Pennington Park Pre-School

Today we made dinosaur headbands to wear whilst dancing and singing to dinosaur songs. Everyone used their fine motor skills for letter forming to write their names. Everyone had a Roarsome time! 🦕🦖🦕🦖

Today is Dinosaur day, so to start our Dinosaur activity week, we made sponge painting dinosaur pictures, set up a Dino small world and dinosaur role play! Everyone had lots of fun. 🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖

Today we continued with our World Bee day activities by making our own beehives and having lots of fun with messy play. We heard lots of wonderful vocabulary and saw lots of amazing mark making happening in the foam tray! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Today we started our activities for World Bee day tomorrow. We learnt some facts about bees, looked at the life cycle and made our own bees to take home! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯

This afternoon we have continued learning about frogs! We read stories, listened to some facts about frogs, and made a small world pond to role play our ‘5 little speckled frogs’ song. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

This morning we have been learning all about ants. Did you know that there are over 15,700 species and subspecies of ants in the world! The children learnt some wonderful new vocabulary such as colonies, antennae and omnivore, and had fabulous recall of facts that we have learnt.
We read a book about ants and then went into the garden with our magnifying glasses to see if we could spot any.
We finished off the morning by making our own fingerprint ant pictures. Everyone loved this activity.
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Today is David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, so we asked the children if they would like to choose their favourite creature for today’s nature craft activity. They chose caterpillars, so we went out to find our sticks and then decorated them with pipe cleaners, Pom poms and googly eyes! Everyone enjoyed making their caterpillars.
This afternoon, we watched a nature documentary all about caterpillars. 🐛 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

Today we carried on from our caterpillar art by reading ‘The very hungry caterpillar’ and making our own leaf print butterflies. Everyone had lots of fun with the paint, and we love how different all of the butterflies look! 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

Wednesday was Earth Day, so we learnt lots of ways to help protect our Earth, we read books about recycling and how to save water and electricity and how planting seeds can help.
We decided to make our own living Earth by sprinkling chia seeds on to our cotton wool and watering them so they can grow. Everyone enjoyed this activity. 🌍 🌏🌎

Happy Easter to all of our wonderful families, we hope you have a lovely break. 🐇🐣