We have had another very busy week in Froglets this week. We continued our learning about mini beasts.

The children have been retelling the story of the very hungry caterpillar. We learnt what the word cocoon means and have been using it when talking about the caterpillars transition into a butterfly.

The children have been busy painting their own Mini beasts this week.

We have been pretend mini beast hunting in our outside area and ticking off which minibeasts we have found.

After all of our practicing, on Friday we went on a real mini beast hunt.

On Thursday it was world book day and we all enjoyed dressing in our Pyjamas. We did some shared reading with the year 6 children which everyone really enjoyed.

We had hot chocolate and marshmallows as a treat. It was yummy!

This week we have started our new topic of Minibeasts! The children have been very excited and had lots of questions about where they live and how they move.

We started by reading our new class story, The very Hungry Caterpillar.

The children have been learning the days of the week and what the caterpillar eats on each day.

We have been doing lots of learning activities about minibeasts. Here’s what we have been up to.

We started the week by exploring paint mixing and how to make green.

We then used the green we had made to paint our own very hungry caterpillar.

We found there were bugs in the jelly!

We threaded leaves from the hungry caterpillar story.

The children have been really interested In playing with each other’s hair and having theirs put up so we had a hair dressers in Froglets this week.

It was pancake day this week so on Tuesday we had a go at making out own pancakes.

Froglets have been learning all about animals over the last 2 weeks.

Our focus text has been Dear Zoo

The children have learnt the story and come up with actions to help them remember.

The children have also been doing lots of animal themed activities…

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We looked hard at the patterns the animals had on the and then tried to recreate them using different techniques.

We also had to wash the farm animals as they were very muddy.

Happy Chinese New Year From all of Froglets. We have continued our learning about the Chinese festival this week.

Mrs Aplin-Moore has been really impressed this week by the children’s story telling skills. Following on from learning the story ‘The Great Race’ last week, the children have been retelling the story for themselves using the story map and actions we learnt.

Here are some of the children’s actions for the animals…

On Wednesday we had the opportunity to try some Chinese foods. The kind people at Fung Sing in Kingsteignton gave us some fortune cookies and prawn crackers to try. We also made a stir fry of vegetables and noodles in the wok. We listened carefully to the sizzle and could smell the food cooking before we had a taste.

Froglets have started their learning about a new topic. For the next 2 weeks we will be learning about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.

We have been learning the story of the Great race. This is all about how the Jade Emperor decided to have a race between 12 animals to find out which to name the new year after.

The children have been learning actions for the each of the animals and together we have made a story map to help us retell the whole story.

The children have also been having a go at their own races using the animal puppets.

We have also been making our own dancing dragon puppets this week.

Froglets had lots of fun on the playdough tables, making noodles and playing with chopsticks.

Froglets have had a lovely last week of term. We have enjoyed lots of festive fun, having parties in both reception and Froglets.

We also found out the results of our Christmas colouring competition from Tesco express Kingsteignton. Esmae P won first place and Ben and Isaac came second and third. All those that took part also got a chocolatey treat! Thank you Tesco Express!

On Wednesday we had our school Christmas dinner. Lots of children tried a school lunch for the first time and everyone has a lovely lunchtime.

Merry Christmas everyone! See you next year!

Christmas fever has well and truly hit Froglets this week. We’ve been doing lots of christmasy things and counting down until when Santa comes.

On Monday, Santa wrote us a letter and delivered us a new friend for Froglets called Robin. She came with her very own story which we have been reading this week. The story is all about sharing and the true spirit of giving at Christmas.

We went on a very exciting trip on Wednesday to Kent’s cavern. One of Santa’s elves called Ginger took us on a tour of the caves where we did lots of fun things.

Then we met Santa. He was asleep when we got there but he soon woke up when we shouting “SANTA!!!!”

Also this week we has grandparents afternoon. There were lots of christmasy activities to do.

Wow, what a busy week in Froglets this week!

On Thursday the children performed their nativity to over 60 adults and 70 children! I hope you agree that the were absolutely amazing! We were all very proud of how well the did. On Friday we watched the performance back and the children loved seeing themselves on the screen.

Also in Froglets this week…

We have been busy making Crowns Like the kings wear

Playing with our snowy winder wonderland with Elsa and Anna

We also had a visit from a mischievous elf Frog called Freddo. Santa sent him to Froglets to leave how to be a superstar like our Froglets but he just keeps being naughty! On Friday we found him hanging from the ceiling!

We have been very busy in Froglets this week getting ready for our Nativity on Thursday 5th December. The Froglets have been practising on the stage every day, singing their songs and can’t wait for you to see them all dressed up.

In Maths we have taken part in a whole school maths investigation this week based on the book- How many jelly beans?

Froglets looked at the colour of the beans and sorted them out. We then had a go at counting how many there were. We even had a go at comparing the groups to see which had more.

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This week we also introduced our Mastery Meerkat Challenge, linked to the story How many Jelly Beans? This gave the children the opportunity to talk about how they know the answer, using talk to deepen their knowledge.

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This week in Froglets we have started our new topic of light, dark and colours. We started by talking all about fireworks. The children shared their experiences of the colours and sounds they make and have done lots of fun firework learning.

In the creative area we have had lots of fun printing fireworks and sprinkling glitter.

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We’ve been making lots of marks in the glitter tray. The children looked and the fireworks and used their fingers to draw them. Our story of the week this week was Wow said the owl. The children learnt all about the colours the owl could see and how to sign each colour using makaton.