Summer Term Week 8

We held our first ever Grandparents coffee mornings this week to celebrate that wonderful relationship and we were thrilled to have 18 grandparents on Tuesday and the same again on Wednesday! We had a brilliant time together and the children absolutely loved having their Grandparents here with them, making flowers for a new display and then enjoying a coffee and a scone. After that they went outside to play with the children and then we sang a song for them and waved them goodbye and there were a few tears from the children as they said goodbye but we have put the photos onto the gallery that we took so you can see what a happy morning we had! We will certainly do this again in the Autumn Term for new families and hope we can persuade some of the Grandparents to come on trips or come in and share a craft activity over the year ahead.

The Star group are loving Forest School and this week they have made potions with Japanese role petals, found 6 frogs in the pond and we thought we only had 4 and they ate wild strawberries that were picked and read “Apples are magic”. The children also found a moth in the garden and were keen to know what it was called – it was a Scarlet Tiger Moth.

Two butterflies appeared on Thursday after the hot weather and a few more have emerged today, we will leave them lots of nectar and fruit to eat over the weekend and they will be ready to fly away at our party next week.

Our circle times have been busy learning about rhythm and rhyme, looking at baby pics and how we have changed, we talked about emotions and being worried or excited and the children made some wonderful butterfly pictures too.

The stars have used shapes to make pictures – rockets and houses and been counting bricks to make tall towers, they have enjoyed transient art and learning about letters and numbers too.

Outside the garden centre has been very busy and the digging pit has also been well used – we will take a break from that now to ensure the children keep making progress and learn different skills (sorry for all the muddy clothes and shoes!) and we will be building castles outside next week and have set up a creation station as well. Inside on the sun table we have made mini gardens together which has been so lovely!