Our pre-schoolers have been learning all about the Rainforest – and what a fantastic time they’ve had!
As well as playing in their own rainforest, they’ve got to know the different rainforest animals by making fantastic animal art. They’ve also made the lifecycle of a butterfly covering the four different stages: egg, larva, pupil and adult. It’s hanging up in the pre-school room if you want to take a look.
We’ve also read the story Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson. After hearing the story the children got busy creating a magnificent display board including a brown wooly monkey, handprint parrots and bubble frogs.
Lots of the children love butterflies and frogs, so we’ve spent time talking about the different stages of butterfly and frog development. As you can imagine, the children loved making their own frog spawn by mixing shaving foam with tea leaves!
To help develop our pre-schooler’s numeracy skills, we’ve also played games such as counting ladybird spots and matching animal prints.
Of course, what theme would be complete without cooking?
The children have cooked up a (rainforest) storm, including scrumptious ladybird pizzas and butterfly cakes.
The children’s swinging Monkey Puzzle display
From egg to butterfly – our pre-schooler’s huge butterfly life cycle
The Caribbean’s coming to The Riverside Day Nursery
Next stop on our pre-schoolers world tour is the sunny Caribbean.
Starting Monday 4th July our pre-schoolers will be able to enjoy summer on the beach.
We’ve got plenty of Caribbean capers planned, from messing and mushing about with clay to making dangly jellyfish and a big leafy palm tree.
We’ll also be playing games such as ‘seaside bingo’ and the very hungry shark game (yikes!). Plus, we’ll be rolling out some literacy favourites – Commotion in the Ocean, The Rainbow Fish and Smiley Shark – there’s plenty for the children to get their teeth into (sorry).
The pre-school planning schedule will be emailed out to parents in the usual way, in the meantime if you have any questions let us know.