We read the “Wibbly wobbly tooth” story and talked about visiting the dentist. In small groups we discussed why it is important to brush our teeth and which foods are good and bad for our teeth. The children enjoyed this activity, cleaning the model teeth with toothbrushes and toothpaste.

We took a walk to the local duck pond, we brought some porridge oats and fed them to the ducks and birds, the Ducks were so friendly, eating the Porridge from our hands.

We had our Easter egg hunts this week the children were so excited. They made their baskets and decorated them last week. They went in the garden to hunt for Chicks, Rabbits, Eggs, Hot cross buns and lastly a real chocolate egg! They had to use their looking eyes and balancing skills to complete the Easter Egg Hunt course and their fine motor skills of rolling and pinching the salt dough to make Easter Chicks.

Day 1 – Static electricity

We have started “Science Week” with an activity learning about static electricity, the children learn’t how to make a balloon stick to the wall and make their hair stand up on end, it was great fun”

Day 2 – Observing how a flower blooms

The children have been observing a folded paper flower in liquid and seeing what happens, we saw how a flower blooms, we watched and predicted what would happen, the paper flower opened!!

We have been exploring Life Cycles as part of our Science week investigations, we have been lucky enough to be given some Frog Spawn form a teachers daddy, we have completed an activity today , looking at and exploring and predicting the changes that are going to take place.

Day 3 – Dancing Raisins

Today we have been doing the Dancing Raisins experiment, adding Raisins to Fizzy water, we have learnt new words such as Fizzy, Fizzing, Bubbly,Jumping, Sinking , Up and Down
dense, floatation.

We discovered that the water releases carbon dioxide bubbles that attaches to the rough surface of the raisin acting as a flotation device causing them to float”

Day 4 – Exploding Volcanos

Today we have been looking at how Volcanos explode and how the gasses build up, we used a bottle of Coke and Mento’s to wait and watch and predict the explosion”

Day 5 – Skittles Rainbows

The children put some skittles on a plate in a circle , we then added water and observed what happened, we discussed favourite colours, what colour was the brightest, and we sang a Rainbow song – we have had a great Science Week, and maybe produced some future scientists!!”

We were going to do some junk modelling and the children found some lovely printed paper that looked like a Giraffe so they used all the boxes and papers to make a really tall Giraffe. The Children used their imagination and knowledge of Giraffes to help them make it. They worked as a team and asked for adult help with some of the really tall bits. Some of the children looked on the laptop to see what a Giraffes face looked like. One of the dolls even had a ride on it once it was made. He now lives at preschool.

The children planted some cress and we have also been replanting our strawberry plants, learning about the different parts of the plant – roots, leaves and flowers and how to look after them. They helped to put new soil in the pots, make the holes and push the plants into the soil. Afterwards we all took turns in watering them and the rest of the flowers in the garden.
In September last year the children planted lots of daffodil bulbs and took one home in a pot to watch grow at home – they have now started to bring them in and they are looking lovely in our garden. We have been doing a lot of learning about plants and growing in the garden.

The children have been celebrating World Book Day by dressing up, we have been reading different stories, making bookmarks and planting our seeds to create beanstalks.

We had the best time ever playing in the snow, we made snow balls and threw them in the garden, we collected snow together in a small wheel barrow and made a snowman with a real carrot nose ! The children realised how cold the snow was ! They enjoyed feeling it and making patterns with their feet. We even tried to catch it! Then then came indoors and made snowy pictures on the craft table.

We have been collecting water bottles and recycling them into other things, we have made some Penguins and then practised our Maths skills and fine motor control by using tweezers to count out the cotton wool balls to fill them up.

Making Ladybirds at nightingale; the children used their cutting and gluing skills to make happy ladybirds. The children made a farm just like the one in our book What the Ladybird Heard.

Our lovely home corner at Nightingale Lane.

Looking at colours, size and sequencing on the light box at Nightingale Lane.

The children practiced their balancing skills walking along and following the taped lines on the floor.

Keeping busy and active at Blossom Years Nightingale Lane, so far this term we have been doing lots of reading, writing, sequencing. The children have also been using the laptop to play maths and phonics games. Everyone is also getting really good at recognising their name to put on our welcome board.

“We have been talking about keeping ourselves healthy and which foods are good and bad for our teeth. We have used some hard boiled eggs to represent our teeth and we are soaking them in water, orange juice and Coca Col. We have been making predictions abut what liquid is healthy and what is unhealthy, and We will be observing them regularly to look for changes. “