Autumn watch in Preschool

A big thank you for the amazing home learning project that you’ve all been working on. There will be happy birds hopping onto our bird feeders for us to observe now!

The Natural World in Preschool

We have been collecting leaves and observing the changes in colours. Then we watched a programme about woodland creatures and decided to make a collage of one! We discussed what hedgehogs look like and what they needed to keep warm.

Carrots galore!

In Preschool we have lots of different ways of making art. Today we printed with carrots and mixed red, yellow and black to make autumnal colours.

Reception Art – Handprints

This month is Black History Month, so we have been reading books from the Big Dreams Little People collection. We have also been thinking about the colour of our skin in class, so today we mixed colours (red blue yellow and white) to make the colour of our skin.

Creating with materials in Preschool

We have been making pyramids, castles and 3D shapes with Kinetic sand today. We have also been learning to collaborate by sharing a tray in pairs and passing each other different utensils to shape the sand. We are very good at saying please and thank you!

Mindful Small Worlds

In Preschool we build small worlds with the children and discuss what we are using and what we need. It helps us to understand the world and discuss things that we have observed, how they feel, what they sound like and what they can be used for. When we build together in this mindful way […]

Colour mixing fun!

In Reception we have been exploring colour mixing using two primary colours.

Preschool perfect their fine motor skills

We have started to make a Gruffalo Wood small world and have been weaving spider webs and decorating our trees with spiral patterns. We really have to concentrate and use our hand muscles to make these small movements and delicate patterns.