Our Changing Environment

Using pens and dabbers, counting raindrops. Colour matching and using tweezers - fine motor skills. Placing the playdoh blossom on the trees - rolling (fine motor skills), Understanding the World.                                                                                                              Making a rainbow skipping rope!

Lifecycles                                                                                                                                                 Using playdough to make cocoons, caterpillar legs and butterfly wings - pre-writing skills, hand/eye coordination and muscle development, following instructions. Using our mark making skills to follow the lines on the Hungry Caterpillar sheets, and feeding the Hungry Caterpillar his food - can we remember the order and the amount?

Checking out the goods at the Garden Centre! - Roleplay, language skills and social interaction.                                                                                                                                      Making jumping  frogs - cutting, folding, sticking.                                                                    Sorting spring colours.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar handprint painting and story retelling.                                                  The life cycle of a frog - remembering what we learnt, cutting skills, ordering events.                  Frog lifecycle - looking for the frogs and the tadpoles

Butterfly lifecycle, made entirely independently, showing the egg on the leaf and the caterpillar. Remembered from this morning's story.                                                                            Painting and printing butterflies - colour, symmetry, fine motor skills and imagination.                Can we put the correct number of frogs onto the lilypads? Number recognition and counting from 1 to 10.

Growing                                                                                                                                                        Finger painting daffodils - hand/eye coordination, colour recognition, mark making and counting.                                                                                                                                            Looking at seeds and flowers through magnifying glasses - understanding the world, science, curiosity and new language.                                                                                                                      Planting flowers - fine motor skills, counting spadefuls and flowers, concentration and hand/eye coordination.

Planting cress seeds - following instructions, fine motor skills, understanding the world, and sequencing.

Cutting and sticking - fine motor skills 

Planting sunflower seeds - fine motor skills, following instructions, Understanding the World