Bestwood Childcare

Dear Parents/Carers,

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The children really enjoyed the process of watching our butterflies grow🐛🦋

Over the spring and summer, the children have really enjoyed planting and watching the seeds grow into plants. We have grown: pumpkins; tomatoes; corn; peas; beans; cucumbers; potatoes and lots of wild flowers for the bees.
While pulling the potatoes out, we found an ants nest! The children were really interested in watching the ants move their eggs.

Our Tuesday jubilee party was so much fun! We played pin the crown on the queen and musical chairs, building up an appetite for our yummy lunch.

We have had lots of fun getting ready for our jubilee parties. We have made biscuits, decorated biscuits and cakes, made crown to wear and painted bunting to put up and coloured pictures.👸🏻👑

Since being back after the Easter holiday, we have had something new in the sand tray- bird seed. The bird seed has given the children a chance to explore a new texture and talk about the different seeds in the mix, discussing size, colour and feel.

Last week we did lots of healthy baking. We made sweet potato cookies and banana muffins.

We have really enjoyed making wrap pizzas. The children covered the wraps with tomato puree and topped them with a selection of cheese, onion, pepper, mushroom, sweetcorn and tomato. Snack time was really exciting, trying our homemade pizza!

Happy Pancake day! The children topped their pancakes with a choice of yoghurt, strawberries, grapes, blueberries and raspberries.

We all had a great time celebrating the new year, we tried new food, new activities and learnt about fortune cookies and the coins that make a fortune magnet. We also made a lovely display to talk about.

We have really enjoyed doing some spring planting we experimented with compact compost and got excited to see it grow, we have talked about what the bulbs need to grow and how we need to care for them.