Blog by Tag: Understanding the World
Releasing our butterflies
The children were sad to see our painted lady butterflies go, but we have been very good at looking after them and watching them grow since they came to us as tine caterpillars. They have spread their wings and flown free.
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We love finding mini beasts!
We found lots of snails in amongst the bushes in our garden.
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We love finding mini beasts!
We have been looking at a bee very closely and finding out more about these creatures.
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Ethan's tortoises
Ethan and his mummy brought in thier tortoises to show and talk about to the class.
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Hands On Animals
We enjoyed a lovely morning with Kelly from Hands On Animals finding out all about the mini beasts and other creatures that she brought in. Some of us were very brave and either handled or touched e creatures. We learnt lots and enjoyed asking questions to help us learn more.
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Gardening Fun
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have been enjoying preparing our garden beds ready for planting. They have been using different tools to weed and plant. They are learning lots of new plant names whilst helping to do this.
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Look what we found in the garden!
As well as finding a young frog last week, we have know found a big adult frog. The children enjoyed observing all of its features and asking lots of questions before realising it back into the wild!
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Our froggy find
Look what we found in our garden today when Mrs Richardson and the children were gardening....a tiny frog!
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A Surprise Package!
Today we returned from a lovely trip to the garden centre to find that a surprise package had arrived for us!
We have got 5 caterpillars and can't wait to watch them grow and change! We will keep you updated !
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Our trip to the plant place
Thanks to the Plant Place for letting us visit today! We had a fabulous morning. We started with a hunt around the garden centre to look for clues to a quiz. Then we each planted a sunflower seed and finally explored all the different types of plants. There were so many!!
We ended our visit by…
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Baby Rabbits
We very lucky to have a visit from Abigail and Jimmy's 8 week old baby rabbits. We were able to ask Mrs Nichol lots of questions about them and even got to have a hold and stroke them. They are adorable!
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Planting Cress Seeds
This week we have been finding out how seeds grow and change and what they need to help them grow. To help us find out more about seeds growing we have planted some cress seeds.
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