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Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025
We have been learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. This year it is the year of the snake so we explored some snake themed sensory trays and tried some yummy Chinese food, as well as creating Chinese fans and lanterns.
This little star has been trying so hard to use his spoon independently - we are all very proud!
We have made some very noisy elephants in Butterflies Class, as well as feathery parrots and even some stripy zebras!
Today we have been making lion biscuits and cleaning up the animals who were in the muddy river bed!
We have been exploring the jungle this week. We used the scooter boards to navigate through the hanging vines.
This little superstar has been independently exploring musical instruments in class - the xylophone is definitely her favourite!
We have been enjoying spending time in soft play, interacting with our peers and developing our gross motor skills.
We went to Morrisons to collect our snack today - look how beautifully we pushed the little trolleys.
Our Christmas Party was lots of fun - we played pass the parcel, corners and danced to our favourite Christmas songs.
Today we had our Christmas lunch - we all looked so smart in our reindeer headbands! It was lots of fun pulling crackers and enjoying some festive music whilst we ate.
We had a very special visitor in school today! It was such fun to see Father Christmas and get a Christmas gift too.
This year our production was 'A Wriggly Nativity'. I think you will agree that everyone did so well and looked amazing in their costumes!
Butterflies Class really enjoyed their trip to the Space Centre in Preston.
Butterflies Class have been learning about St Andrew. We made some Scottish shortbread, decorated a Scottish flag, used some orange and brown wool to keep our Highland cows warm and even listened to a man playing the bagpipes.
We used small wraps, cheese and a range of vegetables that had been cut into different shapes to create our very own planet pizzas. The best part was eating them at the end!
It was lots of fun joining in with a range of spotty activities to raise awareness for Children in Need. Along with a range of other activities, we created spotty biscuits, used bingo dabbers to give Pudsey his spots back and explored a spotty sensory tray.
We have used the spray bottles and a range of bright paints to create our own star constellations in Butterflies Class.
Butterflies Class have been learning about Remembrance Day this week. We collaged poppies, created poppy biscuits and spent some time quietly reflecting, reading a poem and painting handprint poppies.
We have been having lots of fun exploring the local area. We have visited Towneley Park and Garden Centre, popping into the café for snack.
We have been exploring sensory trays linked to Space - we splatted stars and listened to a range of Space sounds.
Butterflies Class enjoyed learning about Bonfire Night, making chocolate apples, edible sparklers and printing fireworks, adding glitter to make them sparkle!
As part of our topic on Space, we have been using technology to help us visit different planets. We took a trip to Mars and the Moon using the VR headsets, as well as exploring the shape and textures of other planets using the interactive floor projector.
After reading a sensory story about Mr Maize the Scarecrow, Butterflies have been recreating scarecrow pictures. They used wiggly spaghetti to look like the straw we saw sticking out of Mr Maize's hat.
This week we have been exploring pumpkins! We have used a range of utensils to scoop out the insides, feeling the different textures and finding the seeds.
We had such a wonderful time at the Space Centre! The sensory lights, colour changing ball pool and huge slide were definitely our favourite parts!
During Autumn Week, Butterflies have been exploring the crunchy leaves in our woodland area, learning about the animals we might see and creating some beautiful Autumn artwork.
We have been learning about the world around us and places that are important to us. We decided what we needed to take to school in our school bag, as well as decorating our school building pictures using paint sticks.
This week in Butterflies we have been continuing to learn all about ourselves. We focused on our body this week and learned all about bones. Look at these fantastic skeletons!
We have been using salad spinners to create beautiful, colourful patterned flowers for our display board. Each child made a choice of colour that they wanted before adding it into the spinner.
Butterflies Class made some delicious face biscuits - we looked into the mirror to see our eyes, nose and mouth before adding them onto our biscuits. Yum yum.
During our topic 'There's Only One Me!' we have been singing Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes to learn about our body parts. We had lots of fun using water play and painting on the screens to consolidate this.
Welcome Back! We have been creating beautiful butterfly collages to welcome our friends into Butterflies Class.
