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Pumpkin making, using lentils, pumpkin seeds which we dried and gloopy glue. The children really enjoyed the process, es...
15/10/2026

Pumpkin making, using lentils, pumpkin seeds which we dried and gloopy glue. The children really enjoyed the process, especially feeling the lentils between their fingers. The tidying up was worth it!! 🎃

Making our cute little hedgehogs, using paint and a fork. The children have loved looking for where hedgehogs might hibe...
08/10/2026

Making our cute little hedgehogs, using paint and a fork. The children have loved looking for where hedgehogs might hibernate in the woods and watching a programme on how some animals hibernate to keep warm in the winter. We’ve also talked about how some animals only come out at night. We’ve learnt the word nocturnal and pretended to be hedgehogs curling up into balls 🦔

A little walk in the chart, collecting treasures to make a picture with. There are lots of interesting things to find at...
06/10/2026

A little walk in the chart, collecting treasures to make a picture with. There are lots of interesting things to find at this time of year, lots of different colours of leaves, lots of seeds and seed pods and lots of creepy crawlies hidden amongst the leaves and bark.

An autumn walk, collecting things we find along the way to make our pretty windows. We also collected some fallen flower...
29/09/2026

An autumn walk, collecting things we find along the way to make our pretty windows. We also collected some fallen flowers from our garden on our way back in. We’ve been singing Autumn leaves are falling down, talking about the leaves changing colour and texture, how they’ve gone from soft to crispy and crunchy and now break up easily.

More harvest related activities. Making our own apple trees, talking about how they grow, when they’re ready in autumn, ...
22/09/2026

More harvest related activities. Making our own apple trees, talking about how they grow, when they’re ready in autumn, the different colours of the apples see and eat, counting, sticking, spreading, splodging. 🍎 🍏 🌳

We’ve been talking about harvest and all the work the farmers do, we’ve watched about the harvest and . We’ve been...
21/09/2026

We’ve been talking about harvest and all the work the farmers do, we’ve watched about the harvest and . We’ve been looking out for tractors and combine harvesters at work in the fields and learning new harvest songs. Di**le Dangle Scarecrow seems to be a firm favourite loving all the actions and dancing.

A couple of weeks ago, we had our first very wet day in a long while, we watched, listened to and played out in it (bri...
19/09/2026

A couple of weeks ago, we had our first very wet day in a long while, we watched, listened to and played out in it (briefly as they wanted to come back in again!). We read the story of the Little Raindrop about his journey starting and ending in the clouds.

The last few weeks have been about keeping cool, lots of water play, ice play, oobleck, scooping, mark making, using ton...
02/08/2026

The last few weeks have been about keeping cool, lots of water play, ice play, oobleck, scooping, mark making, using tongs, spraying, watering, making footprints, handprints, washing, brushing, cleaning, measuring … Lots of great vocabulary, discussions, learning new skills and words and lots of great conversation between the children covering lots of the key areas of the EYFS. We’ve also been making little trays of water for the birds, hedgehogs and bees and scattering them along the flowerbeds too.

Today we made our own England flags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 the kids loved waving them and chanting when we put the start of tonight’s m...
01/07/2026

Today we made our own England flags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 the kids loved waving them and chanting when we put the start of tonight’s match on. I’m beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea now 😬🤦‍♀️ C’mon England!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

So 4 of our caterpillars successfully made cocoons. We had one rogue caterpillar my older children called the “very angr...
27/06/2026

So 4 of our caterpillars successfully made cocoons. We had one rogue caterpillar my older children called the “very angry caterpillar” or “killer pillar” as it seemed to be the smallest one but wiggle around and knock the other cocoons from the lid of the the cup. We carefully moved them with a spoon clearing the frass and the silk web and put them in the net, near to the sides so they could crawl up the net and spread their wings. Unfortunately, angry caterpillar didn’t make it, however if we hadn’t moved the other cocoons we could have lost all our butterflies as they hatched the following day.

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