28/05/2025
Preschool Room - Week commencing 19th May 2025
It was World Bee Day on Tuesday so our lovely Becca brought in some of her bee keeping kit for the children to see, handle and try on. After lunch, we made bread rolls to eat with Becca's honey. We also made playdough bees which tested our rolling skills and hand-eye co-ordination. The tuff tray was bee themed and we filled honeycomb shapes with nectar collected from the flowers.
Following our interest in shops and ice cream vans, we turned the mud kitchen into an ice cream parlour. It was great fun crushing petals, scooping mud and decorating them with sticks and flowers. During sensory activities, we cut herbs to make potions and defrosted ice blocks to reveal the leaves and flowers inside them.
We had some rhubarb donated so the children decided they wanted to make a crumble. Cutting the rhubarb and crumbling the mixture with our fingers was an exciting task, but not as good as eating it!
During forest school, we hunted for numbered bees. Could we match them to their corresponding flower? This involved climbing trees, looking in plants and hunting through the grass. Your child may talk about it snowing because the white and pink blossom rained down on us when the wind blew.
Our ladybirds are now big and strong enough to move to the garden. We carefully moved them from their current habitat onto leaves and watched as they flew away.
The group learnt a lot of new words during Becca's session, such as smoker, hive, queen, pollen and honeycomb. They also looked at pictures of different types of bees found in the UK. Maybe you could share these pictures with your child and see what they can remember.
