It has been raining blossom today in F2!
The children have loved getting in the garden more as the weather starts to feel warmer!
We have noticed lots of spring changes around us like our lovely blossom tree which had grown over the Easter Holidays bringing us a lovely surprise.
We have also noticed lots of nature around us waking up and have been enjoying looking for minibeasts.
We have enjoyed learning all about Spring…a time of growth and colour!!
This week we took part in the Mini Marathon to raise money for the Children with Cancer UK charity.
If you’d like to donate please click here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/cppsminimarathon
The children did a 1 mile marathon and had a fabulous time.
Good luck Mr Morgan and the children running in London this weekend for the Marathon
We have been busy this week building bug houses. We talked about how creepy crawlies like to live in small spaces and making them a bug house like this might help them to survive the weather and stay safe from predators and maybe have babies. The children decided that these houses would be best for spiders and maybe some ladybirds. 
The children used cardboard tubes as their ‘walls’, then stuffed it with natural materials, such as grass, twigs, moss and leaves. This sounds like a cosy bug house to me!
Our afternoon children have tried Gruffalo Crumble today! It was Jacob’s idea!
Click on the link below to see what the children thought…
On Tuesday we had a visitor come to the classroom… they were looking for juicy goats and wanted to hide under a bridge…
They soon left the classroom when they found only children. But the boys and girls wondered where they had gone and why there were talking about goats.
We went on an adventure to see if we could find any clues!
We can across a bridge in the classroom and some goats!
We also found a story… Can you guess what it was?
Miss Carrick read us the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
And we kept a close eye out for the troll!
Our new story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. To help us learn all about caterpillars and how then transform into butterflies we have got some REAL baby caterpillars so that we can watch them grow and change.
The children have been intrigued by them already!
Jax said, “They’re crawling, they can actually crawl on their own, that one just crawled up!”
Blake said, “I can see that one climbing.” Nevaeh added, “It’s on the wall.”
Finnley said, “They’re eating, eating the food.” He was right.
Freddie told us, “They’re ‘gonna’ get big!”
We can’t wait to watch them grow and change.
A BIG thank you to parents for all your help and support with the AMAZING Easter bonnets! The children looked fabulous and loved showcasing them to their friends and especially to you in their Easter Parade!
The children were all fantastic and loved dancing and strutting their stuff, parading their fabulous hats for everyone to see! We had some amazing creations… from pirate rabbit’s on boats, to Easter tiara’s! They were all fabulous!!!
Thank you for your continued support, what a lovely afternoon we had showcasing them off on the stage!
Happy Easter!
Oh… and check out some of our amazing poses below…
F2 have loved reading the story ‘Tad’ by Benji Davies!!!
This story has inspired us to explore the lifecycle of a Frog, discussing how Tad starts his journey and where he ends up!
We have learnt lots of new key vocabulary, such as ‘frog spawn’ ‘tadpole’ ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’… and discussed how the life cycle continues and goes round and round.
Mrs Wilkinson brought in some pretend frog spawn- chia seeds- we added water and mixed the gloopy mixture together to resemble real life frog spawn!
The children had a great time feeling and describing the spawn- describing it as “gooey’ “wet” “thick” and “gloopy”!
We had a great time mark making and drawing our own life cycles and could confidently talk about the process and change from frog spawn to frog!
Today we planted some cress seeds. First, we put damp cotton wool in a small container. Then we sprinkled the tiny cress seeds on top and watered them carefully. We placed the container on the windowsill so the seeds could get sunlight.
Over the next few days we watched the seeds grow into little green shoots. We were very excited to see how quickly cress grows. We learned that plants need water, light and care to grow.
Foundation Stage are so excited to take their cress plants home to taste!
The children had a lovely time planting on Friday. They developed lots of skills whilst doing this little job and had a lot of fun.
We chatted about what the plants need to help them grow. We’re going to carry on looking after them next week.