A HUGE welcome back to all of our new and returning Froglets! It has been a pleasure to see your children settling in over the past 2 weeks 🙂

Please check your emails for our overview and newsletter for this term – I am looking forward to seeing your family photos!

We had the most amazing afternoon today! Train rides in the sunshine – delicious ice creams from the van – making boats to sink and float and soooo much train track! Thank you all for joining us and making our celebration afternoon so wonderful 🙂 Also, a BIG thank you to Julie from ‘What’s the scoop?’ and the gentlemen from the Exeter Miniature Railway in Exeter for coming to join us!

Mrs Watson is joining our Froglets team and will be teaching every Thursday! She has been in class today getting to know your amazing children, playing games and reading stories… welcome to the Froglets team! She has a little boy called Merryn, her favourite animal is a whale and she enjoys cycling to work – even when it is raining!

This week, we are finishing off our minibeasts topic with some real magic from nature! We received a delivery of caterpillars and now all 5 have turned into chrysalises… we are watching them day by day to see if the butterflies will emerge! We have also been focusing on the life cycle of a butterfly and cutting our own pictures out to practice our scissors skills… watch this space for more butterfly news 🙂

We have kicked off our learning with some brilliant activities in Froglets and have found soooo many wonderful bugs in our garden! On the 20th May we are celebrating BEES so bring out the stripes and celebrate these wonderful creatures with us 🙂

After the success of our daffodil plants, we decided to plant some potatoes. First, we put stones at the bottom to help the water drain out, then we added some compost, planted 4 seed potatoes, and covered them in more compost. We hope they grow so we can eat them for our lunch! We have also planted peas and beans in our mud kitchen garden. We have talked about the roots going down, sucking up the water and the shoots shooting up to see the sunshine! I wonder if you are growing anything at home…..?

We hope you all enjoyed the beautiful daffodil plants we have grown for you this term 🙂 The children enjoyed fingerpainting hearts to add to their pots before taking them home to enjoy with you all! Happy Mother’s Day to you all!

We have loved world book day in Froglets this year…. we have listened to stories all day, made beautiful bookmarks to take home and enjoyed talking about our favourite characters! We were joined by tigers and lions, gecko’s and unicorns, Spiderman and Mario, pirates and princesses, sloths and giraffes and so many more crazy charaters! Amazing costumes…. Fabulous Books…. Lots of happy Froglets! What a brilliant day 🙂

Our book corners are very well used at Froglets… lots of space to chill out and read with a friend or for some peaceful time alone 🙂

This week we have all been brushing our teeth at school! I am often asked how we manage to do this hygienically so I have attached some pictures of the funky buses we use to keep the brushes clean.

We brush for 2 minutes at 1pm every day and listen to a funny song while we brush…. Here is the link if you would like to listen at home.

This week we have been learning more about our book for this half term, ‘Dear Zoo.’ We worked together to create the containers to put in the right animal from the story and used them to retell the book!

I wonder which pet you would like the zoo to send you?

We have also been playing with a small world zoo, painting pattern snakes and helping make the pets better in our vet surgery.