Ladybirds

Our topics over the summer term have been ‘Food’ and ‘Water and the Outdoors’.

For our Summer 1 topic, ‘Food’ we have enjoyed reading stories, especially ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and have enjoyed listening to a variety of food songs too. We looked at the types of foods mentioned in the story and explored food through tasting and messy play and practised using cutlery to chop up food such as cucumber and tomatoes. We have encouraged lots of role play within the kitchen area using shopping baskets and role play food items. The children have also had class parties as we discussed having food as part of a celebration. Ladybirds class loved reading ‘The Enormous Turnip’ as we looked at where food comes from. We enjoyed exploring root vegetables in compost and used tools to dig.

The children are enjoying our Summer 2 topic, ‘Water and the Outdoors’. We have started the topic by reading the story ‘The Pig in the Pond’ and by looking at everything ‘pond life’. The children have enjoyed being outside which has included lots of water play. We have been encouraging the children to make animal sounds, e.g. “quack quack” when we’ve been looking at ducks! We have now moved on to looking at the river and have been singing one of our favourite songs ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’. We are very excited for our ‘Day by the River’ where we will create a ‘river’ for the children to splash around in, build bridges and will sit and have a picnic together.

We have also had the farm visit us so the children were able to see a variety of animals including a donkey, sheep, goats, ducks and more!

The children have continued to develop mark-making skills and have created many pieces of artwork linked to their learning using a variety of mark-making tools and materials. They’ve made beautiful pieces of art to contribute towards our ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ display and our Summer display. We have also really enjoyed our special Father’s Day celebration stay and play session.

We have some very fun events planned including Sports Day and Carnival celebrations and we can’t wait to take part!

Please remember to keep writing in the Home/Communication Book as we love hearing all about what your children get up to at home. Please also ensure your child has spare clothes in school as this term will be full of water play and messy fun!

Best wishes,

Katie, Chandra and Olga

Ladybirds Team