The Caterpillars got creative and did a lot of painting using different colours. They also looked at shades of colours ranging from light to dark. Their art work can be admired in their classroom.
The Butterflies were busy too. Inspired by the Elmer stories, the Butterflies created a large Elmer glueing lots of coloured bits of paper onto a paper elephant. The colourful Elmer has been surrounded by grey painted elephants onto which the children have painted the numbers 1 - 10 themselves.
Both classes made colourful fruit skewers, explored the seaside in their dance and movement class, sang songs and played musical instruments in their music class and enjoyed their weekly Teddy Tennis lesson on Friday morning.
After their Teddy Tennis lesson, the Butterflies put on their wellies and ventured over to the Church Garden for their weekly nature exploration. This week, we found different coloured things in nature and matched them to the colours on the large colourful parachute we had brought with us. We found brown, yellow, green and red leaves, green grass, purple flowers and a lot of acorns! We brought our finds back with us to the classroom where we mixed primary colours red, yellow and blue to create the colours of our nature finds.
Finally, the Butterflies are visited weekly this term by puppets Bella and Maxie. Through songs and role play, the puppets are used to help the children to understand the classroom golden rules, supporting the development of social skills such as saying hello, listening, turn-taking, sharing and asking for help. More information can be found on the Butterflies board in the hall.
Have a lovely weekend, we look forward to seeing the children next week.
P.S. Some of you have asked for further information about "w-sitting", discussed in Wednesday's post. There are some interesting articles to be found online:
http://www.childsplaytherapycenter.com/w-sitting-correct/
http://theinspiredtreehouse.com/child-melting-look-w-sitting/
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