love to spot their plates!