Butterflies Learning Experiences W/c 5th September 2016
Welcome back Butterflies, we hope you have had a lovely Summer Holiday! To kick start our first week back the children will be able to talk about their experiences they have had from their time off during our news circles. There’s treasure ahead Captain! The Pirates had a lovely time at sea last week and have now landed on Treasure Island. Where will we find the treasure? Using our treasure maps from last week we will be able to skip, crawl and tiptoe our way through the treacherous jungles...
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Let’s go sailing the seven seas! This week the Butterflies are going to see what it is like to be a Pirate sailing along the sea. I wonder what might happen? Making our own Pirate ship, we will start our journey setting sail early in the morning and going to different ports around the world. Hard to starboard Captain! Who will scrub the deck? Don’t forget to hoist the sail! Through our play we will be creating stories around our Pirate travels including our experiences from books that we have...
Read MoreButterflies Learning Experiences W/c 22nd August 2016
As the Olympics come to an end, so is our own Olympic Events. The Butterflies have valiantly taken part within our different events over the last two weeks from running races to throwing games. We will be celebrating their experiences as well as the end of the Olympics in Rio De Janeiro by hosting our very own tea-party. What food do you think we will have? Will we be making any special food? Do you think we could hold our own closing ceremony? The ‘Frog Finger Gym’ has been a big hit with the...
Read MoreButterflies Learning Experiences W/c 15th August 2016
A lot of the children have been talking about the Olympics so this week we will be holding our very own Olympic Ceremony and Athletic Heats throughout the week. We will start the week with a finger gym where we will be exploring how to make the frogs jump from rings, to the pond and then to the mouth. Who will do it the fastest? Whose will jump the furthest? We will then step the games up a little by bringing in movement challenges. We will be taking part in hoopla, running races, bean bag...
Read MoreButterflies Learning Experiences W/c 8th August 2016
This week we will be exploring movement and travel through a variety of different activities. We will be experiencing physical movement with our bodies, the way toys can be moved by twisting, turning, and rolling as well as looking at the movement of different vehicles. We will be exploring physical movement by having an obstacle course out for the children to move under, over, around and through objects as well as being able to explore a range of ways to move by skipping, rolling, hopping,...
Read MoreButterflies Learning Experiences W/c 1st August 2016
The Butterflies have enjoyed planting dinosaurs in our garden so much that we will now be planting and making our very own Triassic jungle for the Dinosaurs to feel at home. What materials will you use to build it? How tall can you make the trees grow? What type of Dinosaurs will live in the trees? To also continue exploring our ‘How to grow a Dinosaur’ story we will be looking at acting it out in our garden using the animals and environment around as our props. What Dinosaurs does Albie...
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