Butterflies in March – Gardening week

This week in Butterflies we have been preparing our vegetable patch by pulling out all the weeds and turning over the soil. We have planted some sunflowers and peas and we are looking forward to watching them grow. We found lots of worms in the soil and so we have...

Butterflies – Space Week

This week the Butterflies have been learning about our solar system. They have created beautiful pictures of the planets, made moon biscuits and counted rockets. They also had a look through a real telescope and saw the moon. Later in the week the children acted out...

Butterflies – third week in November

Over the past week we have been learning about shapes. We had a shape treasure hunt in the garden, looking for shapes in the environment and the children’s favourite – magic disappearing shapes! On Wednesday evening we had another successful parent’s...

Butterflies this week – 2nd week of October

This week in the Butterflies class we have been looking at the world around us. We went on a walk to collect leaves and made some beautiful autumnal window pictures. We had fun playing in the wind – making waves in water and flying flags. We also talked about...

Butterflies this week – 1st week of October

We have been busy counting, weighing and measuring in the Butterflies class for Maths week. The children have particularly enjoyed measuring each other to see who was the tallest in the class. We also joined in with the Harvest Festival service at the primary school...

Last week in September – Butterflies

It was ‘Literacy week’ in the Butterflies class and we enjoyed reading and sharing some of our favourite books such as ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and ‘The Gruffalo’. We sang lots of nursery rhymes and made Humpty Dumptys to...