Tadpoles!

Hello, This week we have been continuing our topic of new life and we made some interesting discoveries... 

We started the week off with some sensory seed play. The class love pouring and exploring different the different sounds the beans and corn made as they fell on different surfaces.  Some remembered the shakers we made earlier in the year and were inspired to make their own using different containers around the classroom. By the way, we are still collecting recyclables for crafts and activities. Please bring in any containers, old toiletry bottles, jars, boxes or styrofoam trays that you might have around the house... we are sure to find a good use for them! 

 Time for some construction play, our structures are gradually getting taller and more complex ...

We used tissue paper cut outs to create our own Eric Carle style flowers on sticky back plastic. It was a delicate process as the plastic stuck to anything that brushed against it but we were very careful. We created some beautiful pictures!

The class were interested in the leaf rubbings that Kru Noon and I made and were great at matching the rubbing to the correct leaf - You can try this shape matching activity at home with any household objects, simple and fun!

 They were keen to try it out for themselves so we took a trip outside to collect a selection of leaves.

  Using the side of the crayon to make a rubbing was a new skill that took a while to get the hang of... but everyone was impressed by the magic appearance of the leaves when they finally did it! :)

We looked at some other kinds of seeds and I brought in some grasses about to disperse their seeds.  The class soon  figuredout how they spread their seeds and had fun dancing and swishing them around before we tried some grass painting...

                                                  

We had fun exploring water colours, mixing and blending different colours to make backgrounds for our tissue flower craft

Outdoor play!

 

We made an interesting discovery during water play... a foamy looking blob which turned out to be a cluster of toad's eggs...

 The class were super excited to see what would happen when they hatched so we decided to make a habitat for them and bring them in for closer observation.

Our tadpoles hatched out overnight so now we are learning all about frogs and playing at being adoptive frog parents!
We will be looking at the lifecycle of frogs and toads and finding out more about their diet and habits as well as learning about what it takes to care for another creature. If you have any frog related stories, books, games, etc. which you would like to share with the class please feel free to bring them in!