Our final week of Spring term and we’ve been making nests and Easter cards – lots of fine motor skill work.

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Then on Thursday we had an Easter Egg hunt at Royston woods where we searched for our painted eggs – and chocolate ones, of course! Thanks to all our grown up helpers who came along.

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On our final day at Ladybirds, we had a very special visitor. Rev Armstrong came along to read the first Easter story and then helped us all make beautiful gardens and a ‘magic’ cross plate to take home.

We also made delicious chocolate nests; the children stirred the chocolate into rice crispies and made their eggs by mixing food colouring with icing.

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And we’ve finally started our planting in the garden too – potatoes! Hopefully all the potatoes which have gone home have started to sprout too? Who will dig up the most in the autumn?!

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We wish you all a very Happy Easter holiday – our first day back is Thursday 25th April when our Sound of the Week will be “n” and our theme will be…..Spring!

Guess what we’ve been doing this week at Ladybirds…….?!

But of course we’ve been busy with other activities too, including an impromtu trip to the park ……

a birthday celebration….

some ‘favourite story’ reading……

and some surprise visitors………adorable!

The children really enjoyed being outside in the garden this week and today we had our first alfresco story of the year

And, of course, we had to fit in some very complicated Princess puzzles, thank you Kate!

We wish all our Ladybird “Mothers” a very happy day on Sunday. Next week our theme is…….

We started our Healthy Eating week by making delicious smoothies with milk, bananas and a small handful of frozen fruit – the children loved blitzing them up in the blender

We talked about vegetables, what we could make with them – and what we could print with them!

Then on Thursday, Tricia made fabulous fruit kebabs with the children for snack; they identified the watermelon, ‘green melon’, strawberries, plums, mango, banana – and even kiwi!

Today Tarnya helped the children build some imaginative structures using spaghetti and marshmallows – the children said they were making “towers” and “castles”, and described the marshmallow was being soft and squidgy.

Our letter of the week was “p”; at registration we talked about penguins, PJ masks and Peppa Pig

And our roleplay area was popular this week with our greengrocer shop and Goodness Gang…..

In our builders tray we had soil and seeds, and the children had fun practising their potting skills for next week when we will be planting flowers and potatoes. Next week’s theme is……Mother’s Day! Have a nice weekend

This week we’ve been writing, learning and singing about minibeasts

and some of the children remembered the ‘a….a….ants on your arm’ song, which tied in nicely with our sound of the week!

As well as making houses for their minibeasts, the children threaded spiders webs and used worksheets to practice number and letter recognition.

At our Open Morning, it was lovely to meet some new friends and look forward to seeing them soon. Don’t forget, on Tuesday mornings, we have Little Ladybirds, our toddler group. Feel free to drop in with your child for games, craft and to meet other families.

Next week, our Sound of the Week is “t” – please send your child in with something that begins with this letter to talk about. And as it’s Shrove Tuesday, we’ll be doing lots about pancakes too!!

 

This week at Ladybirds we have the book theme of The Gruffalo’s Child – just in time for real snow perhaps…..? Our sound of the week with phonic actions is “b” so let’s see how many boats, butterflies, bats and bears we see! Our maths focus will be positional language. 

Our theme for this week is winter and arctic animals – hopefully we won’t have the arctic weather to go with it though! Our sound of the week is “l” so feel free to send your child in with something that begins with the sound “l” for them to show during registration.