Blog by Tag: EYFS

What a great start to 2025 Beech class have had!  

To end our topic of bugs, we explored spiders, lady birds, used magnifying glasses to find the hidden creepy crawlies and used the splatter to splat the bugs. 

We enjoyed exploring books, playing music, making friendships and enjoyed a…

This week Beech class have enjoyed learning all about bugs. During continuous provision, we used different materials to find the hidden bugs, explored the rhyme ‘incy wincy spider’, made playdoh insects, coloured in pictures and read stories all about the creepy crawlies. 

We also enjoyed…

This week Beech class continued to explore the very hungry caterpillar. During continuous provision, we looked at what food the caterpillar ate, chopped and tasted more fruit, decorated beautiful pictures, created caterpillar number lines and dressed up as butterflies. We also loved playing…

Beech class have started on our new topic ‘Mini Beasts’. This week we explored the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 

We enjoyed listening to the story during AA, chopped and tasted different fruit, made caterpillars from playdoh and explored a range of sensory trays. We also did amazing…

This week Beech class have continued to explore winter. During our continuous provision, we explored different sensory snowmen, washed arctic animals, made our own snow and counted ice cream scoops. 

During our adult led activities, we used our fine motor to do some cutting and sticking,…

What a lovely first week Beech class have had. We have settled back into the routine really well, done some amazing communication and are ready for a fun year ahead. 

To begin the term, this week we have explored winter. During our continuous provision and attention autism, we explored…

What a wonderful end to the year we have had in Beech class. 

This week, we continued our Christmas activities to get ready for Santa! We all had a turn at making reindeer food, decorating Christmas pictures and enjoyed exploring Christmas themed sensory trays. We also welcomed a new member…

Beech class have had such a lovely week celebrating Christmas! 

Throughout our continuous provision, we decorated Christmas trees made from sand and tinsel, cut Santa's beard, chopped some carrots for the reindeers and explored a range of wintery scenes with different sensory…

What a busy week Beech Class have had this week! 

To end our once upon a rhyme topic, we explored 5 little ducks and twinkle twinkle little star. During our continuous provision, we enjoyed listening to the 5 ducks rhyme, exploring in the sand, glitter and flour and used our fine motor…

This week, beech class have been exploring the rhyme ‘5 currant buns’. We have had lots of fun exploring the trays full of flour, playdoh, sand and enjoyed having a tea party with our friends. During attention autism, we listened to the rhyme whilst splatting the foam, watched a flour shake…

Beech class have had a fabulous week exploring Old McDonald’s Farm this week!

During our continuous provision we’ve explored tractors in the sand, tractor tracks with paint, giving the animals a bubble bath. We’ve also done lots of animal puzzles, reading and practiced our pencil control. We…

This week beech class began to explore our new topic ‘once upon a rhyme’. Our chosen rhyme this week is ‘incy wincy spider’.
During our continuous provision, we explored spider webs using different sensory materials such as foam, glitter, flour and paint. We also used magnifying glasses…