Butterflies
Welcome to Butterflies Class
Butterflies Curriculum Newsletter
Happy easter to all of our Butterflies familes
Easter Week in butterflies we have been very creative making easter nests, easter bonnets and decorating easter eggs.
RED NOSE DAY butterflies explored all things red today
Musical Monday was all about the keyboards this week and total superstars we have in butterflies they all loved the keyboards
Happy Mothers Day to all our Butterfly Mum's
We have had some beautiful friendships blossoming in butterflies which has made us all really happy
We have really enjoyed exploring the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears
What a little superstar reading the title of our story book this week Goldilocks and The Three Bears
This week in maths we have been looking at filling and emptying
World Book Day- The Three Little Pigs we have loved acting out the story and the children have loved exploring different cereals that represents the different houses and making pigs out of icing
Butterflies loved having the tunnel out this week in pe
Music was so much fun this week we loved watching the boys taking turns using the dream drum
On Monday we celebrated St Davids Day the children enjoyed decorating paper doilies to look like daffodils
This week we have been doing lots of mark making and over writing
Wow!! this little superstar has been joining us at the table and sitting on a zoomer rocker to do activites
We really enjoy our daily trips on the school bus driving round our local area
We ended a fabulous half term by celebrating one of the childrens birthday Happy Birthday
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
Maths has been all about exploring numbers
We have been learning about how to look after our teeth look at this little superstar copying a member of staff
In english this week with did some mark making in shaving foam and even one little boy started writing his numbers independently
We started the week with music the children really enjoyed having the drums out and making lots of noise
We ended the week this week with PE, the children had so much fun climbing and jumping off onto the mats.
These two superstars loved exploring our sensory blocks
Maths this week we have been looking at filling and emptying, the children really loved pouring the water and pasta in and out of containers.
A friendship blossoming, these two really made us smile this week running around and giggling in soft play together
This week the children of butterflies have made us extremely proud exploring shapes, jigsaws and numbers in our maths lesson and in our phonics lessons one little boy with a little support could build the alphabet jigsaw and search for each letter whilst another little boy had a look at a story book and we even explored our new letter rockets which the children enjoyed
In maths lesson this week we have been looking at size and measure we got the big building blocks out and this little boy amazed us with how big he could build a tower and even thought about how he could reach the top and decided to make a little tower that he could stand on.
This week we have been looking at the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, the children have really enjoyed exploring all the different foods some children even tried some of the foods
Butterflies staff and children have really enjoyed transferring the lesson from the classroom to soft play and we really have had some lovely interactions with the children a lots of big smiles
Happy New Year and Welcome back! All the children where very excited and happy to be back. We all enjoyed being out having fun in the snow! We did different activites all based around winter and the snowy weather.
Merry Christmas to all our family and friends!
We made some paper baubles
Our special video call from the North Pole...
Decorating the tree
Christmas
Butterflies have been getting ready for Christmas, putting the tree up and making our own Christmas trees.
These little superstars have been exploring lots of toys this half term
Continuous Provision
St. Andrew's Day
For St. Andrew's Day this year we chose between two shortbread biscuits and enjoyed decorating them. We enjoyed eating them afterwards too!
English
In English we have been overwriting our names, making marks in shaving foam and finding letters in different materials.
Sensory regulation
We have been doing bounce sessions every morning as part of our sensory regulation routine and we have really enjoyed it!
This week we made edible poppies and searched for poppies in edible soil
We loved making bonfire pictures using edible Ingredients
we also painted our own trees and chose our own colours
here are the trees we made from different foods
Autumn
This term our topic is autumn and we have been doing lots of activities including painting trees, and making trees out of food.
Butterflies have had yet another amazing half term and have done lots of activities.
Butterflies second half term
Continuous Provision
Butterflies have really enjoyed exploring the toy cupboard this half term.
we have been drawing around shapes, naming shapes and building towers
we have been really enjoying number songs and acting them out with our toys
we have been exploring numbers - colouring them and forming them on the magnetic number blocks
Shape, Space and Measure
We have been exploring shape, space and measure in butterflies and have been doing really well with numbers, number songs and shapes.
we have really enjoyed writing our names
we have been exploring letters, playing splat and mark making on the magnadoodle
English
We have been doing lots of activities in English this half term. We have been exploring letters, writing our names and have been enjoying phonics songs.
we have been looking at the letters in our name
we have been drawing around our bodies and matching body parts
we have been finding parts of our faces and piecing them together on paper
we have been looking at ourselves in the mirror and colouring our faces
we have been using food to make faces
All about ourselves
This term our topic is all about ourselves and we have been doing lots of fun things to learn about our faces, bodies and names.
Butterflies first half term
Butterflies have had a brilliant first half term and have done lots of activities.