This week our caterpillars turned into chrysalises and we even caught one of the caterpillars spinning their cocoon! They will stay in their cocoons between 7-14 days before emerging so Miss McGlone has taken them home over the Easter holidays where they have settled in to their new environment well. Keep an eye out for updates when the butterflies begin to appear! 🦋
As an end of term treat we got to spend some time on the bouncy castle and take part in some Easter games and activities! We had SO much fun – thank you Mrs Godley for organising it for everyone! 🥰
It’s been a very egg-citing but very busy time in Nursery recently, with lots of Easter crafts and activities keeping us entertained on the run up to Easter.
We’ve had our first Easter bonnet parade – we walked around school so everyone could see our beautiful hats and bonnets before joining F2 and KS1 on the playground to showcase all of our hard work.
We also made our own Easter bags so that we could collect treats from the Easter Bunny after our egg hunt. We made our bags so that they looked like baby chicks – we think they look very cute and we loved how they turned out!
Then we took our Easter bags with us as we went on a walk around school to look for clues from the Easter Bunny! We saw his ears bouncing past our classroom window so decided to follow by setting off in that direction on our hunt. Mrs Atherton and Miss Whitehead asked us what we were looking for and we were so excited to tell them that the Easter Bunny had been in our school and we were following his clues! Unfortunately, he was too quick for us and we did not see him but the clues led us to a stash of treat that had been left outside our classroom! Thank you Easter Bunny! 🐰
As a final treat, we made Easter nests with melted chocolate and cereal before adding some mini eggs to the top. We made a couple of extras and delivered them to Mrs Canning and Mrs Wilcox in the admin office as a thank you for everything they do for our school.
Crew McGlone have really been enjoying spending time outside – we really love being in our outdoor area! We’re very much looking forward to the nicer weather that we hope is coming soon so that we can spend even more time out here and maybe bring some of our crew activities outside too!
We have welcomed Spring by creating playdough creatures to add to our whole school display in our Forest School.
To begin, we use our rolling skills to create the bodies of our creatures before then pushing and pressing extra details to finalise our creatures. We are so pleased with how they turned out!
Later in the week we got the opportunity to go and see our creations on display in the forest. We really enjoyed seeing our insects as part of the display and we liked looking at what the rest of school had contributed too.
We have been looking at the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar which has led to us looking at the life cycle of a butterfly.
We’ve talked about each stage of the life cycle and used pasta to represent the life cycle. We have even got our own caterpillars that will eventually turn into butterflies for us to release into our outdoor environment! We check in on them every day to make sure they are eating enough to get bigger, they will then become cocoons before turning into beautiful butterflies 🦋 They have already grown A LOT and we can’t wait to see how big they will get.
Here in EYFS we all absolutely LOVE playing with water, whatever the weather!
This week we have been playing with the water tray outside, as well as collecting water in buckets and using paintbrushes to paint different surfaces. We have even tried finding new ways to transport water from one end of the playground to another! We also realised that when we painted things with the water it made them look really shiny! Making sure we are safe is important to us, so when we wanted to paint the taller parts of the shutters, we made a sturdy base and climbed up carefully so that we could reach. Miss McGlone was really impressed with how well we kept each other safe and how we used teamwork to collect and stack items to make our base!
Today, we invited the wonderful ladies in our lives to join us for a Mother’s Day brunch. It was lovely to see so many smiling faces and it was a really enjoyable morning!
Our beautiful butterfly Mother’s Day cards and bunches of daffodils ready for our special ladies 🦋💖
With all the wet weather we have been experiencing, we have had lots of bugs crawling around our outdoor area. We have REALLY enjoyed digging for worms, rescuing them from puddles and seeing how many worms we can find!
Today, we had a very exciting visit from Ian’s Farm! He told us lots of interesting information about the animals and he let us stroke them which we loved! We told Ian everything we already knew about the animals he had brought in, and we enjoyed listening to him tell us even more facts that we can use in our new case study. Ian also brought his sheepdog Meg who was the best behaved dog we have ever met – we want our own dog for school now, I wonder if Mrs Atherton will let us get one?! Ian told us about the commands we could use to control what Meg was doing and we practiced using them, but we weren’t as good as Ian. We had the chance to brush the donkeys and goats, and some of us played fetch with Meg on the field. We had so much fun! Thank you so much for a brilliant morning, Ian!
