In xp outdoors today Crew Godley did cardboard flower pots. This helped the children with their fine motor skills.
Scooter Skills(after school club)
Crew Welburn has butterflies! 🦋
Something exciting is happening in our butterfly house Crew Welburn! Watch the video closely and you will see one of our butterflies emerging from its chrysalis! We now have three butterflies flying around their home and two more waiting to emerge 🦋
Bye bye butterflies 🦋
Over the weekend it was time to release our butterflies! Once the net was unzipped, they did not waste any time in coming out and exploring the great outdoors. They took a fancy to the flowerbed close to where they were released and spent time familiarising themselves with the colourful flowers and grass. One butterfly decided to land on Miss McGlone’s finger and it was very happy to sit there taking in the sunshine ☀️
Now the butterflies are out in the wild, the whole life cycle process will continue and eventually begin again! 🐛🦋
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Yet another butterfly update! At last, all 5 butterflies have emerged from their cocoons and are now getting used to their new, beautiful wings. They have been enjoying the sugar water and this is giving them lots of energy to test out their new wings and also get used to their new bodies. I can tell that they are almost ready to get outside so I will be releasing them from their net into the garden tomorrow! 🦋🥰
Another update… 🐛 ➡️ 🦋
Our chrysalises are no longer chrysalises anymore… we have butterflies! At the moment, we have 3 butterflies that have emerged from their cocoons with another 2 yet to say hello! They will stay in the net for a few days before being let out into the big, wide world 🦋
Caterpillar update! 🐛
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! 🦋
Bouncy castle fun 🎉
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! 🥰
Easter Egg-stravaganza in Nursery! 🐰🐣
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.
Nursery in outdoor provision
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!
