This week we have started brushing our teeth at school. We use brush buses to organise the brushes and to make sure everyone has their own. Each child has an allocated brush on a bus (red, green, yellow or blue) and after brushing their brush is returned to the right hole, ready for the next day.

We watch this video while we brush which reminds us what to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjnAv-6LsWA It might help those reluctant brushers at home too!

The children have started so well and enjoy brushing their teeth at school – Well done Froglets 🙂

Today we have been learning about Poppy Day. We watched a video (please see the link below) and all painted poppies to take home using sponges, brushes, and a pompom. We remembered the soldiers who died a long time ago in the war at 11am with 2 minutes of quiet time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p4zsl/poppies

We have been focusing on fireworks this week… lots of us enjoyed seeing them over the weekend so we created our own fireworks pictures using glitter, paint, chalk and sparkles! We watched fireworks displays on the computer and talked about what we could see and hear… Wow – aren’t they beautiful!

How amazing are our portraits! We all carefully looked at our faces in mirrors and painted ourselves 🙂 We looked closely to see what colours we needed and talked about what we like about ourselves – we hope you like them! We use our ‘Words we have caught’ display to focus on key vocabulary from our book and other words we have explored this term when thinking about our families and friends.

Some of you may have spotted an extra Froglets member of staff – Mr Arrowsmith. He works across the whole school and can often be found in Year 5, on a Monday he comes to join us in Froglets – Welcome to the team!

We would also like to introduce Bea! She is our therapy dog and works across the school, including coming to Froglets for regular cuddles! Hello Bea 🙂

We have kickstarted our LCC focus for this half term with lots of activities all about us! We have been making faces using different materials, looking after the babies in the home corner, making our families with compare bears, and painting our portraits. Thank you for your baby and family photos – please keep sending them in 🙂

On Fridays Achieve 4 All come to visit Froglets to help us play some PE games and learn how to use different types of sports equipment. Today Mr Blackmore visited us and we played a game where we pretended to be different animals. Then we used beanbags and tennis rackets to play a balancing game.

We are lucky to have 2 beautiful classrooms with exciting activities and resources in each one. During our morning and afternoon sessions, your child has time to explore both classroom spaces and our lovely outdoor garden as well.

On Wednesday 20th September we have a stay-and-play session from 3.15-4pm if you would like to come and explore our environment with your child. See you then!

We are thrilled to welcome in our new Froglets this term and to welcome back our returning Froglets for another exciting academic year!

Below is a photo of our wonderful staff team who I would like to introduce you to…

(left to right…) Mrs Knight / Mrs Whitcher / Mrs Small / Miss Brockwell / Mrs Warren / Mrs Fletcher 🙂

What a brilliant time we all had last Wednesday for our transport morning. We were joined by Exeter and District Model Engineering Society with their steam train and everyone loved having a little ride and seeing how the train worked.

There were lots of other activities to explore and it was great to see children working alongside their adults to build their own vehicles!

What a fantastic celebration of a fun topic, term and year in Froglets! Thank you to everyone who came along!