What we’ve been up to this month…
This month we have been looking into the importance of caring for our environment and how we can all help.From looking at recycling and what it means to the animals we have and their habitats.
We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating easter with everyone and having a visit from the Easter Bunny!
What’s happening next month…
We are going to be exploring the theme “Nature, plants and life cycles” where we will be exploring planting, life cycles of animals and plants, the colours of the world around us, watering and caring for our plants.
This month we will be celebrating sun awareness week (11th – 17th May), International day of Families (15th) and World Bee Day (20th)
We will be talking about the safety of using sun cream, wearing sun hats and keeping hydrated during sun awareness week.
We will continue to explore in our arts and crafts space creating our very own masterpieces with different colours that we see around us.
Activities we will do at nursery:
- We will be looking at the life cycle of a butterfly as we have caterpillars in the nursery
- Watering our plants in the polytunnel and pots, we have planted variety of flowers, fruit, vegetable and herbs that we need to care for.
- Looking at books about different families and how they all look different for all of us
- Creating pictures of bumble bee’s using our hands
- Exploring the colour around us with colour hunts, sensory trays and creating different colours when mixing
- Exploring the life cycles of different animals, bugs and plants.
May Preschool focus:
This month we will be looking at rhyming words, recognising our names and looking at lots of different books. As we are leading up to our little ones next adventure to school we will continue to talk about our adventures, who we might see at school from nursery and what their school looks like from the website.
Some ideas to do at home:
- Going on walks to find different colours of flowers
- Watering the plants
- Planting seeds
- Looking for bugs
- Talking about bee’s and the importance of them
